FBI agents armed with a backhoe and a front loader cut a wide trench alongside a 150-yard-long stretch of railroad tracks in an industrial section of East Farmingdale yesterday, as they resumed a search for the bodies of two victims of mob hits supposedly buried in a makeshift organized-crime cemetery.
No bodies [...]
A Colombo capo serving life behind bars for his role in a deadly crime-family war has asked a Brooklyn federal judge to toss his 1992 conviction in the wake of corruption charges against former FBI supervisor Lindley DeVecchio.
In an appeal filed yesterday, a lawyer for jailed capo Michael Sessa, 50, accused DeVecchio [...]
The House of Representatives passed a bill last week taxing the bonuses that were paid out to a number of AIG executives at 90 percent. I heard a congresswoman from New York say that congress was “acting in record time” to protect the major shareholders of the company, the American people, against [...]
A longtime associate of the Colombo organized-crime family was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for his role in shaking down the owners of the former Huntington Townhouse, in a case that involved the FBI bugging the Glen Cove High School baseball field.
Louis Fenza, 56, of Jericho, could have faced between 46 and 57 [...]
A longtime associate of the Colombo organized-crime family was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for his role in shaking down the owners of the former Huntington Townhouse, in a case that involved the FBI bugging the Glen Cove High School baseball field.
Louis Fenza, 56, of Jericho, could have faced [...]
COOKEVILLE — Thousands of people flocked to Tennessee Tech University’s Hooper Eblen Center this past Sunday to hear the unbelievable testimony of former mob boss, Michael Franzese. Considered one of the biggest money earners for organized crime since Al Capone, Franzese now spends his time speaking about the transformation that Jesus [...]
Michael Franzese was the son of the legendary Sonny Franzese, a kingpin in New York’s Colombo crime family. He was studying to be a doctor at Hofstra University. When Michael’s father was sent to prison, he left school to try to help win his dad’s freedom, and joined “the life.”
At age 24 [...]
When that former Mafia capo regime is Michael Franzese, who, according to federal records, generated more money for organised crime than anyone since Al Capone, the urge to shut up and simply digest what he is saying becomes positively overwhelming.
The subject is match-fixing and, while the location of Coventry Cathedral might [...]
It’s not every advice-book writer who can boast that his business acumen once earned him a spot a Fortune Magazine Top 50 list. Fewer still can claim to have made the list Michael Franzese appeared on in 1986, when he was No. 18 on the mag’s tally of the “Fifty Most Wealthy and Powerful Mafia [...]
A reputed Colombo crime family captain convicted of running illegal card games on Long Island and assaulting two men who robbed one of his clubs was sentenced Friday in Brooklyn to 10 years in prison.
Bookmaker Michael Uvino, 42, of Little Neck, got the stiff sentence despite insisting that he was a victim of gambling addiction, [...]
ROME - ITALIAN police say they have arrested 32 suspected mobsters with close ties to the Casalesi clan, a branch of the Naples-based Camorra crime syndicate.
Police in Caserta, near Naples, say the suspects were arrested early Wednesday in Modena, in northern Italy, and Caserta on charges of Mafia association and extortion. Two mobsters remain at large.
The Camorra, and in particular the Casalesi, have long shaken down local businessmen for money.
Those who refuse risk violence to themselves or their property.
Authorities have said the Casalesi are involved in illegal transport and disposal of tons of toxic waste from the industrial north to the underdeveloped south.
Source: straitstimes
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Bones dug from a dirt lot by police acting on a tip from a dying killer belong to a mob victim nicknamed Joe Onions, who was shot in the head three decades ago, state officials said Wednesday.
State police detectives unearthed Joseph “Joe Onions” Scanlon’s bones in November after arresting 71-year-old Nicholas Pari, who was terminally ill and offered to lead them to Scanlon’s burial site.
Investigators said they compared the skeletal remains with a DNA sample taken from Scanlon’s family to make a match.
“We hope that this information will bring closure for the family” said David Gifford, director of the state Department of Health, in a written statement. “This death occurred 30 years ago. We hope this gives them peace.”
The announcement solves a mystery that long vexed veteran Mafia investigators, who solved Scanlon’s killing but never found his body.
Pari and Andy Merola were convicted in 1979 of killing Scanlon because they believed he was a police informer, but the convictions were overturned by the state Supreme Court. The pair later pleaded no contest to lesser charges as part of a plea deal and confessed to dumping Scanlon’s remains in Narragansett Bay.
Investigators long had doubts about their story.
Pari, arrested on unrelated charges during a raid last year, told police he was dying and said Scanlon was buried near an East Providence apartment complex. Pari died a month later.
Merola went to his grave in 2007 without divulging the secret.
Source: boston.com
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