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The United States Attorney's Office announced this afternoon that several alleged members of the Genovese crime family have been indicted on multiple mobster-y crimes dating back to 2006.

In all, 11 people were indicted, including alleged Genovese Captain Conrad Ianniello, and several Genovese "soldiers" who also serve as ranking members of several labor unions throughout New York City.

According to the indictment, provided to the Voice by the U.S. Attorney's Office, Ianniello attempted to extort vendors at the Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy in 2008. Additionally, he and alleged Genovese associates Ryan Ellis and Robert Scalza are accused of attempting to extort a labor union into bailing on an attempt to organize workers at a company on Long Island. According to the feds, the goal of the extortion attempt was to have the International Union of Journeymen and Allied Trades, a union run by Scalza, organize the workers instead.

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More on the Kelly family's various travails this morning. First, NY1 reports that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Friday he does not have any plans to resign over his involvement in the anti-Muslim film The Third Jihad. "I don't think there was any ill intent here, but it should not have been shown," Kelly said. Kelly would not answer any questions on the other scandal in his family: the alleged sexual assault perpetrated by his son Greg Kelly. [NY1]

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Anthony Durso, better known as "Baby Fat Larry," an associate of the Colombo crime family, is trying to shake his 7 p.m. curfew because it's cramping his social style. "He is a 27-year-old man and would like to have some leisure time away from his parents and his home," his lawyer wrote in a real letter to a real judge. Baby Fat currently works for the Sanitation Department but pleaded guilty to assault charges for beating up someone who was late on their loan payments; Larry faces up to 33 months in prison. Though his lawyer maintains that BFL is a "teddy bear," he assures that this isn't about women: "He has no girlfriend and there's no girl he wants to see," he told the Daily News. "Why should he have to stay home with his mom and dad?" Jail could be just the break he needs. [NYDN]

The murder trial of Vincent Basciano, better known as "Vinny Gorgeous," was a chest of riches for collectors of mob knowledge nuggets, from fashion to food, rats and kissing in public. Basciano was convicted in May of murder in the killing mob associate Randolph Pizzolo, thanks largely in part to testimony from Joseph Massino, a federal informant, who taped Basciano's homicidal orders from jail. Though he was spared of the death penalty last month by a jury, today Gorgeous was sentenced to a second life sentence in addition to the one he's already serving. The real takeaway here, as the Post notes, is that Vinny once owned a beauty salon called "Hello Gorgeous." [NYP]

Not Logan.

After an FBI raid on Frank (Frankie Steel) Pontillo's Staten Island home -- which involved concussion genades being thrown inside, propelling his 4-pound Maltese puppy, Logan, against a wall, from which the dog has apparently not emotionally recovered -- Pontillo's lawyer is asking the judge to "go easy" on his client, reports the Daily News. Defense lawyer George Farkas states in court papers, "The little dog has not been the same since."

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Carl Lastorino, the "bumbling" son of the Luchese family's Frank Lastorino Sr., pulled a real A.J. Soprano earlier this week when he left two suicide notes, one including the line, "I can no longer live as a failure," and then went and failed anyway before being killed by the NYPD. More >>

A guilty verdict on Monday makes Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano just the second mafia man in three decades to face the death penalty, the Daily News reports. Basciano was convicted today of murdering Randolph Pizzolo, a mob associate, but is already serving a life sentence for a separate killing back in 2001. Testimony from Joseph Massino, who made history as a cooperative "rat," helped to sink Basciano, who now awaits his punishment: either lethal injection or life in prison without parole. Massino taped Basciano's orders from jail to kill Pizzolo in 2004, when Massino himself was convicted of murder, arson, conspiracy, money laundering and so on, only to turn on the Bananno family he represented and work as a government informant. The golden age of nicknames, too, seems to be coming to an end. [NYDN]

Former FBI Mob investigator Lindley DeVecchio once again lets Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes have it for indicting him for getting to close to his prize informant.

DeVecchio, appearing on Curtis Sliwa's talk show yesterday morning on AM 970, called Hynes "either incredibly stupid or incredibly arrogant" for going after him on charges that he had aided Greg "Grim Reaper" Scarpa in three mob hits.

"They had information that exonerated me, but he chose to go ahead and indict me.," DeVecchio tells Sliwa.

Hynes' case fell apart when former Voice columnist Tom Robbins and mafia scribe Jerry Capeci produced tapes that showed his star witness, Scarpa's girlfriend Linda Schiro, was lying.

You can listen to the 10 minute interview here:

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A plot to kill a member of a Russian crime family got the man known as Tony D. sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 10 years in prison. Anthony Palumbo, a "soldier and acting capo" in the Genovese family, had been running his organization's petroleum interests with Russians since 1990, and a few years later tried to get a hitman "taken care of" for some Slavic co-conspirators. Though the murder never happened, Palumbo is also tied to a 1992 homicide of a fellow Genovese associate and pleaded guilty "to commit murder in aid of a racketeering enterprise" in 2010. "Anthony Palumbo's decades long crime spree has finally come to an end," said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. "He is going to prison which is exactly where he belongs." [FBI]

More from the murder trial of Vinny Gorgeous (a/k/a Vinny Basciano, a/k/a the Bonanno family crime boss): Giuseppe "Joey" Gambina testified that cheek-kissing was banned by Basciano after he became paranoid that the government was onto them and even taking pictures. Saddest words ever, via the New York Post?

"We don't kiss in public no more," Gambina, 42, said a suddenly bashful Basciano told him.

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