Son Orders Up A McMurder For Mafia Dad

The federal trial opened this week for a New York City mob boss’s adult son charged with hiring a gangbanger to kill his father at a McDonald’s drive-thru, allowing him to seize control of the mafia family’s estimated $45 million real estate empire.

Federal prosecutors say, Anthony Zottola, Sr. had his organized crime family-associated father, Sylvester “Sally Daz” Zottola, tracked for roughly a year by goons who stabbed and beat him several times in unsuccessful attempts on his life.

Ultimately the Bloods gang member Bushawn Shelton shot and killed the elder Zottola while the 71-year-old was at a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Bronx.

Zottola, Sr., is also on trial for the near-deadly shooting of his brother. Salvatore Zottola survived a shooting outside his Bronx waterfront apartment in 2018. The gunman, Himen Ross, and his get-a-way driver, Alfred Lopez, are also on trial.

Salvatore Zottola testified that his father’s real estate business generated about $1 million in rental income per year and was worth an estimated total of $45 million.

During Tuesday’s opening proceedings, Assistant U.S. Attorney Devon Lash said that the elder Zottola was killed on his grandson’s birthday on Oct. 4, 2018, and text messages showed the defendant celebrated when he got the news that his father was dead.

“Can we party today or tomorrow?” Shelton texted Zottola, Sr., that day.

To that, Zottola responded “tomorrow,” explaining: “It’s my lil man bday. I am taking him to his favorite place Mcdonald’s (then) a movie. Lol. Like I eat that stuff. Thank you for being a great friend my man.”

Zottola Sr. paid Shelton $200,000 for the successful hit on his dad.