Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Mob boss DeLeo’s been off the streets for a while, but that hasn’t kept the feds from coming after him. The 69-year-old Colombo Family ‘Street Boss’, of Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in Boston Federal court Thursday to racketeering conspiracy and illegal possession of firearms, the Justice Department announced in a press release. As…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You’ve got to figure most New York mobsters in their 80s have a rap sheet as long as the lunch line at the Carnegie Deli on 7th Avenue in Manhattan. Then there’s Nicholas Rizzo, 84, who was featured in a story on the website Gang Land News written by mob expert…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com At 93, mobster John “Sonny” Franzese — the underboss of the Colombo crime family — had a hard time staying awake during his racketeering trial in federal court in Brooklyn, the Associated Press reported. To boot, he had to sit there while his own son — a former mobster turned government…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn continues to chip away at the Colombo crime family. On Tuesday, the office announced the indictment of eight people tied to the notorious crime family on charges including fraud and extortion linked to the World Trade Center. The indictment alleges that the Colombo-controlled trucking company…
