This week, the federal trial of the alleged adult son of a New York City Mafia leader began. He is accused of paying an alleged gangbanger to kill his father in a McDonald’s drive-thru so that he could take over the family’s $45 million real estate business.
According to federal prosecutors, Anthony Zottola, Sr. had his father, Sylvester “Sally Daz” Zottola, who was involved with the Lucchese and Bonanno organized crime families, hounded for approximately a year and stabbed and beaten multiple times in failed attempts on his life.
After the claimed murder for hire plot by Bloods gang member Bushawn Shelton went off without a hitch, the older Zottola, age 71, was shot and killed by Shelton while making a drive-thru coffee run at a McDonald’s in the Bronx.
As the second day of the federal trial in Brooklyn federal court began, Salvatore Zottola, the defendant’s brother and another son of the victim, was scheduled to testify all day.
