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La Stella Restaurant was an Italian restaurant in Forest Hills, Queens. [1] La Stella was opened by Joe and Jack Taliercio in 1960. [2] It closed in 1992. [3]
The five Mafia families in New York City are still active, albeit less powerful. The peak of the Mafia in the United States was during the 1940s and 50s, until the year 1970 when the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) was enacted, which aimed to stop the Mafia and organized crime as a whole. [ 23 ]
The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (Italian: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa-], Sicilian: [ˈkɔːsa ˈnɔʂː(ɽ)a]; "our thing" [3]), also referred to as simply Mafia, is a criminal society and criminal organization originating on the island of Sicily and dates back to the mid-19th century. It is an association of gangs which sell their ...
Paciello had connections to the New York Cosa Nostra crime families. [1] On Staten Island, Paciello joined the New Springville Boys , a gang with affiliations to the Bonanno crime family. [6] In December 1992, he participated in a $300,000 bank robbery at a Chemical Bank in the Staten Island Mall. [9]
Plastic to-go bottles await customers at a Voodoo Chicken & Daiquiris bar in New Orleans, on Jan. 3, 2025, a few hours after the Surgeon General warned that alcohol consumption can raise the risk ...
Daniel Pagano (pronounced "Pah-GAH-noh") (born 1953) is a New York mobster and street boss in the Genovese crime family who was involved in a famous gasoline bootlegging racket of the 1980s. Born in New York, Pagano is the son of Joe Pagano , a senior Genovese mobster.
A stranger followed a 26-year-old woman before beating and raping her in a brutal Wednesday morning Bronx attack, cops said. The victim was walking on Virginia Avenue near Wood Avenue in ...
Officials say two migrant teens were victims in a New York City stabbing, one fatally, after the teens were asked if they spoke English and they responded that they didn't. Police say they were ...