Mafia News

A former gangster has recounted the gruesome details of more than a dozen murders in the trial of five Mafia leaders in Chicago, including a killing that helped to inspire the Hollywood film Casino.

Nicholas Calabrese, the star prosecution witness and self-confessed killer in two of the murders, has been giving evidence against his alleged former cronies, including his brother Frank, in a Mob trial hailed as the biggest in the city since Al Capone’s. Continue Reading »

WASHINGTON — It could have been just idle chitchat among bored inmates. The problem was, they weren’t your average inmates, and the subject of their threatening chatter was the chief justice of the United States. Continue Reading »

An Albanian gangster has been gunned down amid a bloody turf war over the right to rob the parking metres in Tony Blair’s street.

Even as police protections team were assessing security at the former Prime Minister’s new London home in Connaught Square, criminals were clashing over who ‘owned’ metres in the exclusive neighbourhood. Continue Reading »

Sofia – The head of the Bulgarian police authority responsible for the combatting of organized crime, Vanyo Tanov, on Thursday resigned in protest at a “political smokescreen” that had been erected to hide the country’s shadow economy. The authority had reached its limits in its fight against corruption in the “higher echelons of power,” Tanov was quoted as saying by Bulgarian media. Continue Reading »

Planells accused of bribery after giving immigration documents to Russian gangs

THE Government’s former number two in Catalunya has been arrested on suspicion of involvement with an Eastern European mafia gang. Continue Reading »

What’s good for the Mafia Cops should also be good for an old-time wiseguy, Dominick “Skinny Dom” Pizzonia claims.

The Gambino capo is looking for the same relief a maverick Brooklyn federal judge gave the murderous mob-cop tandem of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa last year when he reversed their murder convictions on statute of limitations grounds. Continue Reading »

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