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Bikers Headlines |
Organized Crime Headlines |
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Jerry Capeci’s
Gang Land |
Rick Porrelo's American Mafia |
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Gang 'ran betting operation from London'
LONDON - A
multi-million pound mafia network used a British betting firm as a front
to launder money according to Italian police who have rounded up dozens
of members of the group and seized the company. (Telegraph UK)
Department of buildings mobbed up
NEW YORK - After a two
year investigation, the
Manhattan DA has indicted 29 people
accused of connections with the
Lucchese crime family, and six of them
worked as inspectors for the city Department of Buildings. (Gothamist)
MORE:
Mob sweep nets city inspectors
49 indicted
Trial for accused Mafia hit man
NEW YORK -
Michael Coppola, who goes on trial in a
racketeering-murder case, was part of a Mafia assassination squad that
"performed murders ordered by the Genovese family administration" in the
late 1970s and 1980s, prosecutors said in a motion filed last month.
(Philadelphia Inquirer)
$134B 'bond' find
What do you get
when you mix two Japanese nationals with some fake US government bonds,
a slow train to Switzerland and members of the Italian financial guard?
The answer is a $134B conspiracy theory which has fired up a whole realm
of financial bloggers on the internet. (BBC) MORE:
That old $134B in a suitcase trick
Bond smuggling mystery thickens
Mafia take down
CARACAS -
Salvatore Miceli, on the run since
2001, had been under surveillance for three days before he was seized by
officers in the capital, Caracas. He is suspected of being a link
between Sicily's Cosa Nostra, the 'Ndrangheta network and Colombian drug
cartels. (BBC)
Too dangerous to release
MONTREAL - A feared
gangster who was the "pointy stick" for the Montreal Mafia's expansion
into Ontario has been deemed too dangerous to release from prison.
(National Post)
Return of the Godfathers
NEW
YORK - The FBI is on
alert for the biggest Mob reunion of all time with six of the world’s
most powerful Mafia bosses due to be paroled within months of each
other. The big six are
Domenico 'Italian Dom' Cefalu,
George 'Big Georgie' DeCicco,
Joseph 'Joe C' Caridi,
Benedetto Aloi,
Matthew 'Matty the Horse' Ianniello,
and
Anthony 'Fat Anthony' Rabito.
(Sunday Express)
Mafia cash for visa scandal
The Australian Federal
Police has investigated claims that mafia-linked businessmen donated
about $100,000 to the Liberal Party in return for helping to keep an
alleged Mafia figure in Australia. (Age) MORE:
Police reopen visa probe
Striking back
NAPLES - I saw
my first murder victim when I was 13, on my way to school. My family
lived in Casal di Principe, a town of about 20,000 not far from Naples -
an area ruled by the Camorra, one of the most powerful criminal
organizations in Italy. (Washington Post) PREVIOUS: Roberto Saviano
FBI raids company
IRVING - FBI agents have searched an Irving business with alleged ties
to east coast Mafia families. On its website,
First Plus Financial Group describes itself as
a company that provides financial and management services to both
consumer and commercial businesses. (CBC 11)
'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)
MORE:
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
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) |
Media use the M-word too much
The use of the word
"mafia" to connote organized crime and illicit, informal networks of
power and influence has become so common that the police and journalists
can hardly be faulted for perpetuating it. But they can be faulted for
paying little or no attention to the rich mix of fact and fiction about
the mafia in Sicily and to the obstacles in understanding that this rich
mix has created in Canada. (Montreal Gazette)
Parole board frees reputed mobster
FENBROOK -
Vincenzo
DeMaria, 55, of Toronto, was allowed to walk out through the coiled
razor wire of Fenbrook prison yesterday after a panel of the National
Parole Board decided reports and videos from police, alleging he is a
major player in a Mafia clan, were not enough to keep him in. (National
Post) PREVIOUS:
Killer battling parole process
Parole breach
Alleged mobster ordered deported
TORONTO - It's the
second time that Riccardo Gattuso, 39, a regular at a social club in
Woodbridge in the Highway 7 and Martingrove area, has been kicked out of
Canada in the past four years. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS:
Blood feud
My life of crime is over
Why the mob loves Canada
Backyard 'hit' still unsolved
MONTREAL - Hasan
Eroglu's life ended in gunfire in the leafy suburban neighbourhood of
Valois Bay. Investigators think he was dealing heroin and ran afoul of
the Montreal Mafia - but he had some other intriguing underworld links.
