Mafia News

You’ve seen the Arcadia Publishing books in your local bookstore. They are the photo-filled paperbacks that celebrate the uplifting local histories of Detroit, its suburbs, and assorted ethnic groups, generally taking a warts-free approach that plays up the bucolic and nostalgic side of yesteryear.

Then there is Arcadia’s “Motor City Mafia,” Scott Burnstein’s history of organized crime in Detroit. It is filled with images of bodies lying in their own blood, mug shots, FBI surveillance photos, Mafia weddings and wise guys with nicknames like Cockeyed Sam, Sammy B, Swinging Sammy, Jimmy Q., Pat the Pimp, Joe the Barber, Tony Pro, Tony Z, Joey Jack, Billy Jack, Frank the Irishman, Sally Buggs, Joe the Whip, Papa John and Black Jack. Continue Reading »

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He beat and stole as mob mole

Legendary FBI agent Joe Pistone is confessing for the first time that he broke the law during the years he spent undercover as mob wanna-be Donnie Brasco.

Warehouse burglaries. Beatings. Truck hijackings. And even a conspiracy to murder a Bonanno crime family capo. Continue Reading »

Today I’m publishing the 2007 Calendar with the heroes and martyrs of Italy instead of saints. Anyone can print it for free or send it to a friend. Obviously, it can’t be used for financial gain. It’s possible that among the many victims there are one or two who have not been cited.

Beppe Grillo

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“The Mafia is oppression, arrogance, greed, self-enrichment, power and hegemony above and against all others. It is not an abstract concept, or a state of mind, or a literary term… It is a criminal organization regulated by unwritten but iron and inexorable rules… The myth of a courageous and generous ‘man of honor’ must be destroyed, because a mafioso is just the opposite.”

Cesare Terranova, Italian Magistrate murdered in 1979

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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 »