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Alleged Genovese Mafia Boss & Lieutenant Plead Guilty To Extortion
2007-11-02 16:20:00 MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Acting Boss of the Genovese Organized Crime Family, DANNY LEO, a/k/a “The Lion,” 66, and his primary lieutenant and nephew, JOSEPH LEO, 45, pleaded guilty today to charges of extortion. DANNY and JOSEPH LEO pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court before United States Magistrate Judge ANDREW J. More About: Mafia , Guilty , Extortion , Tena
FBI Made "Deal with the Devil"
2007-11-02 15:56:00 A former FBI agent accused of conspiring in a mob murder spree has been cleared of the sensational charges, but the vaunted law enforcement agency received a scathing rebuke from a judge in the process. In a four-page decision that brought the trial of ex-agent Lindley DeVecchio to a stunning end Thursday, state Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach said the FBI violated its own rules by More About: Deal , Made , Devil , The Devil
Mafia Presidential Candidate Polling Results
2007-11-01 15:37:00 Las week, Rudy Giuliani was reported to have been saved from assassination by the Mafia twenty years ago by a vote of the five crime family bosses. Two voted to have him killed and three voted to let him live. That's a sixty percent approval rating anyway you cut it. More About: Presidential , Results , Polling , Resident
Timeline: key figures, dates in 2000 Winnebago County jail lawsuit
2007-11-01 02:37:00 The following are key events in the ongoing alleged jail overcrowding lawsuit in Winnebago County : 1976 * Winnebago County jail on State Street opens with 394 beds. 1989 * Timothy Chatmon imprisoned on alleged murder charges that were ultimately dropped years later. He currently awaits pardon from governor on the charge. 1993 * Voters reject proposed property tax increase to pay for 300-bed More About: Lawsuit , Dates , Timeline , Figures
Chicago-Style Clout in Winnebago County?
2007-11-01 02:05:00 Attorneys representing Winnebago County ’s interests in the nearly concluded federal jail lawsuit have already been paid $356,865 for legal services by the county from 2001 to 2007. Attorney Paul R. Cicero of Cicero and France, P.C., also represented the county during Winnebago County’s first jail lawsuit, which spanned from 1994 to 1997. Figures regarding how much the firm was paid for the first More About: Chicago , Style
Jail Lawsuit Attorney Submits Suspect Invoice
2007-11-01 01:35:00 Rockford, Ill. attorney bills taxpayers for call that never occurred—others impossible to independently verify By Jeff Havens As the nearly eight-year federal jail lawsuit comes to a close, scrutiny of attorney invoices raises serious questions for which taxpayers and government officials may want answers. Specifically, one bill, on line 10 of invoice 4813, may be a window into questionable More About: Lawsuit , Attorney , Jail , Suit , Suspect
No Visits from Wife Can't Stop Mafia Boss from Fathering Child While in Jai
2007-11-01 01:12:00 A notorious Italian mafioso has fathered a child from behind bars despite being denied private visits from his wife. Raffaele Cutolo's daughter was born after he won a legal battle to become a father through artificial insemination. He married his wife, Immacolata, in jail in 1983. The couple never consummated their marriage. Cutolo, a former head of Naples' Camorra Mafia , is serving several More About: Wife , Boss , Stop , Child
A Mafia Mistress' Tale Tales
2007-11-01 00:33:00 Linda Schiro, the key prosecution witness in the startling murder trial of former FBI agent R. Lindley DeVecchio, took the stand Monday, and it was hard not to find her deadly story convincing. In a soft voice and a strong South Brooklyn accent, Schiro, 62, nervously but soberly laid out how Lin DeVecchio had regularly visited the homes she shared in Bensonhurst with the love of her life, a More About: Tales , Mafia , Tale
How to Love a Mobster
2007-10-31 22:06:00 Nobody had a ready explanation for the origin of “moll,” the slang term applied to women of the Mafia. In a courtroom filled with marquee crime writers, men identifying themselves as interested parties from Bensonhurst, retired federal agents and at least one éminence grise of the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, the best etymology offered was: “It goes back to the ’20s.” Still, the morning’ More About: Love
Crimes are Organized, But are They Organized Crime?
2007-10-31 21:15:00 All across the Calumet Region, shadowy men take cuts of profits from illegal gambling, drugs are imported from faraway lands and peddled on the streets, and bands of thieves cross state lines to ply their trades. It sounds like the heyday of organized crime, but investigators, prosecutors and people near the action say it's been a long time since Chicago Outfit mobsters controlled the region's More About: Crime , Crimes , Organized Crime , Organ
La Cosa No More?
