american mafia (56)

In 1935, Charles Lucky Luciano was perched pretty on top of the criminal world. He was the godfather of the powerful Genovese crime family, headed the Commission that oversaw all mafia activities in the U.S. and had taken out fellow mobster, the unpr
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Hartmut “Hans” Graewe, one of Cleveland’s most notorious Mafia hitmen, died behind bars on October 27, Cleveland.com reported last week. Graewe was 78. Before passing away in a federal prison in Texas, he was feared on the streets of Ohio. Nicknamed
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The FBI and police are currently looking for buried bodies at two horse farms in upstate New York, several news outlets report. The dig is in connection with a recent indictment of ten Gambino crime family mobsters.
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Ten members and associates of New York’s Gambino crime family and the Sicilian Mafia were indicted in Brooklyn federal court this week. They are charged with racketeering conspiracy, extortion, witness retaliation, and union-related crimes committed
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Bullets over Broadway

Everyone called him Tommy Brown, but that was not really his name. It was a nickname, a mob monicker, but it really got confused. His name in Italian is Gaetano Lucchese, and the closest we get to that is Guy Lucchese, as the name is pronounced “Guy
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Colombo crime family consigliere Ralph DiMatteo pleaded guilty to racketeering charges last week. The Mafia leader went viral after his son posted a photo on Twitter showing him lounging in a pool the day after prosecutors had indicted him.
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Truman Capote, the late, famous American novelist and playwright, once said, “Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.” A more than perfect observation of what took place in New York and various outlier areas of north-eastern Am
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Family is everything. It is how La Cosa Nostra, the American Mafia, managed to dominate the New York underworld for over a century. But in the underworld, family is no match for greed. Vultures and sharks are everywhere, ready to take what’s yours. T
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Six Genovese crime family mobsters caught up in an illegal gambling and loansharking bust pleaded guilty to racketeering charges. One had done so in previous months, five did so last week. These Genovese family wiseguys participated in loansharking,
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There has been plenty written about John “Sonny” Franzese: books, newspaper articles, stories in magazines, web-site reports. People who know nothing about the Mafia in America know about Sonny, especially over the last few years, as he gained media
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The floodgates have opened. Earlier this week, the Philadelphia Inquirer released a photograph of former President Donald Trump posing with ex-Philadelphia mob boss Joseph Merlino. Now, another photo of Trump with a rather notorious crime figure has
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Philadelphia Mafia family boss Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino has friends in high places… Well, he posed for a picture with someone who moves in high places. None other than former President of the United States Donald Trump stood next to Merlino as bo
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Alleged Gambino crime family capo Frank Camuso was among over 20 people charged in a multimillion-dollar New York City construction racket, prosecutors reported on Wednesday. 59-year-old Camuso allegedly received pay-offs from Robert Baselice, the vi
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Steven Mazzone, the underboss of the Philadelphia Mafia family, was sentenced on Thursday to 5 years behind bars for leading a racketeering conspiracy which engaged in illicit gambling, extortion, and loansharking.
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