Lucchese Crime Family Gambling Case “Incredibly Massive Volume of Evidence”

Deputy Attorney General Mark Eliades claimed on Wednesday that there is “incredibly massive volume of evidence” regarding a case against 34 people allegedly tied to the Lucchese crime family. 

The defendants were indicted in May for running an international gambling ring with ties to Costa Rica.

From NJ.com:

Eliades said he and his colleagues in the Attorney General’s Office have been transferring all the information from computer hard drives onto CDs to be given to the defendants and their attorneys. The evidence includes 10,000 pages of affidavits and grand jury exhibits; 12,000 to 15,000 sheets of financial records and more than 100 hours of surveillance videos and wiretaps.

Eliades said he needs about seven days to go through 36 discs of information to make sure “everything is on there” before distributing them to the defendants.

The judge overseeing this matter has scheduled a status conference for November 30 for all of the defendants. 

“Hopefully, by that time we can make some progress and figure out where we are going,” he said.