Colombo mobster Michael (Mickey) Souza, The Don of Screwups, now begging for witness protection

The Colombo crime family must really be going to the dogs if this is the type of muscle they’re recruiting.
Meet Michael (Mickey) Souza.
Before legendary Colombo underboss John (Sonny) Franzese pricked Souza’s finger with a sterile diabetic needle in 2005 to make him a made man, Souza had built quite the fiasco-filled résumé.
There was the time [...]

Mob rat comes to Bridgeport

Henry Hill, the mob informant who inspired the hit movie “GoodFellas” 20 years ago, will be speaking July 27 at Testo’s Restaurant, 1775 Madison Ave. in Bridgeport, to mark the film’s anniversary.
Vito Colucci, of Colucci Investigations in Stamford, said Monday said he hopes people come to understand that Hill has changed his life and is [...]

Jurors selected in 1st Milano trial

BUNNELL — A trial begins today for an ex-mob hit man who gained infamy in a fracas over a calzone at the now defunct Goombas Pizzeria in Palm Coast.
On Monday, attorneys questioned potential jurors with some being dismissed because they had read about the case in the newspaper. One potential juror, though, could not serve [...]

Colombo Family Underboss Sonny Franzese under indictment again

Long time Colombo crime family member and reputed Colombo family underboss Sonny Franzese is once again under indictment. Franzese has been a member of the mafia and Colombo family for years and is still active at the age of 93. Franzese has been around since the days of Frank Sinatra and his legendary concerts at [...]

An Interview With Ex Gambino Crime Family Member Andrew DiDonato

Andrew DiDonato was what can only be called a career criminal. So certain was he of his destiny that he dropped out of school to work full time on his criminal calling. It was not long before his talent was recognized by the Gambino Family and inducted into their world.

He had just released a [...]

Life after the Mob: Ex-Mafioso is just scraping by

A SATURDAY, 11 a.m. Seniors’ hour at the diner.
An old man with a hearing aid butters his toast. Two Jamaican nurses help a woman with a walker through the door. An elderly mother and her daughter share a stack of pancakes, the mother guiding her fork past the oxygen tube in her nose.
“There’s not a [...]

Newport Beach Film Festival – “The Sicilian Girl”

In the early 1990s, 17-year-old Rita Atria became one of the Costa Nostra’s fiercest foes when she offered to testify against the Italian Mafia. She had kept detailed diaries of the criminal organization’s inner workings as a vendetta after the brutal murders of her father and brother. Atria went on to receive death threats, get [...]

abc40 Investigates: Springfield’s Organized Crime

Six years after reputed mob boss Al Bruno was gunned down while walking from a card game, a series of arrests have been made and all of the suspects are allegedly connected to organized crime with a chain of command trailing to New York.
However, local police have said the face of organized crime has [...]

Mafia Hit Man Trades Corpses for Art Canvas

Mob Killer Emerges from Dismembering, Ratting and Witness Protection at Outsider Art Fair

When Dominick Montiglio was only 2, his “Uncle Nino” — captain of the notorious Gambino crime family — banished the boy’s alcoholic father from his home and took on the role of surrogate and godfather.
Anthony ‘Nino’ Gaggi and his crew, headed by [...]

Sammy The Bull Gravano a Homosexual ?

Notorious gangster Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano had homosexual relations with a young man before making his way up the ranks of the Gambino crime family, according to a new book proposal currently being shopped.
Authors Laura and Karen Garofalo were just 17 and 25, respectively, when their father, Eddie Garofalo, was murdered by Gravano’s henchmen [...]

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