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 After changing his name and being on the lam for 17 years, the FBI on Monday nabbed suspected New England mobster Enrico Ponzo in Idaho, the Boston Herald reported. The paper reported that Ponzo, 42, — suspected of being part of New England’s Patriarca Family –faces a host of charges including…
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 Fed prosecutors are putting in a good word for convicted killer and tough guy Salvatore “Good Looking Sal” Vitale, a Bonanno family mobster who is set to be sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court. He hopes to avoid a life sentence. Newsday reports that prosecutors, in a court filing, are advocating…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes in order to find the answer, you have to dig deep — literally. That’s what the FBI was doing Tuesday in Long Island: Digging for the remains of a reputed Colombo mobster killed 15 years ago, the New York Daily News reports. The paper reported that is looking for the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Who says wiseguys aren’t sensitive? The New York Daily News reports that Genovese mobster Joseph “JB” Barone, 49, who was an FBI informant for 18 years, cried late last week after he was acquitted by a federal jury in Manhattan of in a $1 million murder-for-hire plot. But it may not…
In the old days, referee Tim Donaghy stood up to some of the toughest guys in the NBA, and all he had was a whistle and a striped shirt that gave him plenty muscle. But in prison, the only whistle Donaghy may be hearing is from another inmate interested in him. By Frank Fitzpatrick Philadelphia…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Anthony St. Laurent Sr. gave a hired hitman some simple instructions before rubbing out rival New England mobster Robert DeLuca: “Shoot him in the f–ing head…Say ‘This is from the Saint.” Unfortunately for St. Laurent, a “made man” in the Patriarca crime family, the hitman was actually an undercover police officer,…
