The American Mafia Today

[BrooklynGuy]

Gambinos set businessman's Mercedes ablaze while trying to collect a debt, feds charge

Talk about your childish Gambinos. Three men tied to the notorious “organized” crime family torched a car to intimidate a businessman, but botched the job when one member of the thick-headed trio caught fire and was captured on tape scurrying away, federal prosecutors said Friday. Peter Tuccio, Jonathan Gurino and Gino Gabrielli chased down the businessman in Dec. 2015 after seeing him leave a Howard Beach smoke shop, eventually confronting him outside a pizza parlor, a newly unsealed indictment revealed.

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-metro-gambino-torch-111618-story.html

 

Police want $50K reward for information about killing of mobster Angelo Musitano

Hamilton police believe the family and friends of two men wanted for the killing of mobster Angelo Musitano know where they're hiding — and $50,000 might be enough to make them talk. A recommendation from Chief Eric Girt, which will be reviewed by the city's police service's board Thursday during its first meeting since the municipal election, calls for a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of "persons both known and unknown who were responsible" for the gangster's death.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/musitano-mobster-hamilton-police-reward-1.4911633

 

A New York Bookie Nears the End of the Line

“I’m a pencil and paper guy,” said Eddie the bookie, and the minute I stepped into his office I could see he wasn’t kidding. In a basement apartment dominated by four desks arranged in an L shape, the office was exactly how you’d imagine a bookie’s office would look: It would not have been out of place in “The Sting.” On every desk was a neat stack of index-card-size tickets on which he and his employees had written, in triplicate, each bettor’s wagers on Sunday’s football games. I visited Eddie on a Monday morning; he and his crew would spend the day toting up each customer’s wins or losses, and then settling up. In cash, of course.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-25/sports-gambling-evolves-a-bookie-nears-the-end-of-the-line

[BrooklynGuy]

GTA cocaine conspiracy was tied to ’Ndrangheta crime network, Crown says at sentencing of alleged mob boss

Canada has a role to play in fighting international organized crime groups like the ’Ndrangheta, a senior GTA prosecutor said as he called for stiff sentences against two men convicted in a historic cocaine trafficking conspiracy. “These offences occurred in the context of one of the most sophisticated criminal organizations in the world — the ’Ndrangheta,” prosecutor Tom Andreopoulos told Superior Court Justice Judge Brian O’Marra in Toronto on Thursday.

Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/11/09/gta-cocaine-conspiracy-was-tied-to-ndrangheta-crime-network-crown-says-at-sentencing-of-alleged-mob-boss.html

[BrooklynGuy]

Rizzuto unfairly targeted because of family name, defense argues

The police included Leonardo Rizzuto as a suspect in a drug trafficking investigation based mostly on his family name, a defense lawyer argued on Wednesday as the alleged Montreal Mafia leader’s trial began at the Montreal courthouse. The charges Rizzuto faces are related to how police found two handguns and five grams of cocaine inside his home in November 2015. At the time, they were making arrests in Project Magot, a lengthy investigation into organized crime and cocaine trafficking led by the Sûreté du Québec.

Read more: https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/alleged-montreal-mafia-leader-rizzuto-faces-trial-on-gun-drug-charges

[BrooklynGuy]

New Mob Talk is out:

 

[BrooklynGuy]

New gangs could be seeking mob turf in the Bronx

When 71-year-old Sylvester Zottola ended up dead in a bullet-riddled car, as he waited for coffee at a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Bronx Oct. 4, it might have looked like a traditional mob hit. But when police arrested a suspect just about a week later, he wasn’t your typical wise guy from La Cosa Nostra. Bushawn Shelton, charged with conspiracy to commit murder for hire, is an alleged member of the “Bloods” gang. “They used not their own, but some ‘cut outs’ from another ethnic group,’” observed Anthony DeStefano, longtime crime reporter for “Newsday” and the author of eight books on organized crime.

