According to Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) spokesman Scott Taylor, 64-year-old Tadeev was transferred from a medium-security prison in Florida’s Sumter County to a half-house near Orlando in February. According to court documents, he was to remain there until his release in February 2023.
Taylor said that on Monday, March 28, Taddeo failed to return from an “authorized appointment” and was placed on an escape route.
According to a spokesman, the United States Marshals Service told CNN it was aware of the escape and “has made the investigation of the fugitive a top priority.”
According to the 1992 archives of the Rochester newspaper Democrat and Chronicle, Taddeo was nearing the end of several sentences, including conspiracy to commit murders and attempted murders in connection with illegal weapon possession and murders.
According to the Democrats and Chronicle archives, in January 1992 Taddeo pleaded guilty to the shootings of three people in 1982 and 1983, and twice for plotting to fatally shoot the leader of the mob and kill another mob. convicted for tried.
In April 1992, the late US District Judge Michael A. Telesca sentenced Taddeo to 24 years in prison, which he had to serve in prison for 30 consecutive years he was already serving for drug conspiracy, bail jumping, and possession of illegal weapons. Newspaper. Archive.
Taddev filed a motion for compassionate release in December 2020, citing the threats that the COVID-19 pandemic posed to his health. A judge denied the request and declined to commute Taddeo’s sentence, citing “the seriousness of the crimes and his extremely long criminal record”.
“The defendant began a life of crime at the age of 16,” US District Judge Frank Gerasi Jr. wrote in his ruling last year. “His prior convictions are for crimes including conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, and in particular, conspiracy to racketeer-influenced and corrupt organization as a result of employment and affiliation with Rochester’s La Cosa Nostra organized crime family.” ,
“Rico’s charges include the murder of three persons, attempted murder of two more persons and conspiracy to murder a fifth person,” the judge wrote. Reducing Taddev’s sentence would “weaken” the seriousness of the crimes.