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Bodybuilder Accused of Shooting His Parents Waives Rights to NJ Extradition

Posted on the 29 December 2021 by Maxiel

The bodybuilding-obsessed son who allegedly shot each his mother and father at their $3.2million Lengthy Island property on Christmas morning has waived his proper to an extradition listening to in New Jersey and can return to New York this week to face fees.

Building magnate Rocco Tomassetti, 65, and spouse Vinceta Marsicano-Tomassetti, have been shot inside their 8,751-square foot mansion in Hewlett Harbor at round 10am.

Their son Dino Tomassetti, 29, has been held on the Bergen County Jail in New Jersey since his arrest and has been charged as a fugitive from justice after he allegedly fled the scene.

Dino made a digital look in court docket in Bergen County on Monday, the place the private coach agreed to be despatched on to Nassau County court docket for the case.

He allegedly fled the scene in a Cadillac Escalade, which Nassau County police have been in a position to monitor by way of GPS after a neighbor reported a 'disturbance' on the household's home.

The Tommassettis' mob ties have additionally been revealed within the wake of their son's arrest.

The severity of the costs that Dino will face in Nassau County will rely upon the respective situation of his mother and father, who've each undergone surgical procedure for his or her wounds.

Sources advised the Day by day Voice Vincenza was shot within the head and Rocco was shot within the again. Rocco stays in critical situation.

Each have been aware after they have been discovered inside their house, based on the Lengthy Island Herald, and have been rushed by county police ambulance to a neighborhood hospital. They're each anticipated to outlive, the Herald experiences.

Dino appeared just about earlier than Decide Mitchell Steinhart on Monday and was represented by a lawyer from the New Jersey Workplace of the Public Defender, the New York Put up experiences.

The Nassau County Police Division was unable to verify with Dino can be despatched again to New York however defendants are normally moved inside two days based on the choose's clerk.

The Tomasetti household is a part of a development dynasty fashioned by the late Dino Tomassetti Sr., an Italian immigrant whose chain of Laquila corporations helped form New York Metropolis's skyline.

Their tasks embrace the Goldman Sachs headquarters close to Floor Zero, the Financial institution of America headquarters, condominiums and extra. His son Rocco's Empire Transit Combine firm supplied the concrete for the Freedom Tower and his daughter's firm helped develop the construction.

The household has beforehand confronted indictments for his or her alleged mob ties, and their sprawling house on Lengthy Island is now surrounded by yellow tape as police examine the capturing within the unique South Shore neighborhood, which is within the ninety fifth percentile for public security.

Dino works as a private coach in East Williamsburg in Brooklyn. His social media pages are full of footage of him flexing his bulging muscle groups.

His Instagram web page, which remained up Sunday, was stacked with snaps of him lifting weights and sometimes touring to extra unique components of the world similar to Paris and the Caribbean.

In a single picture, he is posing in a automotive, displaying off an expensive Breitling watch. In one other publish, he boasts about his 240-pound physique.

He writes that he's in a position to deadlift 725 kilos, 625 kilos in a squat and 550 kilos within the bench press.

Police haven't but launched a motive for the shootings.

The investigation is constant, police have mentioned.

However the household has been embroiled in authorized troubles previously, with federal prosecutors claiming his late grandfather had ties to the mob.

Dino's grandfather, Dino Tomasetti Sr., is a legend in New York Metropolis, each for what he achieved as a first-generation immigrant and for the scandals that he grew to become embroiled in.

He owned development firm Laquila Group and had been linked by the feds to organized crime.

A 2006 New York Instances profile detailed how Dino Sr. was as soon as indicted for allegedly illegally making 1000's of {dollars} in unlawful payoffs to union brass over the span of a decade. The elder Dino denied the allegations.

However then in 1997 each Rocco and Dino Sr. have been arrested for allegedly working an unlawful waste website subsequent to their firm's Brooklyn headquarters, the New York Instances reported. That 12 months, the corporate pleaded responsible to submitting pretend paperwork associated to a venture at Elmhurst Hospital Heart in Queens.

'Laquila, which had a $2.5 million contract to construct concrete decking for a brand new wing on the hospital, had secretly and illegally subcontracted the work to a second firm for $1.4 million, enabling Laquila to gather a $1 million revenue,' the Instances reported. 'The scheme got here to mild after Laquila did not pay the second firm.'

In the identical article, the outlet reported that the corporate was indicted for racketeering in 1987 for allegedly bribing native officers to allow them to illegally dump development waste in New Jersey. The scheme was allegedly organized by a member of the Gambino crime household.

However the fees have been dropped after Laquila agreed to pay a $25,000 fantastic.

In 2006, a scathing New York Metropolis Sanitation Division report rejected an software by Rocco and Dino Sr. to function a waste enterprise within the metropolis, calling the pair 'unworthy' of acquiring a registration.

The request was denied as a result of the candidates lacked 'good character, honesty, and integrity,' the report mentioned.

Rocco and Vincenza have three kids, together with twins Rocco and Dino, and daughter Gina, 24.

Family of the household didn't reply to DailyMail.com queries and a colleague of Rocco Sr. declined remark.

In the meantime, associates and associates of the bodybuilder have expressed shock and disbelief on the information, describing Dino Tomassetti as 'not violent in any respect' and 'an awesome man'.

A girl exterior Dino's constructing in East Williamsburg who recognized herself because the suspect's 'finest buddy' advised the NY Put up that Dino was not violent.

'Nope. Under no circumstances,' she mentioned. 'He is my finest buddy. I actually do not wish to speak about it.'

A employee within the constructing mentioned: 'I am from the South Bronx. S-t occurs each f-king day, man. Not a lot I can do about it.

'He is an awesome man, man. I would not count on him to do one thing like that.'

One of many mother and father' neighbors mentioned: 'They're very fantastic folks. I can not say a nasty phrase about them.'

'I really feel sorry for them. What else are you able to suppose? I really feel very sorry for them. I hope they survive and are available out of this.'


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