"But I've always paid for everything, either with stitches in my head, concussions, or jail time. As Yester laid low with the cash, cartel liaisons in the United States, aware that they had been burned, pressured Almeida to show them where Yesters relatives lived in and around Miami. On a crowded balcony overlooking La Joya, Galeota describes the past 16 months as a nightmare. Running an underworld operation in Cocaine Cowboys-era Miami wasn't an easy gig. But Galeota's plan would soon go catastrophically wrong. Ten million dollars really feels like 10 million dollars, he gushes in the movie. But Galeota's problems aren't completely behind him. "Now I'm living in hell.". They'd use their connections with immigration officials to obtain visas and prostitution licenses and then give Tarzan and Tony 40 percent of the profits to run a new club, called the Doll House. And, above all, selling it. "There were beautiful girls, just walking the streets, giving blowjobs for $10 or $15.". And when his mother was distraught over a broken washing machine, he filled the house with new appliances. The FBI swooped in January 21, surrounding the club and arresting Fainberg. The $33,000 number is actually the wholesale price in the US for smugglers - or how much a kilo is worth delivered to US soil, for traffickers. Michael Galeota, who starred on the Disney Channel's "The Jersey" died Sunday, according to Variety. As for Yester taking a flier with the cartel money, Tarzan says he would have done the same himself if he could have and expresses no hard feelings. "She would use shoe polish to change our driver's licenses so we could go to clubs and drink when we were 15. The dead and dying are piled into wheelbarrows and left by the front gate until guards arrive in the morning. Michael Galeota, who starred on the Disney Channel's "The Jersey" died Sunday, according to Variety. His father, Arnold, was a strait-laced sales manager but a distant and disapproving dad. By then, the club's criminal clientele and Fainberg's increasingly lavish lifestyle had raised eyebrows. We've received your submission. Galeota saw an opportunity. And he hopes to open a place in Fort Lauderdale when he's back, Just not a strip club. This time, I'm innocent.". Cops had made several controlled buys of drugs. And last year, Yester was finally arrested in Rome on charges unrelated to the submarine while en route to a wedding. Anywhere other than La Joya, this news would be shocking. And like the Italian-American crooner, he loved women a little too much. Anthony Galeota was born October 17, 1968, on Long Island. "Maybe we didn't have the permits we were supposed to have, but we're foreigners who didn't understand the rules.". Like a concert pianist, Tony Galeota has spent his life honing a single skill since he was a teenager. Tarzan and one of his partners, Fat Tony Galeota, had opened a strip club in Panama similar to a previous enterprise in Miami called Porkys but they landed behind bars in Central America. But instead of classical music, his specialty is sex. "My wife could have left me. The person they were going to pay for the submarine was the officer who let them [into the naval base], says Russell. He was talking to Fainberg about a murder he'd witnessed in Porky's parking lot. The gig introduced him to a lifelong vice. But he was too shell-shocked to take up his attorney's offer for a ride to a nice hotel. "Now I'm living in hell.". This time, I'm innocent.". Controlling it. The crew boarded the 165-foot Panamanian-flagged coastal freighter Hope II. Instead, he's trapped in a labyrinthine legal system, alone and unable to speak Spanish. The year before, his father helped him land a job as a wedding DJ. We travelled all the time. I had kind of, little by little, put the word out to everybody among the cops, all the law enforcement side as well as among the crooks and said, Gotta meet Tony, gotta meet Tony, gotta meet Tony knowing that he was the only guy who really knew what happened. Galeota is no angelic Andy Dufresne, the main character in Shawshank who serves two decades behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. Filthy and crowded cell block of La Joya Prison, Panama. But when Galeota was arrested June 19, 2011, and charged with trafficking drugs and women, he was just as innocent as Stephen King's saintly inmate. "These guys were into just about everything," Assistant U.S. Attorney Diana Fernandez said at the time. State and local police launched an investigation in February 2009. A narc I know called me with a tip and he said, This is the craziest true-crime caper Ive ever come across in my life. Just not a strip club. "He never forced us to do anything. For two decades, Galeota managed Porky's, a Hialeah dive notorious for drugs, prostitution, and violence, where he was part pimp, part bouncer, and completely untouchable. Instead, they eat rice for lunch and dinner, drink dirty river water, and use a hole in the ground for a toilet. Panama became Galeota's personal paradise. During a visit last month, a New Times reporter witnessed one police official receive a $20 bill in a barely disguised handshake. