 Pagano eventually pleaded guilty to criminal usury and promoting gambling.After become capo, Pagano became the Genovese family contact in the "Gasoline Bootlegging Rackets".Originated in 1987 by the Organizatsiya, a Russian criminal organization in Brooklyn, the scam involved fake transactions of large quantities of gasoline and diesel that were designed to defraud the State of New York out of excise taxes.