abc40 Investigates: Springfield’s Organized Crime

Six years after reputed mob boss Al Bruno was gunned down while walking from a card game, a series of arrests have been made and all of the suspects are allegedly connected to organized crime with a chain of command trailing to New York.
However, local police have said the face of organized crime has [...]

Queens bar owner arrested in Teaneck double homicide

Authorities on Saturday arrested a Queens bar owner and charged him in the shooting deaths of two men found on a Teaneck street Thursday morning.
Nicholas D. Kiriakakis has been charged with the fatal shooting of two Queens men found Thursday morning in an SUV on a Teaneck street.
Nicholas D. Kiriakakis, 25, was arrested by New [...]

Probe of Teaneck double homicide yields few leads

Investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and the Teaneck police were in the Queens communities of Howard Beach and Ozone Park on Friday, trying to determine why two men from those neighborhoods were found shot to death in a parked SUV a day earlier.
Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli did not release any information [...]

Two Queens men sitting in SUV slain execution style in New Jersey

Two Queens men were executed inside an SUV in New Jersey on Wednesday night – and the bullet-riddled vehicle’s engine was still running when the bodies were found Thursday, authorities said.
Anthonia Njoku of Teaneck, N.J., was leaving for work around 7 a.m. when she spotted a black Ford Explorer with New York plates parked outside [...]

Top Brooklyn HS coach in bet probe

One of Brooklyn’s most successful high school baseball coaches is under investigation by the District Attorney’s Office for his alleged involvement in a multimillion-dollar, mob-linked online sports-gambling operation, sources told The Post.
Dennis Canale, 67, a retired NYPD cop who has coached the Xaverian HS varsity team for 10 years, abruptly retired from his coaching duties [...]

South Jersey man accused of delivering fake horse’s head to Sen. President Sweeney’s office

WEST DEPTFORD — A 61-year-old South Jersey man is in custody after being arrested on charges he delivered a fake horse’s head to the Gloucester County office of Senate President Steve Sweeney.
Robert Godman, of Wenonah, was charged with fourth-degree harassment and is being held on $25,000 bail at the Gloucester County jail, State Police said. [...]

Jail cell for DeCavalcante Family sellout

The canary who helped decimate the DeCavalcante mob, the inspiration for “The Sopranos,” is headed back into a cage, The Post has learned.
Vincent “Vinny Ocean” Palermo, 63, had hoped he had seen the last of a prison cell when he and his family were relocated to Texas with new identities as a reward for his [...]

New Carpenters Local 608 head Mafia Connected

The union official put in charge of the city’s troubled carpenters’ union was once convicted of taking bribes from mobsters – though he was later acquitted in a retrial.
Martin Devereaux has been named to lead Carpenters Local 608 after it and 10 other unions were put under emergency supervision last week after [...]

Judge rejects motion to dismiss man’s slay charge in ‘Johnny Cokes’ Case

BRIDGEWATER — A Superior Court judge refused Wednesday to dismiss a murder charge against an organized-crime figure charged in a fatal shooting in the parking lot of a Route 22 motel on Easter Sunday 1977.

Michael “Mikey Cigars” Coppola, 63, argued that the charge against him should be dismissed because his Constitutional [...]

In court case, a view of N.J. mob

He’s the quintessential New Jersey gangster, part Sonny Corleone, part Tony Soprano.
A suspect in two gangland murders, one dating to the 1970s, he spent more than 10 years on the run before being arrested on Manhattan’s Upper West Side last year.
And all the while, federal authorities now say, he oversaw a mob [...]

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