Tony Goleta Profiles | Facebook But when Galeota was arrested June 19, 2011, and charged with trafficking drugs and women, he was just as innocent as Stephen King's saintly inmate. "I'm used to getting my water from a rain bucket, not hot from the tap." And he hopes to open a place in Fort Lauderdale when he's back, Just not a strip club. The fear was well founded, considering what went down when Tarzan linked up with Cuban outlaws Juan Almeida and Nelson Tony Yester. Wrongly imprisoned. Im gonna see them in f***ing hell when I arrive there., Russell says the fugitive is probably one of the most fascinating human beings Ive ever been in a room with., He adds: Theres five other films you couldve made about his life and life experiences, and yet he was charming and cultured and funny and also, then, on a dime deadly serious, not somebody that you trifle with. For the most part, Doll House dancers agree. Kristy was a self-described "firecracker" who had also escaped from an abusive home and wanted attention. The offload is a result of two successful drug interdictions in the Caribbean since August 23. Its impossible but only because its true. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. Tony Galeota - IMDb "I want to go legit when I get out, but if the economy is bad, I might go back to the industry," he says. "I've been in this business my whole life. Photo Gallery. "Another night at Porky's, another shooting," he remembers now from his prison cell in Panama. Tony Galeota in the 1940 Census | Ancestry The Coast Guard said four suspected smugglers were taken into custody and 32 bales of cocaine were found in the water. Michael Galeota, who starred on the Disney Channel's "The Jersey" died Sunday, according to Variety. And, above all, selling it. Kristy was able to pay a lawyer $500 to get her son released, but there was no bond for Galeota's drug offense. Guards with machine guns man rusty metal towers. For a while, Panama's pay-to-play culture suited Galeota just fine. Dalia Dippolito May Have Tried to Kill Him, But Michael Dippolito Is No Saint, Florida Man Wrestles Shark For Forty Five Minutes, Florida to Execute Death Row Prisoner Donald Dillbeck in February, "We Are Everywhere": Ominous Messages on Anti-Abortion Counseling Centers Prompt Federal Charges, So You're Saying There's (Still) a Chance: Dolphins Playoff Chances Dwindle After 26-20 Loss, Trashed American Flag Sparks Capitol Hill Kerfuffle, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. But Galeota's plan would soon go catastrophically wrong. "She would use shoe polish to change our driver's licenses so we could go to clubs and drink when we were 15. 4:00AM. Miami mobster Tony Galeota is locked up in Panama after being framed for drug dealing and human trafficking. With dark hair and pale, wide-set eyes, teenage Tony resembled a stocky Frank Sinatra. Making the documentary, he says: I found the story so compelling and so riveting that I was just relentlessly magnetized to it. People named Tony Goleta. Born on June 3, 1924 at Hartford. "My wife is never going to completely trust me. We travelled all the time. "I thought I would kick up my heels together like 'Oh my God, I'm finally out,'" he says. "But I've always paid for everything, either with stitches in my head, concussions, or jail time. "He had that guido effect on me," she says. Over the years, Galeota saw nearly a dozen shootings at Porky's, some of them fatal. Tony Galeota: From Running Porky's, Miami's Most Notorious Strip Joint "She would use shoe polish to change our driver's licenses so we could go to clubs and drink when we were 15. He answered only to property owner William Seidle, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court trustee who ran a chain of car dealerships. So I was literally stepping over dead bodies of the people who had been shanked and stuff over the course of the night.. Nobody was impressed more than Kristy Sharpe, an 18-year-old waitress from Orlando with blond hair, blue eyes, and lightly freckled skin. As chronicled in the new Showtime documentary Operation Odessa, the trio of cutthroat outlaws collaborated in 1996 to procure the ultimate weapon for Colombias money-minting Cali cocaine cartel: a military submarine. At night, the guards lock the gate and leave, turning over control of each cell block to prisoners. When his dad lost his job, Tony paid the bills. Galeota's imprisonment abroad marks the end of one of Miami's most outrageous eras, when Russian and Colombian cartels stocked strip clubs with cheap prostitutes and cheaper cocaine. But Tony had darker secrets. And like the Italian-American crooner, he loved women a little too much. The trio convened in Russia, and snapshots of them aboard the football-field-size sub, posing with the captain, hamming it up with one another, were shown to cartel members to make clear that the submarine sale closed with all parties naked in a bathhouse was for real. Log In. By the mid-'90s, Galeota had turned Porky's into a one-stop shop for strippers, sex, and serious drugs. He told them he could get them the submarine for $35million, but said hes need the money in installments; when they gave him the first $10million, he kept the money for himself and disappeared. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. "No one can tell us how long he will be in there," she says. His nightmare began in June , when police raided his Panama City strip club and arrested him and his Ukrainian partner for trafficking women and selling drugs. When crews were launched to investigate, the suspected smugglers threw several packages into the water. "Their connections were bigger than ours," he says. When he left to open a bona fide brothel in Panama, Galeota thought the country's lax prostitution laws would make him rich. Awards. Fainberg allegedly told undercover cops he had sent coke to Russia in a shipment of frozen shrimp and had bought six $1 million Russian military helicopters for the South Americans. "I couldn't take all the people who wanted to come.". In retrospect, when you tell the stories aloud, its like, Thats insane and you, Tiller, are an insane person for having done that. Its funny; I was just like, this is too good of a story to let go. "They shot him in the middle of the night," Galeota continues quietly, "and buried his body behind the pavilion.". Were out there to cause an effect in the drug industry and I believe we made a little dent on it.. "The investigation was so poorly handled and rushed," says Otero, the journalist. Tony Galeto. State and local police launched an investigation in February 2009. "Thank God I'm out," he tells New Times in his first interview since his release. Thats why you have to do this kind of story as non-fiction., The initial meeting with Tarzan, however, was hampered by the fact that the Russian mob got wind of Russells visit, he says, and they threatened Tarzans life inside the jail if he shared his full story. It's not quite Shawshank Redemption, but when Tony Galeota walked out of a Panama City jail cell May 23, it was still a small serving of justice. GALEOTA, Joseph A., Sr. Joseph A. Galeota Sr., 86, of Ashford CT, died on Wednesday (January 26, 2011) at Windham Hospital from congestive heart failure. Galeota's sheer size and mob connections are the only things keeping him from getting shivved in the dark. We have a lot of laughs about it now," he says. Tarzans on board and essentially youre in the movie, one way or another. Then I ended up spending a great deal of what I like to call social engineering, which is kind of like the hanging out with all these guys theyre all very secretive cats with these very sketchy kind of criminal pasts. She is a high-powered attorney who has defended two former presidents in corruption cases, but even she hasn't been able to get Galeota out of jail yet. They were very compliant to everything we asked of them, said McElhaney. "He was a smooth-talker. "It was a real moneymaker. Galeota's imprisonment abroad marks the end of one of Miami's most outrageous eras, when Russian and Colombian cartels stocked strip clubs with cheap prostitutes and cheaper cocaine. It continued at another local strip club, called Quarterbacks Playmates Lounge. Galeota tried going straight, opening a coffee shop in downtown Panama City. In the early 1990s, three friends set out to hustle the Russian mob, the Cali cartel and the DEA for the score of a lifetime. None of them ever appeared in the newspapers, but Hialeah police records confirm there were at least ten shootings at Porky's during Galeota's tenure. But he was too shell-shocked to take up his attorney's offer for a ride to a nice hotel. ", "You hear that?" When he heard that his old partner in crime from Porky's had moved to Panama, he flew in to meet with Galeota. local Journalism in South Florida. We've been here for two years!' He is currently being held in Italy. Between the restaurant and the Doll House, he was making enough to retire in five years. Police repeatedly raided the club, yet Galeota escaped unscathed every time. In the second interdiction, a Customs plane spotted another suspicious boat off the coast of Panama on August 28th. His father, Arnold, was a strait-laced sales manager but a distant and disapproving dad. Director Tiller Russell tells DailyMail.com that hed heard rumblings and rumors about the insane deal, but it was about seven years ago when he first got a concrete lead about Tarzan and his cronies. And last year, Yester was finally arrested in Rome on charges unrelated to the submarine while en route to a wedding. But Monday morning, when it came time to walk out of La Joya, there was no vehicle waiting. "We went there and we couldn't believe what we saw," says Josh Weiss, a former DJ at Porky's and one of Galeota's closest friends. Indeed, court records show that Seidle was a target of the federal wiretapping investigation. "I don't care how strong you are; that's going to affect your marriage," she says. Anthony Galeota was born October 17, 1968, on Long Island. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. Is this possible, to buy a military submarine - used one? And he said, What a question! Galeota's imprisonment abroad marks the end of one of Miami's most outrageous eras, when Russian and Colombian cartels stocked strip clubs with cheap prostitutes and cheaper cocaine. Here, Galeota is just one of 500 prisoners crammed into a filthy cell block designed to hold 200 people. This time, I'm innocent.". "I just watched Luis blow a guy away," Galeota heard himself say on tape. Follow this journalist on Twitter @MikeMillerMiami. We've been here for two years!' Instead, he's trapped in a labyrinthine legal system, alone and unable to speak Spanish. This story has been shared 121,048 times. It was apparent they had what appeared to be narcotics and after we did the test they had bales on board of pure cocaine, said Boatswains Mate Omar Castro with the U.S. Coast Guard. People named Toni Galeota Find your friends on Facebook Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. Anthony Galeota (right) poses with Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg inside the Doll House weeks before their arrest. Then she'd charge my friends $50 each," he says. This business has been very good to me.". Then once he sent me this crazy email like, Holy s***! He was the one whod been speaking directly to the cartel; he was the only one who knew the real amount of money Cali were willing to pay; and he was the one who took the risk and disappeared with millions of the cartels drug money. But he insists that, for once, he has done nothing wrong. Nearly 300 feet long with 10 torpedo tubes (empty in this case), it was diesel but could be converted to electric for silent running. On Friday, May 17, Galeota got word that the judge had also dismissed the drug charge because of lack of evidence. Behind him, 12-foot-high fences topped with spools of barbed wire frame a muddy soccer field. But Galeota was convinced the cops were bluffing and refused to cooperate. All he needed now were the prostitutes. This story has been shared 173,716 times. Sixteen months later, the two men have yet to appear in court. Just not a strip club. Facebook Email or phone Password Forgot account? If he didnt give them the information, he was afraid that he would have gotten killed, and he was probably right., In the meantime, Yester may have been too in love with his eight-figure haul to really care and there was ultimately no retribution against his family. They finally fled the country this past July, leaving Tony alone. 