Prosecutors want IDs of Ciavarella witnesses

Request to ex-judge’s lawyer made for names of those who may provide alibis at trial.
SCRANTON – Federal prosecutors have asked the attorney for former Luzerne County judge Mark Ciavarella to identify any person Ciavarella may call as an alibi witness in his upcoming corruption trial.
In a letter to attorney Al Flora, U.S. Attorney Peter J. [...]

Reputed Mafioso pleads guilty in Rothstein sting

Roberto Settineri now faces up to five years in prison
FORT LAUDERDALE —
A reputed Sicilian Mafioso pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit money laundering at the request of fraudster-turned-informant Scott Rothstein.
Roberto Settineri, 42, became the third—and final—man convicted in a federal sting set in motion by Rothstein’s cooperation. Settineri, of Miami Beach, faces up to [...]

Italy: Assets worth €15mln seized from Calabrian mafia boss

Reggio Calabria, 6 July (AKI) – Anti-mafia police on Tuesday seized assets worth some 15 million euros from elderly Calabrian mafia boss Domenico Rugolo. The assets include 90,000 square metres of land, a building company, properties and olive groves, a luxury villa in the town of Palmi built illegally on a heritage site, warehouses and [...]

Dozens of reputed mobsters plead not guilty in NJ

MORRISTOWN, N.J.—Nearly three dozen alleged members and associates of a major organized crime family have pleaded not guilty to a state indictment alleging racketeering, conspiracy and money laundering.
Among the defendants who appeared in court in New Jersey Monday was Nicodemo Scarfo Jr., son of former Philadelphia crime boss Nicodemo “Little Nicky” Scarfo.
Also charged are Joseph [...]

Italian police arrest 15 alleged mafia members

Rome – Special police units in the Sicilian capital of Palermo on Friday arrested 15 alleged mafia members during dawn raids, Italian media reported.
The Cosa Nostra clan members are suspected of having extorted money from businessmen in the construction industry and of being involved in the drugs trade.
Anti-protection money organisations on the Italian island applauded [...]

Police arrest six in Spain in Russian-mafia linked operation

Police in Spain said Wednesday they had arrested overnight six people suspected of money laundering and criminal conspiracy in an operation media reports said was linked to the Russian mafia.
“This operation has resulted so far in six arrests,” a spokeswoman for the regional police in the northeastern region of Catalonia told AFP.
The six are suspected [...]

French police net “legendary” Marseille gangsters

France (Reuters) – A police dragnet over the weekend on France’s glamourous Mediterranean coast has netted some of the country’s most notorious gangsters, police in the southern port city of Marseille said Monday.
In an echo of 1970s film “The French Connection,” the operation involved 150 officers who took 21 people into custody in and around [...]

Christy Kinahan refused bail in Costa del Sol ‘Irish Mafia’ case

Both his sons are have also been sent to prison on remand
The man who is the head of the so-called ‘Irish Mafia’ on the Costa del Sol, 53 year old Christopher ‘Christy’ Kinahan, who was arrested as part of a large police operation on Tuesday last week, has been remanded to custody and denied bail [...]

Oligarch friend of Mandelson faces cash launder quiz

Peter Mandelson’s controversial friend Oleg Deripaska is being treated as a formal suspect in a money-laundering case linked to the Russian mafia.
The Russian oligarch, who has entertained Lord Mandelson and Chancellor George Osborne on his luxury yacht, has been warned that he is a suspect at meetings with Spanish prosecutors in Moscow.
They questioned the billionaire [...]

Mob bust nets two W. Caldwell residents

WEST CALDWELL TWP. – Residents John G. Perna, 32, and Ralph M. Perna, 38, were indicted Friday, May 14, on various charges of extortion, aggravated assault and fraudulent loan applications in connection with an illegal international gambling ring according to state Attorney General Paula Dow.
Thirty-four alleged members of the New York-based Lucchese crime family were [...]

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