Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Brutal mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger was a colorful figure in the underground crime word. So it’s no surprise his trial prompted some memorable quotes: “After I heard that they were informants, it sort of broke my heart.” – Ex-gangster and former Bulger partner John Martorano, who served just 12 years after…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former Border Patrol officers accused some U.S. politicians of protecting Mexican drug cartels with lenient immigration laws and sanctuary cities, Newsmax.com reports. “We must never lose sight of the fact that the United States is the market place for the bulk of transnational criminal businesses engaged in human trafficking and the smuggling,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI will continue to shed the number of agents assigned to fight the mafia as the demand for other threats increases, The New York Times reports. For the third time in five years, the bureau will decrease its agents assigned to organized crime to about three dozens. In the meantime, more…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT –– So maybe we’ve seen the last Jimmy Hoffa dig for a long long time. Perhaps ever. On Wednesday, two days after it began, the FBI stopped rooting around for a skeleton in Oakland Township Former mob federal prosecutor Keith Corbett said he doesn’t expect to see another…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com John Martorano, a star witness in the prosecutor’s murder and racketeering case against mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, described chilling details of killing people, sometimes the wrong ones, The Boston Globe reports. Martorano, a friend-turned-foe of Bulger’s, implicated the mob boss in six slayings in the 1970s on Wednesday and is…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Four members of the Bonanno organized crime family were arrested early Friday in New York by DEA and FBI agents on charges of racketeering, gambling and drug sales, reports NBC. Also charged in the case was Anthony Graziano, the father of Mob Wives” reality show star Renee Graziano . Vincent Badalamenti,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The imprisoned Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger is trying to get hold of Mark Wahlberg, the actor says. The meeting is only speculation at this point, reports The Inquisitr, but it seems plausible Bulger wants Wahlberg to portray his likeness in a possible biopic on the criminal. “I actually got a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The highest-ranking leader in the United States of the notorious street gang the Latin Kings was sentenced in Chicago to 60 years in federal prison on Wednesday, according to a statement from the FBI. Augustin Zambrano, 51, was given the statutory maximum. He was convicted of racketeering conspiracy and other charges…
