By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joseph Watts, a close associate of the late Gambino Crime family boss John J. Gotti, becomes the latest mobster to get a stiff prison sentence. Watts,69, was sentenced Wednesday in Manhattan federal court by Judge Colleen McMahon to 13 years in prison for participating in “murder and assault conspiracies in order…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It all seems a little surreal. But it’s real. The New York Post reports that a new “biopic” film on the Gotti family — “Gotti: Three Generations” — will star John Travolta, and none other than actor Joe Pesci. Filming is set to begin in October. Pesci became legendary for his…
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 On Thursday, the day 127 people were charged in the largest Mafia roundup in FBI history, a hit man for the late mob Godfather John Gotti pleaded guilty in federal court in New York to arranging the Sept. 11, 1989 murder of a Staten Island businessman Gotti suspected was a snitch,…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fh_HNt5l_8 WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST Baltimore Cop Among Two Dead in Night Club Shooting (AP) Detroit Feds Recommend Life Sentences in Biker Case (Detroit News) Fed Judge Allows Limited Release of Escort Black Book (Detroit News) Incendiary Mailings Spread from Maryland to D.C. (Washington Post) U.S. Demands Info on WikiLeaks Twitter Account (AP) Atty. Gen….
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Garment businessman Lewis Kasman, the late mobster John Gotti’s confidante and self-proclaimed “adopted son” and FBI mole avoided getting a prison sentence Thursday for lying to the FBI and other crimes, Long Island’s Newsday reported. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn on Thursday spared Kasman, 53, a prison sentence for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John McNally: Hero cop or mob associate? Perhaps both. Federal authorities have filed court papers in U.S. District Court in Manhattan alleging that the retired New York cop, now 76, worked with the late mobster John Gotti’s hired gun Joseph Watts on extortion and money laundering crimes for years, the New…
