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 Articles
Third Defendant Testifies at Mob Trial
2007-08-24 07:31:00 Former Chicago police officer Anthony Doyle took the stand Wednesday to deny he ever helped the mob by passing along sensitive information about a mob murder. Doyle, who was born Anthony Passafiume, is accused of using his position as an officer in the evidence room of the Chicago Police Department to check on the status of blood-soaked gloves worn by mobster Nick Calabrese in the slaying of More About: Trial , Third
Mob All-Star Lineup for Family Secrets Trial
2007-04-03 15:41:00 Friends of ours: Frank "The German" Schweihs, Frank Calabrese Sr.. James "Little Jimmy" Marcello, Joseph "The Clown" Lombardo, Nick Calabrese, Robert "Bobby the Beak" Siegel, Richard Mara, Daniel Bounds, Alfred Pilotto, Frank Cullotta, Tony Spilotro, James LaValley Friends of mine: Frank Calabrese Jr., Michael Talarico One man is a reputed Outfit killer and master thief who stormed jewelry More About: Family , All Star , Star , Trial , Secret
Strip Club Used to Train Mobsters
2007-04-02 15:35:00 Friends of ours: Salvatore Scala, Thomas Sassano, Gambino Crime Family, Gene Gotti Two of New York's most high profiled mobsters Salvatore Scala and Thomas Sassano are accused of using a strip club to train new recruits into the mafia. According to U.S.Attorney Elie Honig "Scala and Sassano used that club as a junior varsity to groom future mobsters". Scala and Sassano both face extortion More About: Rain , Train , Club , Trip , Strip
Tony Soprano to be Whacked in Final Season?
2007-04-01 04:17:00 Friends of ours: Soprano Crime Family IF any television character has a bullet, or meat cleaver, with his name on it, it's Tony Soprano. As HBO's "The Sopranos" counts down its final nine episodes beginning next Sunday, the existential question hanging over the series is: Should Tony live or die? Given the show's bleak themes, anything less than killing him off could be construed as a More About: Hack , Season , Final , Tony Soprano
A Tale of Two Mobsters
2007-04-01 03:54:00 Friends of ours: Harry Aleman, Victor "Popeye" Arrigo Friends of mine: Robert Cruz Two men with connections to Chicago organized crime, both of them believed to be outfit enforcers, one is dead the other is in court. In this Intelligence Report: the tale of two mobsters. There are really only two ways out of the mob life and one is more permanent than the other. You are either murdered...or put More About: Tale
Mob Bones Belong to Cousin of Hit Man Harry Aleman
2007-03-30 16:07:00 Friends of ours: Harry Aleman Friends of mine: Robert Charles Cruz Just days after his cousin, reputed mob hit man Harry Aleman, was sentenced for a murder, Robert Charles Cruz disappeared from his Kildeer home. For nearly 10 years, authorities suspected Cruz had purposely vanished, but his credit cards and bank accounts never were touched. Last week, construction crews digging new sewers for a More About: Bones , Long , Hit Man
Mob Hit Man Harry Aleman's Cousin Found in Mafia Graveyard
2007-03-29 20:29:00 Friends of ours: Harry Aleman Friends of mine: Robert Cruz, Robert Hatridge, Mark Oliver Construction workers laying sewer pipe found the skeletal remains of a former death row inmate with mob ties at a suburban Chicago site about 50 yards from where the bodies of two other men connected to organized crime were found in 1988. The DuPage County coroner's office identified the latest body, found More About: Graveyard , Rave , Mafia , Grave
Sopranos Looking to do a Job
2007-03-29 03:31:00 Friends of ours: Soprano Crime Family The cast of "The Sopranos " is less worried about getting whacked than getting new jobs once the series is over in June. At last night's humungous premiere at Radio City Music Hall, followed by a party that swamped Rockefeller Center, that seemed to be the uppermost thought in the minds of everyone from actors to crew. Nevertheless, James Gandolfini, whose More About: King , Look , To Do
Chevy Chase and Mobsters Involved in Funny Money
2007-03-28 20:38:00 It's Henry Perkins' birthday--just another ordinary day for an ordinary wax fruit factory foreman. That is, until he mistakenly ends up holding a briefcase containing five million dollars on his subway ride home. Mayhem and hilarity ensue as Henry tries to convince his wife Carol to keep the loot and flee with him to paradise while Romanian mobsters, the cops, a dead body and dozens of nude More About: Funny , Fun , Money , Chevy Chase , Chase
Sopranos Comes to an End
2007-03-28 16:55:00 Friends of ours: Soprano Crime Family “You don’t listen to the president? We’re gonna mop the floor with the whole f***in’ world. The whole world’s gonna be under our control. So what are you worked up about?” —Christopher Moltisanti of “The Sopranos ” Everything comes to an end.” These words, delivered by an irate Edie Falco, are used in the promo death knell for one of the most critically More About: Come
New Jersey Landscape Altered by The Sopranos
2007-03-27 20:29:00 Friends of ours: Soprano Crime Family The guy who runs the real-life Bada Bing is going to miss "The Sopranos ," even if he thinks the show may have lowered his club's image a naughty notch or two. The North Caldwell woman who cooked meals for the cast and crew while her home was used for "Sopranos" location shots is going to miss making baked ziti and chicken soup for her favorite performers. More About: Landscape , New Jersey , Land
Hugh Hefner Politely Declines Chicago Mob Overtures
2007-03-26 15:34:00 Friends of ours: Marshall Caifano The powerful Chicago mob twice made overtures to partner with Hugh Hefner and his Playboy clubs, including one in Las Vegas, Hefner revealed Saturday. Both times, Hefner said, he "politely declined." Hefner, in Las Vegas for his 81st birthday weekend celebration at the Palms, told me the Chicago mob "very much wanted to invest in the Playboy Clubs." The first More About: Overture , Lite , Over , Vertu
Powerful Mafia Boss Seeking Plea Deal?
