Tri-State Employment Services failed to disclose the employment of reputed Bonanno crime family mobster and accused murderer Neil Messina while bringing in millions of dollars in government contracts. Messina served as a division president for the company but was busted for his role in a fatal 1992 home invasion in 2011. The company failed … [Read more…]
Vincent Asaro a reputed capo in the Bonanno crime family has been hit with a superseding indictment containing two additional charges. The mobster is already facing charges for his part in the infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist along with the gangland murder of mob associate Paul Katz. The new charges from the recent indictment have … [Read more…]
A new book by veteran mafia writers Antonio Nicaso and Peter Edwards called Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto’s Last War has been released. The book details the final years of former Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto and the bloody mafia war he waged to avenge the death of his father and son … [Read more…]
the mafia in New York leadership has been in some what of a transition period over the last several months with former acting boss Jospeh Ligambi going into what is being called semi-retirement. Who is the boss of the Philly mafia has been an ongoing debate of late and it seems like a ruling … [Read more…]
Anthony Nicodemo a soldier in the Philadelphia mafia has agreed to plead guilty to murder charges according to sources. He is charged in the 2012 gangland style hit on Gino Dipietro. After a mistrial was declared in the original trial with jurors being dismissed and speculation of attempted jury tampering. It was believed that … [Read more…]
According to the new book from John Alite and George Anastasia called Gotti’s Rules: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia an FBI memo confirms that Junior Gotti took part in a proffer session in which he fingered his dad and two other Gambino crime family mobsters … [Read more…]
A massive Mafia operation targeted against the Calabrian Mafia also known as the Ndrangheta leads to over 160 arrests. Over 1000 members of the Carabinieri were involved in raids across the northern regions of Lombardia, Veneto, Emilia Romagna, and Piemonte along with Calabria and Sicily. Franco Roberti the National Anti-Mafia prosecutor called the operation … [Read more…]
Here is a follow up to the previous story on Vito Rizzuto the Montreal mafia and its connection to Michael DeGroote and the Dominican Republic casinos. Here is an episode of “The Fifth Estate” on Michael DeGroote one of Canada’s richest men and how he invest into the Dream Venture and Carribean casinos and … [Read more…]
Vito Rizzuto was caught by security camera’s as he strolled through a casino in the Dominican Republic on August 14, 2013, just 131 days before he passed away back in Montreal. The long-time boss of the Rizzuto Crime family of the Montreal mafia was believed to have been in the Dominican on business and … [Read more…]
During a mafia raid against the Pizzata Clan of the Ndrangheta in Rome where 26 members alleged mobsters were arrested a document was found by police. The document believed to have been written by the Calabrian Mafia also known as the Ndrangheta and is said to reveal the initiation rights and rituals of the … [Read more…]
John (Junior) Gotti the son of late mafia boss John Gotti has released his tell all book Shadow of My Father. The book gives a look into how it was growing up as the son of a mob boss and a peek inside the world of one of the most notorious mafia families of … [Read more…]
The mafia is once again the focus of a new AMC docudrama called ‘Making of the Mob: New York‘ being made by Stephen David’s production company which produced the hit History channel show The Men Who Built America. The new eight part series will detail the history of the original five families of New … [Read more…]
John Gotti Jr. saw his fellow mob pal John Alite take the stand against him back in 2009 in an unsuccessful attempt to put him behind bars for murder conspiracy and racketeering. It was a last gasp shot by feds to finally put Junior Gotti away but the testimony of Alite wasn’t enough and like … [Read more…]
Daniele Ranieri has been on the run since he was named as a target in Project Forza on extortion and conspiracy charges and is now believed to have fled the country according to authorities. The mobster is believed to run the GTA operations for the Rizzuto family in Montreal taking over after the murder … [Read more…]
Joseph Merlino is headed back to prison today this time in Miami for a four month stint on charges that he violated his supervised release. He was convicted back in 2001 on charges of racketeering and was under supervised release down in Florida. He was caught by authorities meeting with Philly mobster John “Johnny … [Read more…]