(Montreal Gazette) PREVIOUS:
Man shot to
death in Pointe Claire
'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)
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
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)
PREVIOUS:
New York Mafia boss arrested
Meet the Genovese Crime Family's new boss
Low key wiseguy rises
to the top
Mole unmasked in
the RCMP
MONTREAL - 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)
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)
MORE:
Mafia plot to kill
Giuliani
'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
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A soft spot for mom
NEW YORK -
Each and every
Mother's Day
until he landed behind bars, mobster
Jimmy 'The Gent'
Burke performed a sacrosanct
ritual. Burke, the mastermind behind the $5.8 million Lufthansa
heist immortalized in "Goodfellas,"
dropped a few C-notes on dozens of red roses from a Rockaway
Boulevard florist. He then toured the homes of his jailed
Lucchese crime family pals,
providing their mothers with a bouquet and a kiss. (AP) RELATED:
Mafia wives: Married to the Mob |
FBI used Mafia enforcer
NEW YORK -
Edgar Ray Killen,
84, was convicted in 2005 of ordering the Klan killings of the trio 41
years earlier, a crime that was dramatized in the film
Mississippi Burning.
His lawyers have appealed against his life sentence for triple
manslaughter, citing new evidence that the FBI used
Gregory Scarpa
- known as The Grim Reaper - to put pressure on Klan members to reveal
where the bodies had been hidden.
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2 bodies on mafia
waste ship
ROME - Investigators in Italy
examining a shipwreck containing possible radioactive waste say they
may have found two bodies on board. An underwater camera also
showed pictures of orange barrels, with the word "toxic" on their
side. The boat lies in 500m of water off the south-western coast of
Italy. (BBC) |
Skulls found on mafia ship
Mafia 'sank ships of toxic waste'
Toxic shipwreck calls for action
Mafia accused of sinking ship
Mafia could have sunk ship
Radioactive waste
Italy finds wreck of toxic waste ship |
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Flemmi
details slays
BOSTON
- Fallen mobster Stephen “The
Rifleman” Flemmi coldly recalled how he yanked the teeth out of the
lifeless bodies of blond beauty Debra Davis and troubled
Deborah Hussey
after serving them
up to South Boston mob monster James “Whitey” Bulger - who strangled
them both. (Boston Globe)
Flemmi testifies
Stephen Flemmi
FBI not to blame in murders |
Ex-cop
tells of secret search
Ex FBI agent says witness was killed
Lawsuits vs. FBI to open in Boston
The search for 'Whitey' Bulger
Louis Litif
Jury convicts
John J. Connolly
Jury
convicts Connolly
Murder
case comes due for ex-FBI star
James J. Bulger
$2M reward
The Departed |
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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) |
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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Brother suing Canada
TORONTO - Antonio Coluccio, the brother of a powerful
Mafia boss who was recently deported from Canada to Italy - and who
himself has been suspected of organized criminality - is suing the
government for not processing his application to live in Canada with
his wife and four children. (National Post) |
Canada deports an alleged
Giuseppe Coluccio
Crime boss captured
Fugitive to be deported
RCMP nab suspected Mafia kingpin
Murder plot uncovered
'Ndrangheta
Criminal
underworld of cocaine barons |
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Take down
NEW YORK: Nine
members of the
Colombo
clan, one of the powerful alleged organized crime families of New
York city, including the group's acting boss, have been arrested.
The nine - including
Thomas Gioeli,
55, considered the acting mob boss - face charges of racketeering
conspiracy, robbery, extortion, drug trafficking and loan-sharking,
as well as murder, according to a Department of Justice statement.
(AFP) |
Gambino deported
Mafia leaders get life
Colombo boss found guilty
William Cutolo
John (Jackie) DeRoss
City paid 'mob' pal green fees
Early out for capo's son
Mob crew busted
Unlucky
13 'mobsters' swept up |
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Integrity of projects questioned
NEW YORK
- The integrity of a number of major infrastructure projects in New York
City are now under question as evidence indicate the
Gambino mafia, arrested Friday,
had a large stake in infrastructure projects, both public and private
sectors. (AHN)
Gambino crime family
170-page indictment
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Mass arrests show Mafia down but never out
Truck
brought crime family to its knees
Turncoat taped Gambinos for feds
Mobsters watched in Canada
Mafia sweep reveals GTA link
The case of the exiled mobsters
Mafia takedown
Big bosses jailed in New York |
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Mob lawyer seeks to regain license after prison term
PHILADELPHIA - A notorious mob lawyer who represented
crime boss
Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo
and went to prison for racketeering should regain his law license, a
court disciplinary panel recommended. (AP) |
Mob tape played
PHILADELPHIA - Reputed
mob soldier Anthony Nicodemo was explaining about the "sharks" and the
"lions" and the "lambs" to bookmaker Andrew Micali, who was running an
illegal multimillion-dollar sports-betting operation out of the poker
room of the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City.
