Jeffrey C. Civitello, Sr., Cocaine Conspiracy, New York 2023

A Schenectady man, Jeffrey C. Civitello, Sr., 52, was sentenced to 120 months in prison for conspiring to traffic approximately 15 kilograms of cocaine in March and April 2021.

Jeffrey C. Civitello, Sr., was convicted alongside his son Jeffrey C. Civitello Jr. and Richard D. Sinde of Fort Lee, New Jersey of all counts following an 8-day trial in April 2023.

The trial evidence demonstrated a conspiracy between five men: Jeffrey C. Civitello, Sr., Jeffrey C. Civitello Jr., Richard D. Sinde, Christopher J. Kelly of Brooklyn, New York, and Robert J. Ingrao of Lodi, New Jersey.

Civitello Sr. and his son were arranging for a ‘trap’ to be installed in another Jeep used by Sinde, so that Sinde could continue to traffic drugs to the Civitellos after Kelly went to state prison for a prior cocaine case; they abandoned that plan following the seizure of 9 kilograms of cocaine from Civitello Jr.’s Jeep on April 2.

United States District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino also ordered Civitello Sr. to serve a 5-year term of supervised release and to forfeit $240,000. In 1999, Civitello Sr. was convicted in federal court of conspiring to distribute cocaine and money laundering, and received a 72-month term of imprisonment.

Civitello Jr. is scheduled to be sentenced on December 12, and Sinde is scheduled for sentencing on December 19. Robert J. Ingrao was sentenced to 37 months in prison, with 3 years of supervision to follow, while Christopher J. Kelly was sentenced to 41 months in prison and to pay a $25,000 fine.

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