Colombo Family authorized Junior Gotti Hit

In a significant victory for the defense, the judge in the John “Junior” Gotti racketeering trial ruled Wednesday morning that Gotti will be allowed to present evidence that another top mobster approved killing him after Gotti used the defense that he had withdrawn from the mob in his second trial in 2006.
If U.S. District Judge [...]

Genovese Family still major Mafia Power

Staten Island jeweler Louis Antonelli didn’t know he was being watched when he left El Sabor Tropical restaurant in April 2008.
As he placed containers of takeout food in the back of his GMC Yukon, two hooded men pulled up beside him and demanded the precious stones they knew he always carried on [...]

Reputed mob killer Tommy Shots Gioeli: Prison is hazardous to my health

To hear Tommy Shots tell it, jail is for the birds.
No toenail clippers. Too many potatoes. And those mattresses are so hard.
The reputed mob killer – real name: Thomas Gioeli – came to court Tuesday with an impressive list of complaints about the federal lockup in Brooklyn.
“What he needs most immediately is a toenail clipper,” [...]

Mob boss admits role in massacre

Vito Rizzuto, named as the Godfather of the Mafia in Canada, yesterday admitted his personal role in a notorious gangland massacre, accepting a 10-year sentence but avoiding a damaging and embarrassing trial in New York.
The guilty plea marks the end of his charmed life as one of the untouchables, a man who [...]

Reputed Philly mobster wins early release from jail

Joseph “Mousie” Massimino, the reputed underboss of the Philadelphia mob, is coming home after serving more than five years of a 10-year sentence on a New Jersey racketeering charge.
Judge Anthony Pugliese reduced Massimino’s sentence to time served during a sentence reconsideration hearing today in Camden County Superior Court.
In issuing what amounted to [...]

Gotti Trial: Alite: Junior and Gottis Taught Me Treachery of Mob Life

John (Junior) Gotti may have met his Sammy Bull.
John Alite took the stand last week in Gotti IV to testify against his old pal and quickly evoked the image of perhaps the most famously devastating mob turncoat witness.
Gambino family defector Salvatore Gravano, the first Mafia underboss to take the witness stand against [...]

Lucchese crime family members busted in mob raid

A trio of Lucchese crime family associates infiltrated the city Department of Buildings, climbing to mid-level inspection jobs and pocketing tens of thousands of dollars a pop in bribes for years — even as they plied elsewhere their more underworld trades of guns, drugs and gambling, officials said today.
“They had developed a [...]

Department of Buildings bribe scheme may net Mafia bigs

Manhattan prosecutors are set to bust open a city Department of Buildings bribery scheme run by the mob, sources say.
Those expected to be arrested as early as today include Matthew Madonna and Joseph DiNapoli, the reputed acting boss and underboss of the Lucchese crime family, the sources say.
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau is expected to [...]

Ex-FBI agent says NJ Merlinos are not mobsters

Joseph and Phyllis Merlino, involved with organized crime? Fuhgeddaboudit!
That was the testimony Friday of a former FBI official who helped bring down the Philadelphia mob in the late 1980s.
Although Joseph N. Merlino’s father, Lawrence “Yogi” Merlino, and his cousin Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino were high-ranking mobsters, former FBI agent Larry Schneider testified [...]

Reputed mob underboss sentenced in Big Dig bribery

The reputed former underboss of the New England mob has been sentenced to six years in prison for bribing an undercover FBI agent posing as a state official to try to win a $6 million contract on Boston’s Big Dig highway project.Carmen “The Cheeseman” DiNunzio, was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court.

DiNunzio [...]

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