Rochester notorious killer Dominic Taddeo escapes federal detention https://t.co/KCGvqV0EQ3 – Democrat & Chronicle (@DandC) April 1, 2022 Taddeo, 64, was jailed in a medium-sized Florida padlock before being transferred to a residential home, also in Florida, in February. He did not return from an authorized medical appointment and was “placed on escape” on Monday, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons said. Taddeo pleaded guilty in 1992 to extortion charges involving the killing of three men during mob wars in the 1980s. In 1982 and 1983, Taddeo shot to death Nicholas Mastrodonato, Gerald Pelusio and Dino Tino. A federal judge in western New York has rejected Taddeo’s request for compassionate release last year, dismissing claims that health problems, including high blood pressure and obesity, put him at risk for serious complications from COVID-19. Prosecutors said medical records did not show Taddeo was particularly unhealthy. A spokesman for the Prison Office did not immediately respond to a call for information on Taddeo’s escape. The Democrat & Chronicle reported that Taddeo had previously escaped from the authorities during a two-year manhunt after his release on bail in 1987. He was finally arrested in 1989 while trying to meet his brother in Cleveland, the newspaper reported. When they returned to Rochester, the Democrat & Chronicle wrote: “Small, bald and not at all like the killer of the mob that researchers say killed three underworld figures, Dominique Tanteo has returned to federal court in shackles.”
