Attorney’s Ties to Mob Family Presents No Conflict, Says Judge
August 23, 2010 by Capo · 2 Comments
A federal judge has refused to disqualify on conflict of interest grounds a defense attorney with deep ties to the Gambino organized crime family.
Attorney Joseph R. Corozzo Jr. is defending Michael Scarpaci against a multi-felony racketeering indictment and prosecutors attempted to have him disqualified because of four alleged potential conflicts, including that his father and [...]
Feds: Construction Bigwig a Longtime Labor Racketeer
Even if you’ve never heard of Joseph Olivieri, after a quick glance, you get the idea that he’s a pretty important guy in the construction industry. He’s the executive director of the city’s largest organization of contractors, the Association of Wall Ceiling & Carpentry Industries, which is more than 200 strong. He’s also the lead [...]
Mafia clans use mobile texts to Italian TV show to contact jailed mobsters
Popular football programme unwittingly scrolled texts across screen among innocent messages of support for teams
Mafia clans have used a popular football show on Italian television to send secret messages to jailed godfathers held in isolation, a magistrate has revealed.
Imprisoned crime bosses were kept up to date on mob business through mobile phone texts sent to [...]
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 [...]
The Life of Susan Berman – ‘Mafia Princess’ Was Full of Mystery
Susan Berman is a famous name in literary grounds, the young woman was not only famous for her aspiring career as a writer, but her ties to her family gave a darker shade to her profile. Susan was born in an uncommon family – a family of Mafiosos and mobsters. Her father was Davie Berman, [...]
Art Bilek is still chasing bad guys at 80 years old
August 9, 2010 by Capo · Leave a Comment
CHICAGO CRIME COMMISSION | New chief with storied past now sets sights on drug dealers
Art Bilek is the oldest crime fighter still on the case in Chicago.
Ask him about catching bad guys and he’ll rattle off details of decades-old investigations — the exact address of long-gone betting parlors and the color of a dead girl’s [...]
Gambino plea deal in ‘89 hit
Reputed acting Gambino crime family boss John “Jackie the Nose” D’Amico is poised to cut a deal tomorrow in a case tied to a 1989 murder plot, court papers reveal.
D’Amico “will plead guilty . . . to a superseding information” that will be handed up in Manhattan federal court, where he was indicted last year [...]
The Carpenters’ Union Sell-Out
August 4, 2010 by Capo · 12 Comments
The former leader of the city’s 20,000 union carpenters stood up in court last week and confessed to a lie that goes back 16 years. Michael Forde, 55, wore a black suit for his appearance in federal court on Pearl Street. This was appropriate attire for someone giving his own eulogy as a union man.
Since [...]
‘Stabbing’ pains for mob crew
August 4, 2010 by Capo · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Goodfella with bad manners
July 21, 2010 by Capo · 2 Comments
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One look at Anthony Antico sitting at the defense table and you swear he was born to be on trial for something.
By the way the 74-year-old Genovese family capo throws up his hands and mouths, “So what?” to a bugged phone conversation played back in court Monday afternoon, it’s a [...]
