Jul 05 2008
The Dixie Mafia Murders
Pete Halat was not exactly dumbstruck when his former law partner, Judge Vince Sherry, and Sherry’s wife were found executed in their Biloxi, Miss., home. Continue Reading »
Archive for the 'USA' Category
Jul 01 2008
‘Mafia cop’ sentenced in Las Vegas tax case
LAS VEGAS — A former New York police detective accused of moonlighting as a hit man for the mob has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for filing a false income tax return. Continue Reading »
Jun 10 2008
Burnt ‘Hot Dogs’: The Mob’s Set-Up Man
A not-so-bright wiseguy faces the music in the school-bus scandal
You’d want to believe that the schemers who kept New York City’s school-bus industry under the Mafia’s thumb for more than 30 years would be a pretty tough bunch. Who else could keep mayors, bureaucrats, and prosecutors at bay for decades while feeding like voracious bedbugs off the city’s most vital enterprise? Continue Reading »
Jun 07 2008
Reputed Gambino consigliere pleads guilty in NYC extortion case; drug charge dropped
NEW YORK — The reputed consigliere of the Gambino crime family has pleaded guilty to extortion charges, part of a wide-ranging mob case involving dozens of people and a decades-long roster of crimes. Continue Reading »
Jun 05 2008
HarperCollins sues mob chief’s daughter over book
NEW YORK — Victoria Gotti, a newspaper columnist and the daughter of late Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, was sued on Thursday by HarperCollins Publishers for the return of a $70,000 advance on a memoir that was never written. Continue Reading »
Jun 05 2008
Mexican Mafia figure faces new charges
SAN DIEGO –- A member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, already in federal prison for trafficking drugs on behalf of the Arellano Felix cartel, faces new charges – this time for orchestrating a methamphetamine deal from behind bars. Continue Reading »
Jun 04 2008
Nine arrested in mob crackdown
NEW YORK — A reputed acting mob boss is being held without bail in New York City after being arrested with eight other suspected gangsters for alleged Mafia crimes. Continue Reading »
Jun 02 2008
Albanian mafia at work in New York
The Albanian organized crime groups, operating largely in New York City, are carrying out serious criminal offenses, Manhattan Attorney Michael Garcia said. Continue Reading »
Jun 01 2008
What the Mexicans Might Learn From the Italians
The body of Carmine Galante was found in Brooklyn in 1979.
The headline in The New York Times that morning in 1984 was macabre, if unintentionally hilarious: “Unknown Arm of Sicilian Mafia Is Uncovered in the United States.”
The arm in question was not a body part but rather an overseas cell of the Italian criminal underworld operating alongside its better-known American counterpart — the Bonanno family in Brooklyn. Through neighborhood fronts around the country, the Italians had been masterminding the billion-dollar heroin pipeline that became known as the Pizza Connection. Continue Reading »
May 31 2008
Japanese mafia dons donated £50,000 after jumping queue for US liver transplants
Two Japanese mafia dons who jumped a long queue to get liver transplants in the United States each made donations of £50,000 to the Californian hospital that operated on them. Continue Reading »
