A “stone cold” Mafia hitman who killed at least 11 people, some mutilated, will be released from federal prison next year after serving 35 years of a life sentence, angering his victims’ families.
In 1985, Rudy Giuliani, who was serving as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York at the time, and William Webster, who was serving as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the time, outlined a comprehensive case against the five mafia organizations that were operating in New York. (Source: Getty Images, Newsday RM)
Parole Granted to Anthony Senter
U.S. Parole Commission allowed former Gambino crime family button man Anthony Senter, 68, of Canaan, PA, to be released. According to a spokesman for the Department of Justice, the Commission decided that he had essentially followed the institution’s rules and that his release in June 2024 would not harm the public welfare. That is a far cry from how federal officials previously viewed Senter, who was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years in 1989 for at least 11 murders. Senter was charged with racketeering for narcotics trafficking, auto theft, loan sharking, and extortion with six other mobsters.
Mobster Senter worked for Gambino-made man Roy DeMeo. The group perpetrated multiple killings in Flatlands, Brooklyn, at the Gemini Lounge at 4021 Flatlands Ave. in the 1970s and 1980s. Federal and city authorities blamed DeMeo’s group for at least 75 murders and disappearances, and independent researchers put their toll at above 200. The parole decision surprised Rudy Giuliani, the then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who initially charged Senter and 20 Gambino family members and associates, including then-godfather “Big Paul” Castellano. Senter “should die in jail,” Giuliani said. He showed reckless disdain for human life. As U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York in 1985, Rudy Giuliani (right) and then-FBI Director William Webster prepared a major case against New York’s five mafia factions. “He was a stone-cold killer who liked to kill,” said the ex-prosecutor. “I assume he liked to dismember the bodies later.”
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