A Miami federal judge sentenced a leader in the Cuban organized crime syndicate known as "The Corporation" to 15 years in prison Friday for his role in a criminal racketeering conspiracy that included murder, gambling, arson and money laundering.

U.S. District Judge Alan Gold also ordered Jose Miguel Battle Jr., 54, who was convicted of various racketeering charges in July, to forfeit $642 million in illegal proceeds.

Battle's father, Jose Miguel Battle Sr., a Bay of Pigs veteran, was sentenced in January to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty during his racketeering conspiracy trial. The elder Battle, 77, founded the organization and became known to federal authorities as "The Cuban Godfather."

Father and son were accused at trial of taking part in five premeditated murders and four arsons resulting in eight deaths, including that of a 3-year-old child. One murder, the death of Ernesto Torres, took place in Opa-Locka during the 1970s, according to court records.

In another murder outside Florida, an assassin took out a Corporation rival in a hospital by dressing up as a nurse, authorities said.

The criminal outfit, started in 1964, was sidelined in March 2004 when the federal government froze millions in assets and arrested almost two dozen alleged Corporation members.