Craigslist ‘mob thug’ sings the bruise

A tough-guy Mafia associate who prosecutors say tried to steal an engagement ring in a brutal mugging says he’s the one who was roughed up.
“I’m innocent. Completely innocent,” Gerald DeGerolamo, 65, told The Post, sporting bandages on his nose and head while awaiting a court appearance.
Law-enforcement sources said DeGerolamo replied to a Craigslist ad for [...]

Hitman Mikey Cigars had soft spot for victim, says mob rat

Reputed Genovese gangster Michael (Mikey Cigars) Coppola was a hit man with a soft spot for at least one gangland victim he gunned down, a government witness testified Tuesday.
Coppola admitted killing gangster John (Johnny Coca Cola) Lardiere outside the Red Bull Inn in New Jersey in 1977 – but wasn’t proud of the deadly deed, [...]

Judge rejects motion to dismiss man’s slay charge in ‘Johnny Cokes’ Case

BRIDGEWATER — A Superior Court judge refused Wednesday to dismiss a murder charge against an organized-crime figure charged in a fatal shooting in the parking lot of a Route 22 motel on Easter Sunday 1977.

Michael “Mikey Cigars” Coppola, 63, argued that the charge against him should be dismissed because his Constitutional [...]