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, [...]
