From Crystal Club Soda to Gertrude Hawk Chocolate

A Dunmore man arrested and jailed last week for allegedly extorting money from the company that cleaned pigeon droppings from the Lackawanna County Courthouse has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Florida with racketeering, money laundering and fraud. n a 42-count indictment that also names a man identified by prosecutors as a member of the Gambino crime family, prosecutors say Philip Forgione, 65, 1315 N. Webster Ave., and others participated in a scam that bilked at least $7 million from ADT Security. Continue reading. Editor’s Note: Is it just me, or has there been an awful lot of local “mob” stories in the news lately?