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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