Chicago SyndicateChicago SyndicateThe Chicago Syndicate will focus on the Chicago Mob. In addition to featuring current news articles, it will also attempt to provide some additional analysis and background information. This site may also feature news about the mafia in other cities 
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Details Emerge of the Chicago Outfit Connection to the Outlaws Motorcyle Cl
2008-08-08 05:32:00 Just as the mob reflects only a sliver of Italian America, federal authorities say hardened criminals make up only a small portion of the Outlaws motorcycle club, an element known in biker circles as... More About: Chicago , Connection , Details , Outfit
Sneak Peek at Classic Gangster Era Journal's Latest Issue
2008-08-08 05:15:00 The latest issue of On The Spot Journal will be out soon. Some of the stories that they are currently investigating and putting together include: Fred "Killer" Burke and Charles Skelly: A Fateful... More About: Sneak Peek , Classic , Gangster , Peek , Issue
Pop Culture Portrayals of the Mob in Tampa
2008-08-08 05:01:00 •"GoodFellas" (1990) Tampa is featured in one of the best gangster movies. The mobsters played by Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro are sent from New York to get money from a man in Tampa. The short... More About: Culture , Pop Culture
Junior Gotti is not the Only Tampa Connection to Mafia Activity
2008-08-08 04:51:00 Tampa again finds itself in the center of the latest chapter of mob intrigue. Reported organized crime boss John Gotti Jr. was arrested in New York on Tuesday, and will be arraigned in Tampa on... More About: Connection , Mafia , Tampa , Junior
Victoria Gotti Defends Her Brother, Junior Gotti
2008-08-07 16:39:00 Just hours after John "Junior " Gotti was indicted on charges linking him to cocaine trafficking and three slayings, Victoria Gotti is now coming to her brother's defense, speaking to CBS 2 in New... More About: Brother
John Alite Expected to be Key Witness Against Junior Gotti
2008-08-06 15:39:00 The last time John Alite was arrested, he made it clear he didn't want to go back to prison. The longtime friend of Junior Gotti had done three years on a gun rap and three months for smuggling a... More About: Witness
Feds Claim Outlaw Biker Ordered by Chicago Outfit to Blow Up Video Gambling
2008-08-06 06:30:00 The Chicago Outfit ordered an Outlaw biker to blow up a Berwyn gambling operation because it competed with the mob’s own $13 million video gambling machine business, prosecutors charge in a filing... More About: Video , Gambling , Biker
Indictment of "Junior" Gotti Includes Conspiracy Charges Tied to Cocaine Tr
2008-08-05 19:51:00 John A. "Junior " Gotti has been indicted on conspiracy charges in Florida, linking him to large-scale cocaine trafficking and the slayings of three New York men in the late 1980s and early 1990s,... More About: Conspiracy , Cocaine , Indictment
Junior Gotti Said to Have Been Arrested on Murder Conspiracy Charge
2008-08-05 14:52:00 A law enforcement official says John A. "Junior" Gotti has been arrested on a murder conspiracy charge. The official says the charge stemmed from a federal investigation originating in Tampa, Fla.... More About: Murder , Arrested , Charge , Conspiracy
New York Crime Family Shaking Down the Laugh Factory?
2008-08-05 03:49:00 Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada has filed suit against his Times Square business partner, Show World owner Richard Basciano, claiming that he has been shaken down by the mob-connected adult theater... More About: Family , New York , Crime , York
On the Waterfront
2008-08-04 22:31:00 This classic story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of New York and New Jersey. Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J.... More About: Waterfront
On the Spot Journal Brings You The History of Crime and Law Enforcement in
2008-08-04 03:58:00 On The Spot is a quarterly journal created for researchers, authors and historical enthusiasts in general of the 1920s & 1930s. Each journal will include the most current factual information... More About: History , Crime , Journal , Law Enforcement
Nicholas “Little Nicky” Corozzo, Reputed Gambino Crime Family Capo, Ple
2008-08-04 03:42:00 Reputed Gambino organized crime family “capo” Nicholas Corozzo has admitted to operating a highly sophisticated illegal gambling enterprise in Queens County and elsewhere that booked nearly $10... More About: Family , Crime
Your Witness for 30 Day
2008-08-04 02:52:00 Your Witness for 30 Days is a blogging event that will provide you with snippets of wisdom straight from the new book Your Witness: Lessons on Cross-Examination and Life from Great Chicago Trial...
Genovese Crime Family
2008-08-02 20:49:00 .nobrtable br { display: none } BOSSES FRIENDS OF MINE Vito Genovese Danny "The Lion" Leo Albert "Kid Blast" Gallo Joseph Ida Michael Iuni Joseph Leo John Melicharek Angelo Nicosia Ciro... More About: Family , Crime
Angelo Nicosia, Genovese Crime Family Associate, Found Guilty of $50,000 Ex
2008-08-02 19:45:00 MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANGELO NICOSIA, an associate of the Genovese Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra, was found... More About: Angelo , Guilty , Associate
Are the Chicago Outfit and the Outlaws Motorcycle Club Connected to a Pipe
2008-08-01 05:30:00 The west suburban home of a reputed mobster was among the locations raided by federal agents investigating a 2003 pipe-bombing outside a Berwyn video and vending machine business. Authorities... More About: Chicago , Motorcycle , Club , Outlaws , Outfit
Who Took Mob Killer Frank Schweihs' Body from Funeral Home?
