Gambino Organized Crime Family Associate Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to 20 Years in Prison for Racketeering Conspiracy

PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a longtime associate of the Gambino Organized Crime Family, EDMUND BOYLE, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 20 years in prison. BOYLE was convicted of racketeering crimes in connection with his participation in the Gambino Organized Crime Family, including murder, witness tampering, extortion, and various property crimes. U.S. District Judge COLLEEN McMAHON, who presided over the February 2010 trial, imposed the sentence.

The evidence at trial established the following:

BOYLE became an associate of the Gambino Organized Crime Family around the late 1980's. He began his career stealing cars and later became a trusted and valuable associate of a Gambino Organized Crime Family soldier, THOMAS CARBONARO. BOYLE earned the trust and respect of Gambino Organized Crime Family members by participating in, and conspiring to participate in, increasingly serious and violent crimes with CARBONARO, including bank burglaries, a bank robbery, illegal gambling, extortion, and murder.

Around late 1997, various members and associates of the Gambino Organized Crime Family, including CARBONARO, LETTERIO DECARLO, THOMAS DONO, and JOHN MATERA, suspected FRANK HYDELL of cooperating with the government and plotted his murder. In April 1998, HYDELL was shot dead at close range in front of his car. CARBONARO later indicated that BOYLE was the shooter.

In an October 2010 Decision and Order, Judge McMAHON concluded that:

• "Eddie Boyle was up to his eyeballs in the affairs of the Gambino Crime Family"
• BOYLE was "the right-hand man of the notorious Gambino soldier Thomas ‘Huck’ Carbonaro"
• "Boyle engaged in and/or was privy to an array of criminal activities, including murder, extortion, gambling, loansharking, and theft. Indeed, the evidence proved that Boyle personally committed more than two racketeering acts, including gambling, extortion, auto thefts and interstate transportation of stolen property."

At the February 2010 trial, BOYLE was acquitted of the substantive charges of murder in aid of racketeering and witness tampering. At sentencing, Judge McMAHON stated that the evidence demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence that BOYLE murdered HYDELL. However, Judge McMAHON explained that the court would not ignore the jury's verdict acquitting BOYLE of the substantive murder charges and limited the sentence imposed to 20 years’ imprisonment.

In addition to BOYLE, LETTERIO DECARLO, and THOMAS DONO were convicted in March 2010 for their participation in the conspiracy that resulted in HYDELL’s murder, and each was sentenced to 180 months in prison. CARBONARO previously was sentenced to 70 years in prison for conspiring to murder HYDELL and other crimes. JOHN MATERA pled guilty in 2004 to charges including conspiracy to murder HYDELL, and received a sentence of 20 years in prison. MICHAEL DILEONARDO and FRANK FAPPIANO also pled guilty to charges relating to the murder of HYDELL and await sentencing.

Mr. BHARARA praised the investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

This case is being handled by the Office’s Organized Crime Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorney JOHN T. ZACH is in charge of the prosecution.