Read more: https://pix11.com/2018/11/09/new-gangs-could-be-seeking-mob-turf-in-the-bronx/

 

Mob, murder and the Hamilton connection

The sky is dark but clear on a warm September night as the SUV pulls into Hamilton's quiet Scenic Woods neighborhood. In this upscale Ancaster community with streets named for flowers like bluebell and honeysuckle, the SUV turns onto Sunflower Crescent. The killer comes from the southeast and stops in front of No. 32. He makes a three-point turn and parks facing the way he came in — a faster exit, with a quick left onto Lavender Drive, to Scenic Drive and then Mohawk Road West.

Read more: https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9037101-mob-murder-and-the-hamilton-connection/

 

Buffalo man implicated in Wh!tey Bulger murder

Felix Wilson was riding a bike the wrong way on East Ferry Street when he was arrested five years ago. Today, the Buffalo man is the subject of stories in New York Times and Boston Globe. Wilson, it turns out, was bunkmates with longtime New England crime boss James "******" Bulger when Bulger was killed inside a West Virginia prison last month. No one will comment on Wilson's involvement, if any, in the murder, except to confirm that he has been segregated from other inmates at Hazelton penitentiary.

Read more: https://buffalonews.com/2018/11/21/buffalo-man-implicated-in-******-bulger-murder/

 

[BrooklynGuy]

John Gotti’s grandson dodges prison over illegal scrapyard

This “Growing Up Gotti” alum appears to have a touch of Teflon. Carmine Gotti Agnello Jr., grandson of the late Dapper Don, John Gotti, dodged prison time Wednesday by copping a plea deal for operating an illegal scrapyard. Queens criminal court Judge Gia Morris agreed to reduce charges against the 32-year-old scion of the late Gambino boss, to a misdemeanor in exchange for a $1,000 fine and a forfeiture of $4,605 in ill-gotten gains.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/11/28/john-gottis-grandson-dodges-prison-over-illegal-scrapyard/

[BrooklynGuy]

Wh!tey Bulger dreamed of a peaceful death

Wh!tey Bulger never got his last wish. The notorious gangster, who was bludgeoned to death with a padlock stuffed in a sock Oct. 30, hours after being transferred to a West Virginia federal jail, had dreamed of peacefully dying in his sleep, letters obtained by the Boston Globe show. In a July 2017 letter sent to former convict Charlie Hopkins, 86, of Florida, the ex-South Boston crime boss wrote about rebuffing an offer to be taken to a hospital over worsening health problems.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/11/29/******-bulger-dreamed-of-a-peaceful-death/

Edited November 30, 2018 by BrooklynGuy

[Vincennes]

On ‎11‎/‎28‎/‎2018 at 2:24 PM, BrooklynGuy said:

John Gotti’s grandson dodges prison over illegal scrapyard

This “Growing Up Gotti” alum appears to have a touch of Teflon. Carmine Gotti Agnello Jr., grandson of the late Dapper Don, John Gotti, dodged prison time Wednesday by copping a plea deal for operating an illegal scrapyard. Queens criminal court Judge Gia Morris agreed to reduce charges against the 32-year-old scion of the late Gambino boss, to a misdemeanor in exchange for a $1,000 fine and a forfeiture of $4,605 in ill-gotten gains.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/11/28/john-gottis-grandson-dodges-prison-over-illegal-scrapyard/

I a question here that I've put off asking for a long time because I'm sure that it exposes my total stupidity but here it is once again and I gotta ask …..  Why is it that it seems one of the favorite industries for organized crime is rubbish removal or scrap (usually scrap metal) companies ?  The other one that they seem to always be involved in is construction.  Now I guess I can understand there's probably a lot of hidden gaps for profit in the construction industry but what gets to me is that VERY often they seem to favor cement companies.  Remember the two charmers who were luring kids to daddy's acreage in Pennsylvania, murdering them, and then burying them with daddy's back hoes ?  The daddy/mommy who had supplied the known mental case with gun(s) and seemed to be able to enforce a no-fly zone over his estate so that all the news ever had was talk about the mansion and photos of only the back hoe and the field ?  (Never did hear of the parents being charged  LOL) Well right there in the middle of PA farm land, the company that flew dad to such wealth and capabilities was another cement company.  

I'd love to have some idea if there is a reason these industries are seem to be so favored or is it just a wild coincidence ?  

