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DAILY; NEWS, WEDNESDAtTiJAY 16; 1979. Belkume, imAmde attested 'by feds inn skfm ef. hm slmwk By WILLIAM FEDERICI and PAUL MESKIL Aniello DellaCroce, boss of the Gambino crime family, and one of his top lieutenants were arrested yesterday on a federal indictment charging them with racketeering activities including murder, loan sharking, extortion and obstruction of federal investigations. DellaCroce, 65, and Anthony Plate, 66, reputed to be one of the biggest loan sharks in the Gambino clan, were accused of plotting the murder of Charles (Charlie Bear) Calise, a Yon-kers bookmaker-and loan shark, who was shot to death on July 7, 1974. DellaCroce for many years was un-' derboss to Carlo Gambino, capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses) of organized crime in America.

After Gambino djed in 1976,, DellaCroce took over the largest and richest of New York's five crime families. DellaCroce, known in mobland as News photo by Tcm Cunningham Aniello DellaCroce (left) is escorted from FBI headquarters in New Rochelle. Perjurer's punishment: probation Despite the strenuous objections of the Brooklyn district attorney's office, reputed mob loan shark Carmine Lombardozzi yesterday was given five years' probation for lying to a grand jury. Supreme Court Justice Gilbert Ramirez handed down the suspended sentence over the pleas of the prosecution for a "meaningful sentence" of four years in prison. Assistant District Attorney Charles Carnesi called Lombardozzi, 66, "indisputably a major crime figure." Lombardozzi is reputed to be a captain in the Carlos Gambino crime family.

Lombadozzi, of 127 Whitman Drive, Mill Basin, Brooklyn, pleaded guilty Feb. 23 to lying to a 1975 grand jury probing mob infiltration of legitimate, business. Mr. O'Neill, was arrested by FBI agents about 8:30 a.m. at 593 W.

Fingerboard Road, Grasmere, S.I. He also maintains a posh apartment on Mull-berry St. in Manhattan's Little Italy and a home in the Florida Keys. At the same hour, G-men seized Place in his palatial home on Bay Harbor Island, a millionaires' playground off Miami Beach. The eight-count indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale, after a lengthy investigation by the Organized Crime Strike Force in southern Florida, accused DellaCroce and Plate of running lucrative rackets in New York, Florida and California.

When Plate moved from Westchester County to Florida several years ago, the indictment said, he set up a loan-shark operation there and later tried to establish a Los Angeles branch but was "informed by bis superiors in the Gambino family that he could not loan money in California." Enforcement technique Plate and DellaCroce reportedly met at an Italian restaurant in the East Village in 1974 to discuss Calise, who was running Plate's gambling and usury rackets in Westchester. According to the indictment, Plate told DellaCroce that Calise had been withholding rackets proceeds and was preparing to tell the feds all he knew about the Gambino clan's operations. Then, the indictment said, DellaCroce "ordered Plate to kill Calise." Shortly thereafter, Calise was shot five times in the face. After his arrest, DellaCroce was taken to the FBI office in New Rochelle for booking. He was then returned to New York City for a hearing before a U.S.

magistrate in Brooklyn Federal Court and was released after posting bond of $550,000. Plate appeared before a magistrate in Fort Lauderdale and was released after posting $125,000 bond. If convicted on all counts, DellaCroce could get up to 40 years and Plate up to 160 years in jail. Both will arraigned Monday in Fort Lauderdale. Ml he ist trial Jury takes up case in Deliberations will continue today.

Four government witnesses, all of whom have been granted immunity from prosecution, have said that Werner was heavily in debt to loan sharks and bookmakers and "supplied inside information" to a robbery gang to settle his debts. In addition, Werner was also to receive $300,000, the government charged, adding that $80,000 of that amount had been paid. The chief witness for the prosecu-timn was Peter Gruenwald, a fellow employe at Lufthansa, who said he participated in both crimes Werner is accused of. Defense attorney Stephen Laifer called Gruenwald and other government witnesses a "bunch of rats" and saved particular scorn of witness William Fischetti in his 35-minute summation. Fischetti, a car service operator in South Ozone Park, Queens, testified that he changed the foreign money stolen in 1976 into greenbacks for a 10 cut Laifer said that his client had not associated with Fischetti for two years, "at the time Mrs.

Werner began cheating with Fischetti and my client found" out about it Laifer said Fischetti also gave the phone number of Werner's married daughter to "a friend," who harassed the woman until she had to have the number changed. "Do you think anyone would associate with a man who was trying to pimp his daughter? Laifer thundered. JOHN HAMILL A Brooklyn Federal Court jury yesterday began deliberating the fate of Louis Werner, the alleged mastermind of the $5.8 million Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport, after hearing Werner's attorneys call prosecution witnesses 'rats" and denounce one of them as a "pimp." Werner, 46, is accused of directing the Dec. 11 haul. Federal prosecutors allege also that Werner, an employe of Lufthansa, stole $22,000 from the airlines in October 1976.

The jury broke for the night at 10:30 p.m. after deliberating six hours. Iflmtitt fathers not top hmon, need hike Do you think your top city official demorvm a rait? Hearing thm propomod pay hikoa will bo hold by apodal mayoral commimoion next Wednesday, mo vote right now. DO THEY DESERVE A RAISE? YES NO Mayor Controller Council President Borough Presidents Council Members By VINCENT COSGROVE Mayor Koch declared yesterday that elected city officials "deserve" a raise. And the chairman of the mayoral commission created to study the pay scales of -top officials predicted that "we would recommend some compensation." "The real question," Koch said, "is whether you compensate public officials.

City employes get an increase each year at the very least of 4. Elected officials cannot be included in this annual increase, so when and if there is an increase it comes at the end of a number of years. Cites inflation people who have not had an increase have seen their salaries diminish (through inflation) by at least 7 a year or 42 or more over that period of time sure I think they deserve an increase." New Jersey Lottery Pick It: 044 Straight Payeff $374 Connecticut Lottery Dailv: tSt The Council last received a raise in 1969 and the others were given increases in 1974. Informed sources have told the Daily News that the mayoral commission will recommend raises which could well range to $10,000 or more for the mayor, controller and City Council presidents, $7,000 for the borough presidents, and $5,000 for Council members. The mayor now makes $60,000 a year, the controller and Council, president make $50,000 and the borough presidents receive $45,000.

Council members make $20,000 in salary plus $5,000 in unitemized expenses, $11,000 in itemized expenses and $20,000 for staff. Hearing set next week Richard Shinn, chairman of the salary commission, said yesterday that the panel has not yet proposed any salary increases or reached a final But, he explained, "my own personal feeling is that there would be a likelihood we would recommend some compensation." Shinn also announced that the commission will hold a public hearing at 9 a.m. next Wednesday in the 23d-floor hearing room at 250 Broadway to consider the salary question. 'Anyone interested in testifying at the hearing should contact William Toppetta at (212) 578-3301. Name: Address: Past this Dally News coupon on a post curd, or mall ft In an envelope Immediately to: PAY VOTE.

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