Gotti Trial: Mob Turncoat Lived the Good Life

The ex-mafia man who’s the key witness in the racketeering case against mobster John “Junior” Gotti told the jury yesterday how he once lived the good life – describing a story that could’ve come straight out of the classic mob movie “Goodfellas.”
He never had to wait for a table at five-star restaurants. He got the [...]

Reputed mobster charged with tax evasion in new case

Reputed mobster Rudy Fratto has been charged with tax evasion in a new federal case, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division announced today.
Fratto, 65, of Darien, has previously been identified by authorities as a lieutenant in the mob’s Elmwood Park street crew.

New criminal information filed in federal court alleges that Fratto failed to [...]

Witness: Construction firm had mob ties

Far from being the self-made man he says he is, Joseph N. Merlino was actually set up in the construction business by his father, a convicted Mafia killer, a retired federal corruption investigator testified Monday.
Merlino and his mother are seeking a license that would permit their company, Bayshore Rebar of Pleasantville, to [...]

Gotti : The day our boy was stolen away

Released from prison in 1977, John Gotti was quickly rising through the ranks of the Gambino crime family on his way to becoming “boss of all bosses.” Even in his home life, the underworld big shot knew how to throw his weight around. When his second son, Frankie, didn’t make the cut [...]

Reputed RI mobster wants charges dropped in plot

An indictment accusing a reputed mobster of trying to arrange the killing of a Mafia rival should be dismissed because prosecutors promised not to seek criminal charges as part of an earlier plea deal, a defense attorney said Monday.

The U.S. attorney’s office has denied ever making such an agreement with Anthony [...]

Gotti’s Book Reveals Mom Stabbed Mafia Boss Dad

Mafia princess Victoria Gotti is preparing to release a sensational new tell-all about her mafia family, and excerpts of the book were released today in which she reveals that her mom once stabbed her father with a fork during an argument.
Victoria Gotti, daughter of the late mob kingpin John Gotti, said [...]

John Gotti, let Gotti Junior leave the mob ?

John A. (Junior) Gotti may have been given permission to leave the mob by his father during a 1999 jailhouse visit with the Teflon Don, CBS reported Saturday night.
Gotti, who is facing his fourth trial on racketeering charges in five years, asked his father, John Gotti Sr., for permission to take a plea deal in [...]

Gotti Junior may have killed his brother, but Frank Silva Jr. says, ‘Not interested’

Frank Silva Jr can live without knowing who killed his kid brother, even if federal prosecutors can’t.
The New Jersey man, standing in his front door Friday, said he’s ignored testimony this week that mob legacy John A. (Junior) Gotti stabbed and then taunted a dying Daniel Silva back in 1983.
“Not interested after 26 years,” the [...]

Gotti trial scare

A woman whose brother was allegedly whacked by John “Junior” Gotti — and whose husband is testifying against him — complained yesterday that she was threatened in court by a spectator sympathetic to the mob scion.
The nature of the threat wasn’t revealed, but it came to light after she told prosecutors, who [...]

Ex-FBI agent says NJ Merlinos are not mobsters

Joseph and Phyllis Merlino, involved with organized crime? Fuhgeddaboudit!
That was the testimony Friday of a former FBI official who helped bring down the Philadelphia mob in the late 1980s.
Although Joseph N. Merlino’s father, Lawrence “Yogi” Merlino, and his cousin Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino were high-ranking mobsters, former FBI agent Larry Schneider testified [...]

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