USA: Anthony Sender will be released from prison in 2024

Anthony Sender is expected to be released from prison within the next year. The 68-year-old – now – cold-blooded killer of the Gambino Family was recently granted parole, angering the victims’ families.

The hardened criminal served only 35 years to life in prison as he had killed 11 people and even some of them he had dismembered.

“The Commission decided that he had substantially complied with the rules of the institution and that his release from prison in June 2024 would not endanger the public welfare,” a Justice Department spokesperson told the New York Post.

But that’s a far cry from how the feds once saw him Anthony Centerwho was sentenced to life plus 20 years in 1989, for involvement in at least 11 murders.

Sender, along with six other mobsters, were also charged with extortion, drug trafficking and car theft.

Essentially the Center he was part of a mobster group that worked for Roy DeMeo, a man created by Gambino.

The group operated out of the Gemini Lounge at 4021 Flatlands Avenue in Flatlands, Brooklyn, where many of their murders were committed during the 1970s and 1980s.

Federal and city authorities have identified at least 75 deaths and disappearances from his group DeMeo– while independent investigators added more than 200 people to the brutal toll.

“He was a cold-blooded killer who loved to kill”

Rudy Giuliani, then US Attorney for the Southern District of New York that originally brought the case against Senter and 20 other members and associates of the Gambino family — including the then-godfather “Big Paul” Castellano – was surprised by the release decision.

“He should die in prison”, Giuliani said. “He showed, without exaggeration, a wanton disregard for human life. “He was a cold-blooded killer who loved to kill,” the former prosecutor said. “And I believe he enjoyed participating in some way in the dismemberment of the bodies that took place afterwards’.

The “Gemini Method”

Born in Canarsie, Brooklyn, Center he was the son of Italian immigrants who had anglicized the family’s last name, their original family name being Sende.

He and another member of the mafia group, longtime friend Joseph Testa;spent so much time at their boss Demeo’s haunt that they became known as the “Gemini”.

“The Gemini Lounge everyone knew was a house of horrorsif you go in there, you might not get out,’” recalls Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels, who grew up playing stickball with the Canarsie center who was widely known in the neighborhood as a “hothead.”

DeMeo who worked at a butcher shop before embarking on his criminal activities he used his early training to devise a gruesome murder procedure – later called “the Gemini Method” – which Center and the others gladly followed.

Former gang member Dominick Mantigilio testified at Sender’s trial that those targeted for death would first go to an apartment next door to the Gemini Lounge rented by mobster Joseph “Dracula” Guglielmo. “When the [θύμα] come in sirwho was shooting him in the head with a silencer”, Mantigilio told the court. “Someone was wrapping a towel to stop the blood and someone was stabbing him in the heart.” Crew members—often dressed only in their underwear to avoid soiling their clothes—drag the corpse into the shower and let it bleed out, like a pig in a slaughterhouse. Then “they would take him out, put him in, roll him up, cut him up and make him a package,” said Mantigilio.

Assistant US Attorney Walter Mack during their 17-month trial from 1988 to 1989 said that “have committed the most violent crimes ever tried in a New York federal court.”

The… Golden Years

From 1975 to 1983, the New York mafia was living its golden years. “The city mobs ran the country, the Family ran the mob in the USA,” said historian Selwyn Robb who has published the book ‘Five Families’.

“The Gambinos and Genovese were the two largest and most powerful families,” he added. “The ‘Gambino’ led by Castellano had about 100 official members, with powerful men like NteMeo and each powerful man had 10 others working for him, like Senter and Testa.”

In January 1983, shortly after DeMeo was subpoenaed to testify in a federal racketeering case, his body was found frozen with bullets in the trunk of his own Cadillac. His death did not stop the case.

In March 1984, Giuliani indicted Castellano, along with Sender and others, on a series of racketeering, drug-trafficking and murder charges.

Eighteen months later, the same Castellano was killed by a single bullet in the middle of the street in Manhattan outside Sparks Steak House, at the behest of the man who would succeed him as boss of the Gambino family: John Gotti Jr.

The then 30-year-old Center emulated the style of the up-and-coming “Dapper Don” during his trial. The “devilishly handsome” defendant, a Post reporter wrote at the time, made sure to display his “cool elegance” in Giorgio Armani suits and ties and “flawless white shirts” whenever he appeared in court. “You want to look nice”Center said and smiled.