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Mafia-Run ‘Baby Factories’
ATHENS - Reports
of a growing racket in the illegal sale of babies have begun to emerge
from Athens, according to a Daily Mail investigation, with trafficked
women from eastern Europe forced to produce infants on demand for sale
to Western women. (LifeSiteNews) PREVIOUS:
The shocking truth about the baby
factories
Patients die as Sicilian mafia buys into
the hospital service
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Mob case stalls
NEW YORK - Two
years ago, federal prosecutors boldly proclaimed a civil
racketeering lawsuit against the mighty
International Longshoremen's
Association that would "once
and for all" shatter suspected mob control on the nation's docks. (AP) PREVIOUS:
US files
racketeering case against the International Longshoremen's
Association and top ILA officials |
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Matty 'The Horse' on His Last Ride
NEW
YORK - At an age when most of his contemporaries were long out to
pasture or in prison,
Matthew 'Matty the Horse' Ianniello
was still riding high. Retirement held no appeal for the old man -- and
why would it? (AP)
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'Matty the Horse' cuts a deal
Wiseguy gets life
for hit on boss
Millions diverted in Mob case |
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Prosecutors drop
murder case against ex-FBI agent
NEW YORK -
Former FBI Agent R. Lindley DeVecchio escaped four
murder charges when the Brooklyn DA's office decided to dismiss its
case accusing him of helping a mobster kill his rivals. The move
became clear after Village Voice reporter Tom Robbins realized that
the prosecution's star witness had told him very different things in
a 1997 interview. (Gothamist) |
Mob moll 'petrified' of going to
jail
Tall Tales of a Mafia Mistress
Mob hit man testifies
Ex-FBI agent indicted for role in mob killings
Former FBI agent faces charges of aiding mob
License to kill
Win at all costs
Feds
in Manhattan hit losing streak |
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15 months in prison
NEW
YORK - Former NBA referee Tim
Donaghy was sentenced to 15 months in prison Tuesday for
setting off a gambling scandal that tarnished the league's
reputation and raised questions about the integrity of its
officiating. (AP)
Phone calls raise questions
Ref's guilty
NBA ref guilty plea
Tim Donaghy
2007 NBA betting scandal |
Guilty referee says NBA fixed series
Ex-ref calls NBA
NBA denies Donaghy claims
Donaghy mess just gets uglier
Referee linked to bookmaker
Ref's mafia point man
Disgraced NBA ref worked notorious
games
Out of bounds
Blackmail let mob 'own' ref
NBA's worst nightmare |
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Tocchet gets 2 years probation
MOUNT HOLLY,
NJ - Former NHL player
Rick Tocchet
has been ordered to serve two years probation for his role in an
illegal sports gambling ring. (AP) |
Tocchet pleads guilty
Tocchet eyed in earlier mob case
NJ State Police Complaint against Tocchet
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Former NJ trooper pleads
guilty in gambling case
Rick
Tocchet News |
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Sting nails reputed mob boss
BOSTON -
Reputed New England Mafia underboss Carmen "The Cheese Man" DiNunzio was
arrested on charges that he delivered a $10,000 bribe to an undercover
FBI agent posing as a state official, part of an alleged conspiracy to
secure a $6 million
Big Dig
contract. (Boston Globe)
'Cheeseman' pleads
Carmen Salvatore DiNunzio
Carmen DiNunzio
Just say Cheese Man
A look at mob hits, misses, and deaths by year
Mafia still thrives in NE,
officials say |
Mob boss dies
Mafia underboss dies
Boston mafia has new head
Mobster charged
Murder for hire
Mob 'associate' admits to murder
Alleged mob boss robbed in Boston
Kin of man allegedly killed by mobster win $3.1M
Ex-mob boss to be
freed
US must pay
$102M to wrongly imprisoned men
Joseph 'The Animal' Barboza
Top judge wants US prosecutor disciplined
Patriarca crime family
Providence Mob
Judge seeks details on probe of prosecutor
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US Marshal sentenced
CHICAGO -
A deputy US marshal convicted of leaking secret information about a mob
witness was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison - a punishment the
judge said is designed to deter others in law enforcement from
contemplating similar crimes. The marshal, John Ambrose, sat motionless
as US District Court Judge John F. Grady handed down the sentence to a
courtroom filled with his family, friends and onetime colleagues.
