Hudson Valley Crime Boss Sentenced For Racketeering Conspiracy

SCARSDALE, NY — A captain in the Gambino organized crime family could be spending more than three years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering.

Andrew Campos, 51, of Scarsdale, was sentenced at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn Thursday to 37 months imprisonment for racketeering conspiracy. The court also ordered him to pay $1 million in restitution and a $15,000 fine.

Campos pleaded guilty to the charge in January 2021, admitting his participation in wire fraud and money laundering, according to Breon Peace, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Peace said, as a captain in the Gambino crime family, Campos engaged in multiple fraud and money laundering schemes and maintained the corrosive influence of organized crime in the construction industry.

"This Office, together with its law enforcement partners, will continue to pursue all investigative avenues to deter, interrupt and hold accountable members of organized crime who seek to line their pockets at the expense of businesses and taxpayers," he said.

IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent-in-Charge Thomas Fattorusso said Campos led a scheme that lined his pockets and cheated taxpayers by failing to pay more than $1 million in payroll taxes and laundered money to build his home.

"Criminals, take note," he said. "Trying to cheat the system is not the way to do business."

Prosecutors said Campos and his co-conspirators carried out the fraud in part through their carpentry company, CWC Contracting Corp., by paying employees millions of dollars in cash without making the required payroll tax withholdings and payments.

Campos also laundered money by making checks out to others and cashing them, supposedly for construction work, when in fact, no services were performed and the proceeds were used to build Campos's home.

Fraud was also committed when Campos and his co-conspirators procured cards from the U.S. Department of Labor indicating completion of OSHA training courses that were, in reality, never completed.

Further, at sentencing, between June 2018 and June 2019, the construction company paid thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks to employees of a real estate development company. The bribes were paid in the form of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free labor and materials used for renovations on a co-defendant's home.