By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
By all accounts he wasn’t that nice a person.
Described as small, lecherous and ugly, with a temperament to match, it’s hard to find anything redeeming in a life like his, cut short by the mid forties. He played
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By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Whatever they amounted to as a bunch of criminals, the derivation of their name is intriguing enough in itself. There seems to be more versions of its origin and meaning, than combinations of a Rubik Cube.
One st
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
I think he is one of my favourite mobsters of all time. The one-eyed killer who couldn't shoot straight.
Most people have never heard of him. He never achieved any immortal status as a big player in the Mafia cri
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Missing Person #75-3425.
To paraphrase that famous line from The Scarlet Pimpernel, 'they seek him here, they seek him there, trouble is, Jimmy’s buried everywhere.'
There never really was any serious doubt abou
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
No body knows for sure, just how the name came about.
I picture it a bit like this:
Michael Fiaschetti (photo right), 'Big Mike,' the boss of The Italian Squad, lounging back in a chair in his office, Police Hea
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
In the history of New York’s underworld, buried among the mythology that has created the people and places making up this often confusing landscape, there is one story that has grown much bigger over the years than
By Maarten Anthonissen
Francesco Polizzi never was a very important figure in the world of American wiseguys. A typical soldier who climbed the ladder and became a capo. His income, and that of his whole crew, came from typical mob rackets; loansha
By David Amoruso
DeCavalcante mobster Vincent “Vinny Ocean” Palermo (photo right) disappeared into the witness protection program at the turn of the millennium after giving testimony about mob rackets in New Jersey and New York. Like all criminals wh
By David Amoruso
Posted May 20, 2007
This summer several of the most powerful mobsters in Chicago will stand trial for 18 murders and racketeering spanning several decades. The trial is the result of investigation "Family Secrets." It will feature b
By David Amoruso
Posted: February 23, 2007
Florida has the highest percentage of senior citizens in the United States. 17% of Florida’s citizens are 65 or older. It is clear then that Florida attracts the elderly. Mobsters also like Florida for the s
By David Amoruso
Posted on November 29, 2006
On the morning of Wednesday November 22, 2006 more than 700 police officers searched the homes of- and for people who were wanted for being part of a criminal enterprise. 71 people were arrested in that sw
Special Agent in Charge George Venizelos speaking on the Gambino Arrests.
Photo Credit: Rebecca Callahan, FBI
By David Amoruso
Posted on June 30, 2010
The general public sees Italian-American mobsters as honorable gangsters. Thugs with a heart and
By David Amoruso
Posted June 25, 2007
On Tuesday morning, June 5, Robert DeCicco got in his father's fiancé's Cadillac DeVille after picking up a prescription at Dolinsky's Pharmacy. As he sat in hi
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2001
John Gotti was born October 27, 1940 in the Bronx, New York. When Gotti was twelve he and his family move to a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, Gotti took to the streets more and more and he finally dropp
By David Amoruso
Posted: February 1, 2007 - Updated on October 12, 2014
On January 30, 2007 the FBI arrested several mobsters and charged them with racketeering, bribery, extortion, money laundering, loan sharking and bank fraud. Among the arrested
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2001
Paul Castellano was born Constantino Paul Castellano in Brooklyn on June 26, 1915. His parents were from Sicily and had traveled to the United States to give their children a better life. Castellano's father was a bu
By David Amoruso
- Read: Sammy the Bull Gravano is a free man, but also a poster boy for the dangers of dealing with gangsters
Profile below posted in 2001
Sammy The Bull Gravano has gone down in Mafia history as the biggest rat ever to walk the s
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2003
Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo was born in 1955 in Bensonhurst, New York. He was brought up in a working class family. As a young boy Mikey was bitten in the face by a dog. The attack left a semi-circular scar on h
By David Amoruso
Posted on March 4, 2010
When Charles Carneglia was arrested on the morning of February 7, 2008, he looked (see photo on the right) like more like Charles Manson than a slick member of New York’s Gambino Crime Family. But though loo
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2003
Samuel "Little Sammy" Corsaro was born in 1943 in Nutley, New Jersey. Later he moved to Clifton, New Jersey where he would remain till his death. Like all mobsters Corsaro also started out in petty crime but in 1969 he