Branden Peterson, 37, and Herman “Taliban” Blanco, 38, are the first of nine defendants to be sentenced in the murder-for-hire plot, which ended with the 71-year-old gangster slain by a fusillade of bullets at a Bronx McDonald’s drive-thru on Oct. 4, 2018.
Anthony Zottola was found guilty Wednesday of orchestrating the killing of his Bronx mobster dad Sylvester “Sally Daz” Zottola, and the near-murder of his older brother.