The arrest comes weeks before he was to surrender to go to federal prison after being convicted of COVID-related fraud.
71-year-old mob associate Sylvester Zottola survived six assassination attempts over a one-year period, only to get gunned down and murdered doing something he did often - order a cup of coffee at a McDonald's drive-thru in the Bronx.
During all of the assassination attempts, Sylvester Zottola had no idea his own son was behind the attacks on his life.
Bulger, the leader of Boston's Winter Hill gang, was on the run for 16 years before being caught by federal authorities, and later tried and convicted.
Prosecutors say purported members of the Genovese and Bonanno organized crime families operated several illegal gambling operations in NYC and Long Island.
On April 2, 1992, mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering; he was later sentenced to life, and died in prison.