The job of a secretary is anything but frightening or adventurous. Making appointments, administrative duties, all while working from nine to five under a boss is usually monotonous and generally looked down upon. So imagine being a secretary for the
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A member of the “LA Dank DMV Crew” was sentenced on Wednesday to over 6 years in prison for his role in a sophisticated and broad conspiracy that was responsible for bringing hundreds of pounds of marijuana from California to the metropolitan area. 3
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A member of the No Rats Allowed Crew is off to prison. 28-year-old Adrian Wade, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced on Wednesday, January 10, to 5 years behind bars for being a convicted felon in possession a semi-automatic pistol and ammunition insid
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“Europe ends at Naples and ends badly,” said French poet August Creuzé de Lesser in 1806. “Calabria, Sicily, and all the rest belong to Africa.”
Antonio Gramsci, in 1926, was even more forthright in his declaration: “Southerners are biologically inf
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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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A member of the Aryan Brotherhood gang pleaded guilty to murder and racketeering charges last week. 49-year-old Brant Daniel, of Sacramento, was caught up in a long-running investigation into the California Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, and was sent
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The leader of a Colombian drug trafficking organization pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine on vessels subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. 38-year-old Hugo Gomez-Garcia, a/k/a “Simon,” “Guava,” and “Guavita,” used semi-su
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Drug trafficker Eliezer De Leon-Lopez (38, Guatemala), a/k/a “Wiro Loco” and “Daniel Martinez,” pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, up to life, in federal
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‘Tis the season! Merry Christmas everyone! At Gangsters Inc. we don’t do presents. We do gangster stories! Lots of ‘em! Especially for Christmas we’ve dug up five stories that show how mobsters spend their Christmas. Spoiler alert: Three end in murde
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The Mafia of Sicily has been at war for years with another Sicily-based criminal fraternity.
This is called La Stidda. The Star. According to two prominent pentiti (informers), the organization grew during the 1980s, its member, disgruntled or per
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Crime Beat: Issues, Controversies and Personalities from the dark side on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for December 7, 2023, through February 1, 2024. Guests include Lucy Adlington, Laura Brand, Mike Rot,
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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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According to the official web page of the New York Police Department:
“There is no delineated time frame for cold cases.”
The killing of police Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino on the evening of March 12, 1909, in the city of Palermo, Sicily, is per
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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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He was a really old man when he died, a one-time mob boss of London’s Little Italy. Sometimes he was called “The General of Clerkenwell.” In a life that long, there must be a richness, a flavor of spice that carries his endeavors through decades of t
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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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A green light seems like such a positive term. Unless it is issued by a member of the Mexican Mafia. When a person is green lit by them, it means certain death. Still, greed is a funny thing. Why not a bit of drugs and cash? How will the imprisoned
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Two members of MS-13 were indicted on October 4, 2023, and charged with with multiple racketeering offenses in connection with two murders, a narcotics trafficking conspiracy, as well as with related charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, fi
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The boss and two members of the Brooklyn-based Real Ryte gang pleaded guilty to racketeering charges stemming from Real Ryte’s gang war with the Breadgang crew of the 5-9 Brims, a subset of the Bloods, including a shooting in which Real Ryte members
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A member of the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips gang admitted to his role in a racketeering conspiracy. 22-year-old Tre Byrd, aka “Bands,” aka “G Bandz,” pleaded guilty Tuesday to a superseding indictment that charged him with Racketeer Influenced and
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