Mafia wanted a killer deal on Wall Street

Over the years, Wall Street has seen its share of miscreants, from Jay Gould to Bernie Madoff. During the high-tech bubble of the late 1990s, New Yorks five Mafia families realized they could steal just as easily from investors as they could from the carting industry or the Fulton Fish Market. Utilizing a time-honored “pump [...]

Naples crime bosses turn to family to survive crackdown

ROME (AP) — Italy has launched a full-throttled assault on the Naples mob, carrying out a flurry of raids and making dozens of arrests over the past month. But like an octopus regrowing its arms, the Camorra has shown a knack for replacing lost leaders and soldiering on.
Authorities say the crackdown [...]

Reputed Chicago mobster, cop, 5 others indicted

CHICAGO (AP) — A reputed mob boss, a police officer and five other men were charged Thursday in a sweeping racketeering indictment that alleges eight years of armed robberies, burglaries, jewel thefts and arson based in the western suburbs of Chicago.
Michael “The Large Guy” Sarno, 51, of Westchester allegedly masterminded much of [...]

Killer mobster too dangerous to release from prison

TORONTO – A feared gangster who was the “pointy stick” for the Montreal Mafia’s expansion into Ontario has been deemed too dangerous to release from prison.
Despite Juan Ramon Fernandez spending much of his sentence for drug and murder conspiracy in maximum security, he still managed to arrange hash shipments from Jamaica, [...]

mob tried to bilk Bank of America, other banks

Italian prosecutors today broke up an international ring led by the Sicilian Mafia that tried to use fake Venezuelan bonds to obtain credit lines totaling $2.2 billion from HSBC Holdings Plc, Bank of America Corp., and other unidentified British banks, according to an arrest warrant.
“This was a colossal operation,” Marcello Viola, [...]

Police arrest 64 Mafia suspects in Naples

ABOUT 60 presumed Mafia members, including several clan bosses, have been arrested in the Naples region in a sweeping crackdown, Italian police say.

“We had issued arrest warrants against 64 people suspected of belonging to a very big clan of the Camorra,” or the Neapolitan Mafia, a police spokesman said.
The suspects from [...]

Mob-made: retired FBI agent shares story

NEWTOWN — Not many people get to meet a mobster in a friendly situation, let alone hear a ranking member of New York City’s Gambino crime family, with the title “made man,” describe his daily tasks.
But that was one of the surprise perks members of the Newtown Police Academy got this year.
Standing [...]

Bulgarian Alleged Mafia Boss Says No to MP Immunity

One of the infamous Galevi brothers, who are allegedly amongst Bulgaria’s central mafia bosses and are currently in custody, has denied his run for member of parliament is an attempt to escape justice.
“Plamen Galev will demand that he is stripped from immunity should he be elected member of parliament,” his lawyer Menko [...]

Mafia boss’ son arrested

SAO PAULO — (AP) — The son of a Sicilian Mafia boss was arrested in a multinational fraud sting after living 15 years under an assumed name in Brazil, police said Saturday.
Leonardo Badalamenti, 49, was detained Thursday in Sao Paulo, where he worked in an unspecified import-export business under the name Carlos [...]

US deports Gambino Mafia boss to Italy

Italian authorities took into custody on Saturday a top boss from the Gambino Mafia clan who was deported from the United States after spending more than two decades in jail for drug trafficking.

The 67-year-old Rosario Gambino arrived at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport on a flight from Miami. Wearing a gray jumpsuit [...]

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