Italian bishop asks Mafia to stop using holy shrines for initiation ceremonies

An Italian bishop has written an open letter to Mafia bosses, imploring them to stop using holy shrines for their initiation ceremonies.
Monsignor Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini, bishop of Locri Gerace in Calabria, spoke out after more than 300 alleged mobsters – including the 80-year-old “Godfather” Domenico Oppedisano – were arrested in a police blitz earlier this [...]

Genovese NJ Capo Joseph Gatto dies

Genovese crime family capo Joseph “The Eagle” Gatto passed away due to undisclosed causes at the age of 65. Gatto was said to have inherited then New Jersey based Genovese family gambling action once run by his father Louis “Streaky” Gatto. His father was reported to have run a multimillion dollar gambling empire in Jersey [...]

Charges dropped after reputed Gambino mobster ‘Buddy Musk’ Muccigrosso dies from lung cancer

Time and time again over the last 50 years, prosecutors have sent Charles “Buddy Musk” Muccigrosso to prison.
The reputed mobster once spit in a State trooper’s drink at a Belleville pub, then attacked him with a beer mug. Another time, he fired two shotgun blasts through the front window of a house owned by a [...]

Reputed acting crime boss pleads guilty to racketeering charges

Daniel “The Lion” Leo of Rockleigh, the reputed acting boss of the Genovese crime family, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges Wednesday in Manhattan federal court.
Leo, 69, currently in serving a 60-month federal prison sentence for his conviction on extortion charges in October 2007, faces 40 years in prison when he is sentenced April 2.
At the [...]

Gambino Crime Family Case Heading To New York

TAMPA – Five men who were arrested last year at the same time as John “Junior” Gotti will join him in New York after a judge today ordered their trial to take place there.
The men, including Tampa resident James Cadicamo, had asked that their racketeering case be moved to New York because [...]