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Philadelphia Mafia family underboss gets 5 years in prison for running gambling, extortion, and loansharking

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on December 18, 2022 at 13:10
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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Franky Boy is Gone: The Killing of a Mafia Boss

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on February 2, 2022 at 3:12
What do numbers tell us? In 1928, the boss of what we now know as the Gambino Crime Family is murdered in New York. Two years later, his successor is gunned down. Twenty-one years afterwards, the current boss of the family disappears, assumed murdere
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Genovese family mobster from Yonkers cleared in 1997 murder case goes to prison for obstruction and gambling

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on January 26, 2022 at 13:50
An alleged Genovese crime family mobster from Yonkers was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison on Monday. John Tortora pleaded guilty to obstruction and gambling charges in 2020. He had been charged with ordering a 1997 murder, but prosecutors coul
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Mobster Robert Gentile dies at 85, takes secrets about Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art theft to grave

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on September 24, 2021 at 11:29
Thieves made off with 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990. At that time, the theft was valued at $200 million. Today, it’s valued at $600 million. Alleged mobster Robert Gentile was said to have known more about the
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Fugitive Colombo Mafia family consigliere turns himself in after photo shows him relaxing in pool after bust

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on September 17, 2021 at 12:14
It is so difficult being part of a secretive brotherhood in the era of social media. Just ask Colombo crime family consigliere Ralph DiMatteo, who was charged in a wide-ranging racketeering indictment this week along with his boss and several other h
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“I’m not afraid to go to jail” - Colombo Mafia family hierarchy busted

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on September 15, 2021 at 11:29
It’s business as usual. Some curse-laden threats, a bit of labor racketeering, and men who are part of a “crime” family. A mob bust by the book. Yesterday, prosecutors charged the boss, underboss, consigliere, and several underlings of the Colombo cr
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“He feared nothing.” - Daughter of Mafia boss Carmine Galante talks about her infamous father

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on September 13, 2021 at 9:31
New York Mafia boss Carmine Galante was one of the most ruthless mobsters in the world. But he was also a loving husband and doting dad. His daughter Angela talked about her father and what it was like growing up with a man aiming to take over the un
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What is this Thing called Thing? A Very Brief History of The Mafia

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on August 27, 2021 at 10:26

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

"Many modern Sicilians prefer to live as parasites because the fast lane of crime has considerable attraction as a way of life." - Giovanni Falcone (1)

Tommaso Buscetta said there was no such thing as The Mafia. “I

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Alleged Genovese family mobster accused of “buying” Stratford Democratic politician

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on August 16, 2021 at 12:30
Money talks. Unless it is exposed as being tainted by crime. Then everyone washes their hands and starts pointing fingers. Like in Stratford, Connecticut, where alleged Genovese Mafia family mobster Gus Curcio was accused of being too close with form
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Las Vegas casino boss and Mafia associate Allen R. Glick | Victim or Conspirator?

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on August 11, 2021 at 8:43
GLICK QUITTING NEVADA GAMING was the Las Vegas Sun headline in August 1978. A Kansas City Star headline will read a few years later, “GLICK TESTIFIES IN CASINO TRIAL.” Allen R. Glick died at age 79 on August 6, 2021. After giving devastating testimon
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Real Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joe Pistone, still in hiding at age 81: "But I don't constantly worry about it”

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on July 28, 2021 at 13:18
It was one of the biggest cons ever pulled off – and it was done by a federal agent. When Joseph Pistone went undercover as Donnie Brasco and infiltrated the Bonanno Mafia family, he did the unthinkable. His actions shattered the mob’s aura of secrec
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