A community portal about Cosa Nostra with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Sicilian Mafia or, simply, Mafia, or even more correctly Cosa Nostra is a criminal secret society of men which first developed in the...
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A community portal about Cosa Nostra with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Sicilian Mafia or, simply, Mafia, or even more correctly Cosa Nostra is a criminal secret society of men which first developed in the mid- 19th century in Sicily. An offshoot emerged on the East Coast of the United States during the late 19th century following waves of Sicilian emigration. Though it originally referred only to the Sicilian Mafia, the term mafia is today used to indicate an organized crime association.
Some locales cant seem to shake their less-than-sparkling reputations despite efforts to lock away the skeletons of yesterday. Weve decided to highlight five of these Bad Rap Cities that are making moves to shed their grimy and gritty images in hopes of becoming more tourist-friendly. Maybe, just maybe, after reading this series you'll be willing to take a chance on them. Enjoy. Bad Rap City: Naples Why Go? The revitalization projects have...
Carmen S. Dinunzio, the alleged underboss of the New England Family of La Cosa Nostra, was sentenced in Boston, Massachusetts to six years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges of conspiring to bribe a state official in connection with a proposed sale of materials to a project related to the Big Dig, and for providing a $10,000 down payment on the illegal payoff.
O yeah. Remember last year? All of us right-of-center bloggers criticized then presidential candidate Barack Obama for his ties to ACORN. He used them in order to win the elections against John McCain and earlier in the race for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party – and therefore against…
A 33-count indictment was unsealed this morning in Brooklyn federal court charging members and associates of the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (the Bonanno family) variously with racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, assault in-aid-of racketeering, conspiracy to commit assault in-aid-of racketeering, threatening to commit a crime of violence in-aid-of racketeering, use and possession of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, bank fraud, illegal gambling, extortion, extortion conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury. Those defendants arrested earlier today in New York are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marilyn D. Go, at the U.S. Courthouse, 225 Cadman ...
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Italian police have arrested a man believed to the boss of the Sicilian Mafia, Salvatore Lo Piccolo, but the long war between the Italian state and the Mafia is far from over. With his son Sandro - who was also arrested - 65-year-old Lo Piccolo has been a major power-broker in Sicily despite having been on the run for nearly 25 years. Nicknamed The Baron, he is believed by magistrates to have taken over from Bernardo Provenzano, who was the undisputed head of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra from 1995 until his arrest in 2006. Provenzano had run the Corleone Mafia, which gained supremacy in ...
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As an alleged mafia hitman, Charles Carneglia excelled at making people vanish. Now he and the rest of New York's once mighty Cosa Nostra could be the ones disappearing. Carneglia, 62, is on trial for five murders and other crimes, including kidnapping, allegedly committed as a soldier for the Gambinos -- one of the five historic mafia families based in the New York area. Appearing in court in a pea green sweater and grey slacks, the white-bearded, bespectacled Carneglia hardly resembled the monster prosecutors say used acid baths to dispose of people he shot. But he does mirror the face of an aging and ...
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CARMEN S. DINUNZIO, aka Cheeseman, age 51, of Boston, MA, was sentenced September 24, 2009 in federal court to six years in federal prison in connection with a joint federal and state plea agreement. DINUNZIO was sentenced today after he previously pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiring to bribe a state official in connection with a proposed sale of materials to a project related to the Central Artery Tunnel Project, otherwise known as the “Big Dig,” and for providing a $10,000 down payment on the illegal payoff. In connection with the plea agreement, DINUNZIO previously pleaded guilty in a separate hearing in Essex ...
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Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested last year and is in jail while the investigation continues. Anti-Mafia authorities say assets including supermarket outlets, land and cars, were seized Tuesday in Sicily.Italian authorities have seized assets worth euro700 million ($885 million) from a supermarket chain owner suspected of letting the Mafia use his businesses to launder money.Prosecutors told reporters in Palermo that Grigoli's name was found on notes discovered after the 2006 arrest of the Mafia's reputed top boss, Bernardo Provenzano. Provenzano allegedly used the notes to communicate with his lieutenants, which were found in his hideout.Media reports did not identify a lawyer for Grigoli. Nobody at ...
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