12 Facts About James Galante

In June 2008, Galante admitted to charges of racketeering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and defrauding the Internal Revenue Service, and faced between five and seven years in prison under Federal Sentencing Guidelines, and was forced to forfeit his controlling interest in 25 different garbage-related businesses, estimated to be worth over $100 million.

James Galante was released in 2014 after serving seven years in prison.

James Galante was owner of 25 different trash disposal businesses based out of Danbury, Connecticut and estimated to be worth over $100 million.

In 1999, James Galante was sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion.

In June 2006, James Galante was issued a 98-count indictment describing James Galante as a man who ran an illegal enterprise by carving up the garbage business in western Connecticut and Putnam County and using mob muscle to strong-arm any competitors who might get in his way.

James Galante was charged in 93 counts of the indictment, with various alleged violations of federal law, including racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, Hobbs Act extortion, mail and wire fraud, witness tampering, tax fraud and conspiracy charges.

James Galante was indicted in 2006 on charges of paying a 'mob tax' to Ianniello.

James Galante acknowledged that he defrauded the IRS, including writing double paychecks for some employees and having them return one of them to him in cash, claiming items he purchased for his girlfriend's horse farm including hay and a wide-screen television as business expenses, and skimming cash from the register at the Danbury garbage transfer station.

James Galante agreed to forfeit a horse farm he bought for a former girlfriend, six racing cars, a racing trailer, and $448,000 in cash that federal agents seized in 2006, and to pay at least $1.6 million in back taxes to the IRS.

James Galante did not admit to other acts of which federal authorities accused him, including extortion, attempted arson, and kidnapping.

Stirling and James Galante allegedly violated the UHL's $275,000 per team salary cap by giving several players and their wives no-show jobs with AWD and hiding illegitimate payments as housing allowances.

DeLuca had asked James Galante to threaten the husband of DeLuca's granddaughter, whom DeLuca believed was being abused.