Career
Aloi was a main figure in the famous "Windows Case". On November 19, 1974, Benedetto Aloi was indicted in Brooklyn along with 156 other mobsters on perjury charges. He was accused of lying to a grand jury that what investigating police collusion with an illegal gambling ring.
On June 28, 1984, Aloi was indicted on loansharking charges.
Prosecutors alleged that he was involved with Resource Capital Group a company in Lake Success, New York, that lent over $1 million in a year and a half at interest rates of 2 percent or more per week. In the, the crime families used their control over local construction unions and companies to fix the bid prices offered to the New York Housing Authority for thermal pane windows in its housing projects.
On May 18, 1991, Aloi was convicted of one count of extortion and a related conspiracy count in the Under normal sentencing guidelines, Aloi might have received a threeto five-year sentence. However, due to his criminal record, his high rank in the Colombo family, and the high profile of the case, the judge gave Aloi 16 years and eight months in prison.
On March 17, 2009, Aloi was released from a halfway house in the Greater New York area.
He died on April 7, 2011.