2007-10-31 14:28:00 In early 2004, mob veteran Vincent Basciano took over as head of the Bonanno crime family. The reign of the preening, pompadoured Mafioso known as Vinny Gorgeous lasted only slightly longer than a coloring dye job from his Bronx hair salon. Within a year, the ex-beauty shop owner with the hair-trigger temper was behind bars betrayed by his predecessor, a stand-up guy now sitting down with the More About: Cosa
Earlier Attempts to Report Lin DeVecchio's Alleged Crimes
2007-10-30 19:03:00 Posting an email that we received from former FAA agent, Rodney Stich. Mr. Stich was an air safety inspector-investigator with the FAA and is now an author and activist against corruption in government. To Chicago Syndicate: In 2002, Gregory Scarpa Jr signed a book contract with former federal agent Rodney Stich, after which Scarpa provided Stich with information about the murders perpetrated More About: Report , Crimes , Vecchio , Temp
Giuliani Jokes About Mob Hit Talk
2007-10-30 18:53:00 Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani joked Thursday about reports that New York's five Mafia families discussed, but decided against, killing him in 1986 when he was a mob-busting federal prosecutor. "That was one vote I won, I guess," Giuliani said Thursday on Mike Gallagher's syndicated radio show. Giuliani said there have been other contracts for his life, including an $800,000 More About: Jokes , Talk
Sweet Deals, Chicago Style
2007-10-30 18:36:00 I wish I had somebody like Bridgeport developers Thomas DiPiazza and Richard Ferro to advise me on real estate matters. Then again, maybe I need the person who advises them. DiPiazza and Ferro are the guys who paid $50,000 for a heavily polluted, essentially vacant parcel of land along the Chicago River in 1998 -- at almost exactly the same time that somebody at City Hall came to the conclusion More About: Style , Sweet
The Chumbolone Casino
2007-10-30 18:22:00 So as I took last week off -- with some readers fearing I'd been chained in a City Hall dungeon for writing the words "Mayor Chucky" -- an amazing thing happened. (I took the week off after Kass did, which is why you are going to get a slew of articles today.) Mayor Richard Daley agreed he'd like City Hall to own a gigantic casino, with all the contracts to be overseen by a special city gaming More About: Casino
Mob Hit on Rudy Giulani Discussed
2007-10-30 17:54:00 The bosses of New York's five Cosa Nostra families discussed killing then-federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani in 1986, an informant told the FBI, according to testimony Wednesday in Brooklyn state court. But while the late Gambino crime boss John Gotti pushed the idea, he only had the support of Carmine Persico, the leader of the Colombo crime family, according to the testimony. "The Bosses of the
How the CIA Enlisted the Chicago Mob to Put a Hit on Castro
2007-10-30 16:14:00 The Fixer couldn't sleep. But in that shadow hour when his wife still slumbered and the 101 Strings murmured over his rec room speakers and his swimming pool lights threw green wavy diamonds into the muggy Virginia night, he knew that sleep was not what he needed. What he needed was to think. To weigh. Good or bad. Right or wrong. Could he do it? Should he? The questions had gnawed at him ever More About: Chicago , Castro
Witness Undercuts Prosecution Case Against Ex-FBI Agent
2007-10-24 21:08:00 A prosecution witness backfired Tuesday at the trial of disgraced ex-FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio, testifying that a mob killer learned a teen was talking to cops from the rat himself - not the former G-man. DeVecchio, 67, is charged with getting the teen killed by leaking information to the mob, but Reyes Aviles' testimony suggests the teen got himself killed by blabbing about his chats with More About: Agent , Witness , Case , Gent
Vinny Gorgeous Faces Death Penalty Alone
2007-10-24 21:01:00 Bonanno crime boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous ) Basciano will fly solo at his federal death penalty trial, a judge ruled Tuesday. Four members of his Bronx-based crew will be tried separately from Basciano on racketeering and gang-related murder charges next year. Basciano will go on trial in August for allegedly ordering from prison the rubout of mob associate Randolph Pizzolo in December 2004, More About: Faces , Death , Death penalty , Penalty
In Italy, Organized Crime Does Pay
2007-10-23 16:28:00 Organized crime represents the biggest segment of the Italian economy, accounting for more than $127 billion in receipts, according to a report issued Monday. The new figure reflects a trend that has been under way for a few years, the annual report says. The figure last year was $106 billion, making it not quite the biggest segment of the economy. The report also said the line between More About: Crime , Italy , Organized Crime , Organ
