Naples Mafia boss arrested in chicken farm raid

ITALIAN police have arrested one of the country’s most wanted mafia fugitives after tearing down a wall in a dawn raid at a chicken farm where he had built a hideout.

Salvatore Russo, the 51-year-old head of a Camorra clan carrying his name, had been sentenced to life in prison for homicide and links to organised [...]

New Junior Gotti pal on law’s side

John A. (Junior) Gotti is ready to embrace the law – or at least one former federal prosecutor.
The ex-Gambino boss’ team said Thursday it wants to call Joon Kim, ex-assistant U.S. attorney, to testify about a death threat made by the mob against Gotti in April 2006.
The hit apparently was prompted by Gotti’s insistence at [...]

alleged Bonanno wiseguy Vito Pipitone and wife go to court

She’s got a big rock on her finger, and he’s wearing an ankle bracelet.
Reputed wiseguy Vito Pipitone and his new wife, Paula, made their first appearance Thursday in Brooklyn Federal Court since he was arrested on their Hawaiian honeymoon.
And they didn’t look happy.
“I feel terrible for them,” defense lawyer Joseph Mure said.
“They never had a [...]

Executed in broad daylight: The chilling moment a Mafia hitman strikes outside a Naples bar… but no-one saw a thing

This is the chilling moment a Mafia boss is gunned down by a hitman outside a bar.
Mario Bacio Terracino is first felled by a gunshot to the arm.
His attacker then stands over him and finishes him off with a single shot to the back of the head before strolling away.
Police in Naples, where [...]

Gotti Trial – Mobster: I never paid Gotti for drug sales

A convicted mobster testified today that he never paid John “Junior” Gotti any money for selling cocaine in Queens.
Joseph O’Kane, 42, who has been serving a lifetime prison term for racketeering since 1996, contradicted testimony from mob turncoat John Alite, saying he never knew that Gotti was getting a cut from the [...]

Deputy U.S. marshal gets four years in prison in mob case

A deputy U.S. marshal convicted of leaking secret information about a mob witness was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison — a punishment the judge said is designed to deter others in law enforcement from contemplating similar crimes.
The marshal, John Ambrose, sat motionless as U.S. District Court Judge John F. [...]

Junior Gotti’s defense calls Gambino family turncoat Kevin McMahon

The defense in John A. (Junior) Gotti’s racketeering trial launched its case Tuesday with a witness who quickly contradicted testimony from a key mob turncoat.
Gambino family associate Kevin McMahon testified that mob killers messed up when they left the bloody body of gangster Louie DiBono in a World Trade Center basement.
And he insisted an incident [...]

Mobster Anthony Anastasio, 80, convicted

An 80-year-old Gambino gangster’s long crime career came to an end Tuesday with his conviction on racketeering and extortion charges in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Anthony (Todo) Anastasia was found guilty of shaking down a trucking company on the Staten Island waterfront, the owners of an Italian bakery in Brooklyn and ordering a Dunkin Donuts torched for [...]

Former Bonanno Family Capo will testify against Junior Gotti

Expect Dominick Cicale, the turncoat in the case of Vincent Basciano, to make an appearance in the case against John Gotti Jr., perhaps as early as this coming week.
Cicale is expected to testify about a purported conversation Basciano had with Gotti about the withdrawal defense, which is a key part of Gotti’s defense strategy. Cicale [...]

From Godfather to God the father: Ex-Colombo mob goons are now ministers

Meet the Godfellas.
In previous incarnations, mob rats Joe Campanella and William Cutolo Jr. were entrenched in the Colombo crime family.
Now they want deliverance from evil – as “ministers” in a flock of mob misfits known as Goodfellas4God.
“There are people who want to get out of that life and they talk to me,” said ministry founder [...]

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