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New Book “The Hit Man: A True Story of Murder, Redemption and the Melrose Diner”

February 5, 2012
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Fox 29 has done several interviews in the past with John Veasey, the most-feared man in the Philadelphia mob. The new book from Ralph Cipriano and Dave Schratwieser “The Hit Man: A True Story of Murder, Redemption and the Melrose Diner” has many chilling parts. The book tells the story of Veasey, the former...

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Revisiting an Old Neighborhood

February 5, 2012
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Crime writer Megan Abbot looks back at Pleasant Avenue in East Harlem, once the stomping ground for Genovese boss Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno. David Durk and Ira Silverman wrote in their 1976 exposé The Pleasant Avenue Connection, "If you knew the right people, you could go there at three in the morning and borrow...

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83-Year-Old Reputed Mobster Wants Probation Lifted

February 5, 2012
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Jerome Brancato, an 83-year-old reputed soldier in the Gambino crime family, once close to the Gotti family has asked a judge to end his probation early so he can start enjoying his vacation home in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Brancato wants to spend time in Florida and visit his brother in Canada. But the rules...

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Ex-Mob Boss Marcello Crying Foul

February 5, 2012
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Five years ago in Chicago James "Jimmy the Man" Marcello was convicted in the Family Secrets trial against the Chicago Outfit for his role in the 1986 murders of the Spilotro brothers. The government located him in a California prison to serve out his double life sentence and Marcello is crying foul, whining that...

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Anti-Mafia Magistrate Borsellino Sacrificed Himself

February 4, 2012
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A trial witness has said that Paolo Borsellino, the Italian anti-Mafia magistrate who was killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo in 1992, knew about the attempt on his life and chose to sacrifice himself. Colonel Umberto Sinico, a witness for the defence in the Mori trial, reported that in late June 1992...

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Local Govt Dissolved for “mafia infiltration”

February 4, 2012
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The Italian government on Friday dissolved the city government of the northern border town of Ventimiglia because of suspected infiltration by organized crime. The scenic town of 25,000 residents on the Ligurian coast last year drew international attention because the hundreds of illegal migrants attempting to cross into France from the city after arriving...

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Mafia Treasure Hunters and the Costa Concordia

February 3, 2012
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Lying silently beneath the pristine Italian waters are jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian glassware, and thousands of art objects – including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master. When passengers fled the Costa Concordia, they left everything behind and now a fortune is at the mercy of treasure hunters. It could just...

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Japanese City Takes On Its Gangsters

February 3, 2012
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Two years ago, the authorities in Kitakyushu, Japan, a gritty rust-belt region declared war on the yakuza, Japan’s entrenched organized crime syndicates. And that is exactly what they got. Since this city and other local governments beefed up regulations to take on the yakuza — making it a criminal offense for companies and individuals...

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Feds Ask to Empanel Anonymous Jury in Mob Trial

February 3, 2012
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The trial against accused former mob boss Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio and six others who are accused of running a continuing criminal enterprise that engaged in extortion of strip clubs for protection payments is scheduled to begin on April 23. The Rhode Island U.S. Attorney’s office, citing concerns over jury safety and extensive media...

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Claims of Judge’s Mafia Ties Ignored by Bulgarian Prosecution

February 2, 2012
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Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev has made it clear that the prosecution will not examine the allegations of Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov against Miroslava Todorova, a judge at the Sofia City Court and Chair of the Bulgarian Judges Association. In a series of media appearances two weeks ago, Tsvetanov claimed that Todorova was incompetent in...

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