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A convicted drug trafficker has been found guilty of moonlighting as a paid assassin for a Manhattan real estate developer who ordered his protege-turned-rival killed. A federal jury in Brooklyn found Antony Abreu, 36, guilty of murder-for-hire charges in the 2019 killing of Xin “Chris” Gu, who was gunned down outside a Queens karaoke bar at the order of his former boss, Qing Ming “Allen” Yu. ...

Anthony Zottola Sr. received a life sentence in federal court for ordering a hitman to kill his father Sylvester to take the family's real estate empire.

Judge Frederic Block reduced the two men’s sentences Wednesday under the First Step Act, saying mobster Anthony Russo and drug trafficker Paul Moore were model prisoners and that they were punished with life sentences for exercising their right to trial.

Anthony Zottola was convicted of murder-for-hire Wednesday. Prosecutors say he wanted the real estate business of his father, Sylvester, a reputed Bonnano crime family associate.

New photos and video show the gruesome aftermath of a 2018 hit on a reputed mafia associate who was gunned down in the drive-thru of a McDonalds in the Bronx.

Federal prosecutors say the whole, messy plot was put into motion by his youngest son, Anthony Zottola, who had designs on the family's $45 million real estate empire.

Ron Cabey, 32, on Tuesday and Wednesday testified in Brooklyn that he had been hired to kill Sylvester Zottola, 71, and his son Salvatore. Sylvester was murdered in October 2018.

Anthony Zottola Sr. is on trial for hiring a Bloods leader to orchestrate the 2018 killing of his father Sylvester "Sally Daz" Zottola, and the attempted murder of his older brother, Salvatore Zottola.

Prosecutors say Anthony Zottola thought he deserved a break that day — from his mobster father.

Prosecutors say Anthony Zottola hired a Bloods gang-member to shoot and kill his father, Sylvester Zottola, an associate of the Lucchess and Bonanno families, who was gunned down at a McDonalds.