John Buretta, has an interesting background, which, makes me feel, he is the perfect man for the Job, of getting these BP Bad Boys , Jailed!!!
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[B]John Buretta[/B]
[B]Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York [/B]
John Buretta Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York Assistant U.S. Attorney John Buretta is recognized for his outstanding prosecution and trial achievements. During his six years in the Office, John has had a consistent track record of successfully prosecuting complex cases against serious offenders: high-ranking members of La Cosa Nostra, national security violators, and violent gang members. During the past year, John led trial teams that convicted the leaders of two different Cosa Nostra crime families for racketeering murders carrying life sentences: Vincent Basciano, the acting boss of the Bonanno organized crime family, and Alphonse Persico, the acting boss of the Colombo organized crime family. John’s leadership as Deputy Chief and then as Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section in the Eastern District of New York, together with the tremendous efforts of the many fine Assistant U.S. Attorneys, support staff, and law enforcement partners with whom he works, has also resulted in the recent indictment or conviction of various other leaders of the Bonanno and Colombo crime families, as well as the hierarchy of the Gambino crime family, and several dozen additional Cosa Nostra members and associates. These cases include charging more than fifteen murders carried out by Cosa Nostra during the past thirty years. Most recently in this arena, John has led the prosecution of three Genovese associates charged in August of this year for their roles in the ambush-robbery and murder of Staten Island jeweler Louis Antonelli - charges that were brought within three months after Mr. Antonelli was shot and killed. Beyond his hallmark organized crime prosecutions, John has devoted significant time to national security investigations and to prosecution of violent gang members. Emblematic of John’s several national security matters was his prosecution this past year of a U.S. Army translator for violation of the Espionage Act. The translator, who was embedded with the 82nd Airborne in Iraq, received a lengthy prison sentence for stealing highly sensitive, classified U.S. Army intelligence concerning Al Qaeda and other insurgent forces in Iraq. In the area of gang prosecutions, John has brought numerous high impact cases. In 2005, for example, John led the investigative team that indicted the leadership and several members of the extremely violent Folk Nation gang in Brooklyn on racketeering charges for ten murders and attempted murders, including the tragic drive-by murder of an innocent restaurant manager. Those indictments followed John’s prosecution of over thirty-five other violent drug offenders in the Marcus Garvey Village housing complex in Brooklyn - a case that resulted in a precipitous drop in gang violence in that neighborhood from numerous homicides and scores of shootings the prior year to no homicides or shootings in the year after the arrests.