(Chicago Sun Times)
Ex-marshal goes to prison, and corrupt
ex-cop vacations
US Marshal guilty of leaking secrets to the
mob
The mob's babysitter
'Casino'
mob hit detailed
Family secrets mob trial
Chicago 'Outfit' organizational chart
Friends of ours: Chicago Outfit
Prison talk leads to arrest
Did marshal turn mob snitch?
Deputy US marshal
charged with mob ties
US v Ambrose
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No time to kill
people
Lombardo: I only
acted like mobster
Life in prison
Anthony,
Michael Spilotro
Life term
Chicago mobsters face life
Mob bombing indictments
Michael Sarno
Mob turncoat gets 12 years
'1 less clown in the
circus'
James
Marcello
Mayor livid over 'ridiculous' headline
Daley
pal implicated in mob bombing
Mayor Daley'
Operation Family Secrets: Trial exhibits
Help FBI find 'Little Tony'
Court papers
detail Chicago mob hits
Chicago 'outfit' organizational
chart
Chicago Outfit
Filing: Feds have mob mole
Mob ties run through Chicago trucking program
FBI gets last
laugh on 'The Clown' Joey "The Clown" Lombardo
'Clown' mobster nabbed
Chicago Outfit Named As Rico Enterprise
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Court clears extradition
OTTAWA -
Canada's highest court refused on Thursday to hear the appeal of a
Mafia fugitive fighting extradition to Italy, where he was convicted
in absentia a decade ago on drug charges.
Alfonso Caruana,
whom Canadian police once called a superstar of organized crime, is
alleged to be the senior member of a crime family that operated in
13 countries. (Reuters) |
Top court allows Italy to jail
mobster
Drug baron to be sent back to Italy
The family man
The Rothschilds of the Mafia on
Aruba
Gomery appointment raises conflict questions
Inaction helping Organized Crime flourish
Crime family far from dead |
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Mob alliance in rackets dismantled
ELIZABETH, NY -
The tip came in last year, alerting authorities to a gambling ring
run from an unlikely spot: a nondescript construction trailer
beneath the Goethals Bridge in Elizabeth. (NJ Star-Ledger)
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The barber and
the mob
NEW YORK - A beloved East Harlem
barber whose tiny shop has attracted celebrities from Jimmy Durante
to J.Lo is fighting charges he lied to the feds to protect his
mobster pals. (NY Daily News) |
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Reputed mob boss pleads guilty in trash hauling probe
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A reputed mob boss
pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering conspiracy and tax evasion in a
federal probe of the mob's influence over the trash industry in
Connecticut and New York. (NY Daily News) |
RICO law lives on despite losses against mob
NEW YORK - For
more than two decades, the federal RICO law was a pitiless tool in
the fight against organized crime - corralling, convicting and
incarcerating a long string of mob bosses once considered
untouchable. (AP) |
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Cops vs. Colacurcio -
the last round
SEATTLE -
For years, the feds chased Seattle strip-club
magnate
Frank Colacurcio Sr.
