Hockey Mafia
Channel FX will tell the amazing story of how the love of sports brought the famous criminal to the dock. As it became known to the publication Deadline, the cable network begins work on a series based on the article by Richard Joel Cohen, "The Gangster Who Bought His Son a Hockey Team."The material was first published in the famous literary magazine The Atlantic in May this year. In his article, Cohen spoke about the American businessman James Galant, who for years laundered money for the legendary Genovese crime family through his cleaning and recycling companies. To create a reputation as an honest entrepreneur, Galante decided to found his own hockey club - Danbury Trashers. James could not resist the temptation and began to conduct the business of the team the old fashioned way. The Danbury Scavengers made a good debut in one of the lower hockey leagues in North America, but in the second year of their existence, it turned out that Galante was doing black bookkeeping. To surpass the league's payroll threshold, James employed hockey players and their wives in fictitious jobs in his businesses. Thanks to this scheme, he managed to exceed the $ 275,000 salary ceiling at least three times.  As a result, the would-be club owner was sentenced to 87 months in prison. As soon as Galante went to prison, the Danbury Trashers team was immediately disbanded. The small screen adaptation of Richard Joel Cohen's article will be written by Dan Novak, writer and producer of the hit series Murder and Expansion. The Topic of Article: Hockey Mafia. |
