Mafia-hunter Who Needs Bodyguards to Visit His Office Coffee Machine

Finding five minutes in his 14-hour day to eat at his desk is tough enough for Sicilian magistrate Nicolò Marino. The real challenge is walking down the corridor to the espresso machine. That has required an armed escort ever since a mafia clan tried to blow him up in his office more [...]

Dominican Police arrest a 2nd Italian Mafia figure

Agents assigned to Interpol yesterday arrested Italian Mafia lieutenant Mariano Martone, wanted in his country to serve a 25 year sentence for assaulting more than 10 banks and stealing more than 170 million euros (around RD$8.2 billion).
Interpol chief Atahualpa Cabrera, interviewed by newspaper Diario Libre, said Martone’s arrest warrant was issued [...]

Soccer: ‘No Mafia at Palermo’

(ANSA) – Rome, March 30 – Palermo Chairman Maurizio Zamparini vowed Monday to keep the Mafia out of the Serie A club’s business.
”The Mafia won’t get its hands on the club while I’m around,” said Zamparini, a tough-talking boss with a reputation for firing coaches.
Asked about an informant’s allegations of match-fixing [...]

Sands maitre d’ remembers when mobsters made Las Vegas

These are hard times for the corporate casino racket, but as I stepped into Emilio Muscelli’s home at the Las Vegas Country Club I was reminded of just how far this gambling town has risen from its notorious roots.
Taking a seat in Muscelli’s comfortable den, photographs of a long parade of famous [...]

FBI bugs at Glen Cove ballfield catch mobster

A longtime associate of the Colombo organized-crime family was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for his role in shaking down the owners of the former Huntington Townhouse, in a case that involved the FBI bugging the Glen Cove High School baseball field.
Louis Fenza, 56, of Jericho, could have faced [...]

Reputed mob figure sings like a canary

You shoulda been at La Stanza last night. The place was mobbed.
Sure, they make great ravioli, but most of the restaurant’s patrons came to see Ralph “Ralphie Head” Abbruzzi, the reputed mob associate who talked his way out of house arrest for the night to sing Louis Prima tunes.
He didn’t disappoint, [...]

FBI bugs at Glen Cove ballfield catch mobster

A longtime associate of the Colombo organized-crime family was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for his role in shaking down the owners of the former Huntington Townhouse, in a case that involved the FBI bugging the Glen Cove High School baseball field.
Louis Fenza, 56, of Jericho, could have faced between 46 and 57 [...]

Mob-tied cannoli king Walter Galiano gets creamed

Stiff the workers, take the cannoli.
An Arthur Ave. bakery owner linked to the Genovese crime family was arrested Thursday on charges of paying his employees less than minimum wage – while making them work an 80-hour week without overtime.
Walter Galiano, 57, was accused of underpaying 25 workers more than $350,000 from [...]

Street life

As you read this, Italian journalist Roberto Salviano is likely in hiding. Since the 2006 publication of nonfiction masterpiece “Gomorrah,” a passionate, cry-in-the-night about the corrosive Mafia-like Naples organization known as Camorra, Salviano has received death threats, resulting in armed guards, hiding and a well-deserved reputation as a national hero. Matteo [...]

14 mob hits gets killer 12-year sentence

Nicholas Calabrese, the Outfit killer turned star witness for federal prosecutors, was sentenced this afternoon to 12 years and four months in prison — less than a year for each of the 14 people he murdered for the mob.
Calabrese, 67, will likely spend an additional four years in prison. He had [...]

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