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Mafia ran migrant reception centre
ISOLA DI
CAPO RIZZUTO - Italian mafia have infiltrated one of Europe's
largest reception centres for migrants, creaming off state funds that
were earmarked for the care of new arrivals, prosecutors said on
Monday. (Reuters)
NAPLES - A network has been established to bring together state officials who openly oppose the mafia. The group, called Avviso Pubblico, offers mostly moral support to administrators who fight organized crime in their towns. (Reuters)
CALABRIA - The Italian navy has sealed off access to a huge underwater wreck from the Second World War, whose onboard stash of explosives was being raided by the 'Ndrangheta Mafia to make bombs. (Independent)
MONTREAL - Vincenzo and Giuseppe Falduto are missing. Montreal
police issued a notice about their disappearance saying the 23 and
30-year-old brothers' lives are in danger.
(CTV)
The mafia use restaurants, bars, construction companies, retailers
and real estate to control the territory so they can monitor an area
for other opportunities.
Investment becomes a tool to help them infiltrate and expand their
influence on local politics, public administration, bankers, lawyers
and the community. (ABC
AU)
For 8 years, the
journalist
Roberto Saviano
DETROIT
- Reputed Detroit mob boss Giacomo
'Jack' Tocco, 87, also nicknamed 'Black Jack,' died Monday, July 14,
2014, according to funeral notices.
(CBS)
MORE: Death
cuts Vegas ties
Detroit
Crime Family
ST. CATHARINES - 6 men previously swept up in the Project Ink police operation that's targeting Mob activities in Ontario's Niagara region now face two charges each of conspiracy to commit murder. (Sun Media) PREVIOUS: Busting a billion dollar drug ring Drug arrest leads to murder charge
Rearrested LONDON - The
convicted mafia boss Domenico Rancadore has been remanded in custody
after appearing in court over his connections to the crime syndicate
following his rearrest.
(Guardian UK)
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'The Professor' can stay in London
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LAVAL - Rocco Sollecito, a reputed high-ranking member of the Rizzuto crime family, has been killed in a daytime shooting in Laval. (CBC) MORE: Mafia boss killed Mafia leader assassinated Mafia member gunned down Shooting means 2 left
MALTA - Malta hosts one of the highest concentrations of online gaming license-holders in the EU, and the industry now rakes in $1.4B in annual earnings on the island, making up 12% of Malta's GDP. But Malta's capacity to effectively police this industry has since become a source of worry for law enforcement across Europe. (OCCRP)
METAIRIE - The riddle was what he was doing in a van outfitted with what appeared to be gun ports, with a sniper rifle and silencer inside. (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
COLOGNE
- Organized criminals are stepping out of the shadows to make a profit
in Europe's largest economy, Germany.
(DW)
MORE:
Mafia infiltrates construction business
PALERMO - Giorgio Napolitano was named as a witness in the probe, in which the Sicilian Mafia is alleged to have offered to end bombings which killed 21 people in the early 1990s, including judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, in exchange for softer jail sentences and conditions for convicted gangsters. (Reuters) Giorgio Napolitano
LAS VEGAS - In 1962 the Mob-managed ex-con with fists like hams captured the world heavyweight title for the Mafia with brutish nonchalance. (Independent UK) Sonny Liston
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
PALERMO - Prosecutors in Palermo have indicted 12 men for alleged Mafia crimes, including the two most feared recent heads of Cosa Nostra and a former Interior Minister, in a case that has once again turned the spotlight on the relationship between Italian politics and organized crime. (Independent UK)
BRUSSELS - Fighting mafia plans to subvert democracy, the EU Parliament has been working on protective frameworks. This comes as organized criminals are increasingly seeking to launder money by investing in otherwise legitimate ventures. One of these is the media. (Euronews) |
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LOCRI - A former GTA resident has been sentenced to 30 years in
prison in Italy after being convicted of Mafia-related corruption
charges. Antonio Coluccio,
48,
was charged in Italy in 2014 with extortion and Mafia association
after a sweeping series of anti-corruption arrests in Southern Italy.
Some of the investigation involved wiretaps on phone calls
between Canada and Italy, targeting the Commisso crime clan of Siderno
in southern Italy.
Coluccio's 2 older brothers, Giuseppe and Salvatore, are already in
prison in Italy on Mafia-related charges.
The 3 brothers all lived in the GTA in the early 2000s.
