The purr-fect crime: Mafia attach flaming rags to tails of cats to start...
• Cats being used as 'arsonists' by the mafia according to a park manager• Claims from Giuseppe Antoci of Nebrodi, Sicily's largest national park• He says the felines are...
View ArticleItalian mafia boss nabbed in mountain hideout after two decades on the run
By Tess OwenJune 26, 2016 |Italy's second-most wanted fugitive, mafia boss Ernesto Fazzalari, was captured on Sunday after two decades on the run.Police nabbed Fazzalari, a leader of the powerful...
View ArticleThe Mafia Is Alive, Well, and Controlling Bread Prices in Italy
BY WYATT MARSHALLThanks to movies like The Godfather cementing the image of tuxedoed mobsters hanging out in cigar rooms in our collective memory, the Mafia can oftentimes feel like a thing of the...
View ArticleMafia Hit Suspected in Murder of Beloved Brooklyn Pizzeria Owner
by Nancy DunhamLouis Barbati, owner of Spumoni Gardens, was found murdered at his home with $10,000 cash on him. The Gardens was also tied to a double murder involving a stolen sauce recipe.The mafia...
View ArticleMontreal's Bloody Mafia War Won't End
By Adam KovacJune 2, 2016 | 2:20 pmUntil police found Rocco Sollecito's corpse in his bullet-riddled luxury SUV a few hundred meters from police headquarters in Laval, just north of Montreal, he was...
View ArticlePresumed mobster Angelo D’Onofrio killed in Ahunstic-Cartierville
By Rachel LauWeb Producer Global News WATCH ABOVE: Presumed mobster Angelo D'Onofrio was gunned down in front of Café Sinatra. Billy Shields has the details.MONTREAL – Presumed mobster Angelo...
View ArticleAntonio Fusco, victim of shooting outside Hall of Fame, released on $500 bail...
SPRINGFIELD - Longmeadow resident Antonio Fusco, 21, pleaded not guilty to distribution of marijuana in Springfield District Court on June 7, after being shot in the parking lot of the Hall of Fame on...
View ArticleJailed Mafia Don’s Son: Hillary Clinton Told Me She Would ‘Do Something’ To...
by PATRICK HOWLEY Giovanni Gambino, the son of a notorious Mafia leader, tells Breitbart News that Hillary Clinton told him in a private meeting that she was going to help change the RICO laws in the...
View ArticleQueens residents in Genovese crime family charged with racketeering
Five residents from Whitestone, Bayside and Oakland Gardens are among 18 individuals from the Genovese organized crime family charged with racketeering, according to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.By...
View ArticleREPUTED GENOVESE CAPO SENTENCED TO ALMOST 22 YEARS FOR MAFIA CRIMES - Press...
Editor's note: This story originally ran November 17, 1993.________________________________________A reputed captain of a Genovese crime family was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 22 years in prison for...
View ArticleJudge: State's evidence against mob defendant 'Skinny' Santoro the strongest
By Mira Wassef | mwassef@siadvance.com MANHATTAN, N.Y. -- After hearing the state's case during the nearly three-month Bonanno mob trial, Supreme Court Justice Mark Dwyer said the evidence against a...
View ArticleJuror dissension as mistrial is declared in mob case
Juror says the rest of the panel was not considering his opinion, and was only worried about getting a guilty verdict.Santoro's lawyer, Adam Konta, had asked the court for reasonable bail between...
View ArticleThe Strange Saga of the 'Odd Father,' the Mob Boss Who Faked Mental Illness
By Seth FerrantiVincent "Chin" Gigante ran New York's Genovese crime family for nearly a quarter-century. After assuming power in the early 1980s, the Chin raked in some $100 million calling the shots...
View ArticleOntario key place for organized crime to transform into legitimate businesses
BY ROB LAMBERTI, SPECIAL TO THE TORONTO SUNOntario’s underworld seems dormant as Quebec shows rumblings for more Mob violence.But not all is quiet in Ontario, as the province is a key place for...
View ArticleMICHAEL RIZZI: RETIRED NYPD COP BUSTED FOR ALLEGEDLY RUNNING $2 MILLION...
AARON HOMERMichael Rizzi, a retired NYPD cop on a disability pension, was arrested Tuesday by F.B.I agents after allegedly running a multimillion dollar prostitution ring with hookers billing clients...
View ArticleRocco Sollecito, a high-ranking member of Quebec's mafia, was shot and...
Organized crime expert James Dubro says that there is likely an ongoing generational shift happening in the Montreal mob leadership.CTVNews.ca Staff Published Friday, May 27, 2016 11:03AM EDT Last...
View Article'Dirt brokers' polluting N.J., investigators say
By Andrew Seidman, TRENTON BUREAUPOSTED: MAY 27, 2016TRENTON - Convicted criminals and individuals with ties to organized crime have dumped tons of contaminated soil and construction debris near...
View ArticleIs the Mob Receding or Just Going Lower Profile?
By Timothy FerryOver the decades, media reports in Taiwan have depicted highly efficient and ruthless underworld organizations with exotic names such as the Bamboo Union, Four Seas, and Heavenly Way...
View ArticleReputed Gambino mobster Gennaro (Jerry) Bruno gets 21 years in prison for hit...
Gennaro (Jerry) Bruno, 43, was sentenced to 21 years on prison Friday.BY JOHN MARZULLI NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A reputed Gambino mobster was sentenced Friday to 21 years in prison for murdering a drug...
View ArticleMystery of Manhattan cathedral fire deepens as former Gambino mob enforcer...
• John Alite has spent years in prison in America and Brazil but is now free and has become a motivational speaker • A Serbian newspaper has accused ex-mobster of starting a fire...
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