"Family Businesses" Endorse Rudy
2007-10-23 16:18:00 The National Italian-American Foundation met in Washington Friday and endorsed Rudy Giuliani. They feel very grateful to him. After Rudy Giuliani got finished prosecuting their relatives there were a lot of job openings in the family businesses. More About: Family , Businesses , Sine
The Rogues' Hall of Fame
2007-10-22 20:59:00 Johnny Roselli was the mob's ambassador-without-portfolio, corrupting the film industry's unions in Hollywood and becoming the go-to guy in Las Vegas and Miami. After testifying before a Senate committee and emerging as a player in the mob's long-rumored involvement in JFK's assassination, his body washed up off Miami. Meyer Lansky was the mob's gambling czar and set up casinos in Saratoga More About: Hall of Fame , Hall , Fame , Rogues
MAFIA-PEDIA
2007-10-22 20:47:00 The government has opened an old treasure trove of information on some 800 gangland goons who wielded power during the Mafia 's Golden Age - a virtual Social Register of the worst sociopaths to have packed a silenced pistol, wielded an ice pick or driven a getaway car in a sharkskin suit. The dossiers, complete with black-and-white photos, chronicle the backgrounds of wiseguys ranging from mob
A Story for Martin Scorsese to Bring to the Big Screen
2007-10-22 17:14:00 Are you familiar, as the lawyers say, with a man named Alphonse Persico, known as Allie Boy? How about Nicky Black, Wild Bill, Joe Waverly, Joey Brains and Joe Brewster? Or Lawrence Mazza, James Delmasto, John Pate and Carmine Sessa? If not, good luck following the blockbuster murder case on trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court before a spellbound audience of journalists, promoters, authors, More About: Screen , Story , Martin Scorsese , Cree , Martin
RICO Laws Heading to Australia
2007-10-22 17:03:00 Tough anti-racketeering laws used in America to defeat the Mafia are likely to be introduced in Australia to smash lawless Queensland bikie gangs. This follows a warning from the Australian Crime Commission of increasing motorcycle gang involvement in the manufacture and trafficking of drugs, extortion, theft, identity fraud, illegal gambling, money laundering, prostitution, car rebirthing, More About: Laws , Rico , Heading
Curse of Al Capone's Gold
2007-10-22 16:57:00 In North Dakota rogue cop Andy Larson supplements his income by stealing from criminals especially bootleggers. He and four of his friends plan to hijack a truckload filled with illegal booze, but to his dismay everything turns ugly as bullets fly. The four bootleggers and one of Larson’s allies are dead. When the dust settles, the four survivors look inside the truck to find a cache of gold More About: Gold , Curse
Mob Killer Crys on Witness Stand
2007-10-22 16:40:00 A stone killer for the Mob, who testified casually about his homicidal jaunts through Brooklyn looking for people to shoot, started crying in court yesterday over his youthful wrong turn into a life of crime. Tough guy Lawrence Mazza, 46, who was to testify about his gangster boss' ties to rogue FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio collapsed in tears in Brooklyn Supreme Court when he recounted that he More About: Killer , Witness , Stand
The Mafia Chef: Anthony Bourdain
2007-10-22 15:52:00 Dubbed "the bad boy of cuisine" for his rock-star look and blunt observations about the world of restaurants, chefs and cooking and the "Mafia Chef " because of his crime and cookery novels, Anthony Bourdain is not your typical celebrity chef. A 28-year veteran of professional kitchens, Bourdain is currently the executive chef at New York’s famed bistro, Les Halles. Bourdain entertains and
The Second Burial of John Gotti
2007-10-22 15:06:00 Four girls in black ponytails and Sunday dresses are laughing and chatting in Spanish as they walk toward Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the orange brick church that towers over Ozone Park, Queens. They cross a famous intersection. Do they know it was here, 15 years ago, that mob henchmen gunned down Thomas and Rosemarie Uva, the daredevil couple who made a career of robbing Italian mafia More About: John , Gotti
Are New York Gangsters Basically Teenage Girls with Guns?
More articles from this author:2007-10-22 06:14:00 Someone once said that New York gangsters are basically teenage girls with guns. Looked at from the proper angle, it does seem there is something particularly adolescent about a group of grown men for whom gossip, betrayal and a hair-trigger sense of loyalty runs deep in the blood. Take, for instance, Vincent Basciano, the former hair salon owner and former acting boss of the Bonanno crime More About: Girls , Guns , Teenage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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