They picked through his trash, eavesdropped on his conversations and
recruited snitches. (Seattle
Times) |
Haunted by her past
The stripper king
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Stock scam linked to organized crime
TORONTO - Friends know him as the
soft-spoken owner of a popular garden centre north of Toronto, a
family man who financially supports minor hockey teams. But in
court documents obtained by the
Toronto Star,
the RCMP alleges Aneillo (Neil) Peluso is a key member of the
Cosimo Commisso
organized crime family and a major player in a multi-million-dollar
Bay Street "pump-and-dump" stock fraud. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS:
No solidarity
BC firms targeted |
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)
PREVIOUS:
Rizzolo
gets year and a day in prison Rick
Rizzolo connection
Strippergate |
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Day one of trial feds say has mob ties
TAMPA - Four men are on trial in Tampa federal
court this week accused of a criminal enterprise tied to the Gambino
crime family. The very first line of the federal indictment says
the Gambino organized crime family also known as la Cosa Nostra
operated out of the state of New York, the state of New Jersey and
right here in the middle district of Florida. (ABC) PREVIOUS:
Mob trial to start today
Honest job spins a tale of the mob
Informant tells of life in the mob
Reputed
Gambino Captain and his son plead guilty
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Trash dispute revisits allegation of
mob ties
PHILADELPHIA - Fifteen years ago,
reputed North Jersey mob figure and trash-industry impresario
Carmine Franco was the defendant in a civil suit that spawned one of
the classic lines in Philadelphia underworld history. "Goodfellas
don't sue goodfellas," a New York mobster said while urging attorney
Salvatore Avena not to pursue a civil racketeering suit he had filed
against Franco, his partner in a South Philadelphia trash company.
"Goodfellas kill goodfellas," the wiseguy added. (Philadelphia
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Mobster back in jail
Hamilton mobster Angelo Musitano is
back behind bars, less than six months after being paroled for his
role in one of the bloodiest episodes in the Niagara region's
gangland history. (Toronto Star) |
Back on the street
Musitano brothers deflected blame
Man
convicted in mob killing to switch prisons
How mobsters are poisoning the economy
Mafia scene: Montreal Mafia |
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Reputed mob boss linked to 'old-time Mafia'
PITTSBURGH -
Running numbers in East Liberty might have introduced Michael J.
Genovese to the underworld of organized crime, but it didn't satiate
the criminal appetite that took him to the top of Pittsburgh's mob
scene. (Tribune-Review) |
Pittsburgh mob history
FBI agent role in dismantling
region's crime family
Pittsburgh crime bosses
La Cosa Nostra Apalachin Meeting
Pittsburgh family |
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Boss captured
PALERMO -
Gianni Nicchi,
28, the second in command of Italy's Cosa Nostra mafia, has been
arrested in Sicily. The Italian interior minister said police in the
Sicilian city were holding Nicchi after a raid on an apartment, where he
had been hiding.
(Telegraph UK)
Mob boss arrested
Domenico Raccuglia
2
more arrested
Camorra
Mob boss arrested
Salvatore Russo
Pasquale Russo
No glass ceiling
Mafia boss breaks silence
Paolo Borsellino
Salvatore Riina
Mob tried to bilk banks
Fake millions found in Mafia raid
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Mob hitman arrested
Influence hovers over 13M
Pet enforcer
'Mafia crocodile' seized
Meltdown good for business
Loan sharks making a killing
Italian mob thrives in meltdown
Italy fears mafia quake fund grab
'Godmother' arrested
Mafia sends donkey head
Man arrested for shooting
Mafia shoot-out
Mafia killing sparks riots
Riot after African shot
Mafia wife 'tries for deal'
'Mafia godmother' arrested at home
Married to the mob
Warrant issued for the wife of Mafia boss
International arrests follow anti-mafia
probe
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Camorra take down
Raffaele Amato
Mafia leader arrested
Police nab Mafia boss
$380M daily to the Mafia
Behind a strong mafia town are strong women
Mob suspect arrested
Naples area mob finds good dough in bread
Little-known mafia is
cocaine 'king'
Italian organized crime groups
Court orders Mafia to pay family
Mafia arrests
Troops deployed
Berlusconi
defends deployment against Mafia
What's behind the latest
crackdown
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Dozens jailed
Pizzo
Outcry as 'sad' Mafia boss freed
Mafia boss released
Anti-mafia march
March against Mafia
Bosses seek sun & safety
Connect with friends and family
Salvatore (Toto) Riina
Bernardo Provenzano
Matteo Messina Denaro
Noose tightens
Boss found
dead
Boss hangs
himself
Apparent
suicide an end to new leadership bid
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Camorra cause a stink
Mafia raids
The Popes and the Mob
John Paul II
Benedict XVI
"One day, the judgment of God will
arrive!"
