Elderly mobster pleads guilty to attempted tax evasion
An aged mobster pleaded guilty to attempted tax evasion in Brooklyn federal court on Monday for avoiding taxes on $2 million profits from the sale of properties in 2014. Old-fella Salvatore “Sallie”...
View ArticleHow John Gotti Jr. tried to escape the mob
Richard Stratton will never forget the time he was locked up behind bars with mob boss John Gotti. The writer and filmmaker was convicted in 1982 under the kingpin statue of conspiracy to import...
View ArticleHow communism gave birth to the world’s most vicious mafia
Gennady Karkov, the notorious Soviet Union gangster known best as “The Mongol,” stood out amid a world of vicious criminals. At the heart of the cold war, as the United States fought the Soviet Union...
View ArticleInside a Mexican Mafia revenge murder
A Texas-based drug dealer and former member of the so-called Mexican Mafia testified Wednesday about murdering an associate in 2016. James Chapa, 53, told a court in San Antonio that he and fellow...
View ArticleMobster admits he used prison mail system to send death threat
A reputed Gambino associate admitted Thursday that he used the prison mailing system to threaten to behead his former lawyer’s son — but blamed it on a heart condition. “I don’t even remember, your...
View ArticleThese are the spots where Al Capone became a hardened gangster
The local streets now home to high-end strollers and farm-to-table restaurants were once the stomping grounds of one of the country’s most infamous gangsters. Brooklyn is where Alphonse “Al” Capone got...
View ArticleYeezy-wearing mobsters convicted of running crime syndicate
A pair of Eastern European mobsters with a fetish for Kanye West footwear and fancy cars were convicted Tuesday of running a violent syndicate of the “Thieves in Law” gang in south Brooklyn. Jurors in...
View ArticleDrug cartels are murdering their way into Mexico’s gas industry
In his white sweatshirt and hot-pink Nikes, the man sitting on a park bench in front of the cathedral in Orizaba looks like an ordinary 32-year-old, but he’s talking about murdering people. He tells me...
View ArticleMeet the mob hitman suspected of killing Whitey Bulger
An ex-Mafia hitman who’s being eyed as the prime suspect in the fatal beatdown of James “Whitey” Bulger can guarantee his status as a boss behind bars — if he really was behind the infamous Boston...
View ArticleSuspect linked to gunning down reputed mobster at McDonald’s
A Bronx man has been linked to the hit squad accused of executing a reputed Bonanno mobster as he waited for coffee in a McDonald’s drive-through last month. Herman “Taliban” Blanco is facing charges...
View ArticleNew head of Cosa Nostra among 46 arrested in Sicily
The presumed new boss of the Cosa Nostra was arrested together with 45 other top mobsters, Italian authorities said Tuesday, striking a massive blow to the resurgent Sicilian Mafia. Settimo Mineo, 80,...
View ArticlePorn star arrested for masterminding murder-for-hire plot
A porn star has been busted for allegedly masterminding a murder-for-hire plot, authorities said. Federal agents nabbed Katrina Danforth — who performs under the names Lynn Passion and Lynn Pleasant —...
View ArticleDon’t convict my client for looking like a mobster: lawyer
“Dressed to kill” is just an expression — capisce? The lawyer for a reputed Bonanno crime family boss pleaded with a jury on Monday not to convict her client based on his looks — which she likened to a...
View ArticleMobster gets another 6 years for sending lawyer death threats
A reputed Gambino associate earned himself another 6 ¹/₂ years behind bars on Thursday for sending his attorney threats from jail — despite groveling to a Brooklyn judge that he’s a changed man and...
View ArticleReputed mobsters acquitted in racketeering and extortion case
He may look like a mobster — but he’s not guilty of being one. Two reputed mobsters, including Joseph “Joe C” Cammarano Jr., the dapper reputed acting Bonanno crime family boss, were acquitted on all...
View Article102-year-old mobster: ‘I never hurt nobody that was innocent’
Longtime Colombo under-boss John “Sonny” Franzese is the living embodiment of the ultimate mob rule — bragging in an interview about refusing to rat despite it making him the oldest federal prisoner at...
View ArticleMob boss who inspired other infamous turncoats dies in witness protection
The Mafia big who was the first of his generation to spill the mob’s most precious secrets about its extensive reach into legitimate businesses, labor unions and illegal rackets in New York has died....
View ArticleWhitey Bulger’s former warden thinks gangster ‘wanted to die’
Whitey Bulger was ready to die. That’s according to the former warden of the Florida prison where the 89-year-old crime boss was housed before being shipped off to a West Virginia lockup — where the...
View ArticleGenovese ‘made’ man cops to loansharking, gambling scheme
A “made” man in the Genovese crime family and four alleged associates copped to a slew of illegal scams that paid “tribute” to the mob, police said Wednesday. The group was busted by New Jersey police...
View ArticleLucheses leadership changed hands in bloodless coup orchestrated from prison
The leadership of one of New York’s Five Families, the Lucheses, changed hands thanks to a bloodless coup orchestrated from prison, mob-trial testimony revealed this week. Imprisoned-for-life Mafia...
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