Top Camorra boss nabbed

Naples, April 29 – Police on Wednesday arrested a top-ranking boss of the Neapolitan crime syndicate Camorra and alleged regent of the powerful Casalesi clan.
Michele Bidognetti was nabbed in the Caserta suburb of Casal di Principe, the home base of the Casalesi clan, and police also seized assets valued at over [...]

Life sentences for two Sicilian mafiosi

Two Sicilian mafia bosses have been given new life sentences for a 1969 massacre.
Bernardo Provenzano and Salvatore ‘Toto’ Riina, who are already in jail, were convicted of involvement in a shootout in Palermo that left six people dead.
Provenzano, who is now 76, and Riina, 78, were part of a gang that dressed up [...]

Deputy U.S. marshal convicted in mob leak case

Deputy U.S. Marshal John Ambrose was convicted today by a federal jury of leaking sensitive information about a cooperating mob witness.
Ambrose was found guilty of charges of theft and disclosure for leaking that mob turncoat Nicholas Calabrese was cooperating with law enforcement. He was acquitted on two counts that he lied [...]

Genovese capo Angelo Prisco guilty in hit ordered by Vincent Gigante

Genovese family capo Angelo Prisco was found guilty Monday of conspiring to kill his cousin in a 1992 hit ordered by The Oddfella – Genovese boss Vincent (The Chin) Gigante.
A Manhattan Federal Court jury found Prisco, 69, responsible for the slaying of Angelo Sangiuolo, as well as a series of violent, gunpoint robberies dating to [...]

Alleged Bulgarian Mafia Bosses Slammed for Running for MPs

Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor has harshly criticized the decision of two notorious businessmen from the southwest town of Dupnitsa to run for parliament, saying what they seek is an escape from justice.
“When people who are charged with certain offences run for MPs, it is a way to escape justice,” Boris Velchev said.
Plamen Galev [...]

THE RETURN OF THE GODFATHERS AS MOB BOSSES RELEASED

The FBI is on alert for the biggest Mob reunion of all time with six of the world’s most powerful Mafia bosses due to be paroled within months of each other.

All of them held key roles in New York’s five criminal “families” before being jailed for racketeering, extortion, conspiracy to murder [...]

Italian Mafia Rakes in Billions as Global Economy Struggles

NAPLES, Italy — While businesses around the world are hunkering down for survival, the Italian mob is living a golden moment.
Italy’s various organized crime syndicates — often lumped together colloquially as Mafia Inc. — are gobbling up gas stations, muscling in on supermarket franchises, making loans to cash-starved businesses, taking over [...]

Genovese Associate found murdered with girlfriend

A 70-year-old Brooklyn man who was found dead in his duplex apartment on Thursday was a longtime mob figure, the authorities said Friday.
The man, William Romano, was found submerged in a bathtub upstairs, and his companion, Elviza Aronova, 36, was found partially clad in a bedroom on the lower floor, the [...]

Mob Rule

Vincenzo Guida is the notorious crime boss of Naples, and in 2006, he and his Camorra clan were well on their way to infiltrating Milan, using a construction business as a front to launder more than $25 million of dirty money. By late fall, however, Italian authorities were on Guida’s trail, tapping [...]

Judge: Gambino killer can mix and mingle with fellow wiseguys in prison

A Brooklyn judge Thursday rejected the government’s extraordinary request to ban a powerful Gambino crime family capo from mixing with members of organized crime behind bars.
Federal prosecutors wanted to keep Nicholas (Little Nick) Corozzo segregated from other wiseguys while he serves 13-1/2years for murder and racketeering.
“He should not be treated like [...]

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