Where the Mob Keeps Its Money

A man hung fake notes during a protest in front of an HSBC branch in Mexico City last month.


Where the Mob Keeps Its Money by Roberto Saviano who is under police protection since '06 after he wrote a book about the Camorra mafia that caused him to need witness protection from the Comorra, sheds some light on the global financial crisis that has been a blessing for organized crime read the story on the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/opinion/sunday/where-the-mob-keeps-its-money.html?pagewanted=all

Naples Mafia Camorra boss shot at beach resort in Italy

crime scene of murdered Camorra organized crime boss Gaetano boss Marino


Police in Italy are hunting the killers of a Camorra mafia boss of clan secessionist Scampia who was gunned down on a beach south of the capital, Rome, in front of terrified bathers.
Two men attacked Gaetano Marino, who was reportedly shot when he came out of the water at Terracina to answer a call on his mobile phone.
Marino, 48, was dubbed Stumpy after losing both his hands while reportedly planting a bomb in the 1990s. read rest http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19370824

Old NY Mobster "Matty The Horse" Ianniello Dies At 92

Matthew "Matty The Horse" Ianniello

A New York mobster who was well-known for transforming Times Square into a center for adult entertainment has died. According to several published reports, Matthew "Matty The Horse" Ianniello died Wednesday after a long illness.

The one-time head of the Genovese crime family, Ianniello owned or protected many topless bars and other adult establishments in Times Square in the 1960s and '70s. Ianniello served two stints in prison, including an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty to racketeering in 2007.

He was a part-owner of Umberto's Clam House and was there the night Joey Gallo was killed by Colombo crime family hitmen. A death notice says he is survived by his four children, 7 siblings, and 10 grandchildren. Matthew Ianniello was 92.

http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/167558/mobster--matty-the-horse--dies-at-92

Reality television married to mob - Worcester Telegram & Gazette - telegram.com

Reality television married to mob - Worcester Telegram & Gazette - telegram.com

Italy politicians accused of making deals with mob - Los Angeles Local News, Weather, and Traffic

Italy politicians accused of making deals with mob - Los Angeles Local News, Weather, and Traffic

ROME (AP) - Italian news reports say prosecutors in Sicily are seeking to put a handful of ex-ministers, lawmakers and law enforcement officials on trial for allegedly making deals with the Mafia during a bloody spasm of attacks against the state in the early 1990s.

The ANSA news agency and Repubblica newspaper said prosecutors signed a request Tuesday for a judge to indict 12 people, including jailed Mafia bosses Salvatore "Toto" Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.

Riina headed the Cosa Nostra during the era of its all-out attack on the state, which culminated with back-to-back car bombings in 1992 that killed two leading anti-Mafia prosecutors.

Citing the indictment request, Repubblica said some of the accused ex-government officials negotiated with the mob or exerted pressure to lighten their prison sentences. They have denied wrongdoing.



Read more: http://www.myfoxla.com/story/19098907/italy-politicians-accused-of-making-deals-with-mob#ixzz21mIgtsKH

Woman, 80, Throws Mangoes To Fight Off Robbers In New Bedford « CBS Boston

Woman, 80, Throws Mangoes To Fight Off Robbers In New Bedford « CBS Boston

Italy mozzarella magnate Mandara held over mafia links

BBC News

Italian police have arrested the head of one of Italy's biggest mozzarella makers on charges he had close ties to the mafia. Giuseppe Mandara - who once dubbed himself the "Armani of Mozzarella" - was arrested with three associates near Naples,

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18880321

Friends of Ours: Colombo - Typepad

Colombo-capo-turned-government-witness Anthony “Big Anthony” Russo alleges Theodore "Skinny Teddy" Persico Jr. ordered the 1993 hit




Colombo-capo-turned-government-witness Anthony “Big Anthony” Russo alleges Theodore "Skinny Teddy" Persico Jr. ordered the 1993 hit against rival Joey Scopo "while attending his own grandmother’s wake in a Brooklyn funeral home -- where he'd been taken in shackles by correction officers because he was doing a prison stint at the time

http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/colombo/


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Carlo Gambino

Don" Carlo Gambino (pronounced gam-BEE-noh), (August 24, 1902 - October 15, 1976) was a Sicilian mobster notable for being Boss of the Gambino crime family which is still named after him. After the 1957 Apalachin Convention he unexpectedly seized control of the Commission of the American Mafia Gambino was known for being low-key and secretive. Gambino served 22 months in prison (1938–39), and lived to the age of 74, when he died of a heart attack in bed, "In a state of grace", according to a priest who had given him the Last Rites of the Catholic Church He had two brothers, Gaspare Gambino, who later married and was never involved with the Mafia, and Paolo Gambino who, on the other hand, had a big role in his brother's family.

Report: Vito Rizzuto Plots His Return--Friends of ours

Reputed Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto will avenge the murders of son Nick and father Nicola upon his release from prison in October 2012 according to a friend of ours"jailhouse source as reported by Brad Hamilton for the New York Post: "he's been eating vegetarian, staying fit, sharpening his mind with games of pinochle — and the plotting of his coup,our source said

Vito Rizzuto currently is serving time at the supermax facility in Florence, CO on a 2007 racketeering conviction involving the 1981 New York City murders of three Bonanno capos during an internal power struggle, and during his incarceration all hell broke loose in Montreal.

Some suspect that a turf battle over the drug trade between clans from the 'Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia and the Rizzuto clan from Cosa Nostra or the Sicilian Mafia is responsible for the ongoing violence.

Last November former Bonanno boss Salvatore Montagna was whacked after perhaps allying himself with 'Ndrangheta clans in NYC and Quebec, and some reputed Rizzuto associates are among those charged with the murder.

The 'Ndrangheta has become Italy's most powerful Mafia group due to its obscene profits from the cocaine trade in Europe, and it further has become entrenched in Australia, Canada and the United States with surprisingly little push back from law enforcement in those countries

http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/2012/03/report-vito-rizzuto-plots-his-return.html.