Italy Probes Mafia-Led Insider Trading in the U.S.

Shares of Infinex Ventures Inc., a U.S.-based mining company, were manipulated by Italians working for an organized-crime family, netting them 15 million euros ($21 million), Milan’s financial police said.
The stock was manipulated in U.S. trading from 2004 to 2008, according to an e-mail distributed today by the financial police, which conducted the investigation. The shares [...]

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 [...]

Brooklyn Mobster gives judge food for thought!

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 [...]

Scarcella Mob label to stick

A man who ordered a hit on a Mafia mobster has lost a bid to have stripped away a prison label describing him as the boss of a crime family.
Peter Scarcella, 59, is serving nine years for a botched hit in April 2004 that left Toronto mom Louise Russo paralyzed from gunshots at California Sandwiches [...]

Cosa Nostra leader Gianni Nicchi captured in Sicily

The Italian interior minister said police in the Sicilian city were holding Nicchi after a raid on an apartment, where he had been hiding.
Roberto Maroni described the 28-year-old convicted Mafioso as a “young, dangerous, ambitious, pitiless killer”.
Police found Nicchi, 28, hiding Saturday in an apartment in Palermo. Local news reports said he [...]

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 [...]

Genovese Family still major Mafia Power

Staten Island jeweler Louis Antonelli didn’t know he was being watched when he left El Sabor Tropical restaurant in April 2008.
As he placed containers of takeout food in the back of his GMC Yukon, two hooded men pulled up beside him and demanded the precious stones they knew he always carried on [...]

6 alleged Mafia members to plead guilty in Florida

Six people accused of being members of a South Florida crew for New York’s Bonanno organized crime family are set to plead guilty.
A series of plea hearings is scheduled today in Fort Lauderdale federal court for the six, who had initially pleaded not guilty.
They are among 11 charged with racketeering or RICO conspiracy by committing [...]

New Jersey based Bonanno arrested for Loan-sharking

A North Arlington man who allegedly ran New Jersey for the Bonanno organized crime family is being held without bail following his arrest on federal loan-sharking charges.
Joseph “Sammy” Sammartino Sr., 55, a reputed Mafia captain since 2003, was among 15 captains, acting captains, soldiers and associates of the Bonanno family rounded up the FBI last [...]

Lucchese crime family members busted in mob raid

A trio of Lucchese crime family associates infiltrated the city Department of Buildings, climbing to mid-level inspection jobs and pocketing tens of thousands of dollars a pop in bribes for years — even as they plied elsewhere their more underworld trades of guns, drugs and gambling, officials said today.
“They had developed a [...]

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