Italy mobsters block efforts to clean up toxic trash heaps

SANTA MARIA CAPUA VETERE, ITALY – Raffaele del Giudice was a crusader. Squeezed into a sports jacket and a beat-up Fiat, he roamed the illegal trash dumps of southern Italy, covering his nose against the stench and exposing what he considers the ecological crime of the century.
Then people started being threatened. [...]

2 from `La Eme’ convicted in conspiracy to kill witness

The reputed leader of the Inland Empire section of the Mexican Mafia and his brother were sentenced Friday in San Bernardino Superior Court for their roles in a murder conspiracy involving two San Manuel tribal members.
Salvador Orozco Hernandez, 43, of Bloomington was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and his brother Alfred [...]

Gambino Crime Associates Plead Guilty in Gambling Enterprise

CENTRE STREET (AP) — Prosecutors say two men with ties to the Gambino organized crime family have pleaded guilty to running a gambling ring at New York City’s largest produce and meat markets. Earlier this year in Brooklyn, 62 Gambino associates were charged with mobster related crimes. Manhattan District Attorney Robert [...]

Trash company accountant pleads guilty

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – An accountant charged in a federal probe of mob influence in the trash industry pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to fix prices for trash hauling services in Connecticut and New York.
Christopher Rayner, 46, of Wilmington, N.C., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in New Haven [...]

U.S. Charges 7 Accused of Ties to Bonannos

Seven men, believed to have ties to the Bonanno crime family, face charges including racketeering and illegal gambling, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday.
Three of the men, John Contello, 55, Vincent Disario, 47, and Michael Carucci, 38, were arrested about 5:30 a.m. in New York City on Thursday on charges including racketeering [...]

John “Junior” Gotti Pleads Not Guilty To Racketeering Charges

TAMPA – John “Junior” Gotti “is definitely not a mobster,” his sister told reporters after his arraignment Thursday in U.S. District Court.
Victoria Gotti said she is angry that federal prosecutors keep hounding her brother long after he walked away from the mob and after they repeatedly failed to gain convictions in New [...]

Yakuza target Japan’s financial markets

Japan’s powerful yakuza organised crime syndicates are mounting a widespread and “infectious” assault on the country’s financial markets that may have left hundreds of listed companies riddled with mob connections.
In a surprisingly stark admission of the crisis, the National Police Agency (NPA) says it is locked in a battle for the [...]

Alleged Target of a Local Mob Murder Plot Speaks Out

The alleged target of an unauthorized mob hit talks for the first time.
Convicted racketeer and reputed mob soldier Marty Angelina isn’t too happy about all the attention from an alleged plot and he wasn’t too happy to see Fox 29 crime reporter Dave Schratwieser.
Reports of the “non-sanctioned” alleged mob hit have [...]

Call it a gang that couldn’t loot straight

The New England Mafia just is not what it used to be.
In what would be an unusual move for a man of his rank, the family’s reputed underboss, Carmen “The Cheese Man” DiNunzio, is accused of personally delivering a $10,000 bribe to a near stranger, a man who turned out to be [...]

Mobster John Gotti’s mom dies in Long Island at 96

NEW YORK — Philomena Gotti, whose brood of 13 children included Gambino crime family kingpin John Gotti and four other sons with mob ties, has died at age 96.
She died Tuesday night at her Long Island home, said Charles Carnesi, a lawyer for her grandson John “Junior” Gotti. Her death came a day before the [...]

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