Authorities release former New England mob boss from home confinement
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS November 10, 2015 - 4:49 am ESTPROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — A former New England mob boss who returned to Providence after leaving prison earlier this year has been released from...
View ArticleHow Breweries like Coors, Yuengling And Anheuser-Busch Survived Prohibition
This story appears in the November 23, 2015 issue of Forbes.Kate VintonProhibition crippled a thriving brewing industry in the United States. Between 1900 and 1913, beer production in the United States...
View Article'Mafia Capital' mobster trial opens in Italy
One of Italy's biggest organised crime trials in years - dubbed Mafia Capital - has opened in Rome, where councillors and gangsters allegedly stole millions of euros of public cash.A one-eyed,...
View ArticleAccused mobster gets 70 months for drugs, money laundering despite plea from...
BY JOHN MARZULLI A plea for mercy from the widow of a hero firefighter didn't do much good for a reputed Colombo gangster who was sentenced Thursday to 70 months in prison for drugs and money...
View ArticleMy dad was the Mafia’s Grim Reaper
By Brad HamiltonNovember 8, 2015 | 6:00amOn the morning of Nov. 18, 1991, Linda Scarpa learned, brutally, what it meant to be the daughter of a Mafia assassin.Gregory Scarpa, known as “Grim Reaper,”...
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FBI offering reward for longtime fugitive with mob ties
FBI offering reward for longtime fugitive with mob tiesBy Diana Pinzon PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information that leads to the whereabouts of one of...
View ArticleAttorney: Associate of DeCavalcante Crime Family Pleads Guilty To Selling...
December 15, 2015 3:42 PMNEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — James Feeney, an associate of the DeCavalcante organized crime family, has pleaded guilty to distributing more than 500 grams of cocaine.U.S....
View ArticleItalian Mafia Election 2015: Organized Crime Ring Votes For New Mob Boss
BY JESS MCHUGH @MCHUGHJESS Italian police released information to the public this weekend of the election process for a new boss of one of the top families of the Sicilian Mafia, the Local reported....
View ArticleDNA at site of Kyoto restaurant owner’s murder linked to Kyushu yakuza •
KYOTO – Investigators probing the December 2013 murder of Ohsho gyoza (dumpling) restaurant chain president in Kyoto found that DNA detected from articles left behind at the site belonged to a man...
View ArticleNEW ENGLAND SEPTUAGENARIANS WITH MOB TIES ADMIT TO RUNNING EXTORTION SCHEME...
Two New England men in their 70s are heading to prison after admitting in a federal court to running an extortion scheme for years.On Monday, Antonio “Spucky” Spagnolo, 73, and Pryce “Stretch”...
View ArticleI left my crime family in San Francisco
You rarely hear about organized crime in San Francisco, and many wonder if we have a mafia family.Chicago mobster Nick DeJohn could have answered the question — but it’s hard to talk when you are lying...
View ArticleA Mafia Captain Turned Informer Gets a Reduced Prison Term
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORDJAN. 5, 2016During their hour-and-a-half outdoor sessions at the super-maximum security prison in Florence, Colo., Gregory Scarpa Jr. struck up a friendship with an important...
View ArticleReputed Mobster's Associate adds New Mystery To Gardner Museum Art Heist
Edmund H. MahonyHow A CT Man Is Helping The FBI Solve Gardner Museum HeistFor five years, investigators have focused on a once-obscure gangster from Hartford as perhaps the last, best hope of cracking...
View ArticleThe Wee Book of Irish-American Gangsters: Irish gangster Gerry Hutch escapes...
The Wee Book of Irish-American Gangsters: Irish gangster Gerry Hutch escapes attempted attac...: Two balaclava-clad gunmen stormed a pub ‘The Monk’ had been drinking in on New Year's Eve By Iona Napier...
View ArticleWOMEN IN THE MAFIA
As Nunzia D’Amico pushed her baby in a pram near her home in an eastern suburb of Naples, she probably looked much liked like any other mother. Laden with shopping, the 37-year-old was killed in a hail...
View ArticleLittle Italy: End of an era for American Mafia as hipsters tour New York...
The New York mob isn’t what it used to be and – in the wake of ‘the last old-school’ Mafia trial into the infamous Lufthansa heist – you are more likely to find hipsters and...
View Article'Ndrangheta: Underwater Mafia bomb stash is discovered off coast of Italy in...
The 150-metre Laura C had been heading for Naples from the port of Taranto when it was sunk by a British submarine in 1941Michael Day Rome The Laura C had sailed from the city of Naples GettyThe...
View ArticleLooking for a bit of light in the fight against crime
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re trapped in Harold Ramis’ 1993 movie “Groundhog Day,” except that you’re an investigative journalist, not a weatherman, and the nemesis that keeps popping up...
View ArticlePrison for Wyckoff mobster, relatives in gambling ring
BY JIM NORMANTRENTON — A high-ranking member of the Joseph Lucchese crime family and two of his sons — including a 46-year-old Wyckoff man — were sentenced to prison Thursday for their parts in an...
View ArticleGTA mobsters ‘shocked’ by scope of Montreal police operations
Toronto-area criminals face "shock and disbelief", says an organized crime expert, after a Montreal law office was bugged as part of a police operation.RYAN REMIORZ / THE CANADIAN PRESSAmong those...
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