[BrooklynGuy]

On 12/2/2018 at 12:45 PM, Vincennes said:

I a question here that I've put off asking for a long time because I'm sure that it exposes my total stupidity but here it is once again and I gotta ask …..  Why is it that it seems one of the favorite industries for organized crime is rubbish removal or scrap (usually scrap metal) companies ?  The other one that they seem to always be involved in is construction.  Now I guess I can understand there's probably a lot of hidden gaps for profit in the construction industry but what gets to me is that VERY often they seem to favor cement companies.  Remember the two charmers who were luring kids to daddy's acreage in Pennsylvania, murdering them, and then burying them with daddy's back hoes ?  The daddy/mommy who had supplied the known mental case with gun(s) and seemed to be able to enforce a no-fly zone over his estate so that all the news ever had was talk about the mansion and photos of only the back hoe and the field ?  (Never did hear of the parents being charged  LOL) Well right there in the middle of PA farm land, the company that flew dad to such wealth and capabilities was another cement company.  

I'd love to have some idea if there is a reason these industries are seem to be so favored or is it just a wild coincidence ?  

Good questions Vincennes, They like scrap yards because there is a lot of money to be made in scrap metals. Think of a scrap metal yard as being like a pawn shop, people bring there often stolen scrap metals there and sell it to the yard at very low prices and the yard in turns sells it at near market value to dealers to be recycled back into use. Also these scrap yards usually serve the dual purpose as "chop shops" where stolen cars are taken to get new VIN numbers and titles then resold over seas or their prized parts resold locally. They like the construction business because historically many Italians made there legitimate living in the construction trades and there is a high mark up in the construction trades especially cement. Think about it, cement is nothing more than sand, gravel, a bonding agent and water that it is mixed, delivered and sold at exorbitant prices. Not to mention the bid rigging to get contracts that goes on, also union work stoppages and the kickbacks that are often extorted. The same can be said for the waste industry, like one mobster said on tape "there is a lot of money to be made in people's garbage".

[BrooklynGuy]

Pizzeria blocked from opening in Pa. casino over alleged ‘mob ties’

Lombardi’s is billed as America’s oldest pizzeria, founded in New York’s Little Italy. The pizza business, owned by Michael Giammarino, was to have a new home inside the Parx casino in Bensalem, Pa., but the deal was blocked for an alleged reason seemingly ripped from a rejected Godfather script. According to Philly.com, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board moved to revoke Giammarino’s permit, with state investigators saying he and his pizza shop were unsuitable to be a gaming service provider “due to his associations with reputed organized crime members.”

Read more: https://www.pennlive.com/daily-buzz/2018/11/pizzeria-blocked-from-opening-in-pa-casino-over-alleged-mob-ties.html

 

Two Alleged Associates of Gambino Organized Crime Family Indicted for Arson and Extortion

An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Peter Tuccio and Jonathan Gurino with arson and arson conspiracy, extortion and extortion conspiracy and using fire to commit a felony.  The defendants were arrested today and are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Steven L. Tiscione.  “As alleged in the indictment, the defendants delivered a frightening message in the form of fire to force a businessman to pay protection money to a high-ranking gangster,” stated United States Attorney Donoghue. 

Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-alleged-associates-gambino-organized-crime-family-indicted-arson-and-extortion?fbclid=IwAR0UNijK6dPzlQG85XRz1DA6_RnPFFfXo7oMWHQgT-3lSOuAcMcOcyTntkY

 

Crown defends warrant used to search Leonardo Rizzuto's home

Information gathered as part of an investigation that led to the search of Leonardo Rizzuto’s home in Laval corroborates an informant’s allegation that he was a “decision-maker” among organized crime groups, a prosecutor argued in court on Thursday. Prosecutor Matthew Ferguson made the argument before Quebec Court Judge Julie Riendeau as part of the Crown’s effort to justify why police searched Rizzuto’s home in November 2015 while they made arrests in Project Magot, a lengthy investigation into how the Mafia, Hells Angels and street gangs in Montreal had joined forces to traffic cocaine together. 

