A Rochester, New York mobster and hitman, Dominic Taddeo, has escaped federal custody, the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported. He was set to be released within the next year. Instead, he was transferred to a halfway house in Orlando, Florida, when he never returned from a scheduled appointment.
In February, the mob hitman who killed three people and attempted to kill two others was transferred from a medium-security prison in Sumter County, Florida, to the halfway house of the Orlando area.
Taddeo plead guilty in 1992 for multiple counts of attempted murder ten years earlier. Taddeo confessed he was a paid hitman for the Rochester mob in that trial.
He was sentenced to 24 years in prison in addition to the 30 years he was serving for a drug conviction and bail jumping charge.