2008-07-30 17:10:00 The family members of reputed mob enforcer Frank "The German" Schweihs who gathered Monday morning for his funeral learned there would be no body to bury. Authorities called the funeral home as an... More About: Body , Home , Killer , Funeral
Frank 'The German' Schweihs - "A Killer, That's All, A Killer of a Girl"
2008-07-28 16:49:00 Diane Pappas learned that Chicago isn't Camelot a lifetime ago when a tugboat captain found her sister's murdered body in the Chicago River. Eugenia "Becca" Pappas was only 18. So last week, 46... More About: German , Killer , Girl , Frank
Does the Ghost of Al Capone's Bodyguard Haunt Coral Gables' Biltmore Hotel?
2008-07-28 01:44:00 Twelve people ambled through the Everglades Room at the Biltmore Hotel on Sunday and lingered at the spot where a gangster's bodyguard was shot dead by an unknown gunman. Only two of them were... More About: Ghost , Coral , Haunt , Bodyguard
Kingman Wong, Former Supervisor within the FBI's Organized Crime Section, N
2008-07-27 20:21:00 Kingman Wong has been named Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of Special Operations for the FBI’s New York Division. Director Robert S. Mueller, III appointed him to this position to replace former SAC... More About: Crime , Section , Supervisor , Organized Crime
Whitey Bulger is 2nd Most-Wanted Man on FBI Top 10 List
2008-07-26 22:57:00 James "Whitey " Bulger has been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list since 1999. According to the FBI, Bulger is their second most-wanted man, second only to Usama bin Laden. They say Bulger is... More About: Top 10 List , List
Reward for bin Laden Raised to $50 MILLION!
2008-07-26 22:00:00 America's Most Wanted: Usama bin Laden The reward for information that will lead to Usama bin Laden has risen to $50 million. After more than a decade of directing terror around the globe, the search... More About: Bin Laden , Million , Reward
FBI's Chicago Field Office to Celebrate 100th Anniversary of the Federal Bu
2008-07-26 21:50:00 Saturday, July 26th, will mark the 100th anniversary of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) with just 34 Special Agents, it was... More About: Office , Anniversary , Chicago , Celebrate , Field
Did Mobster Gregory Scarpa Beat and Threaten a Witness for the FBI to win a
2008-07-25 20:57:00 Edgar Ray Killen, 84, was convicted in 2005 of ordering the Klan killings of the trio 41 years earlier, a crime that was dramatised in the film Mississippi Burning. His lawyers have appealed against... More About: Witness , Beat
School Bus Company Owner Disputes Ties to the Mob
2008-03-07 21:30:00 Upset over online columns linking him to the mafia, a school bus company owner is considering a libel suit against a veteran reporter, but wants the details kept secret, attorneys said Wednesday. The face-off is between Domenic F. Gatto, chief executive of the Staten Island-based Atlantic Express Transportation Corporation, and Jerry Capeci, mafia expert and author of the weekly ganglandnews.com More About: Company , School , Disputes , Owner
Defining "The Chicago Way"
2008-03-07 21:17:00 The Chicago Way. What is it? Is it easily abused? Is it dangerous in the wrong hands? This is critical, as the nation's eyes turn toward Chicago's federal building, where Barack Obama's personal real estate fairy, Tony Rezko, stands trial on federal corruption charges. The phrase must be put in context, something the national media fails to do when they portray Obama as the boy king drawing
US Marshall Wore Wire to Investigate Mob Witness Leak
2008-03-07 21:08:00 A deputy U.S. marshal secretly wore a wire against a man who was like a father to him as part of the investigation into the leak of confidential witness information to the Chicago Outfit. The details were revealed Tuesday in federal court as the deputy marshal, John Ambrose, battled prosecutors to get certain statements he allegedly made to investigators thrown out of his upcoming trial. Ambrose More About: Witness , Wire , Leak
Did US Marshall Put Flipped Mobster at Risk?
2008-03-07 20:55:00 In a brief but loud confrontation, the top FBI agent in Chicago, Robert Grant, underscored the deadly potential of a deputy U.S. marshal leaking information to the Chicago mob about a star government witness, as Grant verbally battled with the deputy marshal's attorney during a court hearing on Monday. "This leak put at risk the most important witness in the Family Secrets case. It put at risk More About: Risk
Will Artifacts Confirm Discovery of Secret Capone Hideout?
More articles from this author:2008-03-07 20:42:00 Jean Garland had always admired the stately home where she and her family now live. But she never knew that secrets dating back more than a half century could have been buried beneath it. In May 2000, the Garlands bought the home, which sits on a bluff overlooking Three Mile Lake in Paw Paw. And in the years since, neighbors started telling them stories about how the house was a getaway and More About: Discovery , Secret 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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