Crime report suggests the yakuza are evolving
BY JAKE ADELSTEINIt appears the National Police Agency is serious about cracking down on organized crime.The annual White Paper on Crime, published this year on July 24, created its first separate...
View ArticleSicily Arrests 11 Mobsters In Search For Top Mafia Boss
The suspects used coded language and hand-written notes to communicate.ROME, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Police in Sicily arrested 11 suspected mobsters they believe were helping Sicilian mafia boss Matteo...
View ArticleReport: Alleged mobster pens jailhouse letter claiming his rants are therapeutic
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — An alleged Staten Island mobster penned a jailhouse letter to a judge claiming his violent rants are therapeutic, according to a report in the New York Post.Great Kills resident...
View ArticleReputed mob member indicted on charges in scrapping scheme
August 8, 2015CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio prosecutors "picked a dirty fight" when they sought grand jury indictments against a reputed member of New York's Gambino crime family in an alleged $4.2 million...
View ArticleDouglas LeVien, New York Detective Who Infiltrated the Mafia, Dies at 68
By MARGALIT FOXAUG. 8, 2015Douglas A. LeVien Jr., a former undercover police detective who in 1972 infiltrated the meeting ground used by New York’s five Mafia families, a landmark operation that...
View ArticleCapone's connection to Saskatchewan
Mickey DjuricDocumentary host Leon Willey, who is from Moose Jaw, speaks to a woman about her Al Capone connection in the documentary "Finding Al", which has its worldwide premier on CBC, Saturday at 7...
View ArticleRussian Mafia Gangster: Estonian Officer Allegedly Abducted by Russia Sent...
Russian Mafia Gangster: Estonian Officer Allegedly Abducted by Russia Sent...: Reuters TV / ReutersA still image from a video footage shows Estonian police officer Eston Kohver in a defendants' cage...
View ArticleRussian Mafia Gangster: Russian Police Bust Underground Cheese Factory
Russian Mafia Gangster: Russian Police Bust Underground Cheese Factory: By Ivan Nechepurenko Since March, the organized group had supplied large supermarkets in Moscow, the surrounding Moscow region...
View ArticleRome outraged over Hollywood-style funeral for purported mob boss featuring...
Published August 20, 2015Associated PressROME – Romans aghast at a spiraling mafia probe found new reason for outrage Thursday over the Hollywood-style funeral of a purported local crime boss: It was...
View ArticleStaten Island mobster takes leadership of Gambino crime family: report
BY JOHN MARZULLI NEW YORK DAILY NEWSFrank Cali has reportedly been elevated to acting boss of the Gambino crime family.The leadership of the Gambino crime family has reportedly been passed from a...
View ArticleNew York's darkest secret: The Hole is a Mafia graveyard that few people...
'The Hole' is an almost forgotten quarter, with a legacy of Mafia hits, buried secrets and faded hopes. Alexander Nazaryan explores the least known, worst off and most desolate district of New York...
View ArticleRichie the Boot, Little Pussy and Johnny Coca-Cola: N.J.'s real-life Sopranos
From bootlegging to racketeering, the mob has long considered New Jersey to be part of its playground. A gallery of some of the state's real-life Sopranos. Ted Sherman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com By...
View ArticleBaywalk Empire: The secret Prohibition history of South Jersey
By Don E. Woods | For NJ.com There is a history, hidden by rising tides and familial secrets, along the Delaware Bayshore — a history of rumrunners, moonshiners and bootleggers during the Prohibition...
View ArticleYakuza behind cybercrime in Jakarta: police
Jakarta NewsJapanese underworld criminal organizations such as the Yakuza are allegedly behind a cybercrime network in Jakarta involving up to 96 Chinese and Taiwanese citizens.According to the Jakarta...
View ArticleHere are 60 sample pages from my book, “No time to Say Goodbye” available on...
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir/dp/0692361294/In 1962, six year old John Tuohy, his two brothers and two sisters entered Connecticut’s foster care system and were promptly split apart....
View ArticleNow available in E book format on Kindle
Preface I began work on this book while I still was an undergraduate student in the Criminal Justice Program at the University of New Haven in 1975. The book grew out of class assignment, given to us...
View ArticleThe Wee Book of Irish-American Gangsters: Former FBI Agent Pleads Not Guilty...
The Wee Book of Irish-American Gangsters: Former FBI Agent Pleads Not Guilty to Perjury: By Chelsea Rice and Hilary Sargent Boston.com Staff Retired FBI supervisor Robert Fitzpatrick was arraigned...
View ArticleThe Godfather Trilogy Blogspot: Inside The El Embajador, Santo Domingo
The Godfather Trilogy Blogspot: Inside The El Embajador, Santo Domingo: BY ROBERT MICHAEL POOLE | AUGUST 25, 2015 Of all the countries in the Caribbean, one might be surprised to hear which one gets...
View ArticleFBI Files Tried to Connect Duddie Massad to Organized Crime and Raymond...
The FBI Files of Raymond Patriarca released to GoLocal through a Freedom of Information Act request, unveils the FBI’s efforts to tie David G. (Duddie) Massad to organized crime and Patriarca through...
View Article