GOTTI AN HONORS STUDENT

He’s gone from the most-wanted list to the dean’s list.
Mob scion John “Junior” Gotti racked up an impressive 3.5 grade point average while taking college classes behind bars, court papers reveal. The Gambino family heir excelled in courses from Kaplan’s College for Professional Studies while doing five years at the Ray [...]

Mafia mobsters luring wannabe gangsters through Facebook

Mafia mobsters are using social networking site Facebook to attract wannabe gangsters.
Sicilian gangsters are targeting members who have joined online groups dedicated to Cosa-Nostra’s godfathers.
An 18-year-old Italian, who posted messages of support for caged “boss of bosses” Bernardo Provenzano is one of such fans.
“I joined a group dedicated to Provenzano,” [...]

Police eye Japan’s mafia over body parts

Japanese police have found a number of severed hands and other body parts in Tokyo Bay.
Investigators believe the Yakuza, or Japanese mafia, could be behind the killings.
A man was fishing in Tokyo Bay off Yokohama when he reeled in a man’s head and part of a leg.
Police divers later found more body [...]

Sofia Court Leaves Alleged Mafia Boss Zlatko Baretata in Prison

Sofia City Court ruled Saturday to leave the alleged mafia boss Zlatomir Ivanov, aka Zlatko Baretata, in prison despite the fact that he has been registered as an advocate for a MP candidate, and has acquired the respective immunity.
The Sofia City Court received early Thursday morning a request from Baretata to change his permanent detention [...]

Mob boss Scarcella gets minimum security

Peter Scarcella, imprisoned for a bungled gangland plot that saw an innocent bystander paralyzed, has won a court-ordered transfer to a minimum-security prison despite objections by the Correctional Service of Canada.
The shocking 2004 shooting of Louise Russo became doubly controversial in 2006 when Scarcella, long named as an influential Mafia leader in [...]

Financer of Montreal Mafia nabbed for art, jewels, antiques

A multi-million dollar treasure trove of art, jewels, antiques, real estate and luxury cars was forfeited to Italian authorities yesterday by a man named as the long-time financier of the Mafia of Montreal.
“He is part of a criminal organization, the Mafia, but he has good taste,” said a spokesman for the Italy [...]

Ndrangheta mafia senior figures rounded up

Italian authorities are rounding up scores of people involved in a drug trafficking ring, including senior figures of the powerful ‘Ndrangheta mafia, investigative sources said.
Police have issued 50 arrest warrants, many of which have already been carried out, the sources said.
The arrests are part of an investigation into a drug trafficking network [...]

Payment to shooting victim could get gangsters early parole

A controversial $2-million payment by gangsters to a Toronto mother paralyzed in their botched mob hit bought them silence from police and prosecutors and could soon help them get earlier parole, prison lawyers complain.
A recent internal memorandum says the Correctional Service of Canada cannot get current information on Peter Scarcella, imprisoned in [...]

Mafia launder money in Aussie city

THE Italian mafia is targeting Melbourne as a destination for the illegal profits of organised crime as part of its global money-laundering operations, a Liberal MP says.
Victorian member Jason Wood, a former police detective, told Federal Parliament today “every agency” he spoke with on a recent trip to Italy said the mafia [...]

Wiseguy Wisdom – Goodfella Styleo

It’s not every advice-book writer who can boast that his business acumen once earned him a spot a Fortune Magazine Top 50 list. Fewer still can claim to have made the list Michael Franzese  appeared on in 1986, when he was No. 18 on the mag’s tally of the “Fifty Most Wealthy and Powerful Mafia [...]

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