Gambino mobster accused of extorting Sitt Asset Management

As part of their record-breaking mobster roundup last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation charged a member of the Gambino crime family with shaking down real estate investment firm Sitt Asset Management. According to the Post, the alleged mobster, Anthony Scibelli, was released on $2 million bail yesterday after being indicted on charges of racketeering and extortion of Sitt’s owners — Eddie, Ralph, David and Jack Sitt — between March and May 2007. Among Sitt’s properties are the Donna Karan New York building at 240 West 40th Street and the newly-rehabbed Meatpacking District retail and office property at 414 West 14th Street, near the High Line. Scibelli, whose attorney said he is innocent and will fight the charges, is also accused of extorting a cement company in connection with the development of Jersey City’s Liberty View Harbor in 2006. [Post] 

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