2007-03-26 00:17:00 Friends of ours: Vito Rizzuto, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino, Salvatore "Good- Looking Sal" Vitale, Gerlando "George From Canada" Sciascia, Patrick "Patty From the Bronx" De Filippo Vito Rizzuto, named as Canada's most powerful Mafia boss, has asked a New York City judge to delay his trial for three gangland slayings, fueling speculation he is negotiating a plea deal. David Schoen, defending Mr. More About: Power , Boss , Deal , King
Hoboken Genovese Gang Not Seen Much Any More
2007-03-25 23:27:00 Friends of ours: Genovese Crime Family, Michael Coppola, Michael "Tona" Borelli, Peter Grecco, Peter Caporino, Tino R. Fiumara, Lawrence A. Ricci The old gang isn't seen much around Hobo ken any more, thanks to the recent efforts of the FBI to nab the city's most notorious mobsters. The latest arrest: Michael Coppola, 60, a reputed captain in the Genovese crime family, who was arrested Friday More About: Gang , More , Much
Anne Hathaway Connected to the Mob?
2007-03-24 20:09:00 Anne Hat haway, star of "The Devil Wears Prada" and more recently "Becoming Jane", is facing an extradition hearing due to her being accused of running her husband's criminal empire after he was jailed for murder. The 44-year was said to be "bewildered" by the allegations, which carry a maximum sentence of 24 years. Friends of the beleaguered film starlet and part time mafia don are equally More About: Anne Hathaway , Connect , Anne , Away
Alle Origini della Mafia
2007-03-24 19:54:00 Origins of the Mafia , also known as Alle Origini della Mafia, is a fairly engrossing five-part English-Italian TV co-production from 1976. If you're like me, you've watched just about every mob movie that's come down the pike, but it's rare to see one that examines the very beginnings of the Mafia, back in Sicily, over four hundred years ago. I understand that some historians doubt a mediaeval More About: Dell , Ella , Origin
The Untouchables
2007-03-24 17:58:00 "The U ntouchables" is one of the few television shows I really missed on DVD. I loved watching it when I was younger and would eat up every single episode of Eliot Ness fighting the Chicago Mob. Accordingly my excitement was high when Paramount Home Entertainment finally announced a DVD version of the series and dropped this little package in my lap. "The Untouchable s" tells the relentless fight More About: Touch , Ouch
America's Most Wanted: James "Whitey" Joseph Bulger
2007-03-18 02:17:00 Friends of ours: James "White y" Bulger, Raymond Patriarca, Jerry Angiulo, "Cadillac" Frank Salemme, Steven "The Rifleman" Flemmi Friends of mine: John Connelly There was a period of time in the 80s when renowned mobster James "Whitey" Bulger led a reign of terror of sorts in Boston, Mass. Those who knew him or dug around for information found their lives threatened by Bulger and his crew. So More About: America , Joseph , Most , Want
Don't You Just Love Chicago Fairy Tales?
