By David Amoruso
Posted on November 25, 2007
On November 5, 2007 forty police men gathered around a Palermo house. They had information that the current boss of bosses of Cosa Nostra was inside. That man was Salvator
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By Angelo Carmelo Gallitto
Cosa Nostra usually has a hierarchical and pyramidal structure. It is formed by groups, known as “families” or “cosche”, named after the village or neighbourhood where they are located. Every single “family” is formed by t
By Joris van der Aa (article was first published in Belgian monthly magazine "Ché")
Ever since the arrest of Salvatore "Toto" Riina the power within the leadership of Cosa Nostra (still the mos
By David Amoruso
Posted on October 15, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008 must've been a very weird day for Italian author Roberto Saviano. The 29 year old 'celebrated' his second year in hiding since the Camorra had put him on a death list because of hi
By Hollander (nickname)
This innocent looking boy is the feared boss of the most powerful clan in the Neapolitan Camorra. Born on September 20 1964 in the town of San Cipriano d'Aversa, Antonio o'ninno Iovine woud rise to the top of the Casalesi cla
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
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.
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
‘Man lives with the society he finds around him.’
Salvatore Lima, Christian Democratic politician,
Murdered by the Mafia, March 1992.
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
If he was right in what he said, it happened on the afternoon of September 20t
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
He could easily have been the first Mafia boss of bosses from Sicily to come to the United States, although when he hit New York, he may not yet have reached that lofty position. There were at least three men whos
By Clarence Walker, Investigative Crime Journalist
Intelligent gangsters wanted: Any guys out there ready to work in the underworld?
If so, Japan's organized crime syndicates need immediate assistance. They need extra muscle to run prostitution r
And other Historical Stories about the Sicilian Mafia.
By Clarence Walker, Investigative Journalist, Houston Texas.
Posted on October 8, 2007
Is it a myth or reality that mob-related murders are at its
Sammy "Bull" Gravano --vs-- Prosecutor John Molinelli
Did a Serial Killer Frame a Crimeboss For a Cop's Murder?
By Clarence Walker, Investigative Reporter & Documentary Producer of Cold-Case, Mafia-Murder stories (Houston, Texas)
"I killed 19 peop
What's the Real Story Behind Hollywood's Portrayal of Harlem Drug Kingpin Frank Lucas?
By Clarence Walker, Investigative Reporter and New Criminologist Journalist, Houston Texas
First published on: 11/5/2007
American Gangs
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 on June 28, 2009
Italian authorities are closing in on Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro (47). In one week, police in Italy and Venezuela arrested over a dozen men who are all being accused of helping Denaro run his crim
By David Amoruso
Posted on March 13, 2010
Originally written for Mob Candy Magazine
It was 1951. The Italian-American Mafia, known as La Cosa Nostra, was doing great. Throughout the United States the mob held sway. From the East coast all the way to
By Puparo and David Amoruso
Posted on November 5, 2007
At the end of August some very interesting news reached the world press. Two of the most violent and powerful Cosa Nostra leaders exchanged their wedding rings when one moved to the other's pris