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'Last night alive with mafia boss' Marilyn Monroe is said to have spent the evening with Sam Giancana after taking the singer’s private jet to Cal-Neva Lodge in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. There the gangster - with whom she was allegedly in love - apparently tried to persuade her not to go public about her affair with President John F Kennedy. (Daily Mail) MORE: Death of Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe Sam Giancana
NEW YORK - The panel found Fotios "Freddy" Geas, 44, his brother Ty Geas, 39, along with the onetime acting boss of the Genovese crime family, Arthur “Artie” Nigro, 66, guilty of murder, attempted murder, racketeering, extortion and other crimes. (Republican)
MARSING, Idaho - The 42-year-old dark-haired man, dressed in a yellow jumpsuit and his hands cuffed behind his back, strolled into a courtroom in Boise, sat down at a table and spoke calmly to a judge. "My name is Enrico M. Ponzo," he said. (AP) MORE: Salemme would wish failed assassin well Patriarca crime family
NEW YORK - Michael Scarpaci pleaded guilty to one count of participating in a racketeering enterprise - illegal sports betting and poker. Scarpaci was one of 14 reputed Gambino associates arrested by the FBI in April on charges including racketeering, murder, sex trafficking, jury tampering, extortion, assault, drug trafficking and illegal gambling. (Bloomberg) MORE: Mobbed up stock scammer pleads guilty
MONTREAL - The construction industry, in particular, is closely knit to organized crime, with many business leaders paying a "pizzo," or fee, equivalent to 5% of their contracts, wrote André Noël and André Cédilot in their French-language book called Mafia Inc. (CBC) PREVIOUS: Feds fund study Ignorance and indifference
ROME: Judges in Sicily handed down a verdict that effectively cleared the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, of accusations his entry into politics had been sponsored by the Mafia. (Guardian UK) MORE: Dell'Utri sentenced to 7 years Marcello Dell'Utri Journalists strike Berlusconi ally linked to Sicilian mafia Berlusconi paid protection money
When "I lived the life," said Dominick Montiglio, now a 62-year-old struggling artist, who admits he was involved in scores of those killings, then testified against the family before entering the federal witness protection program in 1983. (ABC)
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 |
NEW YORK - Nine members of New York’s Gambino Crime family, ranging from ages from 25 to 70, were sentenced in recent days in Manhattan federal court as part of a wide sweeping indictment that included charges of racketeering, murder, conspiracy, extortion and sex trafficking. (Tickle the Wire) MORE: Gambino crime family members sentenced Gambino mob bust US Attorney charges .pdf
LAS VEGAS - Antoinette Giancana McDonnell, daughter of famed gangster Sam Giancana, has sued the Las Vegas Mob Experience, claiming the attraction owes her money. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
NEW YORK - Nikolai Dozortsev, 45, took cash proceeds from lucrative cocaine- and cigarette-smuggling businesses run by European godfather Ricardo Fanchini and funneled millions through European and Russian bank accounts, according to federal investigators. That didn't stop Brooklyn Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny, Brooklyn state Sen Carl Kruger and Borough President Marty Markowitz from writing letters to the judge in support of Dozortsev, whose father is a prominent Brighton Beach businessman. (NY Post) PREVIOUS: From big time to big house
NEW YORK - Veteran actor Anthony Borgese of "Sopranos" and "Goodfellas" fame pleaded guilty to extorting a debtor who was beaten by mob goons. (NY Daily News)
Vitale talked to Canadians Salvatore “Good-Looking Sal” Vitale, 63, who admitted his role in 11 gangland murders - including a Canadian - was released from prison after serving less than eight years, during which he gave extensive and riveting testimony in the US against a long list of former colleagues in four of the notorious five Mafia families of New York. PREVIOUS: Time served for 'super rat' Salvatore Vitale
GIOIA TAURO - A ton of Mafia cocaine with a street value of more than £250M ($340M) after it was seized from a container vessel by Italian colleagues. Officers from the SOCA passed the tip off on to Italian detectives after they were told of a 'huge shipment' of the class A drug had left South America and was heading for Europe. (Daily Mail) RELATED: Gangs using aircraft to fly cocaine to Africa
CHICAGO - Reputed mob boss Michael "The Large Guy" Sarno smiled warmly as jurors filed into the courtroom bearing the verdict in his racketeering trial. (Chicago Tribune) MORE: Found guilty Michael Sarno
SEATTLE - Frank Colacurcio Sr., the strip-club magnate whose organized-crime exploits covered more than half a century and helped define Seattle's history of police corruption and reform, died Friday. He was 93. (Seattle Times) MORE: Seattle PI: Colacurcio Frank Colacurcio, Sr Albert Rosellini
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 |
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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 |
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. (Telegraph UK) | |
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TORONTO - Police in Canada and Italy say that Vincenzo DeMaria is a boss of the ’Ndrangheta. DeMaria, however, says he is being wrongly accused and seeks $350,000 in compensation for the 179 days he spent in prison. (National Post) Canadians named as Mafia suspects Toronto resident among suspects Slayings have underworld watching |
Alleged mobster ordered deported Parole board frees reputed mobster Killer battling parole process RCMP nab suspected Mafia kingpin |
