Genovese Family

Indictment names three more Genovese Crime Family members

July 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

- Genovese Organized Crime Family - NEW YORK – Superseding Indictment charging three additional individuals for their involvement in the alleged racketeering, murder, and other criminal activities of the Genovese Organized Crime Family, were announced by federal prosecutors Friday. Felix Tranghese and Ty Geas were arrested Friday in Springfield, Massachusetts. Emilio Fusco remains at large. Defendants Arthur Nigro, the alleged former Acting Boss of the Genovese Organized Crime Family, and Fotios Geas, an alleged Family associate, — who were incarcerated on other charges when the underlying... [Read the full story]

Gambino Family

Gotti mafia man, Kevin McMahon, avoids life sentence by snitching on Charles Carneglia

July 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

- Kevin McMahon spills beans on Charles Carneglia to get reduced sentence in prison Friday. -He was the late John Gotti’s lucky charm – and mob canary Kevin (The Midget) McMahon lucked out himself Friday. McMahon, 43, dodged a life sentence for two gangland murders and was sentenced to time served – less than five years in prison. The light punishment was a reward for his testimony against the Gambinos’ fearsome hit man, Charles Carneglia. Brooklyn Federal Judge Jack Weinstein apologized to the grief-stricken daughter of slain armored car guard Jose Delgado-Rivera but... [Read the full story]

Bonanno Family

Bonanno mobster Joseph (Sammy) Sammartino cops plea on loansharking charge

June 22, 2010 · 4 Comments

- NYC Mob - A high-ranking Bonanno mobster pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court Monday to loansharking. Reputed capo Joseph (Sammy) Sammartino admitted that he conspired with other wiseguys to collect a high-interest loan from a victim identified only as “Sal from Staten Island.” Sammartino, 55, of New Jersey, faces up to two years in prison when he is sentenced in October by Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis. Prosecutors say Sammartino is a member of the crime family’s ruling panel. Source: nydailynews.com Read More →

Canadian Mafia

On the run in Calabria

July 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment

- Calabria - As police fan out across Italy in a bid to shut down the notorious ‘Ndrangheta, Adrian Humphreys looks at the Mafia investigation’s Canadian connections. For the past five years, Antonio Coluccio ushered guests through tall glass doors into his office on the ground floor of his million-dollar home north of Toronto, where a five-foot-tall oil painting of his father, a Mafia boss murdered before his sons were old enough to remember him, glared down at visitors. This week, Coluccio is far from those comfortable Canadian circumstances and closer to the hard life of his father... [Read the full story]

Colombo Family

Colombo mobster Michael (Mickey) Souza, The Don of Screwups, now begging for witness protection

July 20, 2010 · 15 Comments

- Michael (Mickey) Souza - The Colombo crime family must really be going to the dogs if this is the type of muscle they’re recruiting. Meet Michael (Mickey) Souza. Before legendary Colombo underboss John (Sonny) Franzese pricked Souza’s finger with a sterile diabetic needle in 2005 to make him a made man, Souza had built quite the fiasco-filled résumé. There was the time he shot himself, Plaxico Burress-style, while tucking a handgun in his sweatpants. There’s his arrest for boating while drunk. And then there was the time he injured one of his fellow goons while the two busted... [Read the full story]

General

£100K CONTRACT OUT ON JON VENABLES’ LIFE

July 28, 2010 · 1 Comment

- JON VENABLES as a child - GANGLAND bosses have put a £100,000 bounty on the head of kid porn-hooked child killer Jon Venables. Liverpool crime lords say the fiend, who murdered two-year-old James Bulger and swapped sick snaps after his release, shames their city. Venables, 27, now back inside, has a secret identity and is guarded round the clock. But underworld bosses have told henchmen serving sentences to hunt him down. They have put the word out that whoever gets him will pocket a six-figure sum. A source told the Daily Star: “There’s nowhere he can hide. “There are guys in every... [Read the full story]

General

£100K CONTRACT OUT ON JON VENABLES’ LIFE

Fears Mafia godfather may be planning fresh attacks

IT MAY have been a question of mixing business with pleasure, Cosa Nostra style. According to a report in yesterday’s Rome daily, La Repubblica , Matteo Messina Denaro, currently the most wanted Sicilian godfather, may well have used the packed grandstand of Palermo’s Renzo Barbera football stadium during a vital Serie A game as the perfect rendezvous... [Read more of this review]

Italian police arrest 10 in anti Mafia raids

- N'drangheta arrest - Italian police have arrested 10 suspected Mafia members in the latest blitz against the powerful Calabrian crime organisation, the ‘Ndrangheta. In addition to mob association, the gang are accused of aiding and abetting fugitives. Authorities also confiscated millions of euros worth of assets. It follows the much bigger crackdown... [Read more of this review]

MS-13 Gang Member Sentenced to Death After Conviction on Racketeering Charges Related to Double Murders

- MS 13 - WASHINGTON, July 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Chief U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. today formally imposed the federal death penalty sentence on Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umana, aka “Wizard,” announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Anne M. Tompkins of... [Read more of this review]

UK Hunt for Dutch ‘Mobster’

- Wanted Dino Soerel - A SUSPECTED crime boss dubbed “The Fleeing Dutchman” and accused of ordering SEVEN contract killings is feared to be on the run in Britain. Dino Soerel, 49, also allegedly behind shipments of cocaine, heroin and cannabis to the UK, has quit his Amsterdam base and is known to have links to Manchester. Cops in Holland... [Read more of this review]

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