With the recent acquittal and release of reputed Philadelphia mafia boss Joseph Ligambi and the unsettled state of the crime family the big question is who takes control of the organization. There seems to all of a sudden be a number of guys back on the streets in Philadelphia who may feel that they … [Read more…]
Putting pieces together from court records we were already able to identify two of the four government informants as former Bonanno crime family bosses Joseph Massino and Sal Vitale. Now a third informant has been identified as Gaspare “Gary” Valenti a cousin of reputed Bonanno family captain Vincent Asaro. Valenti implicated Asaro in the … [Read more…]
A powerful Genovese crime family captain Frank “Punchy” Illiano unlike most mobsters passed away at home from natural causes. He was a major force with in the Genovese family serving on several committees and ruling panels through out the 1990’s and into the 2000’s as other top family leaders including former boss Vincent “Chin” … [Read more…]
Italian authorities in the north and south of Italy conducted raids against reputed members of the Calabrian Mafia also known as the Ndrangheta. Over a dozen suspected members of the Ndrangheta mafia were arrested in total in the unrelated raids. Three alleged mobsters linked to the January 2013 murder of San Luca clan boss … [Read more…]
The last year has been very interesting for La Cosa Nostra families across the United States. Many mafia families have seen changes with in their hierarchy due to law enforcement convictions, death natural or otherwise, and other various reasons over the last year. We have put together a list of the current 2014 mafia … [Read more…]
The racketeering re-trial of reputed Philadelphia mafia boss Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi and his nephew and fellow mobster George Borgesi is now in hands of the defense team. Prosecutors rested their case after presenting the jury with testimony from 28 witnesses including turncoat mobsters like Louis “Bent Finger Lou” Monacello along with numerous secretly … [Read more…]
Reputed Colombo crime family mobster Scott Fappiano is headed to trial in Manhattan for extortion charges. He is charged with helping to orchestrate an effort by New York Mafia families to control the garbage-carting industry in New York and New Jersey. Prosecutors claim Fappiano tried to shake down the owner of a waste hauling … [Read more…]
Funeral services are being held today for former Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto in Little Italy at Notre-Dame-de-la-Defence Church. This historic church is also where funerals were held for Vito’s son Nick Rizzuto Jr and father Nicolo Rizzuto after both were assassinated. Mr Rizzuto passed away due to complications from lung cancer at the … [Read more…]
The former underboss of the Colombo crime family Gennaro “Gerry Lang” Langella died Sunday at the age of 74 while serving out his 100 year prison sentence. The former New York Mafia leader was one of eight defendants tried in the most highly publicized mob cases in history the “Mafia Commission Trial” held in … [Read more…]
Reputed Colombo crime family mobster Angelo “Little Angelo” Spata is facing up to 21 months in prison on illegal gambling and money laundering charges after his 2011 arrest during a major mafia sweep. Now the wiseguy is looking for a little divine intervention in hopes of a more lenient sentence by submitting letters from … [Read more…]
Italian police continue to close the circle around Sicilian Mafia boss of bosses Matteo Messina Denaro who has been on the run since 1993. A massive police operation today captured 30 people with links to Denaro which included his sister , nephew, and three of his cousins. Authorities believe these relatives maintain contact with … [Read more…]
Long time Bonanno crime family captain Patrick DeFilippo has passed away in federal prison at the age of 74 according to Bureau of Prisons reports. He was reported to have suffered from arteriosclerosis and after having congestive heart failure was fitted with a pacemaker. It was also reported back in 2012 that he had … [Read more…]
Jurors at the racketeering retrial of reputed Philadelphia mafia boss Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi and fellow mobster George Borgesi were teased with tales of modern day contract slayings and mafia shakedowns and swindles. But instead of these mob tales they have been treated to a long and slow lesson on how the illegal video … [Read more…]
Prosecutors are out to prove that Joel “Joe Waverly” Cacace the former consigliere for the Colombo crime family ordered the killing of NYPD cop Ralph Dols. Dols was shot to death outside his home in 1997 by a Colombo family hit squad. Prosecutors claim Cacace ordered Dols death because he had married the mobsters … [Read more…]
Yet another murder in the ongoing bloody Montreal mafia war as mobster Moreno Gallo is gunned down at an Italian restaurant in Mexican coastal city of Acapulco. Men dressed in black entered the restaurant and shot Gallo multiple times execution style according to Mexican officials. Gallo once considered an Allie of the Rizzuto crime … [Read more…]