Rockland mobster pleads guilty to racketeering
Steve Lieberman, slieberm@lohud.com Reputed organized crime capo Daniel Pagano, 62, of Airmont pleads guilty to a racketeering and faces 27-33 months in prison.A reputed organized crime capo from...
View ArticleItaly's 'anti-Mafia industry' comes under suspicion after shock claims over...
The campaigner Rita Borsellino said the latest developments suggested something was rotten in the anti-Mafia movementMichael Day Fears are mounting that Italy’s anti-Mafia movement is starting to...
View ArticleQueens mobster serving life in Florida prison dead at 80
By Phillip MessingAn elderly and once-powerful Colombo crime family capo from Queens serving life at a Florida federal prison died Thursday at age 80, sources said.Pasquale Amato, a...
View ArticleItalian Mob Mimics Las Vegas History by Taking a Piece of the Slot Action in...
BY KEVIN HORRIDGEItaly’s gradual gambling expansion of the past two decades was supposed to repress organized crime by bringing a once-underground industry back out into the open.But according to...
View ArticleCosa Nostra boss Carlo Gambino is bagged for robbery plot in 1970
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (Originally published by the Daily News on Tuesday, March 24, 1970, written by Edward Kirkman and Harry Schlegel.)Carlo Gambino, the reputed new boss of all Cosa Nostra bosses in...
View ArticleAt Sentencing, the Godfathers Become Sick Old Grandfathers
Stephanie Clifford, The New York Times NEW YORK: Not long ago, Thomas DiFiore cut an intimidating figure. He was for a time the highest-ranking member of the Bonanno organized crime family not behind...
View ArticleSanzari lawyers ask judge in lawsuit to ban references to 'mob'
BY LINH TATSTAFF WRITER | THE RECORDNEWARK – Attorneys for Joseph M. Sanzari argued in federal court Wednesday for an order that would bar his opponents in a civil lawsuit from making public any...
View ArticleIs The Yakuza Behind Caroline Kennedy Death Threats?
Tokyo police are looking into a political group with ties to the Japanese mob as it investigates death threats made to against Ambassador Caroline Kennedy.The Tokyo Metropolitan Police are...
View ArticleAging Ex-Mafia Boss Fails in Bid for Leniency on Jail Time
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD High blood sugar, stress, swelling of kidneys, swelling of skin, lung problems, vision issues: These were some of the medical problems enumerated by lawyers for Thomas DiFiore, a...
View ArticleBefore Judges, the Godfathers Become Sick Old Grandfathers
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Not long ago, Thomas DiFiore cut an intimidating figure. For a time, he was the highest-ranking member of the Bonanno organized crime family not behind bars, despite a long...
View ArticlePope visits Nales, urges mobsters to repent
By Philip Pullella NAPLES, Italy — Pope Francis urged members of organized crime to turn away from violence and exploitation and stop the “tears of the mothers of Naples” after visiting one of the...
View ArticleJudge won't bar 'mob' references in Sanzari suit
BY LINH TATSTAFF WRITER | THE RECORDNEWARK - A federal judge has denied a bid by attorneys for Joseph M. Sanzari for an order that would have barred his opponents in a civil lawsuit from making public...
View ArticleGambino betting ring leads to guilty plea
Posted on March 26, 2015 | By Michael P. Mayko STAMFORD-A New York City bookmaker’s involvement in a mob-controlled gambling operation here now faces a year in prison and a loss of $160,988.Salvatore...
View ArticleKanagawa cops arrest Inagawa-kai member in shooting of rival yakuza boss
An Inagawa-kai member allegedly shot a Yamaguchi-gumi boss in the abdomen near JR Fujisawa Station KANAGAWA (TR) – Kanagawa Prefectural Police on Sunday announced the arrest of an organized crime...
View ArticleEthnic mobs, now diversified, drive organized crime in NJ, FBI says
By David Matthau Organized crime is alive and well in New Jersey, despite ongoing efforts by law enforcement, in part because there are so many criminal enterprises from all over the world operating in...
View ArticleThe Don
Capricious \kuh-PRISH-us\ governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive, unpredictable The noun caprice, which first appeared in English in the mid-17th century, is a synonym of whim. Evidence...
View Article‘Goodfellas’ mobster confronted by victim’s family at sentencing
By Selim AlgarMore than 45 years after he was strangled with a dog chain by an infamous “Goodfellas” mobster, Paul Katz finally had his day in court — in a tiny cremation pouch clutched by his...
View ArticleMafia boss Domenico Rancadore's sentence 'expired'more than 20 years in...
Domenico Rancadore was given a seven-year term by an Italian court in 1999, for being a member of a criminal organisation.He had fought extradition since 2013, when he was found living in Uxbridge...
View Article14 arrests as anti-Mafia police help PSNI smash triad gang's £1m 'skunk'...
By Deborah McAleese – 26 March 2015A powerful triad gang is at the centre of a lucrative drug trafficking operation from Italy to Northern Ireland, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.More than £1m worth...
View ArticleBonanno crime family street boss locked up after feds catch him meeting with...
BY OREN YANIV NEW YORK DAILY NEWSJohn Palazzolo, 77, a reputed street boss of the Bonanno crime family’s Bronx faction, got locked up Friday after federal law enforcement officials caught him meeting...
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