Flashy playboys taking over the mafia
First army-controlled dump opens
Row over army deployment to fight crime
Mafia kills informant
Michele (the
Pope) Greco
CEO
arrested, assets seized
Sicily chief guilty in Mafia case
Mafia boss gunned down
'Mafia boss' held in Naples
Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA
English site)
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Sicilian
mafia 'decapitated'
Police find 'ten commandments'
Former Italian minister arrested
Salvatore Lo Piccolo
Fugitive dons held
Mafia men get 300
years in jail
Mafia linked
to doctor's death
Italy's top
mafioso captured after 43-year hunt
FBI tries to decipher 'code' in Mafia
boss's bible
Catching the Godfather
Laundry betrays reputed Mafia boss in Sicily
'Top Mafia boss' caught in Italy
Mob boss swallowed secrets
Anti-Mafia raids net dozens
Two sons of mafia boss murdered
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Italy addresses garbage crisis
How Enzo said no to the Mafia
Sicilians grow defiant of Mafia
Italy to withdraw tainted cheese
Buffalo
mozzarella scare
Police
investigate mafia link
Italy's
toxic waste crisis
Sicilians wise up
Addiopizzo.org
4
arrested in Duisburg murder probe
4 arrested
Arrests over mafia killing
Mafia murder witness found dead
Police arrest 17 from mafia clan
Living on the Mafia hit list
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Naples on fire
Naples garbage is mafia gold
From Cocaine to plutonium
Mafia
operates at every level of society
Mafia involved in Naples trash crisis
Mafia dominates garbage industry
Informer's father gunned down
Soldiers bulldoze Naples rubbish
Calabria Mafia leader nabbed
Mafia killers arm themselves with degrees
The stink of greed
Italian cops bust Iraq arms deal
Italian mafia accused of starting wildfires
Anti-mafia sweep leads to arrests
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Italy dealt
double blow over organized crime
I'm just a poor labourer
Police begin mass arrests
A Mafia wake-up call
6 Italians killed over mafia vendetta
6 Italians killed in Duisburg
6 Italians shot in Germany in mafia feud
Neapolitan Hell
Prodi steps in as Mafia war rages out of control
Gangs turn
Naples into battleground
Fears for Polish workers in
Italy
Polish
labourers kept in Italian 'prison camp'
Dozens seized in Italy mafia raid
Ndrangheta
The 'Ndrangheta looms large |
Italy crackdown on Naples mafia
Camorra
Women bosses arrested in anti-Mafia operation
A feud leaves six dead
Village lives in fear amid 'pointless
mafia war'
Naples Sinks into Mafia Violence
Police arrest 32 in
Naples violence
How strong is the Mafia?
Naples,
a city in the grip of the Camorra
Italy considers Mafia
crackdown
Naples, a city in the grip of the Camorra
See Naples and die
Italian Mafia boosted revenue by 25% in 2005
Listening
quietly in Italy
The mafia t-shirt you can't
refuse
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Rizzuto Jr gunned down
MONTREAL – The man who
was shot and killed in NDG Monday afternoon is Nick Rizzuto Jr. Nick
was the son of Vito Rizzuto, the reputed head of the Montreal Mafia who
is serving a prison term in the US. Rizzuto Jr., 42, was hit by at least
one bullet at the corner of
Upper Lachine Rd. and Wilson Ave
at about 12:10pm. (Montreal Gazette)
Kiss of death for Montreal Mafia?
