Thirteen alleged members and associates of the Genovese crime family from the New York mafia were busted in “Operation Shark Bait” according to law enforcement officials. The organized crime crackdown targeted mob gambling, loan-sharking, and bootlegging schemes controlled by the Genovese family. Among those busted was 76-year-old made man and operation ring leader Salvatore (Sallie) … [Read more…]
More violence and bloodshed could be on the horizon as the fight for control of the Montreal mafia continues. Nicola Spagnolo a key member of the Montreal mafia and the Rizzuto crime family now has a contract on his head according to a recent report from TVA Nouvelles. Spagnolo was met by authorities who … [Read more…]
Charles Stango, an alleged DeCavalcante crime family captain has made good on his plea agreement with the feds admitting to soliciting undercover FBI agents to whack a mafia associate. Stango plead guilty in Newark before U.S. District judge William H. Walls and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. According … [Read more…]
A popular Montreal eatery named Linguini restaurant located in Baie d’Urfé that burned to the ground last month may hold clues in the ongoing Montreal mafia war. According to a Journal de Montreal report, a meeting that included members of the Violi and Cotroni families took place there in early October. Among those present … [Read more…]
According to reports Charles Stango, an alleged captain in the New Jersey mafia has agreed to plead guilty to murder for hire charges. The 73-year-old DeCavalcante crime family mobster was recorded conspiring with other mobsters to have rival wiseguy Luigi Oliveri whacked. An FBI undercover agent also recorded Stango making threats against the mafia … [Read more…]
Danny De Gregorio an alleged lieutenant in the Montreal mafia was sentenced to 32 months behind bars for possession of a prohibited and loaded firearm without a permit. He was shot three times coming out of a gym in St-Leonard which authorities believed was a failed mafia hit back in 2009. An investigation by … [Read more…]
Mafia expert and author Selwyn Raab published his book Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires back in 2005. At that time Raab called the mafia “a crushed colossus” and it was clear that decades of RICO indictments had Cosa Nostra on its heels. Raab spent four decades … [Read more…]
Ralph Santaniello was arrested back in August along with four other alleged members of a mafia crew in Springfield controlled by the Genovese crime family. Their arrest was part of a federally organized crime sweep that targeted nearly 40 alleged members and associates of what the feds have called the East Coast LCN Enterprise. … [Read more…]
Leonard Falzone the alleged boss of the Buffalo mafia also known as the Magaddino crime family passed away from natural causes. The 81-year-old reputed mobster has been the leader of the fading Cosa Nostra family for approx a decade according to the feds. Falzone took the reigns of the beleaguered crime family back in … [Read more…]
Colombo crime family mobster Lukey DiMatteo has been sentenced to five years in prison for a mafia shakedown of a Brooklyn tattoo parlor. According to prosecutors the owner of the business was forced to pay $150 a week in extortion payments from the mid-1990s to 2015 totaling more than $100,000. Assistant U.S. Attorney Allon … [Read more…]
Pasquale Barbaro a reputed Sydney crime figure was shot several times execution-style in what authorities are calling a brutal gangland hit. The 35-year-old was born into the Calabrian mafia also known as the Ndrangheta according to local crime author Keith Moor who wrote the book “Busted” about the well-known underworld family. He was gunned … [Read more…]
Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano the former boss of the Bonanno crime family is no longer calling the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado home. The 56-year-old mobster has been moved out of the nation’s most secure prison to Big Sandy a federal penitentiary in Kentucky according to a NYdailynews report. Prosecutors feared that a handwritten list passed … [Read more…]
Former Philadelphia mafia boss turned government witness Ralph Natale is set to tell his life story in his upcoming book Last Don Standing: The Secret Life of Mob Boss Ralph Natale. According to reports from Deadline he has also made a deal to have The Last Don Standing which hits shelves on March 21, … [Read more…]
The arrest of Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino the alleged boss of the Philadelphia mafia back in August wasn’t as surprising as the surrounding circumstances. According to the feds, Merlino was a leader in what has been called the “East Coast LCN Enterprise” along with Genovese crime family captains Pasquale “Patsy” Parrello and Eugene “Rooster” … [Read more…]
New England mafia captain Anthony “The Saint” St. Laurent who was suffering from multiple health problems passed away from natural causes this week. According to reports, the 75-year-old mobster was rushed to the hospital on Sunday where he passed away. St. Laurent had just been released from prison a couple of weeks ago from … [Read more…]