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NEW YORK - A jury in the death penalty murder trial of former Bonanno crime family boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano convicted him of ordering a hit on a mob associate considered to be a renegade. (NY Post) |
Omerta sleeps with the fishes Omerta Dominick Cirillo Joseph Massino |
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NEW YORK - The Colombo crime family rats whose taped conversations led to last week’s massive federal bust of 127 gangsters will likely touch off a bloodbath in the family to avenge the betrayal. The FBI arrests took down the entire leadership of the Colombo crime family, two top Gambino family figures, and 34 made members of New York’s five crime families and families in New Jersey and Rhode Island. (NY Post) |
OC still has a firm grip on unions Where the NY Mafia goes from here Bust details mob's health plan |
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VATICAN CITY - The Institute for Works of Religion is a bank, and it's under harsh new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led police to seize $30M in Vatican assets in September. (AP) |
Institute for Works of Religion Vatican money laundering inquiry |
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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) |
Mafia 'sank ships of toxic waste' |
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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 |
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) |
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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) |
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 |
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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. (Press & Sun-Bulletin) PREVIOUS: Apalachin Meeting Nov. 14, 1957 |
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 |
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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 |
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NEW YORK - He came into the courthouse in a wheelchair, but 93-year-old Colombo underboss John (Sonny) Franzese left in a prison van. (NY Daily News) Crime boss falls asleep in court Unlucky 13 'mobsters' swept up
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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 |
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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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 Ex-FBI agent indicted for role in mob killings |
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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) |
Guilty referee says NBA fixed series |
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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 eyed in earlier mob case NJ State Police Complaint against Tocchet .pdf |
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BOSTON - Mark Rossetti, a reputed leader in the New England Mafia and an FBI informant, thought he would be protected by the bureau after his alleged crime ring was targeted by State Police investigators, according to documents filed in Suffolk Superior Court. (Boston Globe) |
Mob 'associate' admits to murder Alleged mob boss robbed in Boston Top judge wants prosecutor disciplined |
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CHICAGO - Top Chicago mob figure Rudy Fratto will be going to prison under the terms of a plea bargain with federal prosecutors. For years, law enforcement has considered Chicago's McCormick Place as a mob Mecca, where gangsters were drawn by lucrative contracts with trade shows, exhibitors and convention producers paying the price. (ABC) US Marshal guilty of leaking secrets Chicago 'Outfit' organizational chart Friends of ours: Chicago Outfit Deputy marshal charged with mob ties US v Ambrose .pdf |
Lombardo: I only acted like mobster Mayor livid over 'ridiculous' headline Daley pal implicated in mob bombing Operation Family Secrets: Trial exhibits Court papers detail Chicago mob hits Chicago 'outfit' organizational chart Mob ties run through Chicago trucking |
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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 Rothschilds of the Mafia on Aruba |
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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) |
Musitano brothers deflected blame Man convicted in mob killing to switch prisons |
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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." (Philadelphia Inquirer) |
Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo |
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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) |
FBI agent role in dismantling region's crime family |
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MILAN - An Italian judge was booed and jeered by Mafia mobsters after he condemned 110 of them to more than 1,000 years in jail after a massive show trial. (Daily Mail) |
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'Scarface' arrested via Facebook Italian mob thrives in meltdown |
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'Mafia godmother' arrested at home Warrant issued for the wife of boss International arrests follow probe |
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Behind a mafia town are strong women Naples area mob finds good dough Little-known mafia is cocaine 'king' Italian organized crime groups |
Outcry as 'sad' Mafia boss freed |
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"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 |
Police find 'ten commandments' Former Italian minister arrested 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 Laundry betrays reputed Mafia boss in Sicily |
