The Chicago Syndicate: Gambinos
Showing posts with label Gambinos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gambinos. Show all posts
Saturday, June 08, 2019

Frank Lucas, Hollywood´s "American Gangster," and La Cosa Nostra Connection

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Special to The Chicago Syndicate by Ron Chepesiuk Hollywood has been hard at work molding the image of former 1970s Harlem drug trafficker...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

Police Corruption and Cover-ups Surround "The Brotherhood - The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia"

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In 1994, an underboss of the Lucchese crime family, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, flipped. He was in federal custody, facing numerous m...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires By Selwyn Raab

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As the Mafia grew into a malignantly powerful force during the middle of the last century, it owed much of its success to its low-priority r...
Monday, October 12, 2015

2008 Survey Names the Top 10 Criminal Organizations in the World

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THEY trade in everything from stolen art to nuclear technology and leave rivals riddled with bullets in the streets of Moscow. Now the wor...
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 ...
Monday, August 03, 2009

Is the Food at Mob Eateries Overrated?

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SO, Fat Tony misses Ba monte's mussels, Rao's chicken, and "great pasta" at Parkside and Don Peppe! It just shows you how ...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

How Mafia Crime Families Adapted for the 21st Century

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New York City's Five Families owned the 20th Century. Now they must confront the 21st — still alive, still armed and still dangerous. To...
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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Did Organized Crime Firms Perform Work on Yankees and Mets New Stadiums?

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Millions of dollars worth of work associated with the new baseball stadiums for the Yankees and Mets was performed by companies that New Yor...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

On the Waterfront, Mafia-Style, Leads to Operation UNIRAC

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Dockworkers in Wilmington, North Carolina were getting sucked into a trap. Needing money between paychecks, some went to James Lee, a former...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

Junior Says Tampa Trial is Not Fair

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John A. "Junior" Gotti thinks it's just not fair for prosecutors to insist that his mob racketeering trial take place in Tampa...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

Convictions of Mafia Cops are Reinstated

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The racketeering convictions of two retired New York City detectives who helped to kill at least eight men in their role as mob assassins we...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Growing Up as A Gambino

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When it comes to the Mafia, there are five infamous surnames: Lucchese, Colombo, Genovese, Bonanno and the best known—my own—Gambino. And th...
Monday, June 16, 2008

Mob Turncoat Allowing State to Bring More Drug Charges

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He's the rat who keeps on giving. The state is about to make a raft of new drug arrests courtesy of Mafia turncoat Joseph Vollaro, who h...
Friday, May 09, 2008

Reputed High-Ranking Gambino Figure Among 23 Named in Racketeering Indictment

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A man the feds call one of the highest-ranking members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey was among 23 people named Thursday in a rac...
Monday, March 31, 2008

CW to Detail Mafia's Connection to the Fashion Industry

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Just when it seemed Seventh Avenue had shed its cloak of organized crime, it could be pulled right back in. Lewis Kasman , a former trim p...
Saturday, March 01, 2008

The History of Organized Crime Control of Gay Bars

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I had a reader send me a link to the the History of Gay Bars in New York City from 1900 to the present. In addition to the Big Apple, you c...
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Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Mob Ties That Bind in Ozone Park

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Standing in front of the old site of the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club in Ozone Park, Queens, you can see a few immediate differences between it...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

New York's 5 Crime Families to Get Corporate Sponsors?

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Maybe the Mafia needs a new business model. The old one hasn’t been working well of late. That seems a reasonable surmise after the mass arr...
Friday, February 08, 2008

List of 62 Defendants Indicted in New York's Major Mobster Case

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Defendants Associated with the Gambino, Genovese, and Bonanno Crime Families of La Cosa Nostra, the Construction Industry, or Its Supporting...

62 Mobsters Part of 80 Count Indictment Against the Gambinso, Genoveses, Bonanno's and Others

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SIXTY-TWO DEFENDANTS INDICTED, INCLUDING GAMBINO ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILY ACTING BOSS, ACTING UNDERBOSS, CONSIGLIERE, AND MEMBERS AND ASSOCIAT...