By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-DEA agent Louis (Louie The Actor) Diaz, testified last week in Brooklyn federal court in the trial of a Gambino mobster that he did some devilish things himself while working undercover, Gang Land News. Mob expert Jerry Capeci, editor of Gang Land News, reports that Diaz testified in the racketeering…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The U.S. feds met with Italian law enforcement counterparts in Italy last week to make sure everyone was on the same page on organized crime. The summit gave the FBI and several federal prosecutors from the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s office a chance to connect the dots with Italian officials on current investigations…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Racketeering, narcotics trafficking, assault, extortion, murder? Just another day-in-the-life of a Gambino mobster. Five Gambino wise guys pled guilty this week to a range of nefarious charges, announced Preet Bharara, NY U.S Attorney in Manhattan. Working as “soldiers” and “associates” of the Gambino crime family, Vincenzo Frogiero, Todd Labarca, John Brancaccio, Christopher…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Was the late Godfather John Gotti a draft dodger? Well, kinda, sorta. His status with the military is included in 1,580 pages of FBI files on Gotti from 1964 to 1995, archived on a CD-ROM by the website paperlessarchives.com. Gotti was the boss of the Gambino crime family, nicknamed the “Dapper…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com This is a goof almost too good to be true. Mob expert Jerry Capeci of Gang Land News reports that the feds — more specifically, federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security — were a little embarrassed a few weeks ago when they tried arresting Gambino crime family capo Alphonse…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some fed mobster file lost in a New York cab nearly 20 years ago– with an estimated pre-sale worth of $10,000 to $15,000 — are going up for auction at Bonhams New York, the Associated Press reports. The U.S. government file in a three-ring binder — stamped “Mafia” and “United States…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News The historic mobster roundup that collared more than 120 people in the New York region last month provided a snapshot of the Mafia of today: murder, gambling and extortion; big bosses and small fries; “made guys” and associates. But what it didn’t show was the pervasive nepotism that still…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI may have blown the cover of a mob informant by being a little careless, the Gang Land News website reported. Jerry Capici of Gang Land News, a former mob writer for the New York Daily News, reports that the cover of mob associate Howard Santos may have been blown…