Police examining gun found
Slaying hits at heart of Canada's mob
Mob response expected
Rival groups prime to replace Montreal Mafia
Vito could attend son's funeral
Revenge killings feared
FBI linked Montreal mobster
Cotroni buried in Montreal
Obituary: Frank Cotroni
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Vito Rizzuto
Street gangs could have shot son
Chilling signal
Shot in broad daylight
Shooting weakens family's power
Crime family far from dead
Nicolo Rizzuto
Lawyer tried to ice drug case
Probation
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Arguments heard
50 drug traffickers arrested
Parole for man with family ties to Rizzuto
Parole
Cuntrera-Caruana
Mafioso gets full parole
Feds seize $4M
Suspect surrenders
Man faces charges
Mobster forfeits treasure trove
Wanted Mafioso
Saputo denies alleged
link to Mafia
Lino Saputo
Saputo sues newspapers
Canadian dairy processing industry
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Alleged Mafia leader faces 36 new charges
Alleged
Montreal Mafioso arrested
Mob takes a hit
Airport security gaps blamed in Mob bust
Probe leads Italian police to Montreal
Mafia
Guilty plea
Senior
goes home
Caruana denied full parole
Defendants choose trial by judge
'Second welcome' wanted
Mafia crackdown
Police target Mafia drug traffickers
Guilty of taking bribes
Personal life a mess
Former
Customs agents head to court
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'Justice is short,
the Mafia is long'
15 years, out in 5
Mafia boss writes judge to ask for parole
Imprisoned mob boss being transferred
Raids left Rizzuto mob in disarray
Bad news day
for Armeni
Drug deal
gone wrong in 1973
As police tapes rolled, conversations flowed
Hit him high, hit him low'
Killing spells end of Canada - US mob
ties
Alleged trafficker reels as $2.9M vanishes
Mafia trial
sets date to set a date
14 alleged Montreal mobsters granted bail
Border
agent wanted in mob raid surrenders
Alleged
Mafia member arrested
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Mafia suspect cashed in on EI
Court docs offer slice of Mafia life
Penny-pincher spelled end
of drug pipeline
Vito
Rizzuto drunk-driving charges dropped
Toronto car dealer sparked mob probe
Courthouse
atmosphere is giddy
Silence of
Italians deafening
Mafia raids expose gaps at Montreal airport
90 arrested in police raid on
Mafia members
Police strike ‘serious blow’
Hit-man's parole request denied
Slain man had ties to 'acting boss' of Mafia
Bikers
ambush car passenger
1,000
people contributed to Project Colisee
Tax man swoops down on suspected Mafiosi
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Rizzuto family arrests
Mob bail hearing moved to Hells
Angel courthouse
Crown to oppose bail for alleged mob
leaders
Lenient sentence
Project Colisee
Mob linked to N.D.G. killing
Six plead guilty
Financiers felt Mafia's wrath
Behind bars but still in charge
Canadian accused of running empire
from jail
Behind the bust
Rizzutos 'pulled strings'
Mob boss admits role in massacre
Downfall of a Don
Rizzuto gets 10 years
in plea dead
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RCMP:
remaining Mafia members will be caught
Accused only knew modesty on a tax return
Tax man finally shows up in OC battle
Rizzuto
turfed to US
Extradition looms
closer for Rizzuto
Montreal Mafia 'godfather'
arrested in murders
Wannabe' mob boss Cotroni buried
Man tied to Mafia charged in cocaine bust Extradition of Vito Rizzuto might "mess up"
'Godfather' of Montreal Mafia arrested at home
Alphonse 'Sonny Red' Indelicato
Lawyers deny plea deal
Rizzuto's children launch
defamation lawsuit
Reputed head of Montreal mob pleads guilty
Timeline: Vito Rizzuto's run-ins with the law |
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Target of mob hit nabbed
PALERMO - The
intended target of a gangland shooting that left North York mother
Louise Russo paralyzed in 2004 has been nabbed as co-conspirator in
an alleged underworld murder plot in Sicily, Italian police say.
Michele Modica, 53, who has lived in York Region under the names
"Carlo Martoni" and "Antonio Reta," was arrested earlier this month
in Palermo. (Toronto Star)
Mafia label
Mobster jailed in
Russo case stabbed
Mobster stabbed
Who will be GTA's next mob boss?
Friends of ours: Peter Scarcella
The Rat
Court accepts controversial Russo plea bargain
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Pietro (Peter)Scarcella, 54 & Antonio Borrelli, 29
Paris Christoforou, 27 & Mark Peretz, 38
(Paris Christoforou is a
member of the North Toronto chapter of the Hells Angels)
Man with a past
Paralysed bystander to get $2M from mob
$2.5m payout decried as 'horrible
mistake' |
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ANTONIO COMMISSO
The evidence against Antonio Commisso, the boss of
a powerful Mafia clan, reveals a deadly feud raging from the hills
of Italy to the streets of Toronto, the National Post traces the
vendetta.
Part
1
Death among the olive trees
Part 2
'We'll
kill everybody'
Part 3
The boss is busted
Part 4
Back to the 'wolves' |
Four
charged over Calvi killing
LONDON
- Four
people have been charged with murder over the 1982 London
death of Italian banker Roberto Calvi. The
suspects are Flavio Carboni, his ex-girlfriend Manuela
Kleinzig and Pippo Calo and Ernesto Diotallevi - both said
to have Mafia ties.
