Former Hoboken mayor handed 24 months behind bars at corruption sentencing; lawyer says Cammarano has already suffered

NEWARK – Disgraced former Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano III was remorseful when he spoke yesterday before being sentenced to 24 months in prison for taking $25,000 in bribes from a federal informant in a massive corruption sting.
“I know that I have let down friends and family and supporters and the people of Hoboken,” said Cammarano, [...]

Mob rats in duel as stoolies finger each other in $1 million murder-for-hire insurance plot

One of these two snitches is lying through his teeth.
A Genovese gangster who spent 18 years as an FBI informant was implicated Tuesday by an NYPD stoolie who claims the mobster hired him to be the hit man in a $1 million insurance murder plot.
A lawyer for mobbed-up Joseph (JB) Barone insists that his client [...]

An interview with Henry Hill, the original Goodfella

It’s likely you know Henry Hill’s story, but you might not recognize his face — the mug most people associate with Hill’s name is that of actor Ray Liotta, who played the mobster–turned–FBI informant in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas.
Hill — whose rise and fall in the world of organized crime was chronicled in Nick Pileggi’s book [...]

Former N.J. Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt says alleged bribe was fee

OCEAN COUNTY — Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in federal court Trenton at the trial of a lawmaker who resigned after he was arrested in New Jersey’s largest corruption sting.
Lawyers for former Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt will argue their client thought he had been legitimately retained as a paid consultant for a land [...]

‘Goodfellas’ mobster is arrested in metro-east

The former mobster who inspired “Goodfellas” was arrested Sunday in Fairview Heights because he had “one too many” drinks in a hotel lobby, he said.
Henry P. Hill, 66, of Topanga, Calif., was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in the Drury Inn Hotel, 12 Ludwig Drive in Fairview Heights.
“I got a [...]

“Did the Mafia kill JFK” Special with New Oswald,Ruby,Marcello Info

This Sunday the Discovery Channel is running two back-to-back documentaries exploring the role of the Mafia behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy:
New information and never before heard details of a startling confession raise new questions on just who was behind the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the subsequent killing of [...]

Reputed RI mobster wants charges dropped in plot

An indictment accusing a reputed mobster of trying to arrange the killing of a Mafia rival should be dismissed because prosecutors promised not to seek criminal charges as part of an earlier plea deal, a defense attorney said Monday.

The U.S. attorney’s office has denied ever making such an agreement with Anthony [...]

Mobster with ties to Tulsa testifies

BOSTON — A New England mobster who is central to a decades-old Tulsa homicide described his long tenure as an FBI informant Thursday during testimony in lawsuits by mob victims’ families.
They claim that the agency failed to control Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi, who testified Thursday, and fugitive gangster James “Whitey” [...]

Ex-mobster Henry Hill of ‘Goodfellas’ fame wanted again

“Henry Hill.”
San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Kyle Brodie matter-of-factly read the name Wednesday in a roll call of small-time suspects: the unlicensed driver; the work-release probationer.
“No answer,” yelled the bailiff.
With that, the mobster-turned-FBI informant — whose life inspired the movie epic “Goodfellas” — was facing two $25,000 arrest warrants.
Once linked to [...]

Accountant played role in convicting ‘mafia cops’

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – Accountant Stephen Corso was in deep trouble. His clients, including longtime friends, told federal authorities in Connecticut in 2002 that he had stolen more than $5 million.
Then the Ridgefield man who loved to gamble took the biggest risk of his life: He decided to become an FBI informant [...]