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14/04/2023

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11/07/2022

“I was born, grew up, spent a few years in the army, couple more in the can, and here I am, half a wise guy, so what?" - 'Paulie Walnuts' Gualtieri in The Sopranos. rest in Peace, Tony Sirico.

07/07/2022

"You're taking this very personal. Tom, this is business and this man is taking it very, very personal." - Sonny Corleone in The Godfather. Rest in Peace, James Caan.

02/06/2022

Looking back at when the Sicilian Mafia assassinated Italian judges https://gangstersinc.org/video/looking-back-at-when-sicilian-mafia-cosa-nostra-assassinated-ital --

Created on the island of Sicily in the mid-19th century, Cosa Nostra soon became one of the most powerful branches of the Italian mafia. In 1986, the Italian justice system launched a counter-offensive, with the Palermo prosecutor's office leading the charge. Judge Giovanni Falcone became a symbol o...

01/06/2022

UPDATE: Hells Angels "ambush" Vagos outlaw bikers and shoot it out on Nevada freeway, leaving 7 wounded https://gangstersinc.org/blog/hells-angels-and-vagos-outlaw-bikers-shoot-it-out-on-nevada-freew --

31/05/2022

Hells Angels and Vagos outlaw bikers shoot it out on Nevada freeway, leaving 7 wounded https://gangstersinc.org/blog/hells-angels-and-vagos-outlaw-bikers-shoot-it-out-on-nevada-freew --

Any time, and place. It’s a mantra many gangsters live by. They take the fight to their enemies whenever and wherever they get the chance. Members of the Hells Angels and Vagos, two rival outlaw motorcycle clubs, proved that on Sunday when they got involved in a morning shootout on a Nevada freewa...

30/05/2022

The Caravaggio’s gone! A masterpiece stolen and the Mafia connection https://gangstersinc.org/blog/the-caravaggio-s-gone-a-masterpiece-stolen-and-the-mafia-connecti --

The Mafia, it’s claimed, were all over it like a rash. But were they? A story with more slack ends and dangling threads than Joseph’s Coat of Many Colours. Zelda Fitzgerald said, “It’s the loose ends with which men hang themselves.” After fifty-three years, it’s getting more and more unl...

29/05/2022

When Ray Liotta met real life Goodfellas https://gangstersinc.org/video/when-ray-liotta-met-real-life-goodfellas --

Ray Liotta visits David Letterman's Late Show and recalls what it was like meeting the real Henry Hill and some other real life goodfellas. For more on Goodfellas see: The Truth Behind Movie Classic Goodfellas Back to the Showbiz section on Gangsters Inc. Check out the latest news on organized crim...

28/05/2022

"For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked sh*tty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean, they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something, we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again." - Rest in peace, Ray Liotta.

28/05/2022

Philadelphia Mafia family associate gets 5 years behind bars for racketeering and trying to buy 1 kilo of coke https://gangstersinc.org/blog/philadelphia-mafia-family-associate-gets-5-years-behind-bars-for --

A Philadelphia Mafia family associate was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to racketeering conspiracy and drug dealing. 68-year-old Daniel Castelli had made the guilty plea in January of this year.

28/05/2022

Journey Without End: A Mafia Murder and the Search for Truth https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/journey-without-end-a-mafia-murder-and-the-search-for-truth -- #

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc. “It is no longer clear what is happening in this city. We are moving targets, and we don’t know who will kill us.” - Mimo La Monica. Officer in Italian State Police. 1989. He hasn’t had a haircut or shaved in thirty-one years. His hair is white and long. O...

27/05/2022

Meet the executioner for mob boss Wh**ey Bulger https://gangstersinc.org/video/meet-the-executioner-for-mob-boss-whitey-bulger - **eyBulger

Steve Kroft interviews former Wh**ey Bulger associate and Winter Hill Gang hitman John Martorano. Back to the Organized Crime in North America section on Gangsters Inc. Check out the latest news on organized crime and the Mafia at our news section Check out our social media channels About Gangsters....

26/05/2022

They whacked the payphone! The American Mafia bids it farewell with tears in its eyes https://gangstersinc.org/blog/they-whacked-the-payphone-the-american-mafia-bids-it-farewell-wit --

Mobsters and payphones formed a decades long lucrative partnership. Conducting business on one of those things was part of their modus operandi. It was a way of avoiding wiretaps, while still getting to talk to associates far and wide. Unfortunately, the mighty payphone collected its last coin this....

26/05/2022

New shows start today! Crime Beat Radio: Drug Lords, N***s, Italian Mob & Hot Springs https://gangstersinc.org/blog/crime-beat-radio-drug-lords-nazis-italian-mob-hot-springs by Ron Chepesiuk --

CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARK SIDE on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for May 26,, 2022, through July 21, 2022. Guests include Ralph Friedman, Craig Shirley, Luis Navia, Alan Warren and David Hill, among others. Subjects....

25/05/2022

How Co***ne Came to America: Meet Griselda, George, Carlos and Pablo https://gangstersinc.org/video/how-co***ne-came-to-america-meet-griselda-george-carlos-and-pablo -

With interviews from notorious smuggler George Jung and Pablo Escobar’s wife and son - this pilot episode reveals how a handful of criminals including the original ”Black Widow” Griselda Blanco, daredevil Carlos Lehder and Pablo Escobar himself joined forces to form the most powerful cartel in...

