Dec 28 2006
Actor James Gandolfini may be too old to exercise, but that does not worry him, for he feels that he needs to be overweight to play Tony Soprano in ‘The Sopranos’. Continue Reading »
Dec 28 2006
A night of terror staged by drug mafias left at least 16 persons dead in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian media reports said Thursday.
The reports said that in the late-night violence, heavily-armed groups of drug mafia members drove around the city, attacking police patrols and guardposts with gunfire and grenades. Continue Reading »
Dec 28 2006
The Financial Police of Palermo have carried out, during 2006, 430 seizures of goods belonging to members of the mafia, for an overall value of approx. 490 million euros, including 49 companies. Continue Reading »
Dec 28 2006
Napoli ati-mafia investigation unit has seized goods worth around 10 million euro to Cipriano Chianese, an entrepreneur from Caserta who works in the waste disposal sector. According to the investigators the man is a friend of the Casalesi mafia family. The seized goods are some companies, one of these companies works in the sector of waste disposal in Campania and southern Lazio. Police have also seized a 18 meter boat. Continue Reading »
Dec 27 2006
A top Mexican Mafia member, who controlled Hispanic street gangs that operated across Orange County, CA, was sentenced on December 18 to 14 years in federal prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to violating federal racketeering and narcotics laws.
Peter Ojeda, 64, was sentenced by United States District Judge David Carter in a packed Santa Ana courtroom. Continue Reading »
Dec 26 2006
NEW YORK – For more than two decades, the federal RICO law was a pitiless tool in the fight against organized crime – corralling, convicting and incarcerating a long string of mob bosses once considered untouchable.
But in 2006, federal prosecutors lost a pair of major RICO cases: Second-generation mob boss John A. “Junior” Gotti walked after three mistrials, and the most corrupt officers in NYPD history – “Mafia Cops” Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa – had their convictions overturned. Continue Reading »
