Outta school or sleep wid fishes
By JOHN MARZULLI September 17, 2011 A REPUTED Genovese crime family associate was charged yesterday with threatening a competitor who won...
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Jul 20, 20235 min read
Feds Went Down Low To Make Mob Sex Trafficking Case
By JERRY CAPECI May 6, 2010 The details on the big Gambino sex-trafficking bust last month are starting to come in, and – no real...
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Jul 20, 20231 min read
B’klyn gal ‘fesses up as Gambinos’ hooker broker
By MITCHEL MADDUX April 18, 2010 A Brooklyn woman who acted as a phone receptionist for a hooker ring run by the Gambino crime family...
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Jul 20, 20233 min read
Ex-cop: Child prostitution marks a new low for mafia
By EMANUELLA GRINBERG April 21, 2010 (CNN) -- The mafia has traditionally maintained respect for women and children, but allegations the...
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Jul 20, 20232 min read
Wannabe Wiseguy Loses Appetite For ‘The Life’
By JIMMY CAPECI September 16, 2010 Wannabe Wiseguy Loses Appetite For 'The Life' Virtually all his life, James Malpeso has wanted to...
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Jul 20, 20231 min read
Wiseguy to hit mattress on bottom
By JOHN MARZULLI March 12, 2010 A judge has ordered a top-to-bottom overhaul of a Bonanno crime family tough guy's sleeping arrangements....
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Jul 20, 20232 min read
Bloodcurdling threat caught on tape
By JOHN M. ANNESE March 3, 2010 STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Federal authorities say they've locked up a Bonanno crime family associate from...
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Jul 20, 20234 min read
DEA XMas Raid Was Scripted To Crash Mafia Induction Rite
By JERRY CAPECI July 29, 2010 In his debut as a government witness, Michael (Mickey) Souza, the latest turncoat mobster, testified at the...
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Jul 20, 20233 min read
The Emperor's Club of Rockaway Boulevard
By JAKE MOONEY March 16, 2008 THERE are four storefronts at 116-02 Rockaway Boulevard, a squat brick building on a quiet corner in South...
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Jul 20, 20234 min read
18 caught in sex ring roundup
By FRANK DONNELLY April 8, 2004 They went by names such as Gentlemen’s Delight, Our Personal Touch and White Diamonds and advertised in...
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Jul 20, 20233 min read
18 Arrested in Lucrative Prostitution Ring Out of Staten Island
By William K. Rashbaum April 8, 2004 Eighteen men and women were arrested yesterday on charges that they helped run a sophisticated...
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romanolawnyc
Jul 19, 20232 min read
Capo’s life imitates art: Mob boss sees a shrink, a la ‘Sopranos’
By JERRY CAPECI April 23, 2001 Joseph (Joey Flowers) Tangorra is coping with the pressures and setbacks of life in the mob the same way...
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Jul 19, 20232 min read
Story Of Mob Shooting Emerges No bail at hearing of Lucchese members
By GRAHAM RAYMAN December 13, 2000 When reputed Lucchese crime family member Joseph Tangorra and associate Lester Ellis showed up outside...
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Jul 19, 20233 min read
Reputed Mobsters Indicted in ’88 Slaying
By GRAHAM RAYMAN November 29, 2000 Twelve years later, the gangland murder of Victor Filocamo is still generating arrests. Reputed...
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Jul 19, 20231 min read
Grandson Of a Dodger Faces Charges In a Death
By ALAN FEUER July 8, 2000 Lucchese family. The police said Mr. Hodges, 26, and Mr. Marino, 27, both Brooklyn residents, spent Thursday...
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Jul 19, 20232 min read
Hodges’ kin has law and Mafia to fear in pal’s death
By MAGGIE HABERMAN July 8, 2000 The grandson of Dodgers and Mets great Gil Hodges was charged yesterday with killing his best friend in a...
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Jul 19, 20232 min read
Feds Still Want Messina, The Last Man Standing, For Murder
By JERRY CAPECI August 18, 2011 Last week, Brooklyn federal prosecutors reluctantly turned over the entire NYPD investigative file of a...
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Jul 19, 20232 min read
NYPD Files In 1992 Murder Aid Mob Guy Arrested in 2011
By JERRY CAPECI June 30, 2011 After months of failed starts and stops, Bonanno associate Neil Messina finally managed to get his friends...
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Jul 19, 20233 min read
The Plumber Got Himself A New Suit For His Mob Boss's Funeral
By JERRY CAPECI October 10, 2019 It was March 8, the day after the death of longtime Mafia boss Carmine (Junior) Persico, and a...
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Jul 18, 20231 min read
Judge to mob geezers: Retire already!
By KATI CORNELL May 9, 2002 Old dogs can’t learn new tricks – but how about old wiseguys? A Brooklyn federal judge scolded a pair of...
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