Danbury was known for its short-lived, but wild-and-woolly, rough-and-tumble minor league hockey team: The Danbury Trashers. An expansion team owned by Jimmy Galante, who made his fortune by building up a waste-removal empire, the Trashers proved to be surprisingly competitive for an expansion team, especially when you consider that Galante installed his 17 year-old son AJ as general manager.
It turned out that too-good-to-true roster had been assembled by going triple over the league salary cap because Galante hired players and wives to no-show jobs at the waste removal company. This all came out when the feds raided the office and seized Galante’s assets prior to putting him away for a long spell. Link has the story of the Goodfellas-meets-Slapshot hockey team. Jimmy Galante: The Mobster Who Bought His Son a Team - The Atlantic