Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), Jessica S. Tisch, and Special Agent in Charge of the New York Task Force Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Christopher Roberts, announced the conviction at trial today of JOHN LIVIGNI for his role as a leader in the drug trafficking conspiracy that flooded Washington Square Park and surrounding streets with fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, heroin, and crack cocaine between in or about 2020 and the arrests of numerous members of the conspiracy in October 2025.