Eugene Castelle

Eugene Castelle (born 1960), also known as "Boopsie" and "Bubsie", is a New York mobster who served as a caporegime and then an underboss with the Lucchese crime family
A resident of Staten Island, Castelle operated loansharking and numbers racket activities out of a small storefront in the Bath Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn. Castelle also managed a group of narcotics distributors in Brooklyn. Castelle was a close associate of Lucchese mobster Joseph Tangorra. Castelle's crew allegedly divided the Bensonhurst drug trade with the Bonanno crime family's Bath Avenue crew, extorting payments from neighborhood merchants through intimidation and arson.
In 1997, Castelle was charged with bribing jail guards to smuggle food and steroids to Lucchese family members who were incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. However, the charges were eventually dismissed.
On November 12, 2000, Caselle and other Lucchese members were charged with two murder conspiracies and a drug, extortion, and loansharking operation that dated to 1987.

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