Nicky Rizzo has been sentenced to six months in a medical facility on loan sharking and extortion charges from 2011. Now 86 the aging Colombo family mobster listed an string of medical ailments before he was sentenced including prostate and bladder cancer, anxiety and depression in hopes of getting a lighter sentence. It did … [Read more…]
Richard “Richie Nerves” Fusco the reputed consigliere of the Colombo crime family has passed away at the age of 77. Fusco had just completed serving a four month stint in prison after copping a plea to extortion charges that could of netted him up to two years but got a lighter sentence due mostly … [Read more…]
Three mobsters in the Genovese crime family pleaded guilty to extortion charges in a scheme to try to control part of the New York and New Jersey garbage collection industry. Joseph Sarcinella, Dominick Pietranico, and William Cali were arrested along with alleged mafia members for racketeering and other charges back in January. The mob … [Read more…]
Dean DePreta pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the RICO act and as part of his plea deal admitted to his involvement in an illegal gambling and extortion ring in Connecticut. DePreta was called the titular head of the Gambino crime family in southern Connecticut by Assistant U.S. Attorney Hal Chen. He controlled an … [Read more…]
Gerard Chili a captain in the Bonanno crime family decided last December to fly north from his home in Florida to New York for the holiday season. But when his plane arrived in New York he was picked up by alleged high ranking Bonanno family member Anthony “Fat Tony” Rabito who was once part … [Read more…]
Philadelphia mafia leader Anthony Staino has decided to plead guilty to racketeering conspiracy and gambling charges and avoid a retrial. Staino was already found guilty during an earlier trial on two counts of extortion and is awaiting sentencing on those charges. He is set to enter a so-called “open” plea in court this afternoon. … [Read more…]
Long time mobster Anthony “T.G.” Graziano has been “put on the shelf” or made inactive by leaders of the Bonanno crime family. A former family capo and father of “Mob Wives” star Renee Graziano and creator Jennifer Graziano is now stripped of all mob responsibilities and rights according to mob sources because of his … [Read more…]
Early morning raids were conducted by the feds arresting multiple suspects in a federal racketeering probe into the garbage hauling industry. Pre dawn raids Wednesday began around 5 a.m. and involved carting companies in New York city , New Jersey, and Westchester. Reputed members of the Gambino , Lucchese, and Genovese mafia families of … [Read more…]
The Bonanno crime family underboss has been sentenced to two years in prison for racketeering extortion charges. Nicholas “Nicky Mouth” Santora the second in command for the New York mafia family got a two-year sentence along with three years of probation and forfeiture of five thousand dollars. Four months of the sentence is for … [Read more…]
The Gambino crime family now has a new underboss. Sources confirm that powerful Sicilian born capo Frank Cali has been named as the new mob family underboss. Cali age 47 has been noted by authorities as a rising star with in the crime family. Cali was appointed by new Gambino family boss Domenico “Italian … [Read more…]