Genovese Family

Capo Anthony Palumbo takes plea in ‘92 organized crime hit plot

August 31, 2010 · Leave a Comment

- Anthony Palumbo, 59, a capo from Manhattan is walked as members of the Genovese crime family are led from the Federal Building following their arrest early this morning on charges of racketeering and extortion. - An acting capo for the Genovese crime family pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to whack a Russian organized crime hit man in 1992. Anthony (Tony D) Palumbo took the plea in Manhattan Federal Court and faces 10 years in prison when sentenced Dec. 3. Prosecutor Avi Weitzman said Palumbo and other Genovese gangsters engaged in a plot to kill a hit man for the Russian mob, but higherups... [Read the full story]

Gambino Family

Officials Deny Misconduct in Sex-Trafficking Inquiry

September 2, 2010 · 2 Comments

- Gambino Family prostitution ring - Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have sharply criticized a defense lawyer’s claim that the government engaged in misconduct by allowing a cooperating witness in a Mafia case to run a sex- trafficking ring that involved a 15-year-old girl. The government said it ended the operation as soon as it discovered that the under-age girl was involved. The witness, who was participating in an investigation of the Gambino crime family, learned of the prostitution ring in June 2009 and reported it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, prosecutors said. The witness... [Read the full story]

Bonanno Family

Real-life ‘Donnie Brasco’ tells of Mafia infiltration

August 11, 2010 · 12 Comments

EL PASO — The FBI agent who infiltrated the mob as “Donnie Brasco” would rather deal with the Italian Mafia than Mexican drug cartels. Retired Special Agent Joe Pistone, who spoke about his six years undercover in the Mafia, was the guest speaker Tuesday evening at an FBI civic group meeting in El Paso. “I would take the Italian Mafia anytime,” said Pistone when asked about the cartel violence that has flooded Juárez. “The American Mafia, they don’t kill just anybody.” Pistone said the Mafia kill only other people involved in mob activity, as opposed... [Read the full story]

Canadian Mafia

Reputed Montreal Mafia figure in court

August 29, 2010 · 16 Comments

- Tony Mucci - MONTREAL – Tony Mucci, 55, of Boucherville, reputed to be an influential figure in the Montreal Mafia, appeared before Judge Jean-Paul Braun Friday afternoon. He faces 10 charges in all, including two for allegedly being in possession of a weapon designed to repell bears. He is also charged with being in possession of a prohibited weapon while he was inside a vehicle on Thursday. Three of the accused, including Mucci, Carmine Serino and Jesse Petrocco, return to court on Tuesday for a bail hearing. Montreal police arrested four people, three men and a woman, after an investigation... [Read the full story]

Colombo Family

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

July 20, 2010 · 16 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

Homicides Top 2,000 in Mexican Border City

September 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

- CIUDAD JUAREZ murder victim - CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – More than 2,000 gangland killings have occurred this year in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s murder capital, press tallies and official figures show. August was the most violent month in the border city since the drug-related violence took off in 2008, with 327 homicides registered by Chihuahua state prosecutors. A total of 2,027 murders have been committed in Ciudad Juarez, located across the border from El Paso, Texas, this year. At least nine people, including a municipal police officer, were gunned down on the last day of August. A total... [Read the full story]

General

Homicides Top 2,000 in Mexican Border City

Early win in case against alleged bikie gang mole

- Bikie Gang - POLICE have won an early skirmish in their case against an alleged bikie mole, with a magistrate refusing to discount extensive circumstantial evidence against a police intelligence analyst, Terry Gregoriou. Mr Gregoriou has been charged with stealing confidential information and unlawfully disseminating it to his cousin, Peter Vassily,... [Read more of this review]

Officials Deny Misconduct in Sex-Trafficking Inquiry

Shots hit ‘TV’ boy

A 10-year-old boy watching television in his Brooklyn home last night was hit twice by stray bullets from a gang shootout, cops and witnesses said. Khalil Robinson was in the living room of the first-floor apartment on Blake Avenue in East New York at 9:20 p.m. when as many as seven shots were fired. Khalil was struck in the neck and chest and rushed... [Read more of this review]

Prosecutors want IDs of Ciavarella witnesses

- Former Luzerne County judge Mark Ciavarella - Request to ex-judge’s lawyer made for names of those who may provide alibis at trial. SCRANTON – Federal prosecutors have asked the attorney for former Luzerne County judge Mark Ciavarella to identify any person Ciavarella may call as an alibi witness in his upcoming corruption trial. In a letter... [Read more of this review]

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