(BBC) PREVIOUS:
Mafia,
masons and murder
Roberto
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Life plus for mob hits
NEW YORK -
Two former New York police detectives convicted
of moonlighting as contract killers in eight mob hits were sentenced
to life in prison after telling a judge they were innocent. (AP)
Mafia cops get life in jail
'Mafia
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Louis Eppolito & Stephen Caracappa
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Skinny Dom gets 5-year sentence
NEW YORK - With his wife,
his mistress and a gaggle of geezers from the neighborhood looking on, a
Gambino capo was sentenced yesterday to 15 years for conspiring to
murder a Bonnie and Clyde duo who robbed his Queens social club. (NY
Daily News)
Double life of Mafia's kindly killer gramps
Dominick Pizzonia
Mob-slay rat: We joined with 'Junior' |
Michael ‘Mikey Scars’ DiLeonardo
Bonnie
and Clyde murders
'Skinny Dom' gets split verdict
Feds tie
Gotti to Bonnie-Clyde hit
'Fat Sal’ caged
Scala
whacked Castellano: feds
NY mobsters used
strip club for training
Corrupt brokers got VIP access to gals
Careful shaker of his money maker
Dapper Don pal '$tripped club' |
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John 'Junior' Gotti
4th mistrial
NEW
YORK - A beaming, energized John "Junior' Gotti left
court a free
man Tuesday after 16 months in jail when a federal jury in Manhattan
was unable to reach a verdict on mob racketeering charges against him
for the fourth time in five years. (Newsday)
Hitman
out and proud
Jury tampering 'ingenious move'
Chaos in the courtroom
'Spoiled heir'
Mafia's 'American Blast'
American
Blast
Launder the proceeds |
Ma in court rage
Peter stole from John
Junior
slams judge
'I'm a
lying woman beater'
Friend
turned informer
'Our father...the
godfather'
Gottis revealed
Nervous jurors told to stay
'Th-th-th-thats all folks'
More trouble for Joe the German
Convicted in 4 NYC murders
'Assassin' breaks code of silence
Thug beat Vicky's guy
Tale of murder
Gotti's nephew, brother plead guilty
John (Junior) Gotti
John Gotti Jr
Growing up Gotti
'Dipped neighbour in acid bath'
John Favara
Goon
eyed in Don revenge
Gotti said to break Mafia vow
Alleged Gambino mobsters guilty phone
fraud
Key Gambino family leaders
arrested
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Mob takedown
NEW YORK - The
Brooklyn US Attorney's office unsealed
a bombshell, 33-count indictment this morning charging 15 members of the
Bonanno crime family with extortion, racketeering, bank fraud, drug
trafficking and illegal gambling after a former boss dropped a dime on
them, authorities said. (NY Post) |
Betting firm is linked to US Mafia
11 charged in US web gambling
crackdown
Gaming shares hit by US charges
Bodog CEO unfazed by arrest of
British gaming boss |
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Guilty pleas
FORT LAUDERDALE
- Six men from
Broward and Palm Beach counties pleaded guilty in Fort Lauderdale
federal court to charges that they took part in a wide-ranging
criminal racket run by the Bonanno organized-crime family. (Miami
Herald)
Victim had ties to mob
Bonanno power struggle
Made man whacked
Bonanno
crime family
Salvatore Montagna
US
kicks out Canadian
Reputed mob boss deported
Salvatore Montagna
Mob rat smokes out Vinny
Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano
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Remains of Mafia captains identified
Vincente Gigante, Crime Boss
Reputed Genovese family members indicted
Crime Library: Joseph Barboza
Vincent "The Animal" Ferrara
Alleged mob bosses among indicted
Massino: The Last Don
Report: 'Last Don' sings
Reputed mobster indicted at age 96
The Undertaker seeks separation
Mobster sentenced to house arrest
Mafia boss pleads guilty
Gangster pleads guilty
2 more plead guilty
in mob trash-hauling scheme
Bonanno
'lies guy' now risks lethal jab
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Where he's buried
It was thirty three years ago to the day that American labour leader
and president of the Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa disappeared. Time
hasn't erased the magnitude of the mystery concerning his vanishing
act, which is widely believed to be mob related. (CityNews) |
Jimmy Hoffa
Crime Library: Jimmy Hoffa
Blood found at mystery house not
Hoffa's
Detroit house searched for clues in Hoffa
case
Moldea: Frank Sheeran and Jimmy
Hoffa
Timeline: Hoffa murder
mystery
Lucky Luciano,
Meyer Lansky
Carlo Gambino
Murder
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