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Court hears testimony from enforcer Labourers’ International Union CUPE national office takes control |
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Who will be GTA's next mob boss? |
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Gang raids lead to arrest of cop |
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Alleged mobster ordered deported Wanted in Italy, in legal limbo here |
Criminal underworld of cocaine barons |
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HAMILTON - Police now have evidence that more than one person - and as many as 4 vehicles - were involved in the "stalking" of mobster Angelo Musitano in the week before he was executed in the driveway of his on Chesapeake Dr. (Hamilton Spectator) |
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SAN JOSE - Police in Costa Rica arrested
7 men suspected of smuggling several tons of cocaine to the US and
Europe, part of a crime ring linked to the Italian mafia allegedly
run out of a New York pizzeria.
(Reuters)
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FORT LAUDERDALE - Anthony 'Big Tony' Moscatiello was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the mob-connected 2001 slaying of a prominent South Florida businessman during a battle over control of a fleet of gambling ships. (CBS) |
Anthony Moscatiello |
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NEW YORK - Sabato (Sal) Catucci saw himself in the same light as Marlon Brando, the star of the classic film "On The Waterfront" which documented the pervasive corruption on the piers. (NY Daily News) |
Waterfront Commission of NY Harbor |
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When smuggling, soccer and mafia collide
ROSARNO
- When police went after mafia boss Francesco "The Fat Head" Pesce
in southern Italy, they ended up with more than they bargained for:
his local soccer team, Rosarnese. (Reuters) PREVIOUS:
Boss
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BANGKOK - An Italian banker convicted for having links to the mafia has been arrested in Thailand, authorities say. Vito Palazzolo, 64, was given 9 years in jail for laundering money for the Sicily-based Cosa Nostra. (BBC) MORE: Vito Palazzolo |
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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. There the gangster 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 |
Mafia plundered EU building funds REGGIO CALABRIA - Since 2007 alone, the EU has authorized some $3.9B to Calabria alone, ostensibly to develop one of Italy's most backward and isolated areas. Yet hefty slices of that cash are thought to have gone to the Mafia, which is thought to have taken "pizzo", or Mob tax, on the building of everything from roads to windfarms. (Telegraph UK) PREVIOUS: Italy sacks council Autostrada A3 |
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LAS VEGAS - Las Vegas attorney David Amesbury was found dead by apparent hanging, 5 days after attorney Nancy Quon was found dead in the bathtub of her Henderson home. (LV Review-Journal) |
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) |
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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) |
AMSTERDAM, NY - Mike Craft 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 - A legendary airport robbery recounted in the movie
'Goodfellas' came back to haunt Vincent Asaro, 82, when a judge cited
evidence of his role in it while sentencing him to 8 years in prison
for an unrelated road rage arson.
The sentence was for the 2012 car torching, which prosecutors
said resulted when Asaro directed Bonanno crime family associates to
track down and set afire the car of a motorist he believed had cut him
off. (Daily Mail) Full Indictment .pdf |
US Attorney's office in New York |
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Where the NY Mafia goes from here Bosses voted on whacking Giuliani |
Bust details mob's health plan Reputed ex-NE mob boss arrested USDJ La Cosa Nostra Jan 20, 2011 Police Complaint against Tocchet .pdf Genovese Crime Family's new boss Matthew 'Matty the Horse' Ianniello |
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Mafia family ceased operations BUFFALO - Stefano Magaddino, 'the old man' who lived in a nondescript ranch house in Lewiston, once ruled the mob in Buffalo and Niagara Falls with an iron fist. Maggadino died almost 43 years ago at age 82. Now, the Mafia itself is all but dead in Western New York. (Buffalo News) |
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Mob ties CHICAGO - A high-ranking employee of the contractor who recently won a $99.4M janitorial contract with Mayor Rahm’s administration once served a prison sentence after he was charged in the same corruption case as late Chicago mob boss Anthony 'Big Tuna' . Paul A F was convicted on racketeering charges in 1987, sentenced to a 10-year prison term and left federal prison in 1993, public records show. |
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Prison coffee contract MONTREAL - Caffe Cimo owned by the Caruana family and located in the Montreal neighbourhood of St-Leonard, has been the lowest bidder on the Public Works Canada contracts to provide coffee to the prisons for the past 8 years. Giovanni Caruana was the president of Caffe Cimo until his death in 2012. He was a 'man of honour' in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, in Italy. |
Drug baron to be sent back to Italy The Rothschilds of the Mafia on Aruba |
