No verdict in Bonanno mob trial; deliberations resume Monday
By Mira Wassef | mwassef@siadvance.com MANHATTAN, N.Y.-- After six days of deliberations, the jury in the Bonanno mob trial did not reach a verdict Thursday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan.The...
View ArticleFormer Bonanno family FBI informant can sue agents for scheming to throw him...
Joseph Barone Jr. claimed the federal agents turned against him because his value as an informer had dwindled, and he refused to wear a wire. The FBI later leaked his status as an informant, according...
View ArticlePotential Rizzuto organization leader arrested in mass Mafia bust
PAUL CHERRY, MONTREAL GAZETTEMontreal - The RCMP is carrying out a series of arrests in the Montreal area in what the Mounties are calling the third and last phase of an investigation into the Mafia...
View ArticleFormer Mob Boss’ House to be Auctioned
By Chris Fry -May 9, 2016Got at least $5.5 million to burn and want to make someone an offer they can’t refuse? Then head over to Fort Lee next month for the auction of a house with a colorful history...
View ArticleGambino associate gets 21 yrs. for killing
Bruno now joins LaBarca behind barsA Gambino crime family associate last Friday was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for executing a fellow mobster in Howard Beach in 2002 and conspiring to...
View ArticleYakuza among 11 nabbed by Niigata police over ¥1.8 billion single-day...
NIIGATA – Police in Niigata Prefecture said Tuesday they have arrested 11 men, including a gangster, in connection with thefts of ¥1.8 billion ($17.3 million) from cash machines across Japan on a...
View ArticleTokyo police arrest yakuza in fight at Asakusa festival
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on July 15, 20161 CommentA Yamaguchi-gumi member and a rival gangster were arrested for assaulting one another at the Tori no Ichi festivalKiyoshi NakaharaTOKYO (TR) – Tokyo...
View ArticleAichi cops: Assailants shoot yakuza dead, getaway car found on fire
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on July 15, 2016Comments Off on Aichi cops: Assailants shoot yakuza dead, getaway car found on fireA person believed to be a Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi member was shot and killed in a...
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Sumitomo employee nabbed in housing loan to yakuza boss by Tokyo Reporter Staff onJuly 13, 2016TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested an organized crime member for allegedly threatening a...
View ArticleOfficials Seize 600 Pounds Of Marijuana In Mob-Related Bust
BY MIRANDA KATZ Some two dozen people, several of whom reportedly have ties to the Mafia, were arrested for allegedly running elaborate marijuana and oxycodone distribution schemes, as well as an...
View ArticleRobbers accused of burrowing through bank ceilings are charged
By Jamie Schram, Kaja Whitehouse and Philip MessingThe NYPD investigates the scene of the bank robbery in Brooklyn.Three members of a New York burglary crew — including the son of a murdered Gambino...
View ArticleMafia loses its influence in New York's Little Italy
Published August 11, 2016 Associated PressNEW YORK – In a recent conversation with an undercover FBI agent wearing a wire, a reputed mobster from Connecticut named Eugene "Rooster" O'Norfio...
View ArticleFBI, NYPD Arrest Dozens Of Suspected Organized Crime Family Members
August 4, 2016 2:30 PMNEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The FBI and NYPD made dozens of arrests Thursday morning in a broad-based mob bust. New York federal prosecutors unveiled an indictment charging nearly...
View ArticleBonanno gangsters’ lawyers whine that judge’s orders to bar them from mob...
BYSHAYNA JACOBSNEW YORK DAILY NEWSTuesday, August 9, 2016, 6:34 PMYou can have your cannoli but you can't eat it too.Alleged mafiosi Vito Badamo, 53, and Ernest Aiello, 36, have concerns about a...
View ArticleWhat the Latest Mafia Bust Says About Organized Crime
By Seth FerrantiEven if informants are running rampant in mob circles like never before, the Code of Omertà more pop-culture catchphrase than criminal fact, the American Mafia is still alive and...
View ArticleEditor’s Corner: Arson, extortion, racketeering and… healthcare fraud?
by Evan Sweeney | A screenwriter salivate: Patsy, Rooster, Tony the Wig (not to be confused with “Tony the Cripple” or “Nicky the Wig”), Big Vinny and Tugboat.The list of those arrested was 46 strong,...
View ArticleMob Arrests In U.S. Show Wiseguys With Ties To Costa Rica Still Active In N.J.
By Rico on 6 August 2016(Q24N) With ties to sports gambling businesses based in Costa Rica, and arrests earlier this week of nearly four dozen people in New York, including four from New Jersey, U.S....
View ArticleEast Coast mob sweep is straight out of a Scorsese movie
Vera HallerFilled with descriptions of pipe attacks and old-fashioned “whackings,” a federal indictment unveiled Thursday accused 46 reputed mobsters of a conspiracy that included loan-sharking,...
View ArticleJohn Gotti, Grandson of the 'Teflon Don,' Arrested for Peddling Drugs in...
By Brendan Krisel (Patch National Staff) - August 4, 2016 8:24 pm ET HOWARD BEACH, QUEENS — It's been a rough day for the mob. On the same day that 46 mafiosos were charged in a federal indictment,...
View ArticleThe Hit Man Next Door: Did a Jersey Gymnastics Coach Kill for the Mob?
The Hit Man Next Door: Did a Jersey Gymnastics Coach Kill for the Mob?Joe Passalaqua claims "103 kills," but one judge described his elaborate tales as little more than "criminal fantasy"By David...
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