The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/organized-crime/)
“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.
Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger deserved a fitting obituary after his murder in prison. The Boston Globe’s was written by the authors of the definitive Bulger biography.
Vincent Esposito, 50, son of the late Genovese family boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante, was one of five mob associates in New York City busted for a long-running shakedown of local unions. Court papers accused the quintet of extortion and accepting illegal kickbacks, while using “threats of economic harm and potential physical violence” to keep the illegal cash flowing.