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'Big Gus' gunned down
BRAMPTON - Constantin
“Big Gus” Alevizos was gunned down outside St. Leonard’s Place,
just days after he was granted parole on drug-trafficking convictions.
(Toronto Star)
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Man linked to mob shot dead
Slain mobster lived in fear
Saved, then sentenced
Apalachin raid 50 years later
APALACHIN, NY
- Five decades ago this week, a police raid sent Mafia bosses, their
underbosses and capos running through the woods of Apalachin - and into
American history and popular culture. Some of the most famous names in
the Mafia -
Carlo Gambino,
Michael Genovese,
Russell Bufalino,
Joe Profaci - were in town Nov. 14, 1957,
ostensibly for a steak roast at the Tioga County estate of ailing local
mobster and Endicott soda distributor
Joseph Barbara. (
Apalachin
Meeting Nov. 14, 1957
'Butcher Boy' probe uncovers crimes
The FBI
investigation into William (Butcher Boy) Pellegrino Masselli, from
September 1978 to early 1981, uncovered evidence of nearly 30 crimes,
including the conspiracy to kill Frank Cotroni. But the probe also was
plagued by internal problems that delayed decisions on whether to indict
suspects, FBI documents reveal. (Montreal Gazette) PREVIOUS:
Crime boss tried to trick US government
FBI linked Montreal mobster to alleged US assassination
plot
Montreal mob boss
Frank Cotroni and high-ranking US mobsters were once investigated for an
alleged plot to assassinate the top judge in America, according to newly
released FBI documents. (CanWest) PREVIOUS:
Cotroni buried in Montreal
Obituary: Frank Cotroni
Skinny Dom gets 5-year sentence
NEW YORK - With his wife,
his mistress and a gaggle of geezers from the neighborhood looking on, a
Gambino capo was sentenced yesterday to 15 years for conspiring to
murder a Bonnie and Clyde duo who robbed his Queens social club. (NY
Daily News) PREVIOUS:
Double life of Mafia's kindly killer gramps
Dominick Pizzonia
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Michael ‘Mikey Scars’ DiLeonardo
Bonnie
and Clyde murders
'Skinny Dom' gets split verdict
Feds tie
Gotti to Bonnie-Clyde hit
Bosses voted on whacking Giuliani
NEW YORK -
The heads of New York's five Mafia families debated
whacking
Rudy Giuliani
at a 1986
sitdown, according to bombshell testimony Wednesday at the trial of
a disgraced FBI agent. (NY Daily News)
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Mafia plot to kill
Giuliani
Vegas strip club owner gets prison
LAS VEGAS -
Rick Rizzolo, 48, owner of the
Crazy Horse Too,
was expected to report to a federal prison by May 22. Rizzolo also was
fined $250,000 after pleading guilty in June to conspiracy to defraud
the government in a plea deal that ended a decade-long federal probe of
whether the club was tied to the mob. He agreed not to contest almost
$17 million more in fines, forfeitures and restitution to be paid by the
club. (AP)
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Rizzolo
gets year and a day in prison Rick
Rizzolo connection
Strippergate
Official Of Bus Drivers Union Obstructed Grand Jury Probe
NEW YORK - The former
director of the Employees' Pension and Welfare Fund for Local 1181 of
the Amalgamated Transit Union has been sentenced to five months'
imprisonment for obstructing a grand jury investigation into the illicit
relationship between Local 1181 and the Genovese Organized Crime Family
of La Cosa Nostra. (North Country Gazette)
City paid 'mob' pal green fees
NEW YORK - A
Brooklyn man with links to the Colombo crime family has been
operating a city-owned golf course for more than a year, officials
revealed yesterday. The Parks Department awarded a $10 million
contract to run the Marine Park Golf Course to a man who allegedly
has ties to the notorious Mafia family. (New York Post)
Old tricks spell problems for mob rat
HOBOKEN, NJ - There's is an old
Aesop's fable about a scorpion and a frog meeting on the bank of a
stream. (Hudson Reporter) |
Court orders Mafia to pay family
ROME - A Sicilian court has ordered mafia
boss of bosses
Salvatore Riina and another mafioso to
pay $5 million to the family of a top anti-Mafia judge killed in a car
bomb attack, the family lawyer said on Saturday. Riina and Salvatore
Biondino were among seven mafiosi handed life sentences in 1999 for
their part in the 1992 attack that killed the judge,
Paolo Borsellino, and
shocked Italians. (Reuters)
'My job was to kill Trudeau'
AMSTERDAM, NY - Mike
Craft is a self-confessed former "degenerate gambler" and heavy drinker,
who ran bars frequented by members of the upper New York State mob. He
also came within a few weeks in the summer of 1974 of becoming something
far worse, he says – the assassin of former Canadian prime minister
Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
(Toronto Star)
Colombo boss found guilty
NEW YORK - Colombo boss
Alphonse Persico
was convicted Friday of ordering the 1999 rubout of underboss
William Cutolo - meaning he'll spend
the rest of his life in prison. Former underboss
John (Jackie) DeRoss
also was convicted of plotting to murder Cutolo in an internal struggle
for control over the crime family. Both were cleared in a failed plot
to kill soldier Joseph Campanella.
(NY Daily News)
Little-known mafia is
cocaine 'king'
GIOIA TAURO, ITALY
- Europe is fast overtaking the US as the leading destination for the
world's cocaine, and a single Italian mafia is largely responsible.
The
'Ndrangheta crime syndicate, a ruthless and mysterious network of 155 families born
in the rough hills here in southern Italy's Calabria region, now
dominates the European drug trade. (LA Times) PREVIOUS:
Italian organized crime groups
Former Judge Gets 3 Years
NEW YORK - A
former Nassau County judge was sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison
for conspiring to launder more than $400,000 for members of the
Genovese crime family. David Gross, 45, pleaded guilty in July and
admitted he agreed to try to secretly move cash he believed was the
result of a jewelry heist. (WNBC)
Mob bust nets arrests
NEW YORK - Several
of those charged are criminal associates of Genovese crime family
captain Angelo Prisco, while others were of Albanian background --
demonstrating an increasing reliance by traditional organized crime
groups on Eastern European gangs "for muscle.” (North Jersey
Media) MORE:
7 charged with extortion, break-ins
after mob probe
Prisco pals roundup
Mole unmasked in
the RCMP
MONTREAL - An RCMP
expert in electronic surveillance has been arrested in Montreal and
charged with selling police secrets to organized crime. Angelo
Cecere, a 50-year-old visually impaired civilian employee, has
worked for decades for the RCMP, listening to sensitive police
wiretaps of criminals under investigation, translating them from
Italian and interpreting their meaning.
(Topix)
Main man is a lion
NEW YORK - The man
the feds say is the new acting boss of the
Genovese crime family
made his first public
appearance yesterday - but left his bathrobe home. Daniel ‘Danny
the Lion’ Leo appeared in a Manhattan federal courtroom to face
charges that he threatened to harm a livery driver if he didn't pay
back $150,000 in loans and shook down the owners of an illegal
gambling operation. (NY Daily News)
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Low key wiseguy rises
to the top
Organized crime finding mortgage fraud
The latest statistics
from the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirm that mortgage fraud is
on the upswing. "Mortgage fraud is now a criminal enterprise that puts
dollars in the hands of people who also are involved in such other
crimes as drugs, murders and gangs," said Special Agent Bill Stern at a
conference in Los Vegas. (Realty Times)
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