17:57 GMT 13 Mar 2018. When youre rolling with the criminal underworld, its always weird; its really weird in Russia.. He was, after all, working with an American playboy in Miami and a fugitive Cuban spy to procure this submarine. His school friends didn't believe him, so a few days later he sneaked out, stole his mom's minivan, and drove around the neighborhood loading up with other teens. Over the course of three months, undercover detectives made dozens of visits, tallying up a vivid snapshot of the club: "15 purchases of cocaine, four purchases of MDMA, one purchase of Xanax, one purchase of marijuana, 18 solicitations for prostitution, [and] 20 lewd acts.". Locked Up Abroad 151M subscribers Miami mobster Tony Galeota is a strip-club supremo. Kristy and his sons hid in a shabby, poorly protected office. It was a Foxtrot-class submarine, or Project 641 as the Soviets called it. Tony Galeota: From Running Porky's, Miami's Most Notorious Strip Joint And they were doing it on behalf of the notorious Cali drug cartel in Colombia, who planned to use the underwater vessel to smuggle cocaine undetected. By the time they returned to Long Island later that night, a pimp was born. The two were married in 1994 at a wedding full of mobsters. His nightmare began in June of 2011, when police raided his Panama City strip club and arrested him and his Ukrainian partner for trafficking women and selling drugs. He headed right to his beloved Miami, Florida. Director Robin Dashwood Stars Alex Andreas Ricardo Burgos Tony Galeota I said, Thank you, Cali cartel. The $33,000 number is actually the wholesale price in the US for smugglers - or how much a kilo is worth delivered to US soil, for traffickers. See Photos. There was a spate of murders, several police raids, and a federal drug-trafficking trial. Between an undercover agent, a tap on Tarzans cellphone and the wiring of Babushka, federal law enforcement agencies had enough information to shut down the sale. In the meantime, he's spending time with his wife and kids. A bartender characterized Porkys as the kind of place where you could get killed. Babushka was so notorious that FBI agents who described Tarzan as a matre d for criminals bugged the booths there. Tony Galeto. "Now I'm living in hell.". If only there were a place where prostitution was legal, he thought, a city full of beautiful women like Miami, but no rules. "These guys were into just about everything," Assistant U.S. Attorney Diana Fernandez said at the time. Sheila Flynn For Dailymail.com, Smashing the Sinaloa cartel: Major coup for DEA as agents seize $6MILLION cash, hundreds of pounds of narcotics and indict 75 across America for 'laundering drug money for El Chapo's gang', Is this proof that British aristocrat did NOT smuggle drugs into Africa? Theyre nice guys [the cartel members], and I didnt ask what they needed the submarine for., If they woke up and were hungry, they would fly a private jet to Cancun for lunch, says Tiller Russell, director of Operation Odessa. Then theyd roll to Venezuela to check out a new casino. He was 31. Unfortunately, Galeota's defense isn't as simple as quoting strippers, says his lawyer, Guillermina McDonald. independent local journalism in Miami. Back in South Florida, Kristy Galeota vacillates between outrage and empathy for her husband. Galeota believes that his arrest has little to do with a renewed commitment to the law in Panama. "But I did it for my child.". And when his mother was distraught over a broken washing machine, he filled the house with new appliances. Instead, they eat rice for lunch and dinner, drink dirty river water, and use a hole in the ground for a toilet. Sign Up. Prosecutors accused him of providing prostitutes for his Russian friends, trafficking drugs, selling stolen cigarettes and liquor, and setting up arms deals for Russian and Colombian cocaine smugglers. Join the New Times community and help support Tony Galeota Wikipedia: Everything To Know About The Film Actor S10 E10 - Miami Mobster Take Down Tony Galeota is framed for drug trafficking in Panama City. They arrested 18 suspects, including Galeota, several strippers, and most employees. . We both understand that.". Find your friends on Facebook. He was 31. A tattoo of an Italian Mafioso emerges from an extra-large sleeveless T-shirt. The smugglers boat was destroyed because it was a hazard to navigation. They had girls in every city. Become a member to support the independent voice of South Florida Both Juan and Tarzan shared with Russell how they had graduated from buying helicopters, motorcycles and cars for the cartel from Russia to pursuing a submarine for the drugrunners. He escaped with his life and went on the run, aiming to avoid the cartel, Interpol and US law enforcers. Its Colombian dancers were in Panama on six-month tourist visas, weren't licensed as prostitutes, and weren't getting required weekly health checkups. "Like me, he was a black sheep who could do nothing right.".
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