10/20/2022
Man Found Guilty In Murder-For-Hire Plot To Kill Alleged Mobster Father In New York
Anthony Zottola Sr. and Himen Ross, a co-conspirator, were convicted Wednesday, following a six week federal trial, of murder-for-hire conspiracy and murder-for-hire in the Oct. 4, 2018 killing of 71-year-old Sylvester Zottola at a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Bronx.
Sylvester Zottola was shot several times in the head and body at the fast-food restaurant on Webster Avenue in what police initially described at the time as a possible mob hit.
Prosecutors said that Ross and Shelton exchanged texts immediately after the killing, and then Shelton and Anthony Zottola exchanged texts, in which Anthony was informed that his father had just been murdered.
“Over the course of more than a year, the elderly victim, Sylvester Zottola, was stalked, beaten, and stabbed, never knowing who orchestrated the attacks.
It was his own son, who was so determined to control the family’s lucrative real estate business that he hired a gang of hit men to murder his father,” US Attorney for the District of New York Breon Peace said.
“For sentencing his father to a violent death, Anthony Zottola and his co-defendant will spend the rest of their lives in prison where they belong as a result of today’s verdict.”
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