Dominick Dunne, Hollywood crime author

Crime author Dominick Dunne, who told stories of shocking crimes among the rich and famous through his magazine articles and best-selling books including "Another City, Not My Own," about O.J. Simpson's murder trial, died Wednesday in his home at age 83.Dunne's son, Griffin Dunne, said in a statement released by Vanity Fair magazine that his father had been battling bladder cancer. But the cancer had not prevented Dunne from working and socializing, his twin passions, The Associated Press reports.

In September 2008, against his doctor's orders and his family's wishes, Dunne flew to Las Vegas to attend Simpson's kidnap-robbery trial, a postscript to his coverage of the football great's 1995 murder In the past year, Dunne had traveled to Germany and the Dominican Republic for experimental stem cell treatments to fight his cancer. Afrim Kupa, Albert (Albee) Crisci, Anthony "the Animal" Fiato, Anthony Fiato, anthony Fiato-hollywood goodfella, anthony tony the Animal Fiato, bank robbers, banks, Brookly bank robber, Brooklyn, Chris Paciello, crime, federal charges, gambino crime family, hollywood goodfellla, home invasion, law and justice, Lulzim kupa, Mafia, mob, mob rats, mobsters, new york, New York crime, New York crime family, new york news, organized crime, Richmond, Staten Island
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Edward Maiani aka Eddie Miami

associate of the Winter Hill Gang. In the early 1970’s, a new FBI agent in Boston named John Morris decided to recruit Eddie Miami as an informant – by planting a fake bomb under his car and then phoning in an anonymous tip to the local cops. After the cops removed the “bomb,” Morris approached Eddie Miami and told him his fellow members of the Winter Hill Gang was trying to kill him. Eddie Miami suspected skullduggery, and told Morris to bleep off. A few years later, Eddie Miami was sent away on drug charges. Morris, meanwhile, went on Whitey’s payroll, eventually collecting $7,000 for his services on behalf of organized crime.

GOTTI BID NIXED

John "Junior" Gotti yesterday lost a bid to delay his racketeering retrial over new murder charges the feds added to his indictment earlier this month.
Manhattan federal Judge Kevin Castel said the additional counts -- which cover two drug-related slayings in Queens in 1988 and 1991 -- required only a minor change in "defense strategy " because they were already mentioned in Gotti's indictment.

STEVEN SEAGAL AND THE MOB

It could have been a scene from The Sopranos except that it was for real. It took place on February 2, 2001, and the feds caught it all on audio tape. Two made members of the Mafia and an associate had met to discuss the shakedown of a Hollywood movie star. The actor was a martial artist who specialized in playing tough-guy heroes on the big screen. Throughout his career, the star had made several claims of real-life heroics, including black-ops jobs for the CIA and encounters with organized crime figures around the world. The actor also apparently had a fixation with urban Italian-Americans, claiming at one time to be half-Italian when in reality his mother was Irish and his father Jewish. In one of his films, he played an Italian-American detective with close ties to the old neighborhood and the hoods who infested it. In one scene, the hero sits down for espresso with the local boss, showing him the same respect that any of his soldiers would.

Perhaps this is why the real mobsters at the wiretapped meeting were having a good chuckle as they recounted a visit that a couple of them had paid on action-star Steven Seagal. On the FBI tape, they say that the tough-guy actor was "petrified." At this meeting Anthony "Sonny" Ciccone, an alleged capo in New York's Gambino organized-crime family, and his "right-hand man," Primo Cassarino, joked with Vincent Nasso about Seagal's less than heroic reactions to their shakedown attempts. The whole situation brought out the "Paulie Walnuts" in Cassarino. "I wish we had a gun on us," he says on the tape, "that would have been funny

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JOSEPH MASSINO--Bonanno crime family

--Massino became the first sitting boss in Mafia history to turn informant. The longtime head of the Bonnano family, Massino was notoriously security conscious, instructing his subordinates to refer to him merely by tugging on their earlobe.
Things started to go bad for Joe when his brother-in-law and underboss, Salvatore “Good Looking Sal” Vitale, testified against him. Shortly after his 2004 conviction on racketeering charges that would have put him in prison for life, Massino decided to become an informant. He taped his underlings in prison threatening to kill a prosecutor.Read more:

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Hollywood actor, Tony Sirico

Sirico was born in Midwood, Brooklyn to Sicilian parents. Sirico has played gangsters in a number of films, including Mob Queen, Gangsters, Love and Money, Fingers,

The Last Fight, Goodfellas, Innocent Blood, Bullets Over Broadway, The Pick-up Artist, Mighty Aphrodite, Gotti, Cop Land, and Mickey Blue Eyes. He also played policemen in the films Dead Presidents and Deconstructing Harry.in goodfellas, as ray liotta's henry hill sees his future wife (lorraine bracco) charging at him



Before turning to acting, Sirico was reportedly a mob associate of the Colombo crime family serving under Carmine "Junior" Persico and had been arrested twenty-eight times.

There is a Sopranos reference to this fact when Paulie says "I made it through the seventies by the skin of my balls when the Colombos were goin' at it."[2] In 1967, he was sent to prison for robbing a Brooklyn after hours club, but was released after serving thirteen months.

In 1971, he pled guilty to felony weapons possession and was sentenced to an "indeterminate" prison term of up to four years, of which Sirico ended up serving twenty months. According to a court transcript, at the time of his sentencing, he also had pending charges for drug possession.
He currently lives alone in Brooklyn, New York. His mother died in 2003. Sirico's brother, Robert Sirico, is a priest and co-founder of the free-market Acton Institute. But looking back I realize that because it made sense for it to win, it should have come in with “Goodfellas.” Hollywood has ...