Ex-son-in-law of John Gotti pleads not guilty in stolen-car scam
CLEVELAND — A reputed member of New York’s Gambino crime family and former son-in-law of John Gotti pleaded not guilty Friday in what authorities say is a multimillion-dollar scam involving scrap metal...
View Article‘Mobster’ takes plea deal in cocaine, gun bust
A reputed Gambino associate whose disintegrating marriage was featured on the 2011 reality show “I Married a Mobster” took a plea deal Wednesday in exchange for 7 years in prison. Fiore “Philly”...
View ArticleJohnny Depp comes back with a bang in ‘Black Mass’
Johnny Depp does his finest acting in years as legendary Boston crime czar Whitey Bulger in “Black Mass,” wiping away fears by his fans that the increasingly mannered actor has grown comfortable...
View ArticleAiling ‘Goodfellas’ mobster requests release from jail during trial
Citing rickety health, the Bonanno Oldfella charged with taking part in the legendary 1978 JFK Lufthansa heist immortalized in the movie ”Goodfellas” wants out of captivity pending the outcome of...
View ArticleThe smugglers trying to help ISIS make a dirty bomb
CHISINAU, Moldova — Over the pulsating beat at an exclusive nightclub, the arms smuggler made his pitch to a client: 2.5 million euros for enough radioactive cesium to contaminate several city blocks....
View ArticleFake embassy that was a front for crime ring finally shut down
ACCRA, Ghana — A fake U.S. embassy that operated for “about a decade” in Ghana’s capital issuing counterfeit and fraudulently obtained visas has been shut down, the State Department announced. The scam...
View ArticleOrganized crime is taking over the French Bulldog puppy trade
Crime lords are ditching drug trafficking in favor of puppy-smuggling — and are raking in nearly $40,000 a week, The Sun can reveal. French bulldogs are the criminals’ favorite money-spinners and are...
View ArticleThe self-made cop who took on a notorious criminal syndicate
The terror might come in the mail, or in an envelope slipped under the door. Or a note tacked to the wall. Pay up, it would say. Give us the money. Or your child dies. Go to the police, your child...
View ArticleMobster so focused on flirting with clerk he couldn’t be arraigned
A Gambino crime family associate who beat the rap for stabbing the owner of popular Brooklyn pizzeria Lucali – only to wind up behind bars for another stabbing – is now using the prison...
View ArticleHard times hit organized crime in Japan
Organized crime apparently doesn’t pay in Japan. Members of the country’s notorious yakuza crime syndicate are so strapped for cash that they’ve resorted to shoplifting food, according to Agence...
View ArticleRussian mobsters arrested for peddling stolen chocolate
These Russian mobsters were cuckoo for cocoa … and puffs. Nearly three-dozen organized crime members were busted by federal authorities in Manhattan Wednesday for an odd mishmash of crimes —...
View ArticleThese are the victims of Suffolk County’s brutal MS-13 massacres
Nothing was left of 20-year-old Michael Banegas’ face after he was killed by MS-13 members. His killers had forced him to kneel and tied a plastic bag around his head. Suffocation was the cause of...
View ArticleThis is the most dangerous gang in the nation
MS-13 is has emerged as the country’s most brutal street gang, and its reign of terror is spilling into New York. In April, the bodies of four men ages 16 to 20 were found in Central Islip, a...
View ArticleMS-13 is targeting New York for more bloodshed: authorities
The recent spate of murders attributed to the MS-13 gang on Long Island is no accident — but rather the result of a sick directive from higher-ups in El Salvador for bloodshed in the Empire State, law...
View ArticleMueller adds federal prosecutor who brought down Enron to Trump investigation
A veteran federal prosecutor whose specialty is getting witnesses to rat out their friends, colleagues and bosses — and who brought down Vincent “the Chin” Gigante — has joined the team of the special...
View ArticleHow this ‘normal’ kid took over NYC’s docks through murder, intimidation
For much of the 20th century, Manhattan’s West Side was a gritty, bustling central artery of the shipping trade, home to the East Coast’s busiest and most profitable port. Billions of dollars passed...
View Article‘Vinny Gorgeous’ wants life sentence tossed over ineffective counsel
Wiseguy Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano has filed yet another appeal of his life sentence for the 2004 murder of a renegade underling. Citing ineffective counsel, the ex-mob boss wants a...
View ArticleManafort’s former biz pal an ‘upper-echelon’ Russian mobster: report
The feds have identified a former business associate of President Trump’s ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort as an “upper-echelon [associate] of Russian organized crime,” NBC News reported Wednesday....
View ArticleGang of grandmas busted in organized crime ring
Don’t mess with these grannies! A gang of Chinese seniors is headed to the slammer for strong-arming people into leaving their homes and terrorizing deadbeats by cussing, spitting — and in at least one...
View ArticleItaly’s ‘second-class mafia’ is becoming more deadly
MILAN — Italy’s interior minister was traveling to a southern city a day after four people were gunned down in a mafia killing that has focused attention on an underestimated crime network in the...
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