Mafia
Mob sweep! Feds round up 30 suspected Wise-Guys in Garbage-Hauling Industry Probe
BY LARRY MCSHANE AND ROBERT GEARTY NEW YORK DAILY NEWS NEW YORK –Thirty mobbed-up suspects – including a ringleader known as “Papa Smurf” – were arrested Wednesday in a probe of the garbage-hauling industry, authorities said. The purported wise guys – members of the Gambino, Lucchese and Genovese organized crime families – were busted in…
Detroit Mobster Tony Zerilli Claims He Has Info On Jimmy Hoffa’s Whereabouts
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit For decades now we’ve heard of endless tips about the whereabouts of Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa, who vanished in 1975: a stadium, a freeway, an incinerator. And most recently, a driveway in Roseville. Now comes the latest. WDIV aired an exclusive interview Sunday night with the Tony Zerilli, 85,…
FBI Busts Menacing Trio in Loan-Sharking Ring in Brooklyn
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An unlikely alliance between gangsters and the mafia was discovered by the FBI during an investigation of a loan-sharking ring, the New York Post reports. The newspaper wrote that the Brooklyn-based FBI arrested purported Gambino crime family member James Ferrara, alleged Westies gang member Daniel Hanley and reputed Demon Knights motorcycle gangster…
Ex-FBI Agent Joseph Pistone, AKA Donnie Brasco, Warns Canadian Officials of Mafia Dangers
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI Agent Joseph Pistone, better known by his alias Donnie Brasco, told a commission in Canada that the mafia is a menacing “plague on our society,” the Montreal Gazette reports. During the highly anticipating testimony, Pistone said the structures and traditions of the mafia are identical around the globe. “That’s why…
Mafia Expert “Donnie Brasco” to Speak to Montreal Officials About the Criminal Underworld
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Mafia expert and former undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, better known as Donnie Brasco, is expected to share knowledge of the criminal underworld to Montreal officials as early as Monday, the Montreal Gazette reports. Pistone is known for bringing down members of two of New York City’s most notorious mobs – the…
Feds: Mobster Conducts Business from Prison
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Accused mobster Joseph “Mousie” Massimino is suspected of conducting Mafia business from behind closed bars, the Philadelphia Daily News reports. Among the evidence is a letter that Massimino sent to a friend in 2005 while locked up in New Jersey’s South Woods State Prison. The letter advises a friend to “get in…
FBI In Early 1960s Mistakenly Referred to Mob as “La Causa Nostra”
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,…