3 gang members get prison terms for killing Jersey City teenager they mistook for murder target six years ago

Nearly six years after a Jersey City teenager was shot and killed in a case of mistaken identity, three gang members were sentenced yesterday to prison terms in federal court for conspiracy to commit murder.
U.S. District Judge Stanley Chesler sentenced Matthew “Blood Money” Turner, 29, of Jersey City, and Anthony “Ant” Walker, 28, of Jersey [...]

North Carolina MS-13 Members Sentenced to Prison for Role in Racketeering Conspiracy

WASHINGTON, June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Seven members of the gang known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, were sentenced to prison Tuesday for their participation in a racketeering enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Anne M. Tompkins for the Western District of North Carolina.
All seven defendants [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Associate of Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino gets 6 months

A onetime mob associate and bookmaker with a history of alcohol abuse and violating probation was sentenced to six months behind bars yesterday by a federal judge.
In October 2008, following a second probation violation, U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick gave Stephen Sharkey, 41, of Holmes, Delaware County, the “benefit of the doubt” and gave [...]

New York City School Bus Inspector Sentenced for Role in Scheme

Milton Smith is headed for prison. And his sentencing marks the conclusion of a Mafia-backed scheme dating back to the mid-Nineties that used members of a bus drivers union to steal from the New York City school system and affiliated contractors. On February 11, Smith, a former city bus inspector, received a sentence of 15 [...]

Eppolito and Bravatti get off light

After five years of legal wrangling, “Mafia Cops” case minor players Anthony Eppolito and Guido Bravatti walked out of U.S. District Court Tuesday free men.
In September 2009, Eppolito and Bravatti were convicted by a jury of federal drug charges – distribution and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine – as part of a larger case that focused [...]