Reputed Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto loses U.S. appeal

MONTREAL – Reputed Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto has lost an appeal in a U.S. court where he was seeking a chance at an earlier release from prison. He is serving a 10-year sentence after pleading guilty in a racketeering case involving the 1981 murders of three Mafia captains in Brooklyn, New York. Earlier this [...]

Hitman Describes Power Drill Torture

PHILADELPHIA – Former Philadelphia mob hitman and enforcer John Veasey knows his way around power tools and heavy equipment.
But these days instead of using a drill to torture people, he’s become a real handyman around his big home thousands of miles from his hometown of Philadelphia.
“I work with [power tools] now, unlike before,” he told [...]

Mafia hitman reveals his code for killings

Ken Murdock’s voice is surprisingly polite when he discusses the dos-and-don’ts of being a hitman for the mob.
Murdock, 47, refrains from using words like “etiquette” or “ethics” while revealing the personal code of conduct he followed while carrying out murders for the Hamilton mob.
One strict rule was to kill his victims away from their wives [...]

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 [...]

Retired Ann Arbor FBI agent recalls taking infamous photo of a Mafia meeting in the Dexter area

Physical surveillance (fisur, not to be confused with elsur, electronic surveillance) has been an investigative tool probably for as long as there have been investigations.
It can provide valuable intelligence and incriminating evidence. But it is also manpower and time intensive. For those conducting the surveillance, it can mean long hours of tedious inactivity punctuated by [...]

Rizzuto plays get-out-of-jail-early card

Reputed mob boss files U.S. appeal Wants time off for good behaviour
Amid signs the criminal organization he once led in Montreal is in serious trouble, reputed mob boss Vito Rizzuto has quietly filed for an appeal that, if successful, could see him released from a U.S. penitentiary this year.
Rizzuto, 64, is serving his sentence at [...]

Sylvester Stallone to Play Mob Boss John Gotti?

Someone recently asked me what I thought Sylvester Stallone should do next, and I was at a loss to answer them. Stallone is STALLONE. He can’t really disappear into a role anymore, though I think he desperately wants to. (I think he could have as of Cop Land, but now?) He’s definitely going to try [...]

Mob scion Christopher Colombo making TV pitch for reality show about going straight

Christopher Colombo is finally getting a taste of “The Real World.”
After serving a year in prison for running a lucrative gambling operation, the youngest son of the late mob boss Joseph Colombo says he’s changing his ways and living on the up and up.
And he’s shopping a reality show about his transformation.
“What I do is [...]

As Italian firms fall victim to the recession, Mafia fills the void

Italy’s feared mobs are taking advantage of the recession by moving from their traditional southern strongholds to buy up legitimate businesses in the country’s rich north to launder their vast earnings from cocaine and extortion rackets, anti-mafia judges have told The Independent.
One magistrate said yesterday that mobsters from ‘Ndrangheta, Italy’s biggest crime syndicate, were investing [...]

Philadelphia home where mob boss was slain on sale

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia house where mob boss Angelo Bruno was shot and killed 30 years ago is up for sale.
Bruno’s former South Philadelphia row house is on the market for $250,000. His daughter, Jean, says she’s planning to move to New Jersey.
Known as the “Gentle Don,” Bruno helped the Philadelphia mob rise in prominence [...]

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