 | Benjamin 'The Claw' Castellazzo drew a paultry 15 months after the feds indicted him and 13 other Colombo mobsters in a scheme to take over a labor union. The underboss's lawyer said a new conviction would see him lose his subsidized apartment and leave him homeless. The Claw's career in organized crime started in the 1950s when he was convicted for hijacking a carpeting truck. When he appeared before a federal judge in 2013 to be sentenced for racketeering he was a changed man. “I have reflected on my life during the last two years I have been in jail since my arrest. I can tell your honor without hesitation, I am not proud of the life I have led,” Castellazzo wrote “ ... I can tell your honor in all sincerity that you will never see me before this or any court of law again.” |  |
 | He was released from federal prison in 2015, but the feds came calling for the Claw again. Castellazzo was the man in charge of the union racket.
 |  He had been denied bail and housed at the unfriendly Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. |
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