Reputed Montreal Mafia figure in court

MONTREAL – Tony Mucci, 55, of Boucherville, reputed to be an influential figure in the Montreal Mafia, appeared before Judge Jean-Paul Braun Friday afternoon. He faces 10 charges in all, including two for allegedly being in possession of a weapon designed to repell bears.
He is also charged with being in possession of a prohibited weapon [...]

FBI, LAPD raid targets Pueblo Bishop Bloods

Federal agents and police swept into a South Los Angeles housing project Wednesday and arrested dozens of alleged gang members indicted on federal racketeering charges for murder, drug dealing and assaults, law enforcement officials said.
The raid against the Pueblo Bishop Bloods, a group believed to have long kept a tight, violent grip on drug sales [...]

Lawyer Who Defrauded Hedge Funds Had Ties to Alleged Mobster

A Florida lawyer convicted of running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme that defrauded hedge funds reportedly had ties to an alleged mobster.
Roberto Settineri, 42, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder $10 million in a Florida federal court Wednesday. He faces up to five years in prison.
One of the people Settineri said he laundered [...]

Top Albanian Aide Arrested in NYC Crime Ring Bust

A senior aide to the deputy prime minister of Albania has been arrested on charges of murder and racketeering, officials said today.
Prosecutors in New York say the aide, 27-year-old Almir Rrapo of Albania, is a senior member of the Krasniqi crew, an international crime organization engaged in murder, kidnapping, narcotics trafficking and other illegal activities [...]

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 [...]

Mafia Sends Bullet to 5-Year-Old Boy, Seeks to Silence Father

Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) — The Sicilian Mafia sent a threatening letter with a bullet to the five-year-old son of a witness to alleged state complicity with organized crime in the early 1990s, according to the boy’s father.
“The sons of shameful traitors must pay for their father’s guilt,” the letter read, according to Massimo Ciancimino, who [...]

Indictment names three more Genovese Crime Family members

NEW YORK – Superseding Indictment charging three additional individuals for their involvement in the alleged racketeering, murder, and other criminal activities of the Genovese Organized Crime Family, were announced by federal prosecutors Friday.
Felix Tranghese and Ty Geas were arrested Friday in Springfield, Massachusetts. Emilio Fusco remains at large.
Defendants Arthur Nigro, the alleged former Acting Boss [...]

John Gotti’s Grandson Calls Out Rapper Rick Ross Over ‘Teflon Don’

Rapper Rick Ross has drawn the wrath of John Gotti’s family for naming his album Teflon Don, the nickname of the infamous former leader of New York’s Gambino organized crime family.
Carmine Agnello, 24, is attempting to launch a career under the name Carmine Gotti.
Agnello blasted rapper Rick Ross in the New York Daily News for [...]

Suspected mafia member, 64, jailed in Germany for fraud

Karlsruhe, Germany – An Italian man described by prosecutors as a member of a Camorra crime syndicate was jailed Monday in Germany for 42 months after he admitted leading a fraudulent products scam.
His group specialized in selling electrical generators and other machinery, charging customers for high quality and delivering the lowest quality. German police rounded [...]

Italian police nab top Naples mobster

NAPLES, Italy, July 8 (UPI) — The fugitive head of a powerful Italian mafia clan has been captured in an early morning raid at his seaside villa near Naples, police in Italy said Thursday.
Officers surrounded Cesare Pagano’s villa, fired warning shots and then broke inside, the Italian news agency ANSA reports.
Pagano, who had two bodyguards [...]

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