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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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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)
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, 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
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) |
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
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
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)
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)
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
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
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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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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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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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) |
Ex FBI agent says witness was killed Lawsuits vs. FBI to open in Boston The search for 'Whitey' Bulger |
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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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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) |
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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) |
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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) 170-page indictment .pdf |
Mass arrests show Mafia down but never out Truck brought crime family to its knees Turncoat taped Gambinos for feds |
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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) |
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. (Philadelphia Inquirer) |
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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 - 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) |
Mob 'associate' admits to murder Alleged mob boss robbed in Boston Kin of man allegedly killed by mobster win $3.1M US must pay $102M to wrongly imprisoned men |
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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 Chicago 'Outfit' organizational chart Friends of ours: Chicago Outfit Deputy US 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 program |
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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 Gomery appointment raises conflict questions |
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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) |
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) |
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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 |
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 Inquirer) |
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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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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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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) |
Italian mob thrives in meltdown Italy fears mafia quake fund grab 'Mafia godmother' arrested at home |
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Behind a strong mafia town are strong women Naples area mob finds good dough in bread Little-known mafia is cocaine 'king' Italian organized crime groups Court orders Mafia to pay family |
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 – 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? Slaying hits at heart of Canada's mob Rival groups prime to replace Montreal Mafia |
Street gangs could have shot son |
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Parole for man with family ties to Rizzuto Mobster forfeits treasure trove |
Alleged Mafia leader faces 36 new charges Alleged Montreal Mafioso arrested Airport security gaps blamed in Mob bust Probe leads Italian police to Montreal Mafia Defendants choose trial by judge |
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'Justice is short, the Mafia is long' Mafia boss writes judge to ask for parole Imprisoned mob boss being transferred Raids left Rizzuto mob in disarray As police tapes rolled, conversations flowed 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 |
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 Mafia raids expose gaps at Montreal airport 90 arrested in police raid on Mafia members Hit-man's parole request denied Slain man had ties to 'acting boss' of Mafia |
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Mob bail hearing moved to Hells Angel courthouse Crown to oppose bail for alleged mob leaders Behind bars but still in charge Canadian accused of running empire from jail |
RCMP: remaining Mafia members will be caught Accused only knew modesty on a tax return Tax man finally shows up in OC battle 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 Rizzuto's children launch defamation lawsuit |
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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) 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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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) |
Michael ‘Mikey Scars’ DiLeonardo 'Skinny Dom' gets split verdict Feds tie Gotti to Bonnie-Clyde hit Scala whacked Castellano: feds NY mobsters used strip club for training Corrupt brokers got VIP access to gals |
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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 - 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 |
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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) |
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 Mobster sentenced to house arrest 2 more plead guilty in mob trash-hauling scheme |
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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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