By Angelo Carmelo Gallitto
Posted on December 29, 2011
The Mandamento within the Sicilian Cosa Nostra
Sicilian Cosa Nostra is organized crime at its most organized. The mafia families on the island all work together through so-called 'mandamento'.
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By David Amoruso
Posted on December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas everybody! And may Santa bring you all the gifts you wished for.
It seems Santa is already hard at work. Yesterday, an Italian police officer dressed up as Santa arrested a member of th
By David Amoruso
The recent WikiLeaks publication of secret diplomatic cables between U.S. officials and contacts in other nations around the globe has painted a grim picture of the Russian government. The cables feature reports about how the Krem
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Salvatore Avellino recorded by electronic surveillance:
'Do you understand me, now when you got a guy that steps out of line and this and that, now you got the whip. You got the fuckin' whip. This is what he, To
By David Amoruso
The 1930s through to the 1940s are known as the Golden Age for Hollywood. During those days eight major studios controlled the entire movie industry from top to bottom. They would make the movie and distribute it via their own the
By David Amoruso
Posted on April 5, 2010 - Updated on November 25, 2011
Salvatore Montagna burst onto the front page of the New York Daily News in 2006 when authorities labeled him the new acting boss of the Bonanno Crime Family. But before the pub
By David Amoruso
- READ: Former Bonanno Mafia family consigliere Anthony Graziano dead at 78, his “Mob Wives” daughter reports
Anthony "T.G." Graziano was born on November 12, 1940 in New York. When asked by a judge how far he got in school, Grazian
By David Amoruso
The Lucchese Crime Family's New Jersey faction was once among the most powerful in the state. They operated from Bergen County through Essex County, Morris County, Passaic County and Union County, to Sussex County. Their criminal bus
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2001
Thomas Lucchese was Boss of the Mafia Family that still bears his name. A ruthless guy with a ruthless reputation but he somehow managed to have friends who were law abiding citizens and weren't scared of him, later
Posted in 2006 - Updated in 2017
Frank Gioia Junior was born in 1967. From the start, his life was pretty much set in stone. He was born into "the life" as they say, his father Frank Senior and grandfather both were involved in organized crime and
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2002
Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov was born in 1949 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Tokhtakhounov's first set back came when at a young age he lost his father and, not long after his fathers death, Tokhtakhounov's mother died as well
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2001
The first time the Western world became familiar with the crime entangled Russian business scene was when American businessman Paul Tatum was murdered by unknown assailants, reputedly over a business dispute. The mu
Dedicated to our deceased brother in arms Robert I Friedman. Rest in Peace my sensei (teacher) on the Russian mobs, we will complete your mission! - Puparo (Post a message to him)
Written material collected by Puparo in a warning against the russian m
Dedicated to our deceased brother in arms Robert I Friedman. Rest in Peace my sensei (teacher) on the Russian mobs, we will complete your mission! - Puparo (Post a message to him)
Written material collected by Puparo in a warning against the russian m
GOS (former Soviet Union)
Dedicated to our deceased brother in arms Robert I Friedman. Rest in Peace my sensei (teacher) on the Russian mobs, we will complete your mission! - Puparo (Post a message to him)
Written material collected by Puparo in a w
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
In those last few seconds, as his life was disappearing like an evanescent breath, nothing to protect him, no salvation at hand, his thoughts must have been perhaps his wife and children; his family to be torn apa
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Any one interested in the subject of Italian-American organized crime, is probably familiar with the story concerning Charlie Luciano’s final departure from New York.
After serving 10 years of a thirty year sent
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
It begins and ends with a man who had a name that sounded like a musk melon.
His impact on the American Mafia was much more than to just have helped the law incarcerate a man who at the time, they considered perh
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Before Lunch
It was not quite the dog days of August, but almost. The temperature was in the upper eighties by mid-day, baking the cracked asphalt that shimmered under the relentless rays of the noon-day sun, beat
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During Lunch
As his nephew drove away from the drop-off, Galante walked into the restaurant, whose front windows were masked by yellow curtains. It was a favourite meeting place, where he often arranged sit-downs with his closest ass