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. Galeota yelled. Galeota believes that his arrest has little to do with a renewed commitment to the law in Panama. Michael Galeota, who starred on the Disney Channel's "The Jersey" died Sunday, according to Variety. Fainberg allegedly told undercover cops he had sent coke to Russia in a shipment of frozen shrimp and had bought six $1 million Russian military helicopters for the South Americans. Get the latest updates in news, food, music and culture, and receive special offers direct to your inbox. Making the documentary, he says: I found the story so compelling and so riveting that I was just relentlessly magnetized to it. Panamanian police had been casing the Doll House, Moulin Rouge, and another joint, called Havana Club, for weeks. It was a caper, for sure., He says: Tarzan was the lynchpin to it, because it was his story. On a Sunday night in July of 1991, a 29-year-old electrician named Phillip John Shea came into Quarterbacks shortly after Tony and Kristy left. The Porky's party nearly came to a sudden end in early 1997. Anywhere other than La Joya, this news would be shocking. Facilitating it. "When you go to prison, it's like dying, but you get to see your own funeral," Galeota says. Banks seized all seven of his apartments. Tony Galeota. He told them he could get them the submarine for $35million, but said hes need the money in installments; when they gave him the first $10million, he kept the money for himself and disappeared. But all the cops found were five grams of weed, a bottle of Viagra, and some mysterious yellow pills. "They had what seemed like a dynamite case, but it has ended up in pieces.". But Monday morning, when it came time to walk out of La Joya, there was no vehicle waiting. Although he knows he could receive the death penalty, the money is too tempting to resist. Luckier still, a powerful Colombian inmate named Mauricio Ramrez recognized Galeota from his restaurant. Catherine says she slept with customers because she needed the money to support her family. The Coast Guard said the eight-member crew cooperated and was taken into custody. The smugglers boat was destroyed because it was a hazard to navigation. Log In or Sign Up Tony Galeota See Photos Anthony Galeota See Photos Tony Kalata See Photos Tony Galeote See Photos Tony Galea See Photos Tony Galeto See Photos Tony Gullette See Photos Tony Gulotta See Photos Furious and Busted Rick Cedar steals radios to support his family. Girls charged $150 or more for sex. The drugs will be turned over to the DEA. We had a $500,000 house, cars, and motorcycles. "It was so slow I couldn't take it," he says. "I lived it up in Miami," he says. "Like me, he was a black sheep who could do nothing right.". "I don't care how strong you are; that's going to affect your marriage," she says. People named Tony Galeta. Galeota is not exactly repentant. ", "You hear that?" "You see who wants to fuck your wife, who wants to rob you, and who your real friends are.". "My wife could have left me. "It was home to a lot of shrewd and nefarious characters.". But Tarzan a seasoned wheeler-dealer, strip club owner and former mob enforcer took it in his stride and went back to his partners with the response. He soon finds himself wanting to be a mobster, and starts running errands for them. Galeota is one of several Americans locked up here. They went Maserati shopping by helicopter so they could look at the cars from the air. MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami) The Coast Guard offloaded about $93 million of cocaine Thursday afternoon on Miami Beach. Upon seeing 10 thugs rush the vehicle and hijack it with the unsuspecting passenger in back, Yester realized that the remaining cash would not be forthcoming. Wrongly imprisoned. Anthony Galeota (right) poses with Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg inside the Doll House weeks before their arrest. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. Galeota examines a bruise from a prison fight in La Joya. And, above all, selling it. Everything here has a cost.". South Florida's independent Photo courtesy of Josh Weiss A prisoner poses with a gun smuggled into La Joya with help from guards. We asked them some questions and some of their information didnt quite add up, so we conducted a boarding.. Tony Galeota's age is expected to be 52. Eventually, he moved two dozen ladies to Panama City. The guards leave at 5pm, and they just lock the gates, and its inmate rule at night, he says, explaining that he bribed a guard to get him in and out of the jail. Miami's underworld may still be seedy, but it has outsourced much of its shadiness to nearby Third-World countries such as Panama. They also discovered the club was registered as a massage parlor, not a brothel. A large Russian man called Tarzan sits in an armchair against the backdrop of a cracked and stained wall, a pack of cigarettes, lighter and an ash tray on a table to his left, and he shrugs as he talks about a deal he tried to broker more than 20 years ago. We did outsmart the FBI, we did outsmart the DEA, we even did outsmart the court, Tarzan says in the film. New Times wrote about Galeota's plight last year ("From Porky's to Hell," October 4, 2012), even visiting him in La Joya prison, a crumbling concrete complex in the jungle where inmates kill each other with impunity. (CBS Miami). None of them ever appeared in the newspapers, but Hialeah police records confirm there were at least ten shootings at Porky's during Galeota's tenure. Moreover, trafficking prostitutes and drugs and involvement in organized crime are some serious charges.". "It is with tremendous heartfelt sadness to announce the passing of Michael James Galeota," Jan. 10, reads a statement on a Go Fund Me page, created by Galeota's family to raise money for his burial. She is a high-powered attorney who has defended two former presidents in corruption cases, but even she hasn't been able to get Galeota out of jail yet. The fear was well founded, considering what went down when Tarzan linked up with Cuban outlaws Juan Almeida and Nelson Tony Yester. "Everybody give me your money!" Its a great satisfaction after being two months deployed and everybodys tired but you come home with a case like this its very satisfying, said Castro. "That's obstruction of justice.". Yester told the Colombians that theyd have to pay $35 million for the vessel, even though Tarzan had talked the price down