24/05/2022

Giovanni Falcone and his fight to the death against the Sicilian Mafia: https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/three-good-men-and-their-fight-to-the-death-against-the-sicilian --

23/05/2022

The one thing a Menendez brother feared more than the Mexican Mafia https://gangstersinc.org/blog/the-one-thing-a-menendez-brother-feared-more-than-the-mexican-maf --

The Mexican Mafia reigns through sheer terror. From behind bars they spread their influence far and wide to the outside world. All criminals knew that “La Eme” would come for them – either on the streets or in prison. If gangsters had that realization and fear, imagine how a couple of Beverly ...

22/05/2022

It’s no secret that the underworld and Hollywood have a longtime love affair. Filmmakers love gangsters and gangsters love movies about their exploits. Some even try to become an actor. But it is not every day that you see an actor get involved in the gritty gangland stuff. Enter Genovese crime family capo Anthony Romanello and actor Luan Bexheti. Both men were caught up in an extortion bust https://gangstersinc.org/blog/underworld-fame-genovese-mafia-family-capo-and-albanian-gangster

20/05/2022

Rochester Mafia hitman pleads guilty to escape from halfway house when he had less than 1 year to serve https://gangstersinc.org/blog/rochester-mafia-hitman-pleads-guilty-to-escape-from-halfway-house --

Imagine being locked up since the early 1990s. As 2022 rolls around you are nearing the end of your sentence and stay at a halfway house. Just one more year to go. Would you do the year or would you make a run for it and become a wanted man? Rochester mob hitman Dominic Taddeo felt the fugitive life...

20/05/2022

If sorrow is cold like a winter night, just as long and no way out, and death is black like a raven’s wing, this Mafia hitman from Palermo was a full realization of just how dangerous it is to be a terminator working for men who treated truth, and conscience and loyalty with as much fealty as they showed for a stray dog scavenging in an alley. Everything he did counted for nothing when he became too influential and a perceived threat to men who were even more deadly than he was. https://gangstersinc.org/blog/no-way-out-the-life-and-death-of-mafia-killer-mario-prestifilippo

He had not reached thirty when he died, and although he crammed a lot into his brief life, it was all the wrong stuff. In a playhouse of madness where all the players outdid themselves in their levels of depravity, he had a starring role that lasted over half a decade. A killer who never had time fo...

20/05/2022

Killing Frank: How the Los Angeles Mob Removed a Problem https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/killing-frank-how-the-los-angeles-mob-removed-a-problem --

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc. Carl Sifakis in The Mafia Encyclopedia writes this about Frank Bompensiero: “In the treacherous world of Mafia hit men, few characters proved shiftier than Frank ‘Bomp’ Bompensiero.... For decades regarded as one of the most efficient hit men in the West Coa...

19/05/2022

WATCH | Major drug-smuggling tunnel found on US-Mexico border https://gangstersinc.org/video/watch-major-drug-smuggling-tunnel-found-on-us-mexico-border -- by FRANCE 24 English --

American authorities have discovered a drug-smugglers' tunnel running under the US-Mexico border. Stretching from Tijuana, Mexico to a warehouse in San Diego, the so-called "narco-tunnel"  thought to be 1,744 feet (530 meters) long, 61 feet deep and four feet in diameter, the US Attorney's Office...

19/05/2022

"A triangle of death existed, connecting two towns and the biggest city in Sicily. It contained events that stretched over six years, cost the lives of two police officers." https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/a-killing-in-palermo-a-triangle-of-death --

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc. A triangle of death existed, connecting two towns and the biggest city in Sicily. It contained events that stretched over six years, cost the lives of two police officers and confirmed something that all researchers into the Mafia have always known: Trouble in all...

18/05/2022

Stranger Things: Dropping acid with Boston crime boss James “Wh**ey” Bulger https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/stranger-things-dropping-acid-with-boston-mob-boss-james-whitey -- **ey

By David Amoruso The year is 1957. A 28-year-old inmate by the name of James Bulger is serving a 20-year prison sentence for armed robbery. That’s a long time to spend in a tiny cell. A doctor proposes the young Bostonian participate in a drug experiment to earn an early release. He accepts. Why w...

18/05/2022

Londongrad: How the United Kingdom became a laundromat for Russian oligarchs’ dirty money https://gangstersinc.org/video/londongrad-how-the-united-kingdom-became-a-laundromat-for-russian --

For years, the UK has welcomed oligarchs with few questions asked about their fortunes. Billions of dollars poured in. Now, British intelligence is warning that Russian money is propping up Putin’s regime -- and that some of it is helping fund the war in Ukraine. Back to the Russian Mafia section ...

17/05/2022

Colombia's Narco Wars Just Got Deadlier https://gangstersinc.org/video/colombia-s-narco-wars-just-got-deadlier -- by VICE News -- ***ne

The rainforest border between Colombia and Venezuela is one of the busiest hotspots for drug trafficking in the world - and the most secretive. Under the canopies, a war is raging to control the co***ne corridors to Venezuela, fought between a mushrooming number of drug cartels, right-wing militias,...

17/05/2022

Untouchable "Little Jimmy" - Profile of Chicago Mafia boss James Marcello https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/untouchable-little-jimmy-profile-of-chicago-mafia-boss-james-marc --

By David Amoruso “It’s good to be in something from the ground floor. I came too late for that and I know. But lately, I’m getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over.” – Anthony Soprano, HBO’s The Sopranos Mob boss James “Little Jimmy” Marcello must know the feel...

16/05/2022

The crime of hypocrisy: Portland gangster gets 7 years in prison for robbing ma*****na dispensary https://gangstersinc.org/blog/the-crime-of-hypocrisy-portland-gangster-gets-7-years-in-prison-f -- **d *****na

Imagine that you had a job for years that was appreciated by the general public, but criminalized by the government. You spent some time behind bars because of it. Friends of yours did too. Then the government did a 180 degree turnaround and took your job and income and handed it to those with a cle...