Indictment Unsealed Charging Colombo Family Administration Member Theodore Persico and Seven Other Defendants
March 10, 2010 by The Boss · Leave a Comment
Charges Include a Colombo Family Kickback and Extortion Scheme on Demolition Work at the World Trade Center Construction Site
NEW YORK, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — An eight-count indictment was unsealed this morning in Brooklyn federal court charging eight defendants – Theodore Persico, Jr., Michael Persico, Thomas Petrizzo, Edward Garofalo, Jr., [...]
2 Islanders among those charged in mob linked WTC scheme
March 10, 2010 by The Boss · 20 Comments
Two Staten Island men were among eight who extorted money from a Boston demolition company at the World Trade Center construction site and ripped off union pension funds for the Colombo crime family, federal prosecutors charge.
Reputed Colombo associate Robert C. Bombino, 47, of Meade Loop in Richmond Valley, and Louis Romeo, 44, of Atlantic Avenue [...]
Colombo family mobster turned Christian speaker Michael Franzese beats bad check writing rap
February 18, 2010 by The Boss · 12 Comments
Charges were dismissed against a Colombo family mobster-turned-Christian motivational speaker who was busted for writing bad checks, officials said Wednesday.
Michael Franzese, a Brooklyn-born wiseguy once nicknamed “The Prince of the Mafia,” was arrested in Tennessee last month for writing a pair of phony $5,400 checks to a former business manager.
The charges were dropped Tuesday after [...]
Diabetic mob boss Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli suffers stroke
February 11, 2010 by The Boss · Leave a Comment
A diabetic mob boss who has sparred with the feds over his junk-food habit suffered a stroke a day after failing to convince a judge his poor health earned him a get-out-of-jail card.
Reputed Colombo crime chief Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli complained of “dizziness, neck pain, weakness of his left leg and an inability to move [...]
Feds Line Up Tough One-Two Punch For Colombo Top Guns
February 3, 2010 by The Boss · 3 Comments
The feds have just lined up a tough one-two punch against two top Colombo family mobsters awaiting trial for six mob murders, Gang Land has learned. The mob hits include the 1997 execution slaying of New York City police officer Ralph Dols.
Sources say prosecutors plan to unleash two new turncoats against family “street boss” Thomas [...]
Ex-Colombo family mobster Michael Franzese, a born-again Christian, busted for writing bad checks
January 19, 2010 by The Boss · 8 Comments
An ex-Colombo family mobster who left the Mafia to become a born-again Christian motivational speaker was busted in Tennessee for writing bad checks, officials said Monday.
Michael Franzese, the Brooklyn-born mobster once nicknamed “The Prince of the Mafia,” was led from a plane on the runway in Knoxville in handcuffs Friday night, police said.
The ex-wiseguy – [...]
FBI alleges ‘crime boss’ DeLeo ran crew in Greater Boston
January 17, 2010 by The Boss · 2 Comments
In Boston, home to the New England Mafia and a string of legendary former bosses like “The Cheese Man’’ and “Cadillac Frank,’’ Ralph DeLeo was a virtual unknown.
“Here, I’m nothing,’’ DeLeo said within earshot of an FBI bug.
But in New York, he said, “Everybody is holding the door for ya, helping on your coat, giving [...]
Brooklyn Mobster gives judge food for thought!
January 16, 2010 by The Boss · 2 Comments
Maybe he really does take the restaurant business seriously.
Colombo crime-family slacker Dominick “Black Dom” Dionisio — who was accused by his probation officer of socializing instead of working at his Brooklyn pizza-parlor job — is hoping to open a new restaurant for his boss.
While Dionisio waits for his federal racketeering trial to begin, his lawyer [...]
Reputed Colombo boss Thomas Gioeli pigs out on junk food in prison
January 12, 2010 by The Boss · Leave a Comment
This mob boss puts the “die” in “diet.”
Reputed Colombo crime boss Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli likes to whine about how prison food is making him sick – but prosecutors say he’s hiding a big secret.
He’s a junk food junkie.
The fat-fella stuffs his face with chips, Velveeta, Spam, doughnuts, candy bars and other trash he buys [...]
Colombo Wiseguys take ex politician LeBoutillier for $18500 in scheme to rescue American POWs
An alleged errand boy for a jailed Colombo gangster was charged Thursday with scamming an ex-congressman out of $18,500 in a phony scheme to rescue American POWs.
John LeBoutillier, a wealthy blue blood Republican who was elected to Congress in 1980, has been on a personal crusade to locate dozens of U.S. prisoners of the Vietnam [...]