ATF agent testifies about reputed mobsters’ meal

ATF Special Agent Tina Sherrow was sitting in the front of Phoenix Restaurant in Chinatown, waiting for her takeout order, but she had little interest in the food. She was much more focused on the reputed mobsters meeting in the restaurant’s private dining room feet away. Sherrow testified Monday at the federal racketeering trial of [...]

Italy: Anti-mafia police seize assets worth €4mln from suspected mafia drug trafficker

Anti-mafia prosecutors in the southern Calabria region on Monday seized assets worth 4 million euros from suspected mafia-linked drugs trafficker Marcello Amelio. The assets include various properties, vehicles, bank accounts and an agricultural business. The prosecutors also gave Amelio a special surveillance order which forbids him from travelling outside his place of residence. Reports did [...]

New York Carpenters Boss Michael Forde Sentenced

Standing before a judge in Manhattan federal court on Friday, November 19, Michael Forde learned the price of high living and the crime that made it possible: 11 years in prison. For some members of the organization he once headed, the New York District Council of Carpenters and Joiners, that isn’t long enough. Forde had [...]

Italy: Southern mayor’s killer allegedly hiding in Colombia

Salerno, 29 Nov. (AKI) – The alleged killer of southern Italian mayor Angelo Vassallo is a suspected mafia extortionist and drugs trafficker believed to be hiding in the Columbian city of Medellin, Naples daily Il Mattino reported on Monday. Vassallo’s bullet ridden body was found slumped in his car in the seaside town of Pollica [...]

Brazilian Police Intensify Campaign Against Rio’s Gangland Violence

The ongoing security operation in Brazil’s second largest city, Rio de Janeiro, to rid the megapolis of gangsters has been further beefed up with armored vehicles being deployed near the entrance to a notorious shanty town there, reports said on Thursday. According to local media, six vehicles belonging to the Brazilian navy have been positioned [...]

Italy: Police chief suspended in southern mafia stronghold

The chief of police in Italy’s southern mafia stronghold of Castel Volturno was on Friday suspended for two months for allegedly helping the local mob, and other crimes. He is suspected of abuse of office, dereliction of duty and abetting the Naples mafia’s Bidognetti clan. The move folllowed an investigation into suspected mafia infiltration of [...]

The fog of corruption

MONTREAL—Forgive yourself if you haven’t heard, but there’s a by-election in Quebec on Monday: It’s in an area that’s largely rural and its name — Kamouraska-Témiscouata — doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But this by-election is worth a second glance because it’s giving voters in this province their first chance to cast judgment on [...]

Judges say Berlusconi had Mafia ties

PALERMO, Italy, Nov. 20 (UPI) — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had connections with the Sicilian Mafia to protect his broadcasting network, a three-judge panel in Palermo said. In a 641-page ruling, the appellate judges upheld the June mob-related conviction of one of Berlusconi’s former business and political allies, Marcello Dell’Utri, The Guardian reported. The [...]

Looking back at life on beat

SURVIVING a terrorist attack and seeing Melbourne gangland killer Alphonse Gangitano, in his underwear, dead on the floor of his laundry were just some of many jaw-dropping incidents Charlie Bezzina encountered in a 37-year career with Victoria Police. Sunshine resident Bezzina, who now works as a handyman in the local area, spent 17 years working [...]

Arrest of suspect with mob ties leads to more questions than answers

Armando Rea’s extended-stay Las Vegas vacation had the makings of real fun in the sun. You know how we take pride in catering to visitors, and with the real estate slump, home prices are a bargain. Instead, Rea’s journey to Southern Nevada ended with a visit from the FBI, which quietly gave him a return [...]

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