Oct 30 2007
A notorious Italian mafioso has fathered a child from behind bars despite being denied private visits from his wife.
Raffaele Cutolo’s daughter was born after he won a legal battle to become a father through artificial insemination. Continue Reading »
Oct 29 2007
NEW YORK — The FBI covertly used mob muscle to help solve the 1964 disappearance of three civil rights volunteers in Mississippi, a gangster’s ex-girlfriend testified Monday, becoming the first witness to repeat in open court a story that has been underworld lore for years. Continue Reading »
Oct 29 2007
Tony Gonzales-Rodriguez Jr.
The person who federal authorities say is the Mexican Mafia’s No. 2 man in the Coachella Valley appeared on drug-trafficking charges in a Riverside federal courtroom Monday after months on the lam. Continue Reading »
Oct 25 2007
FORMER New York mayor and US presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani’s life may have been saved by a single mafia boss who vetoed his assassination.
According to the testimony of an FBI agent, the five heads of the New York mob discussed a possible “hit” on the then-federal prosecutor at a 1986 meeting, the New York Post reported. Continue Reading »
Oct 25 2007
A 57-year-old woman was in jail in Sicily last night accused of handing over her son to the mafia to be murdered. Her daughter was also in custody, accused of the same offence. Police said the mother and sister attended the mobsters’ “summit” at which his fate was planned.
Sebastiano Mazzeo, the 20-year-old son of a Cosa Nostra godfather, disappeared in 1989 after it became known he was cooperating with the authorities. His body has never been found, and according to testimony from mafiosi who turned state’s evidence, it was chopped into bits with a machete. Continue Reading »
Oct 25 2007
$600M global money-laundering ring cracked
Nicolo (Nick) Rizzuto
MONTREAL – The long tentacles of the Montreal Mafia can travel well beyond prison walls, say Italian anti-Mafia police who have arrested at least a dozen people in a large-scale money-laundering operation based in Italy and allegedly orchestrated by Vito Rizzuto. Continue Reading »
