Use of Mob-Linked Firm Shows M.T.A. Problem Vetting Subcontractors

On most weekdays in recent years, giant tractor-trailer and dump trucks loaded with tons of rocks, earth and sludge have been rumbling out of the Sunnyside, Queens, railyards in low gear and turning onto Northern Boulevard.
The trucks, sometimes 80 to 100 of them a day, have been carting away the dirt and debris spewed out [...]

Scarfo’s bail set at $350,000 in betting operation

MORRISTOWN, N.J. – Nicodemo S. Scarfo told a Superior Court judge here Tuesday that he was an unemployed “research analyst” who did “legal consulting work for attorneys.”
State prosecutors said he was an organized crime figure who played a key role in a $2 billion Internet-based sports betting operation while also engaging in extortion and money-laundering.
Those [...]

Feds hint missing mob figure was slain while embroiled in feud

VANISHED IN ‘06 | Court filing suggests clash with reputed Cicero street boss
It’s a Chicago mob mystery that’s still unsolved: Reputed Outfit boss Anthony “Little Tony” Zizzo — an aging, longtime survivor of mob intrigue and betrayal — drove away from his Westmont home on Aug. 31, 2006, never to be seen again.
His abandoned Jeep [...]

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 [...]

Reputed Chicago mob figure accused of bid rigging

Prosecutors unsealed an indictment Friday charging a reputed Chicago mobster and another man with rigging bids to provide forklift trucks for trade shows at Chicago’s McCormick Place lakefront exposition center.
Rudy Fratto, a 66-year-old reputed mobster from Darien who is scheduled to report to prison in April for tax evasion, is charged with one count of [...]

Reputed mob figure gets year and one day on tax charge

CHICAGO — Reputed Chicago mob figure Rudy Fratto was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in federal prison for evading $141,192 in income taxes.
“I’m completely devastated over this tax case and I’m completely responsible,” the 66-year-old Fratto said before U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly imposed the sentence. “I brought this on myself.”
Four [...]

Parole board frees reputed mobster

A reputed Mafia boss and convicted killer, who launched a sweeping constitutional challenge to keep police information out of the hands of the parole board, did not need the court’s help to get out of prison after all.
Vincenzo DeMaria, 55, of Toronto, was allowed to walk out through the coiled razor wire [...]

Genovese Mafia member Carlo Mastrototaro dies

The man frequently identified as a kingpin of organized crime in the Worcester area for much of the latter half of the past century and a highly decorated World War II combat veteran died Monday at his home in Worcester.
Carlo Mastrototaro, 89, of 40 Hancock Hill Drive, died peacefully surrounded by family [...]

Trial for accused Mafia hit man

A reputed North Jersey mob figure who spent more than a decade on the run from a murder investigation was once part of a notorious Genovese crime family hit team known as “The Fist,” according to government documents filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.
Michael Coppola, who goes on trial this week [...]

Genovese Associate found murdered with girlfriend

A 70-year-old Brooklyn man who was found dead in his duplex apartment on Thursday was a longtime mob figure, the authorities said Friday.
The man, William Romano, was found submerged in a bathtub upstairs, and his companion, Elviza Aronova, 36, was found partially clad in a bedroom on the lower floor, the [...]

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