Feds Play Hardball With Capo Charged in Mob Sex Case

The feds are playing hardball with aging Gambino family capo Daniel Marino. The offer on the table for him last week was to plead guilty to a 13-year-old hit that took place while Marino was in prison, and take another 13 years behind bars. Or go to trial.
Marino’s longtime pal, Joseph Watts, another Gambino family [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Unpublished Gangland Photographs Revealed

New riveting pictorial history book examines crime in New York City’s gangland
Throughout the United States, there is no single major metropolitan area more closely connected to organized crime’s rapid ascendancy on a national scale than New York City. In 1920, upon the advent of Prohibition, Gotham’s shadowy underworld began evolving from strictly regional and often [...]

Alber C. Aronne, Legal Mensch to the Mob, Dies at 88

Albert C. Aronne, a colorful lawyer who played cards on Mulberry Street with the late John Gotti, but who earned his Gang Land bona fides in the social clubs and courthouses of Brooklyn over 50 plus years, passed away at Cornell-Presbyterian Hospital after a short illness. He was 88.
Aronne never argued a case before the [...]

Alleged Mobster Joins The Accused In Staten Island Fraud Case

As if intentionally playing into the borough’s reputation, Staten Island’s very own hedge fund fraud allegedly included a member of the Mafia.
Federal prosecutors have charged nine more people in the Gryphon Holdings case, bringing the total number of people charged in the case to 14. Among the new indictments is that of Michael Scarpaci, who [...]

Colombo underboss John (Sonny) Franzese betrayed by son, who’ll testify against legendary mobster

Legendary Colombo underboss John (Sonny) Franzese, who turned murder into an art form and whose name made foes shudder in fear, is about to get the biggest double cross of his life.
While he’s literally turned stoolies into mincemeat, the one set to betray the 93-year-old wiseguy in a courtroom Wednesday once held a special place [...]

A tale of two Irish gangsters and Junior Gotti

Last week, federal judge Denise Cote received a letter from FDNY Captain Liam Flaherty. The letter was about the long hours Long Islander Michael Finnerty put in at Ground Zero in the terrible days and weeks after the attacks of 9/11.
But this was not a court case about, say, compensation for breathing toxic air in [...]

Tampa man, arrested with Gotti, pleads guilty to racketeering

A Tampa man arrested two years ago, along with John “Junior” Gotti, pleaded guilty this morning in New York to federal racketeering and racketeering conspiracy, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Federal prosecutors say James V. Cadicamo, who managed Club Mirage in Tampa, is an associate of the Gambino organized crime family.
Under the terms of a [...]

Michael Finnerty, ex-mobster who ran with Junior Gotti but turned life around, pleads for leniency

Two decades ago, Michael Finnerty was a merciless thug who ran with John A. (Junior) Gotti’s crew in Howard Beach, busting heads, stealing cars and robbing drug dealers.
Now the hulking Finnerty is the one pleading for mercy.
Although Finnerty went straight and eventually turned on Gotti, his past caught up with him two years ago when [...]

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