Victim of S. Phila. slaying was grandson of notorious mobster

The grandson of notorious Philadelphia mobster Harry “The Hunchback” Riccobene was gunned down outside his South Philadelphia home early Thursday.
Rocco Maniscalco, 38, had just watched Wednesday night’s Flyers game at the Wolf Street Cafe when he walked the short block home to his rowhouse on Wolf near Colorado.
Outside his home, an armed man leaped from [...]

Israeli Mafia activity on the rise

Israeli organized crime activity in Los Angeles has gotten “a little bit worse” recently, a senior Los Angeles Police Department official told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
Michael P. Downing, deputy chief of the LAPD’s Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau, was in Tel Aviv on Monday and Tuesday to take part in the Safe City [...]