Unpublished Gangland Photographs Revealed

New riveting pictorial history book examines crime in New York City’s gangland
Throughout the United States, there is no single major metropolitan area more closely connected to organized crime’s rapid ascendancy on a national scale than New York City. In 1920, upon the advent of Prohibition, Gotham’s shadowy underworld began evolving from strictly regional and often [...]

Old mobster Anthony Anastasio suicides before jail term starts

An 81-year-old Gambino soldier on the verge of heading to prison killed himself in his Brooklyn kitchen, officials said Saturday.

Anthony (Todo) Anastasio pumped two bullets into his heart Friday morning, just days before he was due to start a 2-1/2-year term in federal prison on convictions for racketeering, extortion and arson.
Anastasio, whose uncle was [...]

Octogenarian Gambino Soldier Ducks 10 Years

Octogenarian Gambino Soldier Ducks 10 Years
Anthony (Todo) Anastasio probably breathed a sigh of relief, though he undoubtedly waited until he was alone so no one would hear him.
The 81-year-old mobster, whose uncle, the one and only Albert Anastasia, was famously gunned down a half-century ago in a barber chair, was facing up to 10 years [...]

On This Day in History: Mafia meeting at Apalachin, New York

November 14, 1957: A meeting takes place at Joe’s house in Apalachin, New York. Joseph “Joe the Barber” Barbara was the boss of the Bufalino crime family based out of Pennsylvania. The family was part of an organization collectively called Cosa Nostra or familiarly known as the Mafia. Cosa Nostra, the secret Sicilian society, was [...]

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 [...]

30 Years Later, Waterfront Racketeer Todo Anastasio Is Still At It

Anthony Scotto may have quit the mob, but a close relative who was convicted along with the former dockworkers’ union boss 30 years ago of extorting $350,000 in payoffs from waterfront companies — Anthony (Todo) Anastasio — is clearly still in “The Life.”
Anastasio was only a bit player back in 1979 when [...]

Barber chair could mean doom for reputed Gambino soldier

His uncle was murdered in a barber chair – and now the nephew of Murder Inc. boss Albert Anastasia could be doomed by haircuts he got on Staten Island.
Reputed Gambino soldier Anthony (Todo) Anastasio went on trial for racketeering in Brooklyn Federal court Wednesday, and his chitchat at the salon is the key evidence.
In opening [...]

Fed Mob-busting units face cutbacks

There are fewer FBI agents investigating New York area mob activities today than there were back when the late J. Edgar Hoover was still denying the existence of the Mafia, Gang Land has learned.
Gang Land does not have any official numbers from Hoover’s day, but you did read that first sentence correctly. [...]