to $5.5 million plus just $600 for a crew to pilot it to Colombia. June 4, 2013 Prosecutors charged Galeota and Fainberg with not only drug dealing but also human trafficking. The heavy-set Italian even signed a release. Get the latest updates in news, food, music and culture, and receive special offers direct to your inbox. And they were doing it on behalf of the notorious Cali drug cartel in Colombia, who planned to use the underwater vessel to smuggle cocaine undetected. They put a hit out on him when he disappeared with the money, while Juan and Tarzan took the legal fall in Miami. Meet me in Africa for a cup of coffee tomorrow.. Instead, Galeota admits he's done bad things, such as running Miami's most infamous strip club, Porky's, for years before moving to Panama and opening a brothel. Now the locals want to get rid of guys like Galeota too, as his case has drawn national attention to corruption and human rights abuses. His nightmare began in June of 2011, when police raided his Panama City strip club and arrested him and his Ukrainian partner for trafficking women and selling drugs. The Dolls House, Via Espaia Road, Panama City, Panam, "They murdered a guy in here a couple of days ago" Tony Galeota, Tony Galeota: From Running Porky's, Miami's Most Notorious Strip Joint, to Rotting in a Panamanian Jail. Anthony Galeota was born October 17, 1968, on Long Island. Between the restaurant and the Doll House, he was making enough to retire in five years. And multiple sources close to Fainberg say he was pressured to rat out Seidle but refused. Murdaugh is heckled as he leaves court, Moment teenager crashes into back of lorry after 100mph police race, Ken Bruce finishes his 30-year tenure as host of BBC Radio 2, Family of a 10-month-old baby filmed vaping open up, Missing hiker buried under snow forces arm out to wave to helicopter, Insane moment river of rocks falls onto Malibu Canyon in CA, Fleet-footed cop chases an offender riding a scooter, Ukrainian soldier takes out five tanks with Javelin missiles. See Photos. With dark hair and pale, wide-set eyes, teenage Tony resembled a stocky Frank Sinatra. If only there were a place where prostitution was legal, he thought, a city full of beautiful women like Miami, but no rules. "It was a real moneymaker. And so from there, Juan showed up in Moscow with a vague, half-assed agreement with Tarzan he still had gotten me to come there without agreeing to be in the film, and he put me through the paces of taking me to the sauna and sort of took me on this insane kind of underworld tour of Moscow. Episode 5: Spain /Sold My Soul When traffickers balked at the price, Yester reminded them that it could hold 40 tons of cocaine and would pay for itself quickly. Guards with machine guns man rusty metal towers. CAKEGATE 2023: Bad Bunny's Restaurant Accused of Gobbling Birthday Girl's Cake, Neighborhood Nazi Jon Minadeo Peddles Hate by the Minute, Sen. Rubio's Permanent Daylight Savings Bill Sees Light of Day Once More, NFL Legend Ray Lewis Joins World Jai-Alai League Board of Directors, Affordable New "Micro-Units" Slated for Little River, Edgewater. I have to tell you, all my enemies are dead, and Im happy, he says in the documentary. People named Toni Galeota Find your friends on Facebook Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. Is this possible, to buy a military submarine - used one? And he said, What a question! The irony is not lost on Galeota that after a life of crime in Miami, he was arrested in Panama just as he was going legit. In January 2017, Almeida got federally charged by the Drug Enforcement Administration with conspiracy to possess narcotics with intent to distribute. Its a lot of f- -king paper. And so with like five days prep I jumped on a plane, went to Miami, started courting the cops and the feds and the US attorneys and all the good guys, the law enforcement side of it their participation was instrumental in it, because theyre the ones that have all the evidentiary record and all the surveillance video and the photos and the wiretaps and all that stuff, most of which is the sort of visual skeleton to the film. Kristy was a self-described "firecracker" who had also escaped from an abusive home and wanted attention. Bonnie also shoplifted booze to sustain her hard drinking habit. "We were like: 'We want to get the fuck out of here. Because of his age, he escaped with six months' probation. His Doll House dream began at Porky's. "I thought I would kick up my heels together like 'Oh my God, I'm finally out,'" he says. Anthony Galeota was born October 17, 1968, on Long Island. In the second interdiction, a Customs plane spotted another suspicious boat off the coast of Panama on August 28th. But he was too shell-shocked to take up his attorney's offer for a ride to a nice hotel. Miami's underworld may still be seedy, but it has outsourced much of its shadiness to nearby Third-World countries such as Panama. And that's why drug traffickers are in the business - take something that starts off with a value of $5,000 and when you're done selling it at the retail level the value has skyrocketed. While another new prisoner was beaten and robbed, Galeota was untouched. So I was literally stepping over dead bodies of the people who had been shanked and stuff over the course of the night.. Bonnie also shoplifted booze to sustain her hard drinking habit. By the mid-'90s, Galeota had turned Porky's into a one-stop shop for strippers, sex, and serious drugs. independent local journalism in Miami. the agent said. Tony is my friend, and well always love each other. Prostitution in Miami had become too risky, he decided, but overseas sex tourism was soaring. The lessons in crime didn't come fast enough for Galeota to stay out of trouble. 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