Posts Tagged ‘ Bonanno ’

Five alleged Bonanno crime family members, including reputed acting capo Anthony Pipitone, pleaded guilty for their roles in a brutal attack that left two teenagers hospitalized with stab wounds after windows were busted in a mob-connected Queens restaurant in 2004. The mobsters beat and knifed the wrong kids after an associate from another crime...
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It’s interesting that some members of the Manzo family, particularly Caroline, on the currently popular TV show “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” deny mob ties with their father in law Albert “Tiny” Manzo. For those who don’t follow the show very closely Caroline is the redhead and her sister Dina, the blonde. A...
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What is the cause of the recent upheaval within the Rizzuto organization? In an article by Pierre de Champlain in the Journal de Montreal, the retired RCMP analyst listed the theory, among four, that "certain members of the Montreal Mafia have decided to do some interior cleaning of their own house." He wrote that...
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The Calabrian Cotroni family is a criminal organization based in Canada. The family was headed by Vic Cotroni in the 1940s and by the 1950s the family evolved into an important branch of the Bonanno crime family. The family once controlled most of southern Quebec and Ontario, until the Rizzuto family supplanted them. Paolo...
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The Cuntrera and Caruana families originated from Siculiana, a small village on the south coast of Sicily in the province of Agrigento. They are relatives; and they inter-married. The Cuntrera-Caruana clan used to be armed guards for the local baron Agnello, who owned most of the village and the surrounding land. People in the...
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There are currently many “expert” opinions on the Montreal hit of Agostino Cuntrera, reputed Rizzuto crime family member and his bodyguard yesterday in a gangland style shooting in St. Leonard. Sources report Cuntrera was reluctantly the acting “Don” while Vito does his time in Colorado and that may or may not be so but...
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Vito Rizzuto, the reputed boss of the Montreal Mafia who is serving a 10-year sentence at a federal penitentiary in Florence, CO filed for an appeal that if successful could see him released this year. His racketeering case was part of a larger investigation that targeted the Bonanno crime family and produced more than...
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Joseph "Sammy" Sammartino, 55, of New Jersey a reputed Bonanno capo who was arrested last October with fourteen others, has pled guilty to loansharking. He admitted conspiring "with other wiseguys to collect a high-interest loan from a victim identified only as 'Sal from Staten Island,'" and faces up to two years in prison when...
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John Franzese Jr. recorded some incriminating admissions by his dad John “Sonny” Franzese while wearing a wire and working as an informant for the feds, but no mention of murder was heard by the jury. There were no revelations as to Sonny’s role in the crime family but the following; In a March 10,...
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