2007-03-16 14:25:00 Don't you just love Chicago Fair y Tales ? They're almost like Russian Fairy Tales, but without the little house that walks on the legs of a chicken. Instead, Chicago Fairy Tales sometimes involve condos at preconstruction prices, walking around on the pink, hairless feet of a rat. My favorite Chicago Fairy Tales include: The Chicago Outfit didn't intend to kill Mayor Anton Cermak. Sen. Barack More About: Love , Just
A-List Could Testify about Mob Family Secrets
2007-03-15 14:42:00 Friends of ours: James LaValley, Lenny Patrick, Frank "The German" Schweihs, Sal Romano, Frank Cullotta, Tony Spilotro A former adult bookstore owner and an ex-juice loan enforcer who once threatened to cut off the remaining arm of an amputee are among the witnesses who could testify in the upcoming blockbuster Family Secret s mob trial in Chicago, the Sun-Times has learned. Federal prosecutors More About: About , List , Secrets
Hughes Brothers to Direct The Ice Man
2007-03-13 14:53:00 Friends of ours: Richard "Ice Man" Kuklinski, Gambino Crime Family Allen and Albert Hughes last brought the graphic novel From Hell to the screen. Now they’ve turned to the nonfiction shelves. Daily Variety reports the filmmakers are set to direct The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer, based on the Phillip Carlo book about Richard ‘Ice Man’ Kuklinski. Kuklinski was a contract More About: Brothers , Other , Others , Direct , Hers
Soprano's Say Arrivederci with less Hype
2007-03-12 14:09:00 Friends of ours: Soprano Crime Family For "The Sopranos," this almost constitutes some kind of record. When the HBO mafia series begins its final run of nine episodes on April 8, "only" 10 months will have passed since the last new episode premiered last June. The only gap between seasons that was shorter than this one was the one between the show's The first and second seasons - approximately More About: With , Hype , Less , Arri
Cullotta
2007-03-12 01:02:00 Friends of ours: Tony Spilotro, Joey "The Clown" Lombardo, James Marcello Friends of mine: Frank Cullotta, Michael Spilotro Frank Cullotta first met Anthony Spilotro when they were rival shoeshine boys on Grand Avenue in Chicago. Spilotro's introduction went something like this: "What the f--- are you lookin' at?" The volatile pair nearly brawled that day, but they became friends after
The Clown and the German Face Obstruction of Justice Charges
2007-03-11 01:37:00 Friends of ours: Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo, Frank "The German " Schweihs Federal prosecutors say reputed mob boss Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo and another alleged organized crime figure have been charged with going on the lam to avoid arrest. The obstruction of justice charges were approved by a federal grand jury Thursday and tacked onto a sweeping indictment of 14 defendants. The 78 More About: Justice , Just , Charge , Face
Mafia Killer, The Ice Man, to Hit Hollywood
2007-03-11 01:28:00 Friends of ours: Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski Albert and Allen Hughes, the directing twin brothers who’s last movie was the adaptation of Alan Moore’s From Hell are set to tackle the story of Mafia hitman Richard “Ice Man” Kuklinski. Kuklinski was said to be 6″4 and weighed over 300 pounds when he became a prolific contract killer for the Mafia but amazingly kept his job a secret from his More About: Hollywood , Holly , Killer , Wood
Mobster Gardners
2007-03-09 19:46:00 Friends of mine: John "Dressed Up Johnny" Gardner , William "Peck" Gardner, Bill Gardner, William J. "Sonny" Sheetz A reader has contacted me looking for some additional information on notorious men with the surname of Gardner. If you can supply me with any further information, please send me your scoops. John Gardner, a notorious character and gangster of the worst kind, known as "Dressed - Up
Ex-FBI Agent Getting Taxpayer Help with Defense Bills in Mob Case
2007-03-07 21:35:00 Friends of ours: Colombo Crime Family, Gregory Scarpa Tax payers are footing part of the mounting legal bills for an ex-FBI agent accused of helping a Brooklyn Mafia boss commit four murders, the Daily News has learned. The Justice Department is helping fund retired agent Lindley DeVecchio's defense, which has cost more than $450,000 since his indictment last year by the Brooklyn district More About: Agent , With , Defense , Help
Old Days: Mobsters Whacked for Revenge; Now: They Evict
2007-03-07 17:58:00 Friends of ours: Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, Lucchese Crime Family Friends of mine: Burton Kaplan If you can't settle a vendetta with blood, try real estate. Burton Kaplan, a Mafia informant in the "mob cops" case, was getting back at his one-time ally, Luchese underboss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, when he sued to evict the capo's son from his Brooklyn home last year, court papers reveal. "When More About: Hack , They , Days , Hacked , Revenge
Mob Victim's Relatives Upset with "The Departed"
2007-03-07 15:17:00 Friends of mine: James "Whitey" Bulger While Martin Scorsese is feted by Hollywood for his Oscar-winning film "The Departed ," relatives of people killed or tortured by the real-life Boston Irish mobster on which the movie is based are not applauding. Some say they feel exploited by the film that won best picture and best director in last month's Oscars, or that it stirred up painful memories or More About: Arte , With , Relatives , Part
Origins of the Mafia
More articles from this author:2007-03-06 15:29:00 For decades, gritty stories about the Mafia have occupied the pages of popular literature and dominated the big screens of Hollywood. And yet, few people know the real story behind how and when this formidable system of organized crime actually began. This provocative and compelling 5-part drama from Granada International Television journeys back more than 400 years to 16th-century Sicily, where More About: Origin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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