Junior Gotti giddy over ‘fair’ trial judge

John A. (Junior) Gotti is trying for a four-peat.
Fresh from their victory getting Gotti’s racketeering case transferred from Florida to Manhattan, the mob scion’s lawyers filed court papers Tuesday to transfer the case to Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin, who presided over his last three trials that ended in hung juries.
“Judge Scheindlin’s [...]

Gambino wastes away in prison

A Gambino gangster suspected of being one of the four gunmen who assassinated crime boss Paul Castellano outside Sparks Steak House in 1985, has died in prison.
Reputed capo Salvatore (Fat Sal) Scala passed away Monday at Butner Federal Medical Center in North Carolina while serving a six-year sentence for shaking down [...]

Mafia Victims Denounce Fan Web Sites For Cosa Nostra Bosses

Rome – Relatives of Mafia victims on Tuesday reacted with fury to fan club pages dedicated to jailed Cosa Nostra superbosses Salvatore (Toto’) Riina and Bernardo Provenzano that have been set up on the social networking site Facebook.
”Subscribers to these groups are going crazy over the Mafia bosses and laughing at [...]

John Martorano flick is on Martin Scorsese’s drawing board

Now don’t breathe a word of this. Because nobody’s supposed to know. But word from the Left Coast is that the man behind the controversial John Martorano movie is none other than gangster-filmmaker extraordinaire Martin Scorsese!
We hear that Scorsese met secretly with the Winter Hill Gang hitman at an Italian restaurant [...]

Vegas (and Taxpayers) to Pay for Mob Museum

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Las Vegas is building a museum about some of its founding fathers and most influential figures—guys with names like Bugsy, Lefty and Lansky.The mob museum will stand as frank acknowledgment of the major role mobsters played in developing Las Vegas into the gambling capital of America and giving [...]

In Bratislava, Slovakia, the mob’s a hit

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — When communist rule collapsed in central Europe in 1989, taking with it the fat salaries the Soviets once paid to their elite athletes, the thick-necked wrestlers and karate stars of Slovakia began looking for a new line of work.
They settled on a growth industry where a steroid-fueled physique [...]

Top mafia member nabbed

Rome – Italian police on Sunday arrested one of Italy’s top wanted criminals and alleged Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta mafia member, Pietro Criaco, news reports said.
“A hit-man who, according to mafia turncoats, would wash his hands in the blood of his victims,” Italy’s top anti-mafia prosecutor, Pietro Grasso, said in commenting on the arrest, [...]

Bruno shooter laying low

SPRINGFIELD – Where in the world is Frankie A. Roche?
The admitted gunman in the 2003 gangland-style shooting of crime boss Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno, has kept a decidedly low profile since pleading guilty to murder in April.
Roche, 35, has not made a single public court appearance since then, despite the fact that [...]

Las Vegas wants Obama stimulus plan to pay for Mafia Museum

Las Vegas leaders are figuring out which public works projects could be funded under the one-trillion dollar federal stimulus package proposed by President-elect Barack Obama.
Mayor Oscar Goodman is looking to bring more tourists and more traffic to the downtown area, and he says if federal stimulus money can help fund some big-ticket projects, such as [...]

Alleged mob boss in Houston cell

MEXICO CITY — Even as accused mob boss Osiel Cardenas awaits a federal trial in Houston next year, the criminal army he allegedly commanded with deadly resolve rampages across Mexico.
Cardenas, 41, has been imprisoned for six years — four in Mexico and two in the United States since his extradition to Houston. He faces federal [...]

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