Fifteen alleged members or associates of a Philadelphia mob crime family were busted indicted on charges ranging from racketeering and extortion to gambling and drug trafficking, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Rhode Island mobster Robert P. “Bobby” DeLuca will be released early from prison because of the health risks during the coronavirus pandemic.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A member of the Gambino organized crime family was sentenced to life without parole for racketeering charges that span more than thee decades. Bartolomeo Vernace was found guilty of all nine racketeering acts, a 1981 double homicide, heroin trafficking, robbery and illegal gambling. “For more than four decades, the defendant dedicated his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new book explores the secret world of FBI informants, questioning the extent of bureau protection for killers and other criminals, U.S. News & World Report said. “Deal With the Devil: The FBI’s Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer” is written by investigative reporter and former ABC correspondent Peter Lance, who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Anthony L. Dinunzio, the acting boss of the New England La Cosa Nostra, was sentenced Wednesday in Providence, R.I. federal court to 6 years and 6 months in prison for his role in extorting protection payments from adult entertainment businesses in Rhode Island. Dinunzio, 53, of East Boston, Mass., pleaded guilty…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com How unsophisticated was the FBI when dealing with the mob in the early 1960s? So unsophisticated that the bureau referred to the La Cosa Nostra as the La Causa Nostra, according to Jerry Capeci, the mob expert who runs the site Gang Land News. Capeci writes that for near two years,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Is the N.Y. FBI allocating far too little to fight the five Organized Crime Families? The answer is a definite Yes, according to a story by mob expert Jerry Capeci, editor of Gang Land News. The site reports that the number of agents investigating New York wiseguys is at an all…
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. He is a columnist for ticklethewire.com. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com I joined the Detroit FBI surveillance squad in 1977. Two years later, on June 11, 1979 , we witnessed an event- its historical…
