At any given time, there could be upwards of 60 to 70 mob figures or more, all housed together doing contempt bits. It was like “old home week” for the underworld.
During the “Bonanno War” years and directly thereafter, from 1966 to 1971, many active members and associates from New York City’s five boroughs and outer environs — Long Island, Westchester, and NJ — who were subpoenaed to testify before both the Nassau and Kings County grand juries probing the Family’s operations, gangland murders, politics, and structure found themselves buried under so-called “contempt of court,” “criminal contempt,” or even “civil contempt” charges.
