Police arrest suspects in Mafia killings

ROME, Italy (CNN) — Italian authorities Tuesday arrested two suspects believed to be responsible for the September 18 killing of six African immigrants in Castelvolturno, a small town of 20,000 residents north of Naples.
Police also arrested a third man wanted by authorities for belonging to the same clan, but not directly [...]

Alleged Delco Nostra leader waives preliminary hearing

MIDDLETOWN – The alleged leader of a bookmaking ring dubbed “Delco Nostra” waived his preliminary hearing Monday in Lima District Court.
Nicholas “Nicky the Hat” Cimino, 49, of Wallingford, was one of 16 defendants arrested after a five-year state police probe into a lucrative bookmaking organization that operated in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Cimino, who [...]

Alleged Mobster’s Son Sentenced to 25 to Life

JAY STREET – In Kings County Supreme Court Monday, Vincent Arena, 23, was sentenced to 25 years to life for murder in the second degree.
It is not known if Arena or his defense attorney James DiPietro will move to appeal the sentence.
Arena was convicted in May of the murder of Anthony Braccia, [...]

Resentencing could send mob killer home early

A man serving a 33-year sentence for putting a gun to the back of a New Haven mobster’s head and killing him may get seven years shaved off his prison term when he is resentenced in U.S. District Court next month.
Even so, Gaetano Milano, now 56, would still have nine years left [...]

The Ghost of Tampa’s Old Time Wiseguys

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ The ghosts of Tampa’s old-time wiseguys awakened this summer when Mafia scion John “Junior” Gotti came to town in handcuffs, accused of pulling the strings in a bunch of classic mobster crimes.
The federal indictment against him reads like a plot summary for “The Sopranos.” The 44-year-old Gotti [...]

Social networking puts staff at risk of Mafia extortion, warns ex-FBI agent

Staff in profitable businesses are leaving too much of their personal information online, which could make them vulnerable to extortion from the Russian and Italian Mafia, a former FBI undercover agent has warned.
Joe Pistone, who worked at the FBI for 27 years, said the Russian and Italian Mafia were using data [...]

Connolly gave Flemmi defense internal FBI reports, court told

MIAMI – After longtime FBI informant Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi was indicted on federal racketeering charges in 1995, retired FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. provided inside information to the defense in an effort to get the case dismissed, the gangster’s former lawyer testified yesterday.
Kenneth J. Fishman, a Massachusetts Superior Court [...]

Innocent Until Born

She’s 3-foot-tall. Fifty pounds. A Bulls Head fourth-grader with long brown hair and brown chocolate cookie eyes that purr “adorable.”
But apparently Gianna Granato threatens the living hell out of the tough wardens and bureaucratic officials who run the federal Bureau of Prisons as much as a genetic heart ailment threatens her [...]

No more Mulino’s for Pipolo

 
Louis Pipolo of the Town of Newburgh is getting out of the restaurant business. Pipolo’s joint is Mulino’s, a high-end Italian restaurant in White Plains that counts Yankees manager Joe Girardi among its bold-face clientele.
The news is contained in court papers filed last week by Pipolo’s lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, who asked U.S. District Court Judge [...]

Producer hopes for Hollywood ending

 
It took a U. S. federal indictment charging him alongside some of New York’s most notorious mobsters to make movie producer Julius R. Nasso almost as famous as his action star partner Steven Seagal.
The notoriety that came with his eventual admission that he plotted to shake down his partner in such popular movies as Marked [...]

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