Feb 12 2007
Linic: Sanader Protects Mafia
Prominent SDP member severely attacked Sanader, saying money in Croatia goes only to the rich, the country and mafia. Continue Reading »
Archive for February, 2007
Feb 12 2007
Man who helped bug the Mafia dead at 70
Mafia soldier Angelo “Sonny” Mercurio, who helped the FBI land the first-ever bugging of a mob induction ceremony, has died in Little Rock, Ark., where he lived in the federal witness-protection program, relatives said yesterday.
The 70-year-old former member of the Patriarca crime family died on Dec. 11 of a pulmonary embolism, relatives said. Continue Reading »
Feb 12 2007
Friedman Wants Special Anti-Mafia Judges
Minister Daniel Friedman revealed Sunday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has promised him to enable the creation of additional positions for judges whose sole job will be to preside over cases involving organized crime and serious crimes, and for the prosecutors in these cases. Continue Reading »
Feb 10 2007
BONANNO FAMILY
BONANNO FAMILY ACTING UNDERBOSS, ACTING CONSIGLIERE AND 17 CAPOS, SOLDIERS, AND ASSOCIATES INDICTED FOR RACKETEERING, RACKETEERING CONSPIRACY, AND OTHER CHARGES
A superseding indictment was unsealed this morning in federal court in Brooklyn charging nineteen members and associates of the Bonanno organized crime family of La Costa Nostra, including two members of the Bonanno family’s administration – Bonanno family acting underboss NICHOLAS SANTORA and Bonanno family acting consigliere ANTHONY RABITO. This superseding indictment is the latest in an ongoing investigation that has resulted in the prosecution of more than 100 members and associates of the Bonanno family in the Eastern District of New York. Continue Reading »
Feb 10 2007
Thanks to Nuri Gündeş
We have been listening to the National Intelligence Organization’s (MİT) former director of the Istanbul area, Nuri Gündeş, for days now. He is a courteous gentleman whom I have known for a while. He is approaching 90. After his retirement in 1986 he remained silent for a very long time. He is currently working on a book. It is maybe because of this that suddenly he started appearing on TV. During his appearances, he talked about what the “deep state” has been in the past and how the state bureaucracy affected situations. Continue Reading »
Feb 10 2007
The Great Anti-Mafia Cardinal – Salvatore Pappalardo (1918-2006)
As the world news focused on the death of former Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, following a heart attack, on Sunday December 10, 2006 at the venerable age of 91, Sicily lamented unexpectedly the death of Cardinal Salvatore Pappalardo, Archbishop Emeritus of Palermo who passed away during the early hours of that same day at the age of 88. Continue Reading »
