Genovese Hood Flees MCC Cage Like a Stool Pigeon

Anthony (Bingy) Arillotta was here one minute, and gone the next. The Genovese boss of Springfield, Massachusetts was arraigned here on March 24 for the mob murder of Arillotta’s predecessor as chief of the crime family’s Bay State rackets. But we didn’t even have a chance to say hello.
The next day, Bingy disappeared from the [...]

Agawam home searched for body of missing man

AGAWAM – Federal, state and local law enforcement officials converged on a home at 160 Springfield St. as dusk fell on Monday, apparently securing the property for what is believed to be the search for the body of a long-missing Springfield man linked to organized crime.
FBI supervisor Mark S. Karangekis confirmed there is a “law [...]

Mafia attacks church prior’s house after Easter procession snub

Mafia leaders angry at church officials for excluding them from the annual Easter procession in the Italian town of Sant’Onofrio got their revenge by opening fire on a prior’s house in a drive-by shooting.
The Affruntata procession was subsequently cancelled “for spiritual and public order reasons”, said parish priest Father Franco Fragala.
Police believe the attack on [...]

Italy: Mafia attack blamed for halting Easter procession

Vibo Valentia, 6 April (AKI) – Prosecutors in the southern Italian town of Vibo Valentia are investigating the alleged intimidation of a local priest by Calabrian mafia gunmen which led to the cancellation of a traditional Easter vigil procession.
Last Saturday’s traditional ‘Affruntata’ procession in the Calabrian village of Sant’Onofrio was cancelled after suspected mafia gunmen [...]

RAT-PACK ROULETTE: GAMBLING MECCA NOW SET TO CLOSE

FRANK Sinatra and the Mafia turned Cal-Neva into a gambling mecca yet now the casino where Marilyn Monroe began her fatal drugs binge is set to close.
IT WAS the kind of place where you could order a prostitute at the front desk and where every dollar you lost at the gambling tables was whisked away [...]

With demolition of Giants Stadium, Hoffa mystery goes with it

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — As the story goes, former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa has attended every event at Giants Stadium since 1976, buried in a final resting place somewhere under the west end zone.
As former New York Giants punter Sean Landeta once joked, “It gives a whole new meaning to kicking into the coffin corner.”
More [...]

Used-car dealer Chris Orsaris stole $7 million to finance mob fantasies

A slippery used-car dealer embezzled $7 million to finance his mob fantasies, living large in Southampton and South Beach – surrounded by muscle-bound flunkies and drug dealers, authorities said.
High-flying Chris Orsaris, 37, funneled a fortune in inflated sale commissions from a Queens dealership into “the sordid lifestyle of a ‘wanna-be’ criminal,” federal officials said [...]

Mob scion Junior Gotti eyes documentary, feature film on his life inside Gambino crime family

John Gotti Jr. has big plans for his next hit.
The mob scion is working with a New York-based production company to produce a documentary and a feature film about his life inside the notorious Gambino crime family.
“He’s willing to go all the way, revealing as much as possible without hurting anyone who’s still involved in [...]

Bid for driver’s license backfires on mobster from Tottenville

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Freedom was fleeting for a Mafia associate recently paroled on racketeering charges after, authorities say, he spent the first day of his release trying to get a driver’s license when he already had one under another name.
Russell Carlucci, 36, of the 300 block of Sleight Avenue in Tottenville, went to the [...]

Reputed mobster gets parole – for now

MONTREAL– A man believed by some police to be an influential man within the Montreal Mafia has been granted day parole, but with the caveat he might be arrested as soon as he is released.
Moreno Gallo, 64, learned he will be released to a halfway house Tuesday after a hearing before the National Parole Board [...]

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