Posts Tagged ‘ US ’

Last week Anthony "Tony D" Palumbo,  reputed Genovese capo, pleaded guilty to a 1992 conspiracy to take out Monya Elson, a feared Russian gangster. From 1991 to 1993, Elson practiced his chosen profession in both Brighton Beach and Los Angeles and survived three shootings and a bomb blast. During that same period, Elson survived...
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Reputed Genovese capo Felix Tranghese, of East Longmeadow, arrested last July for his alleged role in the 2003 hit of fellow capo Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno in Springfield, MA, may now be playing for the Feds. Tranghese, 58, reputed to be a made man and  capo in the New York-based Genovese crime family, according...
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New York Times news assistant Jennifer Mascia, recently wrote Never Tell Our Business To Stangers, a book which chronicles growing up as the daughter of Gambino hitman John Mascia. By trade, John Mascia was a carpet cleaner but years later his daughter was to learn he was involved in much more. // Share|
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In April of 2010 federal prosecutors filed an indictment against 14 Gambino defendants, which included accusations that some had run a trafficking ring involving women under the age of 20. Mr. McMahon, an attorney for the defense claimed in court papers that the witness, Jude Buoneto, who assisted in the trafficking, was a convicted...
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Reputed acting capo for the Genovese crime family, Anthony “Tony D” Palumbo, 61, pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to kill a Russian organized crime hit man in 1992. He faces 10 years in prison when sentenced Dec. 3. Prosecutor Avi Weitzman said Palumbo and other Genovese gangsters engaged in a plot to kill...
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A Gambino crime family indictment, announced in April 2010, charged 14 defendants with extortion, gambling, loan sharking and some with sex trafficking, with girls as young as 15. One prosecutor suggested that the activity might represent “a new low for the Gambino family.” A defense lawyer in the case contends that the government helped...
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The Chino Valley, Arizona police arrested twenty-seven individuals on Sunday for their alleged involvement in a shootout between the rival Hells Angels and Vagos motorcycle clubs. "Yesterday I got caught in gunfire by two biker gangs," neighbor Jon Humen said. "I moved here from Phoenix to get away from this," he said. When he...
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Marty Angelina, the reputed underboss for the Philadelphia Mafia, was sentenced yesterday to a year of probation after spitting in the face of a Margate, NJ cop following a 2009 disorderly conduct arrest. Angelina, 48, also was ordered to have no contact with anyone associated with the criminal organization once led by Joseph “Skinny...
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John McNally, an ex-NYPD detective who became a private investigator, allegedly "is the longtime associate” of John Gotti’s reputed hitman Joseph Watts, and has worked with him on extortion and money laundering for years, documents filed in Manhattan Federal Court say." Now prosecutors say John McNally is an unindicted co-conspirator to one of the...
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Joseph Barone, reputed Genovese family member and long-time FBI informer who cooperated with the feds after the mob whacked his Genovese soldier father, was freed on $20,000 bail after a federal jury found him not guilty in a $1 million murder-for-hire plot. His co-defendant, businessman Anthony Piliero, was also acquitted by a federal jury...
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