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Italy addresses garbage crisis Sicilians grow defiant of Mafia Italy to withdraw tainted cheese 4 arrested in Duisburg murder probe Mafia murder witness found dead |
Mafia operates at every level of society Mafia involved in Naples trash crisis Mafia dominates garbage industry Soldiers bulldoze Naples rubbish Mafia killers arm themselves with degrees Italian cops bust Iraq arms deal Italian mafia accused of starting wildfires |
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Italy dealt double blow over organized crime 6 Italians killed over mafia vendetta 6 Italians shot in Germany in mafia feud 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' |
Italy crackdown on Naples mafia Women bosses arrested in anti-Mafia operation Village lives in fear amid 'pointless mafia war' Naples Sinks into Mafia Violence Police arrest 32 in Naples violence Naples, a city in the grip of the Camorra Italy considers Mafia crackdown Naples, a city in the grip of the Camorra |
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MONTREAL - 3 people have been charged, and a fourth is awaiting arraignment, in the first-degree murder of a former New York mob boss who was shot to death northeast of Montreal. Salvatore "The Ironworker" Montagna was shot and killed in November in Charlemagne. (CTV) |
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MONTREAL - The attempt on Antonio (Tony Suzuki) Pietrantonio ’s life follows the Nov 24 slaying of Salvatore (Sal the Ironworker) Montagna on an island just east of Montreal and a Sept 16 attempt on the life of Raynald Desjardins in Laval. (Montreal Gazette) |
Another Project Colisee conviction Alleged mobsters facing gun charges Rise of Rizzuto family may be echoed in their fall Victim survived earlier attempt 'He combined old world, new world' Godfather's killers disrespectful |
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GTA flavour to mob double murder |
Reputed Mafia figures in court Depressed agent avoids jail time |
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Kiss of death for Montreal Mafia? Slaying hits at heart of Canada's mob Rival groups to replace Montreal Mafia Vito could attend son's funeral |
Street gangs could have shot son |
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Parole for man with family ties Mobster forfeits treasure trove |
Mafia leader faces 36 new charges Alleged Montreal Mafioso arrested Defendants choose trial by judge |
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'Justice is short, the Mafia is long' Imprisoned mob boss being transferred Raids left Rizzuto mob in disarray Killing spells end of Canada - US ties Trafficker reels as $2.9M vanishes Mafia trial sets date to set a date 14 alleged mobsters granted bail |
Court docs offer slice of Mafia life Toronto car dealer sparked mob probe Courthouse atmosphere is giddy Mafia raids expose gaps at airport Hit-man's parole request denied |
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Mob bail hearing moved to courthouse Behind bars but still in charge |
Accused modesty on a tax return Tax man finally shows up in OC battle Extradition looms closer for Rizzuto Montreal Mafia 'godfather' arrested Wannabe' mob boss Cotroni buried 'Godfather' of Montreal Mafia arrested Alphonse 'Sonny Red' Indelicato |
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It's been nearly seven years since innocent bystander Louise Russo was shot and paralyzed in a botched underworld hit, and nearly five since the men involved directly and others, in a conspiracy after the fact, pleaded guilty. In doing so, it was agreed that the accused who had money or access to it would pay Russo $2M in restitution. (Toronto Star) Mobster jailed in Russo case stabbed Who will be GTA's next mob boss? |
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) |
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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 Calvi. |
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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) |
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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) |
More trouble for Joe the German 'Assassin' breaks code of silence Gotti's nephew, brother plead guilty 'Dipped neighbour in acid bath' |
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NEW YORK - . Michael (Mikey Scars) DiLeonardo, 56, a Gambino crime family turncoat who testified at more mob trials (14) and put more mobsters in prison (80) than anyone in the history of the Cosa Nostra finally got what the feds said he deserved - time served. (NY Daily News) Honest job spins a tale of the mob Informant tells of life in the mob Reputed Captain and son plead guilty Integrity of projects questioned Mass arrests show Mafia down but never out Truck brought crime family to its knees |
Double life of Mafia's killer gramps Skinny Dom gets 5-year sentence Mob-slay rat: We joined with 'Junior' Michael ‘Mikey Scars’ DiLeonardo 'Skinny Dom' gets split verdict Feds tie Gotti to Bonnie-Clyde hit Scala whacked Castellano: feds Corrupt brokers got VIP access to gals Careful shaker of his money maker Dapper Don pal '$tripped club' 170-page indictment .pdf |
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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 Remains of Mafia captains identified Reputed Genovese family members indicted Alleged mob bosses among indicted Reputed mobster indicted at age 96 The Undertaker seeks separation |
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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) |
Blood found at mystery house not Hoffa's Detroit house searched for clues in Hoffa case Moldea: Frank Sheeran and Jimmy Hoffa |
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