Murders spark gangland war comparisons

Three shooting murders in Melbourne’s suburbs yesterday have sparked comparisons to the city’s long-running gangland war.
Crime patriarch of a well-known Melbourne crime family, Macchour Chaouk, was shot dead in his western suburbs backyard in the morning and two men were later gunned down in busy Lygon Street.
But police say the crimes are not linked.
After Mr [...]

Ex-gangsters turn to faith for leadership

OROVILLE — A leopard’s spots may not change, and an old dog supposedly can’t learn new tricks. But three men who were once hard-core gangsters and ex-convicts, even murderers, have a message that peoples’ lives can — and do — change.
Their lives did.
The three former gangsters are Alfonso “Big Al” Aceves, Ernest “Kilroy” Roybal and [...]

Mafia Sends Bullet to 5-Year-Old Boy, Seeks to Silence Father

Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) — The Sicilian Mafia sent a threatening letter with a bullet to the five-year-old son of a witness to alleged state complicity with organized crime in the early 1990s, according to the boy’s father.
“The sons of shameful traitors must pay for their father’s guilt,” the letter read, according to Massimo Ciancimino, who [...]

Berlusconi Is No Mobster

Rumors have circulated for years about a kind of pact between the mafia and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, which guarantees him electoral support in the mob-controlled regions of southern Italy. And yet Mr. Berlusconi’s government, now in its third term, has been conducting an impressive and extensive campaign against the mob. A recent string [...]

Gotti mafia man, Kevin McMahon, avoids life sentence by snitching on Charles Carneglia

He was the late John Gotti’s lucky charm – and mob canary Kevin (The Midget) McMahon lucked out himself Friday.
McMahon, 43, dodged a life sentence for two gangland murders and was sentenced to time served – less than five years in prison.
The light punishment was a reward for his testimony against the Gambinos’ fearsome hit [...]

Appeals court upholds NY ‘Mafia cops’ conviction

NEW YORK — An appeals court has upheld the murder conspiracy convictions of two former NYPD detectives who led double lives as hit men for the mob.
In an opinion issued Friday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found “no merit” to the appeal by “Mafia cops” Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa.
Eppolito had claimed he [...]

John Gotti’s Grandson Calls Out Rapper Rick Ross Over ‘Teflon Don’

Rapper Rick Ross has drawn the wrath of John Gotti’s family for naming his album Teflon Don, the nickname of the infamous former leader of New York’s Gambino organized crime family.
Carmine Agnello, 24, is attempting to launch a career under the name Carmine Gotti.
Agnello blasted rapper Rick Ross in the New York Daily News for [...]

Mob rat comes to Bridgeport

Henry Hill, the mob informant who inspired the hit movie “GoodFellas” 20 years ago, will be speaking July 27 at Testo’s Restaurant, 1775 Madison Ave. in Bridgeport, to mark the film’s anniversary.
Vito Colucci, of Colucci Investigations in Stamford, said Monday said he hopes people come to understand that Hill has changed his life and is [...]

Italian ‘Ndrangheta steps out of Mafia’s shadow

Following Tuesday’s arrests of at least 300 suspected members of the ‘Ndrangheta, the BBC’s Duncan Kennedy in Rome takes a closer look at the Italian crime family.
The wedding scene in The Godfather is a sumptuous affair, replete with hope, but laced with menace.
Now, undercover police agents in Italy have infiltrated the real thing and revealed [...]

Italian gangsters foiled in Expo bid

ROME, July 1 (UPI) — Italian police have thwarted efforts by the Calabrian mafia to muscle into the 2015 Universal Exposition in Milan, officials said.
Italian news agency ANSA said 15 members of a crime clan were arrested Thursday in and around Milan and charged with infiltrating businesses associated with the planned exposition.
Interior Minister Roberto Marconi [...]

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