Read more: https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/crown-defends-warrant-used-to-search-leonardo-rizzutos-home

[Vincennes]

1 hour ago, BrooklynGuy said:

Good questions Vincennes, They like scrap yards because there is a lot of money to be made in scrap metals. Think of a scrap metal yard as being like a pawn shop, people bring there often stolen scrap metals there and sell it to the yard at very low prices and the yard in turns sells it at near market value to dealers to be recycled back into use. Also these scrap yards usually serve the dual purpose as "chop shops" where stolen cars are taken to get new VIN numbers and titles then resold over seas or their prized parts resold locally. They like the construction business because historically many Italians made there legitimate living in the construction trades and there is a high mark up in the construction trades especially cement. Think about it, cement is nothing more than sand, gravel, a bonding agent and water that it is mixed, delivered and sold at exorbitant prices. Not to mention the bid rigging to get contracts that goes on, also union work stoppages and the kickbacks that are often extorted. The same can be said for the waste industry, like one mobster said on tape "there is a lot of money to be made in people's garbage".

Thank You !   

(I have this huge backyard that I hate because of the maintenance cost.  Now I know what to do with it.  I'm going to make it "Vin's Scrap Yard & Cement Company.") That's why I'm poor isn't it ?  They would see potential profit where I've spent my money having grass mowed !  I might even get the guys chopping cars to man a lawn mower now and then as part of the cost.  LOL  

[BrooklynGuy]

Surprise!! The Mafia is Alive and Well in Buffalo New York

According to court documents in a drug-trafficking case out of Canada, Joseph (Big Joe) Todaro, Jr. replaced Leonard (Lennie Calzones) Falzone as boss of the Buffalo mob two years ago upon Falzone’s death of natural causes. The Western New York crime family’s underboss Dom Violi, 52, was sentenced to eight years in prison by a judge in Hamilton, Ontario this week in a case where his crew was infiltrated by an FBI agent and nailed for a myriad of narcotics offenses.

Read more: http://gangsterreport.com/hey-joe-welcome-back-boss-buffalo-mobster-big-joe-todaro-might-not-be-retired-after-all/

 

Shocking mob trial allegation: Hamilton crime figure was Underboss of Buffalo Mafia

Domenico Violi asked the judge for a moment with his family before being sent to prison for serious drug trafficking; he exchanged hugs and kisses with his wife and his 20-year-old daughter and high-fives with his 17-year-old son as supporters who overflowed from the courtroom variously cried and clapped. The end of Monday’s hearing was about Violi’s family. It started, however, with family of a different sort. Violi, 52, was caught in an ambitious police probe that, as officials said at the time of his arrest, penetrated organized crime at its highest level and featured a co-operating turncoat mobster becoming a “made member” of a New York Mafia family.

Read more: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/shocking-mob-trial-allegation-hamilton-crime-figure-was-underboss-of-buffalo-mafia

 

[BrooklynGuy]

Italy's 'Ndrangheta mafia 'on all continents' and still growing

Southern Italy's 'Ndrangheta mafia is the only organised crime group operating on all of the world's continents, and is spreading, an Italian magistrate said yesterday. "The 'Ndrangheta is the only mafia present on all continents: western Europe, North America, Central and South America, Africa and now it's spreading to Eastern Europe" and Asia, Nicola Gratteri told journalists in Rome. Gratteri, 60, has been under police protection since 1989 and is currently the prosecutor in Catanzaro in Calabria, from where the 'Ndrangheta hail.

Read more: https://www.thelocal.it/20181128/italys-ndrangheta-mafia-on-all-continents-and-still-growing

[BrooklynGuy]

@Regi and @Vincennes thought you two might like this, it will probably take the family suing to actually find out what happened as we have not heard a word from the prison or the Feds since Bulger was killed.

****** Bulger Attorney Says He Will Sue Over Prison Killing

A lawyer for James “******” Bulger says he plans to sue the government over the notorious gangster’s prison killing. Attorney Hank Brennan told The Wall Street Journal that he will bring wrongful death and negligence claims on behalf of Bulger’s estate. Brennan told The Associated Press he expects to begin filing a number of lawsuits over the next month, but declined to provide further details. Bulger was serving a life sentence for 11 murders and other crimes when he was beaten to death in October, hours after he was transferred to a West Virginia prison.

