Dec 29 2006
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Carlo Gambino are long gone. Murder Inc. is out of business. Las Vegas has been so cleaned up it resembles Disneyland. And Havana? Forget about it since Castro took over.
But Albert “Chinky” Facchiano, at 96, is still standing. And like Michael Corleone in “The Godfather III,” he is still very much involved in the family business, according to the FBI. Continue Reading »
Dec 29 2006
A MODEL was held as she tried to smuggle cocaine worth £1million in her belly. Mercedes Brito, 24, was stopped as she stepped off a plane following a tip-off.
She was taken to a nearby hospital where a body scan showed 98 tiny packages of the drug weighing 1.2kg. Police said the haul would be worth almost £1million when diluted with other substances. Continue Reading »
Dec 29 2006
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said that his government has been ruling without corruption.
“In dealing with the mafia and corruption I caught every branch of the government, that means that I did not deal with them selectively, without any special rights”, Kostunica told Radio Television Serbia yesterday. Continue Reading »
Dec 29 2006
The crime stories of the most notorious Sicilian mafiosi of recent years are being rewritten this week in Milan as the result of the testimony of a new and, as yet, unidentified supergrass. Continue Reading »
Dec 29 2006
Nobody Knows Anything About the Operations of the Assassins.
(Date: May 17, 1903 ) “There is just as much mystery about this society in Italy,” said my informant, “as in the United States. You might live in Palermo or Messina with all your neighbors members of the Mafia, and yet never hear the word mentioned. It is something that no one cares to talk about. We only know that money is extorted right and left, because it is certain death to refuse, and unless these murderers are caught red-handed, they are rarely convicted. Continue Reading »
Dec 28 2006
4 others refused. No decisions made on fate of Rizzuto.
They may have spent Christmas in prison, but they will be home to greet the new year with court-imposed restrictions.
Fourteen people, including a former customs agent, an Air Canada baggage handler and a taxi driver, were released on strict bail conditions yesterday until their trials for allegedly taking part in an elaborate plan to import cocaine into Canada through Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Dorval. Continue Reading »
