By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Kareem Ibrahim, an Imam, will have to communicate to the person up above, behind bars, for the rest of his life. Brooklyn U.S. District Judge Dora L. Irizarry on Friday sentenced Ibrahim to life in prison for conspiring to commit a terrorist attack at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A fed jury in Brooklyn on Friday convicted Democratic fundraiser Courtney Dupree in a scheme to get $21 million in fraudulent loans. Dupree, the CEO of the Long Island-based, GDC Acquisitions, a holding of company, was charged with grossly overstating the firm’s billings to fraudulently obtain a $21 million loan from…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As New York mobster stories go, there seemed to be no shortage in 2011. Mob expert Jerry Capeci should know. Capeci, a former New York Daily News reporter, runs the website Gang Land News. On Thursday, he picked the top mob stories of 2011. Hands down, he writes, the top story…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mobster Anthony “Tony D” Palumbo of the Genovese crime family was sentenced Thursday in Manhattan federal court to 10 years in prison for “murder conspiracy” that included a plot to bump off a hitman for the Russian mob. Palumbo, a soldier and an “acting capo” in the Genovese family, pleaded guilty…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In what’s being billed as a first, a boss of one of the five New York crime families took the stand Tuesday to testify in court for the government. No New York boss had ever done that before, though it’s generally accepted that the code of silence aint’ what it used…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Brooklyn-born rapper Christopher Wallace — aka Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls — was killed on March 9, 1997 in Los Angeles with a “very rare” Gecko 9 mm armor piercing ammunition seldom found in the U.S., newly released FBI files show. ABC News reported that information, which is included…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex- New York FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio, who beat a murder wrap in 2007 after being accused of advising a mob informant to kill four turncoats, is going after the local Brooklyn prosecutors who unsuccessfully went after him, according to the New York Daily News. In his new book “We’re Going…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Brooklyn U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein — some times known as a maverick — did something fairly unorthox for a federal judge, but maybe not so unorthodox for Weinstein: he went to visit the neighborhood where a crack cocaine crew ruled, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Weinstein, 89,…
