Dinner With The ‘Three Capos’

Dinner With The ‘Three Capos’
By Bayside Eddie
The three men were murdered in one fell swoop in May of 1981. I was 13 at that time. A year or two before they met their demise, they had had dinner with me and my family at my grandparent’s home at my grandfather’s invitation. Unfortunately, because I was [...]

Mafia Family Members, Associates Charged with Racketeering, Extortion and Other Crimes

For Immediate Release
February 24, 2010 United States Attorney’s Office
Eastern District of New York
Contact: (718) 254-7000
Superseding Indictment Unsealed Charging Luchese and Bonanno Captains, Soldier, and Associates Variously with Racketeering, Racketeering Conspiracy, Extortion, and Other Crimes
An 18-count superseding indictment was unsealed this morning in Brooklyn federal court charging nine defendants variously with racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, and other [...]

Anthony Mannone, 70, Wise Guy, Gives His Orders: ‘Get Your Gun, Get Your Knife and Bring Us the Money’

The feds charged nine wiseguys in a racketeering case today including Anthony Mannone, an alleged 70-year-old captain in the Bonanno crime family who hails from Elmont, Long Island.
Despite his senior citizen status, prosecutors in Brooklyn federal court argued today that Mannone is a danger to the community and should be detained pending trial. Part of [...]

Disgraced South Florida attorney sent to prison

A disbarred South Florida attorney was sentenced Friday to 43 months in prison for participating in schemes orchestrated by a local crew of mobsters affiliated with the Bonanno crime family of New York.
Kenneth Dunn admitted that he became entangled with organized crime two years ago, conspiring to forge checks, launder money and sell off documents [...]

Bonanno crime boss Vincent ‘Vinny Gorgeous’ Basciano gets sweet deal: visits from ex-wife & mistress

The mob has a new don – Don Juan.
Bonanno crime boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano has persuaded the feds to bend the rules and let his ex-wife and his mistress visit him on alternate weeks in jail.
The flamboyant gangster is locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, serving life for racketeering while awaiting [...]

DEA Grinches Spoil Bonanno Family Xmas Party

Tis the season to be jolly. Deck those halls with boughs of holly, or whatever else is handy. New Yorkers have been doing it all month long, eating, drinking and making merry. Except at the Banner Social Club in Brooklyn, where some spoil sport feds took the fa-la-la-la-la right out of Christmas for some 55 [...]

Trial Update: Vincent Basciano Speaks

Well, sort of. In a letter to a document to a Brooklyn federal judge, Bonanno captain Vincent Basciano vigorously denied that a list of names he wrote a few years ago in jail was [...]

No bail for alleged Bonanno mob extort man who ‘found’ 10G in Bahamas

A top Bonanno gangster’s bail hearing blew up after he was forced to explain where he got the $10,000 in cash the FBI found on his bedroom dresser.
Joseph Sammartino, a reputed capo and member of the crime family’s ruling panel, whispered his explanation into his lawyer’s ear.
It was left to lawyer Marc Agnifilo to repeat [...]

Vincent Basciano Trial Update

The Vincent Basciano case could have an interesting turn, some legal sources have said. The sources, none of whom wanted to be identified, believed there was a chance that the U.S. Court of Appeals for The Second Circuit could reverse a lower court ruling that the current racketeering indictment against him didn’t violate the Double [...]

Vincent Basciano Trial Update

After Dominick Cicale testified in the case of John A. Gotti Jr., Vincent Basciano’s lawyers are asking the government to turnover docuemnts which show the movement of Basciano and Gotti when they were both lodged at the Metropolitan Correction Center.
This was the period in “King of The Godfather’s “when Basciano in Chapter 28 has been [...]

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