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Ten members and associates of the Gambino crime family have been arrested, officials announced Wednesday. The United States Attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York said that at the ...
News reports in July 2019 indicated that a recent police investigation confirmed strong links between the Palermo area Cosa Nostra and the Gambino crime family in New York. [342] According to Italian newspaper La Repubblica , "Off they go, through the streets of Passo di Rigano, Boccadifalco, Torretta and at the same time, Brooklyn, Staten ...
The son of Sicilian-American mafioso Nat Riccobono, [2] Roberts was born John Riccobono and raised in the Little Italy neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. [3] Nat Riccobono, an associate of Lucky Luciano, had emigrated illegally to the United States with his brothers from Sicily and was a caporegime in the Gambino crime family, operating gambling and loan-sharking operations in black ...
Harry "The Hunchback" Riccobene (July 27, 1909 – June 19, 2000) was a high-ranking member of the Philadelphia crime family who became a major figure in the Scarfo-Riccobene gang war that followed the 1981 death of boss Philip Testa.
Seen here is a mugshot of Chicago Outfit mob boss Joseph "Joey" Hohn Aiuppa (1907-1997), circa 1980. ... SAMMY THE BULL GRAVANO: MAFIA IS LIKE BOY SCOUTS, COMPARED TO POLITICIANS ... In Other News.
Italian police arrested almost 150 people Tuesday in a major operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which remain in the grip of powerful Cosa Nostra clans.
Joseph "Big Joey" Massino (born 1943), first boss of one of the Five Families in New York City to turn state's evidence; Francesco Matrone (born 1947), serving two life sentences in prison; Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff (born 1960), serving life sentence in prison; Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino (born 1962), serving two-year prison sentence
Defendants Joseph “Joe Box” Rutigliano, 63, and Salvatore “Sal the Shoemaker” Rubino, 58, allegedly collected the café’s proceeds for the Genovese side, kicking them up to Polito and ...