An FBI document that was filed away nearly 45 years ago, is a valuable record of a vote held in 1976 by New York’s ruling mob commission. For the first time in two decades, they are discussing admitting new members. Carlo Gambino’s, fear that this will lead to informants infiltrating the organization is well documented. … [Read more…]
Ex-Colombo crime family boss Thomas “Tommy Shots” Gioeli loves playing ping-pong. Back in 2013, in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center Gioeli, who suffers from diabetes and heart disease, was enjoying a game when he went to retrieve an errant ball, slipped in a puddle caused by a leaking pipe under a sink and broke his kneecap … [Read more…]
Putting a freeze on the New York mafia is no easy task. Even Bobby Kennedy and Rudy Giuliani tried but could not freeze their activities. Then along came COVID-19. The cancellation of all major sporting events across the entire country has hit the mafia’s illegal gambling business with a historic blow. “There’s never been a … [Read more…]
Mafia profits are set to grow once quarantine is lifted. It looks like the Italian Mafia, and for that matter mafia from all over the world, will significantly increase their profits due to the coronavirus pandemic by way of adapting their drug networks and seizing new business opportunities. As Italy desperately struggles to deal with … [Read more…]
When the authorities start closing in on the Italian crime world, even the toughest mobsters flee to Britain. Some to hide and blend in; Some so they can keep running their criminal organizations Being associated with the Mafia is not recognized as a crime in Britain. The Mafia isn’t even recognized as a criminal organization. … [Read more…]
After nine years of trying, Pizza, one of Italy’s national dishes helps the FBI secure convictions on some slippery Mafia members. ‘The Pizza Connection’ case leads to the conviction of 18 people from various gangs. They were running an estimated $1.6 Billion drug smuggling operation. A large amount of cash was seized along with weapons … [Read more…]
The New York borough of Queens had yet to see its boom in organized crime until the late 1930s. Not that Queens was a particularly popular area for Mafia families to carry out their Costa Nostra activities, rather they were lured in due to the airport built during the infrastructural developmental boom there, which took … [Read more…]
With a little help from one of New York City’s most notorious crime families, it was the man in charge of protecting the game pieces of McDonald’s high-stakes Monopoly promotional game that ultimately led to a $24 million scam that robbed real customers of their chance to win the biggest prizes. Jerome Jacobson, a former … [Read more…]
Theodore Persico Jr is making his way back to the streets after doing a 12-year stretch in federal prison for murder conspiracy. Is he next in line to take the reigns of the rebuilding Colombo crime family? Persico ordered mob underlings to whack rival Colombo family mobster Joseph Scopo back in 1993. Scopo was a … [Read more…]
Colombo crime family captain Joseph Amato and 10 other alleged members and associates of the New York Mafia family targeted in the latest mob bust. More than 20 defendants were charged with racketeering, extortion, loansharking, stalking, and attempted sports bribery according to indictments unsealed in Brooklyn federal court. Among those charged with racketeering along … [Read more…]
Colombo crime family soldier Sebastian Saracino didn’t just turn on his New York Mafia family but on his own family as well when he decided to flip. When the feds busted the Sicilian-born Saracino back in 2010 for supplying false information on immigration documents they had no idea that he would help them dismantle … [Read more…]
Colombo crime family captain Dino Calabro decided to turn on his mafia pals and become a government informant after he was arrested in 2008. The 59-year-old mobster helped the feds take down various members of the New York mafia testifying at the trials of former Colombo family leaders Thomas Gioeli and Joel Cacace. Calabro … [Read more…]
Brooklyn federal judge Dora Irizarry continued to take a hard line with reputed Colombo crime family mobster Michael Persico refusing to let him stay out on bail during his appeal. Irizarry hit the New York mafia scion with a five-year sentence for a loan sharking conviction a month ago even though the suggested federal … [Read more…]
Michael Persico the son of legendary Colombo crime family boss Carmine “The Snake” Persico was sentenced to five years behind bars on loansharking charges. Prosecutors believed that Persico deserved at least three years in prison according to federal guidelines after pleading guilty to the loansharking charge but Judge Dora Irizarry hit the mafia scion … [Read more…]
John (Sonny) Franzese a long time Colombo crime family mobster had been set for an early release from prison a present from the federal jailers since December 27th but was derailed by pneumonia. The legendary wiseguy was too sick to be released to a halfway house according to the Bureau of prisons. His official … [Read more…]