Archive for December, 2009

Both sides weary of fight to prosecute `Junior' Gotti after 4th mob mistrial in NYC A new judge, new charges, new star witness and a new jury added up to a familiar result — a mistrial for John "Junior" Gotti on racketeering charges. This one, though, might be his last. After four trials in...
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The murder of a Montreal mafia leader's son could unleash a bloody struggle over control of the criminal group, Canadian experts said Tuesday. Nick Rizzuto, whose father Vito Rizzuto is currently imprisoned in the United States, was shot dead at close range in broad daylight on a Montreal street near his car on Monday....
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Experts are warning of a potential organized crime war following reports that the son of Canada's most powerful mobster has been killed in Montreal. Nick Rizzuto son of Vito Rizzuto, the so-called head of Canada's Mafia was gunned down Monday in N-D-G. His murder may be linked to recent bombings of Italian cafes according...
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December 29, 2009 6:27 a.m. EST Montreal, Quebec, Canada (AHN) – Canadian authorities are anticipating more gangland killings following the shooting of the son of Canada's top Mafia leader. Nicolo Rizzuto Jr. was shot dead on Monday. The shooting took place near a three-story apartment building at the corner of Upper Lachine Road and...
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London firms act as fronts for drug-dealing and money-laundering and provide hideouts for fugitive gunmen, says anti-mafia investigator. The tentacles of the mafia are spreading to the UK, as British cities become key locations in the mob's vital money-laundering operations, according to Italy's leading expert in organized crime, Francesco Forgione. Last week Britain's Gambling...
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Here are a couple of videos relating to the Winter Hill Gang of Boston. One features Weeks on 60 Minutes, the other Nee and his war with Bulger. Interesting stuff.     // Share|
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ITALY’S four main Mafia organizations are believed to have put aside their deadly differences to form a new and dangerous ”fifth mafia” in Rome. The impoverished south has been the traditional power base for the four big crime syndicates – Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, the Camorra from Campania, the ‘Ndragheta of Calabria and the Sacra...
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Arkansas man’s ties to Mafia is surprising to neighbor A Cabot man was indicted Thursday in Massachusetts for his alleged involvement in organized crime. In addition to drug trafficking, George Wiley Thompson, 64, allegedly supplied guns to the Mafia’s Colombo Family, according to the Thursday indictment. He was arrested a month ago on other...
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None of the jurors took up John A. (Junior) Gotti Jr.’s invitation to Christmas dinner. But the recently freed son of the Teflon Don was in a merry mood anyway and celebrated the day with family and friends. “I had no way of contacting them ,” said Gotti outside his Oyster Bay, L.I.,...
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Two reputed wiseguys federal prosecutors say were part of an advance team for the New York Colombo crime family trying to encroach on Boston’s enfeebled Mafia pleaded not guilty yesterday to racketeering charges. Franklin Goldman, 66, of Randolph and Edmond Kulesza, 56, of Somerville are alleged to have been members of a local crew...
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