Jan 16 2009
NEW YORK — Mob scion John A. “Junior” Gotti should stay behind bars while awaiting trial on charges he was involved in three gangland murders and cocaine trafficking, a judge ruled Thursday. Continue Reading »
Jan 16 2009
MIAMI – Tommy Hussey was standing in the courtroom yesterday, watching John Connolly shake hands and hug people, and he couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
“I never seen anything like it,” Tommy Hussey was saying. “Guy gets 40 years and you’d think he won the lottery.” Continue Reading »
Jan 16 2009
Naples — Anti-Mafia police on Friday seized 100 million euros worth of assets belonging to the Casalesi crime family outside the southern Italian city of Naples. The family is part of a Mafia clan allegedly linked to murders in the province of Caserta, north of the city. The assets included real estate, companies and shares, and a luxury vehicle. Continue Reading »
Jan 15 2009
MIAMI — Tommy Hussey was standing in the courtroom today, watching John Connolly shake hands and hug people and he couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
“I never seen anything like it,” Tommy Hussey was saying. “Guy gets 40 years and you’d think he won the Lottery.” Continue Reading »
Jan 14 2009
Giuseppe Setola, one of Italy’s 30 most wanted men, was captured not far from his home at Caserta near Naples
Rome — Giuseppe Setola, the Naples Mafia boss who eluded a police raid earlier this week by escaping through a trapdoor in his hideout into the sewers, has been arrested after two days on the run. Continue Reading »
Jan 13 2009
CASERTA — An alleged Mafia hitman eluded capture Tuesday by fleeing his house through a tunnel to the sewer system beneath Caserta, near Naples, Italian police said.
Police said Giuseppe Setola, 38, featured in Roberto Saviano’s bestselling work on the Mafia in Naples, “Gomorra,” is one of Italy’s 30 most wanted criminals. Continue Reading »
