The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/organized-crime/)
The future of a state law enacted to keep the mafia from operating legal gambling in California is in doubt after a judge upheld a claim by Hustler Magazine founder Larry Flynt that it is unconstitutional.
Rising youth unemployment will provide a “fertile field” for the expansion of Mexico’s crime cartels in the aftermath of COVID-19 — and is likely to pose a new threat to national security in America’s southern neighbor, three researchers predict.
“The mafia becomes almost like a benefactor–they behave like the Red Cross–for which a certain portion of society is grateful,” a roundtable of experts on Italian organized crime was told.
In Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-biggest city, Alejandrina Guzman, a daughter of jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was among those seen by reporters handing out the packages stamped with her own company’s ‘El Chapo 701’ logo.
James LaRossa’s clients included unsavory figures such as mob bosses Paul Castellano and Vincent Gigante. But the controversial New York trial lawyer’s defense career really began when he quit his job as a federal prosecutor after a collision over with Robert Kennedy over a terrorism case, LaRossa’s son tells TCR in a conversation about his recently published memoir.
The late Mafia boss John Gotti’s crime empire was facilitated by a group of murderous underlings whose eventual exposure led to a shakeup in New York’s organized crime hierarchy—and the Mob’s slow fade from power, journalist Anthony DeStefano, the author of a new book, tells TCR.
Notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was formally sentenced Wednesday to life in prison plus 30 years on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
The murder of alleged Gambino crime boss “Frankie Boy” Cali outside his Staten Island home this month fanned speculation about a new Mafia war. But there are three sides to every mob story, writes a veteran observer of U.S. organized crime.
New Jersey man arrested for killing reputed Mafia kingpin Frank Cali may have acted because Cali wanted to end his relationship with Cali’s niece.
Crime boss Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali was murdered outside his Staten Island home. Federal prosecutors have described Cali as a top leader of New York’s notorious Gambino crime family.