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/12/10/******-bulger-prison-killing-attorney-estate-wrongful-death-negligence-lawsuit/

[Vincennes]

18 hours ago, BrooklynGuy said:

A lawyer for James “******” Bulger says he plans to sue the government over the notorious gangster’s prison killing. Attorney Hank Brennan told The Wall Street Journal that he will bring wrongful death and negligence claims on behalf of Bulger’s estate. Brennan told The Associated Press he expects to begin filing a number of lawsuits over the next month, but declined to provide further details.

This is exactly what John Kasich and crew did when we had a guard beaten to death as a direct result of their inept management during the abrupt closing of our maximum security juvenile institution.  Superintendents with experience warned Kasich's top Administrator that he was going to get someone killed.  When that did happen they allowed only one or two very basic articles that didn't classify it as a murder but a matter that was under investigation.  Then to keep it out of the press and keep it as no big deal, they only charged one of the three youth involved AND didn't even charge him with murder.  They charged him with a much lower felony assault.  Really keeping it no big deal.   

So that's what they will probably do here.  Lower the murder to an assault.  God save this Republic from John Kasich !  

[Earl.Of.Trumps]

@BrooklynGuy  It's simple to answer, BG. They transferred Bulger to a prison where there was a lifer that hated snitches. What happened to Bulger was nothing that I lose sleep over. He was a life long criminal and multi time murderer *and* a snitch. Good riddance.

[BrooklynGuy]

5 hours ago, Earl.Of.Trumps said:

@BrooklynGuy  It's simple to answer, BG. They transferred Bulger to a prison where there was a lifer that hated snitches. What happened to Bulger was nothing that I lose sleep over. He was a life long criminal and multi time murderer *and* a snitch. Good riddance.

Agreed no great loss.

[BrooklynGuy]

‘It opens up an underworld:' How a drug plea has exposed a Mafia network in Hamilton

Domenico Violi was born in Hamilton, attended Catholic high school and studied business in college. He got married, had two children and moved to a nice house in the suburbs. On paper he’s a successful if unassuming coffee, pasta and hardwood floor salesman. He has a large extended family and a wide circle of friends in the city’s Italian-Canadian community. He raises money for charity and donates turkeys to a local shelter at Christmas.

Read more: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-it-opens-up-an-underworld-how-a-drug-plea-has-exposed-a-mafia/

 

From made-up to ‘made’ men: How myths keep the Mafia’s culture frozen in time

In November of 2017, police arrested Domenico Violi, a Hamilton father and salesman, on drug-trafficking charges. Mr. Violi’s trial exploded his reputation: Courts heard that he had told an undercover agent that he had been promoted to underboss of the Buffalo-based Todaro crime family – “the No. 2 man in charge of the 'whole thing,’” he said in an audio recording – one of the North American Mafia families often referred to as La Cosa Nostra. In Mr. Violi’s own words, he and his crime family were taking over the whole city of Hamilton with the bikers. 

Read more: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-from-made-up-to-made-men-how-myths-keep-the-mafias-culture-frozen/

 

Two mobsters sentenced for peddling oxycodone

A mobster was sentenced to 12 years in prison for flooding the streets with over 230,000 oxycodone pills. Luchese crime family soldier Anthony Grado coerced a doctor to write fake painkiller prescriptions for the names he supplied. Colombo crime family associate Lawrence (Fat Larry) Tranese was sentenced to 40 months for his role in the scheme. Some of the scam was caught on tape. Grado threatened the doctor, saying he’d force him to write "a thousand scripts a day and f---ing feed you to the f---ing lions."

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-drug-sentence-20181206-story.html

[BrooklynGuy]

AN AFFAIR, THE MOB AND A MURDER.

