The Chicago Syndicate: Donnie Brasco
Showing posts with label Donnie Brasco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donnie Brasco. Show all posts
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Mafia Book Not So Easy to Forget About: The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino

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Sometimes "forget about it" means just that - forget about it. In the case of The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Mass...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

How Joseph Charles Massino become Known as #TheLastDon

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Born on Jan. 10, 1943 in New York City, Joseph Charles Massino is a former member of the Italian Mafia who was the boss of the Bonanno crime...
Friday, June 26, 2015

National Geographic Channel Infiltrates Centuries of Deadly Secrets INSIDE THE MAFIA

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Four-Hour Series Pierces Inner Workings and Violent History of the Criminal Corporation With Global Reach Through a pop culture lens, the ...

Donnie Brasco on The Sopranos

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The best way to know if a show about the mob is authentic is to ask a mobster. But that's scary. So we did the next best thing. We invit...

Reinhard in 1969: Rockford Mobsters 'Retired or Inactive'

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Federal judge and former Winnebago County State’s Attorney Philip G. Reinhard said in an April 4, 1969, interview with the Rockford Morning ...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Reputed Mafia Boss of Canada, Vito Rizzuto, Dies at 67

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Vito Rizzuto, the reputed Mafia boss of Canada, whose dapper outfits and ability to avoid prison led the authorities to call him the John Go...
Friday, May 20, 2011

How Joseph Massino Exposed the Ugly Truth About "Vinny Gorgeous"

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A New York City mobster who is serving a life sentence for attempted murder could become the first mafia boss to face the death penalty afte...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Mafia Parade from Prison to the Streets to Last Throughout 2009

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Prison doors will swing open this year for some of the city's toughest mobsters. By an odd coincidence, some of the heaviest hitters fro...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Joe Pistone - Legendary Lawman

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Past issues of Legendary Lawmen have been key figures from our past. This month features a bit more recent individual. Many of you may alrea...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

John Connolly, Former FBI Agent, Gets 40 Years in Prison for Role in Mob Hit

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A judge sentenced a rogue FBI agent to 40 years in prison on Thursday for the 1982 mob-related killing of a witness who was about to testify...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Did a FBI Hero Join the Mob?

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Sitting in an unmarked sedan car in South Boston, John Connolly had his binoculars trained on a scene just a block away. It was a gruesome s...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

"Donnie Brasco" Says Fughetaboutit to Testifying in Court

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The FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the Mafia as "Donnie Brasco" refused Wednesday to testify in a fellow former agent's ...
Friday, March 14, 2008

How Joe Pistone and the FBI Used Intel to Stop the Mob

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Dominick “Sonny Black” Napolitano just couldn’t believe it. On July 26, 1981, he and his fellow wise guys learned that Donnie Brasco—who the...
Sunday, September 16, 2007

Alyssa Milano is a Wisegal

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Alyssa Milano has been tapped to star in the Lifetime original movie "Wisegal," a drama inspired by the true story of a women who ...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Donnie Brasco Extended Cut

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Friends of ours: Bonanno Crime Family, Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero Friends of mine: Donnie Brasco In the 1970s, FBI undecover agent ...
Monday, February 12, 2007

The Unfinished Business of Donnie Brasco

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The only real mobster I ever met was a funny little guy named Fred. He was short, stooped and rumpled, with basset-hound eyes and pallid ski...
Monday, January 29, 2007

Joe Pistone Confesses to Crimes as Mob Mole

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Legendary FBI agent Joe Pistone is confessing for the first time that he broke the law during the years he spent undercover as mob wanna-be ...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

"Bizarro FBI" Roots for "Defendant"

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When Lin DeVecchio goes to court, he never goes alone. His lawyers are there, making arguments. The news media are there, taking photograp...
Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Mob Murder Suggests Link to International Drug Ring

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FBI file on Rockford Mobster Joseph J. Maggio shows likely motive for his 1980 killing and Mob efforts to gain access to FBI files - By Jeff...
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