FBI to resume digging at E. Farmingdale ‘mob cemetery’

FBI agents plan to return to an apparent mob cemetery in East Farmingdale on Monday in an attempt to uncover two more bodies they believe were buried there by hit men, an FBI spokesman said late Friday.
The renewed excavation plans come after two leaders of the Colombo organized crime family were [...]

Government To Pay Mobster To Settle Accidental Shooting Case

TAMPA – The federal government has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of money to a Massachusetts mobster who was accidentally shot by an FBI agent in Tampa in 2004.
Frankie Roche will receive the money to settle a lawsuit over his injuries, said his lawyer, Mark A. Sylvester of Miami.
U.S. District [...]

‘Gomorrah’ paints a dark portrait of the mob

All of the glamour of organized crime is brutally shattered within the first few minutes of the new film “Gomorrah,” as several gangsters are gunned down while pampering themselves in a tanning salon. The violence that erupts within the film’s first scene loudly proclaims that this particular gangster movie is nothing [...]

Life in La Cosa Nostra: Murder and Family

CADMAN PLAZA EAST — “What is he doing all this s—- on the phone, this motherf——r?” shouted accused Gambino hitman Charles Carneglia, criticizing another mobster in a years-old telephone conversation that prosecutors played in Brooklyn federal court Thursday.
Carneglia, now 62, was likely unaware that his own words were being recorded at [...]

Mafia boss Gotti accused of being ‘soft’

In a Mafia murder trial in New York, a witness has accused the son of the late mobster boss John ‘The Dapper Don’ Gotti of being “soft”.
Breaking the Mafia’s omerta – code of silence – John Alite detailed his love-hate relationship with John Gotti Jr, who is on trial for multiple murder [...]

Italy: Mafia ‘bosses’ face 150 years in jail

Palermo (AKI) – Prosecutors in the southern Italian city of Palermo on Wednesday requested a total of 150 years in prison for 13 suspected Sicilian mafia bosses. The alleged leaders are on trial for mafia association, drugs trafficking, extortion and perverting the course of justice.
Prosecutors asked for 18 years in prison [...]

Showdown for the BusFellas’ Union – A mobster’s old cronies vie to keep control

The most blatantly mobbed-up union in the city—one that the great Mafia buster Rudy Giuliani somehow overlooked when he was running City Hall—is holding new elections next month. And while the vote will be decided by the 15,000 members of Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, anyone whose child steps onto [...]

My friend … the Mafia mobster

A Lancashire man has told of the chilling moment he realised his friend was actually a member of the feared Italian Mafia.
The man, who is from Chorley but too frightened to be named, told the Evening Post he quizzed Giuseppe Persico when he noticed scars from gunshots and stab wounds all over [...]

Mobster’s Offer to Help Recalls Lucchese Crime Family History

Ex-mob underboss Anthony Casso could reveal information about the French Connection drug case. The episode sheds light on Casso’s dark past and the history of the Lucchese crime family.
Casso Seeks Release to Leak Drug Bust Information
Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso—the 66-year-old former underboss of the Lucchese mafia family who is serving multiple life [...]

TURNCOAT: GOTTI ‘JUNIOR’ ORDERED HITS

A former friend of John “Junior” Gotti said today that the famous mobster’s son collected drug money from Gambino associates and ordered hits on his rivals.
Gambino crime family associate John Alite, a drug dealer who ran his own crew of 150 men, testified in Brooklyn federal court about Gotti’s alleged misdeeds [...]

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