Margaret “Muffie” Yeatman was a 46-year-old Defense Department employee who had been fatally shot in 1986. Now her best friend, a retired D.C. police officer named Linda Tague, was on the phone explaining what happened next. As we spoke, I searched online for my Washington Post article, which I’d written when I was 25. The headline on the nine-paragraph, July 15, 1986, dispatch: “Slain Woman’s Friend Probed.” “The Alexandria boyfriend of Margaret F. Yeatman, the Annandale woman whose body was found in the trunk of her car June 29, is being investigated in the death, according to a police affidavit. . . . Arthur L. Cunn, who allegedly had been having an affair with Yeatman since 1980, led a ‘double life.’ ”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/an-affair-the-mob-a-murder/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.28093e0a4fea

[BrooklynGuy]

The New Mob Talk is out:

 

[BrooklynGuy]

Another Colts Neck murder mystery: Who shot stock promoters nearly 20 years ago?

In this wealthy community of horse farms and stately homes, an ornate statue atop a Grecian fountain stands as a silent witness to the dark secrets of the sprawling mansion behind it. If the statue could talk, it might solve a mystery that has baffled a cadre of investigators for 19 years: who executed two penny stock promoters, gangland style, in the largely unfurnished home behind the black-and-gold, wrought-iron gates? Nearly two decades have passed since Albert Alain Chalem and Maier Lehmann were found bullet-riddled and facedown in pools of their own blood on the marble floor of the dining room of the white, brick colonial on Bluebell Road, in a community that has boasted residents like Bruce Springsteen and Queen Latifah.

Read more: https://www.app.com/story/news/investigations/2018/11/26/colts-neck-murder-mystery-who-shot-stock-promoters-20-years-ago/2114327002/

 

The family of slain alleged loanshark Vincent Zito is preparing for the holidays without their patriarch

This Christmas won't be the same for the loved ones of alleged loanshark Vincent Zito, who was gunned down in his Brooklyn home just over a month ago. But this family still respects tradition. "You gotta do what you gotta do, you know what I mean?" Vito's 57-year-old son, Joseph, said outside the family's Sheepshead Bay house, where his dad was shot twice in the head Oct. 26. The murder remains unsolved. "Life goes on, unfortunately," he said. "Holidays will never be the same. Birthdays will never be the same. We did the Christmas lights like we do every year. Tradition's not gonna change."

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-vincent-zito-christmas-mobster-shot-family-20181202-story.html

 

Rizzuto unfairly targeted because of family name, defense argues

The police included Leonardo Rizzuto as a suspect in a drug trafficking investigation based mostly on his family name, a defence lawyer argued on Wednesday as the alleged Montreal Mafia leader’s trial began at the Montreal courthouse. The charges Rizzuto faces are related to how police found two handguns and five grams of cocaine inside his home in November 2015. At the time, they were making arrests in Project Magot, a lengthy investigation into organized crime and cocaine trafficking led by the Sûreté du Québec.

Read more: https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/alleged-montreal-mafia-leader-rizzuto-faces-trial-on-gun-drug-charges

[BrooklynGuy]

Is the Buffalo Mafia dead or alive?

Domenico Violi is a salesman, husband, father of two and a popular figure in the Italian community that makes up much of Hamilton, Ont. Violi is also the self-described underboss of the Buffalo Mafia. The son of Paolo Violi, the former head of the mob in Montreal, Violi was sentenced last week to eight years in prison in a drug trafficking case that included allegations of organized crime involvement. In wiretap conversations made public as part of the case, the 52-year old Hamilton man allegedly claims he is the new second-in-charge of the Buffalo Mafia and the first Canadian to serve in a leadership position in a U.S.-based Mafia family.

Read more: https://buffalonews.com/2018/12/08/is-the-buffalo-mafia-dead-or-alive/

[BrooklynGuy]

Did same brazen hitman kill mob scion, two Toronto businessmen?

The underworld is a thoroughly modern business. If General Motors can outsource work beyond its corporate yolk, so can gangsters. The Toronto Sun has learned that cops are eyeing a possible connection between the slayings of mob scion Angelo Musitano, veterinary technician Mila Barberi, and the brazen murders of real estate entrepreneur Simon Giannini and tech executive Matthew Staikos. Giannini and Staikos had no known links to organized crime. But in each of the above cases, there are disturbing similarities.