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Stroll down Mafia lane with snitch YOUNGSTOWN - 50 years ago Mahoning Valley Mafia boss Lenny Strollo and two of his associates, Vince Serman and Bobby Armstrong, were arrested by US secret service agents and charged with possessing and passing counterfeit $10 bills. (Vindy) |
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Guilty plea PHILADELPHIA - Instead of facing a retrial, reputed Philadelphia mob soldier Anthony Nicodemo pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and related offenses in the 2012 slaying of a South Philly man in broad daylight. |
Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo 1957 meeting forced the FBI to recognize the Mafia |
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PARMA - Mafia 'boss of bosses' Salvatore 'Toto' Riina died in a hospital while serving multiple life sentences as the mastermind of a bloody strategy to assassinate Italian prosecutors and law enforcement trying to bring down the Cosa Nostra. He was 87. (AP) |
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Dozens arrested in Mafia dragnet |
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La Repubblica wrote Children taken away from families Rally against Mafia's waste dumping |
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Business empire built from scratch Inside the Mafia's drug empire |
Italy anti-mafia op nets mayor Mobsters shoot rival at nursery |
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Radio-detonated explosives tested Berlusconi paid protection money Mafia buys into the hospital service |
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Mafia 'sank ships of toxic waste' Italy finds wreck of toxic waste ship 'Scarface' arrested via Facebook |
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Warrant issued for the wife of boss International arrests follow probe Fake millions found in Mafia raid |
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Little-known mafia is cocaine 'king' Sicily chief guilty in Mafia case Sicilians grow defiant of Mafia |
Former Italian minister arrested Mafia men get 300 years in jail Mafia linked to doctor's death |
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4 arrested in Duisburg murder probe Soldiers bulldoze Naples rubbish Police arrest 17 from mafia clan Italy dealt double blow over OC Gangs turn Naples into battleground Fears for Polish workers in Italy Polish kept in Italian 'prison camp' |
Mafia murder witness found dead Italian cops bust Iraq arms deal Mafia accused of starting wildfires Italy crackdown on Naples mafia Naples Sinks into Mafia Violence |
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MONTREAL - Last summer, Norman Rosenblum returned to Canada after
having been a fugitive for 18 years. He had skipped out on a sentence
he was serving for having brokered, along with members of the Hells
Angels and the Montreal Mafia, one of the biggest cocaine deals ever
investigated in this country.
He knew he was a wanted man and that Canadian authorities had
been advised he would be arriving in June last year. He expected to be
placed in shackles the second he crossed the border but no one
resembling a police officer was present when he did.
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Assassinations, firebombs rise Fire destroys another hair salon linked to Mafia Mafia tied hair salon firebombed |
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Just in time guilty pleas |
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Godfather's killers disrespectful Shooting weakens family's power Kiss of death for Montreal Mafia? |
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TORONTO - Mark Peretz, 49, was shot suffering life-threatening injuries. Peretz was one of 4 men convicted in a shooting that took place at a California Sandwich shop on April 21, 2004. (CTV) Hells Angels enforcer also survived
Crumbling
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Pietro (Peter) Scarcella, 54 & Antonio Borrelli, 29 Paris Christoforou, 27 & Mark Peretz, 38 Mobster jailed in Russo case stabbed |
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NEW YORK - 10 alleged members of the Bonanno mafia family have been charged with racketeering and related crimes, according to a 37-count indictment. (CNN) |
'Assassin' breaks code of silence
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Key Gambino family leaders arrested |
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Gambino family members sentenced 11 charged in US gambling crackdown Gaming shares hit by US charges Remains of Mafia captains identified Genovese family members indicted Alleged mob bosses among indicted Reputed mobster indicted at age 96 The Undertaker seeks separation Mobster sentenced to house arrest |
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The case of the exiled mobsters Where there's smoke there's PJ Truck brought crime family to its knees Double life of Mafia's killer gramps |
7 charged with extortion, break-ins Michael ‘Mikey Scars’ DiLeonardo Feds tie Gotti to Bonnie-Clyde hit Scala whacked Castellano: feds Corrupt brokers got VIP access to gals Careful shaker of his money maker 170-page indictment .pdf |
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Where he's buried It was thirty three years ago 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. |
Detroit house searched for clues |
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CANBERRA - Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor and Australian police are warning that the massive diversion of law-enforcement resources to combat terrorism is eroding the fight against the Mafia and other serious organized crime groups. (Fairfax Media) |
Political donations wide open to corruption |
