Ghost gun pipeline through quiet Staten Island neighborhood ends in guilty verdict

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island man was convicted Thursday of running a ghost gun operation that federal prosecutors say put the deadly weapons in the hands of individuals “who should not have them.”

Brandon Nudelman, 33, of Cotter Avenue in Richmond, was found guilty by a jury in Brooklyn federal court on three counts — including manufacturing and dealing ghost guns and obstruction of justice — stemming from a series of arrests in February 2025.

His younger brother, Justin Nudelman, 31, was convicted earlier in the case with other co-defendants. The group manufactured and sold the guns primarily from a house on Corona Avenue in Oakwood, prosecutors allege…

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