Read more: https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/did-same-brazen-hitman-kill-mob-scion-two-toronto-businessmen

 

Judge rules mobster equally liable for prison ping-pong injury

A portly Colombo mobster who sued the U.S. government after he broke his own kneecap playing prison ping-pong is equally liable in his own accident, a judge has ruled. Thomas “Tommy Shots” Gioeli is 50 percent at fault for his August 2013 slip at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn federal court judge Kiyo Matsumoto found Thursday following a bench trial. The imprisoned mob boss slid in a puddle of water near the prison showers as he chased an errant ping pong ball during an evening game, he testified earlier this year.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/11/29/judge-rules-mobster-equally-liable-for-prison-ping-pong-injury/

 

Man who conspired to set fire to Rizzuto funeral home denied parole

A man with alleged ties to a Montreal street gang, who pleaded guilty to having taken part in a conspiracy to torch a funeral home owned by members of the Rizzuto family, was turned down for parole because he denies being tied to organized crime despite ample evidence to the contrary. On June 15, Kens Emmanuel Noël, 25, of Montreal North, pleaded guilty to having taken part in a conspiracy to set fire to the Loreto funeral home in April 2017. The fire caused little damage to the business in St-Léonard that has been owned for years by relatives of now-deceased Montreal Mafia leader Vito Rizzuto.

Read more: https://montrealgazette.com/news/man-who-conspired-to-set-fire-to-rizzuto-funeral-home-denied-parole

[BrooklynGuy]

Providence strip club Foxy Lady closed after prostitution arrests

The Foxy Lady strip club is closed pending a hearing Thursday after three employees were arrested on soliciting for prostitution charges after Tuesday night. The decision was made Wednesday afternoon by the Providence licensing board. Major David Lapatin said the investigation at the Chalkstone Avenue club was an undercover operation by intelligence and narcotics officers. The self-described “gentleman’s club” was also one of the Providence strip clubs that prosecutors said mob figures shook down for protection payments in a 2011 indictment. 

Read more: http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20181213/providence-strip-club-foxy-lady-closed-after-prostitution-arrests

[BrooklynGuy]

Luchese crime family scion hopes polygraph, severance from namesake dad's case can produce acquittal

There’s one FBI agent convinced by Steven D. Crea’s denials of any role in a brutal Bronx mob hit and a second Mafia murder plot. The son of reputed Luchese family underboss Steven L. Crea passed a polygraph exam administered last month by retired FBI veteran Jeremiah Hanafin, best known recently for conducting an August test on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, court documents show. It was the latest bit of good news for Crea, 46, who was released on $1 million bond in August after a White Plains federal judge rebuked prosecutors in a mob trial due to start this coming March.

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-metro-wonder-boy-lie-detector-20181208-story.html

 

The Sad Story Of Sonny D, The Mob, And Some Missing $Millions

As president and CEO of the gigantic Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market, Sonny DiCrecchio, AKA "Sonny D," was always doing good deeds for those in need. Like sending a boy stricken with cancer to the Super Bowl. Or taking 135 homeless kids from a shelter out on a shopping spree to buy Christmas presents. "A Person Never Stands So Tall As When They Kneel To Help A Child -- Sonny D." That's the quote that volunteers wore on the backs of their matching purple jerseys when they chaperoned the annual "Sonny D's Holliday Shopping Party," sponsored by Sonny and his wife, Michelle.

Read more: http://www.bigtrial.net/2018/10/the-sad-story-of-sonny-d-mob-and-some.html

 

A MARCHING SAINT: DICKEY MOLTISANTI ROLE CAST IN SOPRANOS MOVIE, NIVOLA RECEIVES NOD

Actor Allesandro Nivola, best known for co-starring in Face-Off with Nicolas Cage and American Hustle with Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence, will play Dickey Moltisanti in The Sopranos movie being produced jointly by Warner Brothers and New Line Cinema. Moltisanti was never seen on screen, only referenced in the landmark HBO drama which ran from 1999 to 2007 and chronicled the life of fictional suburban middle-aged New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano portrayed brilliantly by James Gandolfini in career and genre-defining fashion.

Read more: http://gangsterreport.com/a-marching-saint-dickey-moltisanti-role-cast-in-sopranos-movie-allesandro-nivola-gets-nod/