‘Stabbing’ pains for mob crew

It’s the mob approach to vandalism.
Five members of the Bonanno crime family pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court yesterday to a caper that left two teenagers hospitalized with stab wounds after windows were busted in a mob-connected Queens restaurant in 2004.
In keeping with the Mafia family’s bumbling reputation, the mobsters beat and knifed the wrong [...]

Police watch Montreal Mafia funeral

Montreal police say they will be keeping a close eye on funeral services for Agostino Cuntrera, a reputed mobster gunned down last week in the city’s Saint-Leonard borough.
Cuntrera, 66, will be laid to rest Monday morning at the Église Notre-Dame-du-Carmel in Saint-Leonard.
The reputed head of Montreal’s troubled Rizzuto crime clan was ambushed June 29 in [...]

Murders could mean shift in mob world: experts

MONTREAL — Experts say the murders Tuesday of mobster Agostino Cuntrera and his bodyguard in the borough of Saint-Leonard may indicate Montreal’s Calabrian mafia family is planning to take back the power it lost to the hands of the Rizzuto Sicilians more than 30 years ago.
Some experts suggest the murders could be linked to the [...]

Member of Montreal Mafia family gunned down

One of the longest-serving Sicilian Mafiosi in Canada, 66-year old Agostino Cuntrera, has been gunned down in Montreal.
Mr. Cuntrera was shot and killed outside a wholesale food business he owned in the city’s St. Leonard borough at about 4 p.m. yesterday. His driver, who police said was in his forties, was also shot outside Distribution [...]

Giuseppe Falsone Top Italian Mafia boss arrested in South France

One of Italy’s most wanted men a mafia boss, has been caught in Marseille, Southern France after a joint operation by the two countries police forces.
Giuseppe Falsone who was on Italy’s most wanted list has been caught in Marseille, France after being on the run for over 10 years from the Italian police.
The 40-year-old was [...]

Life after the Mob: Ex-Mafioso is just scraping by

A SATURDAY, 11 a.m. Seniors’ hour at the diner.
An old man with a hearing aid butters his toast. Two Jamaican nurses help a woman with a walker through the door. An elderly mother and her daughter share a stack of pancakes, the mother guiding her fork past the oxygen tube in her nose.
“There’s not a [...]

Ex- mobster shows ‘transformation is possible for anyone’

UTICA —
Michael Franzese found a path to God and he wants others to do the same.
Franzese, who made millions of dollars for the Mafia by selling wholesale gasoline for which he did not pay federal taxes, offered that message Saturday evening at a North Utica church.
“If he can do it, transformation is possible for [...]

Genovese NJ Capo Joseph Gatto dies

Genovese crime family capo Joseph “The Eagle” Gatto passed away due to undisclosed causes at the age of 65. Gatto was said to have inherited then New Jersey based Genovese family gambling action once run by his father Louis “Streaky” Gatto. His father was reported to have run a multimillion dollar gambling empire in Jersey [...]

Facebook chatter betrays alleged Mafia hitman

Italy’s godfathers might well be holding emergency meetings this weekend, after one of their remarkably obedient godsons was snared due to an especially pernicious habit. Yes, chatting on Facebook.
Pasquale Manfredi is reputed not to be the most affable of our human brethren. < According to CNN, he is wanted for, among other acts of charmlessness, [...]

Canadian Immigration rejects man and his mother for alleged Mafia ties

The government has told an Italian man living north of Toronto that he is ineligible to stay in Canada because they believe he is a member of the Mafia — along with his mother.
Adding meaning to the popular notation of a “Mafia family,” Antonio Coluccio, 40, was ruled ineligible for permanent residency after authorities said [...]

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