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Farewell

Farewell and So Long It's with mixed emotions that I bid the 250,000 people who visit this site each month farewell. I have taken a position with a government legal agency that would make operating this site a conflict of...

Piracy on the Rise

The real data shows that buccaneers are not the lovable rogues or gallant gentlemen that Hollywood would like us to believe. Just ask the 11 sailors from the Taiwanese freighter who were set adrift in 2002, the engineer hurt by...

The Pagan Outlaws

Be careful how and where you wave your gun around...That's the hard lesson biker Tom-Tom Laduca of the New York Pagan Outlaws learned. In a quest to keep the Hells Angels from moving into Long Island, Laduca and some of...

Another Gotti in the News

Victoria Gotti is exhibiting some of her paintings in a New York gallery. Mrs. Gotti is the wife of late mob boss John Gotti. Across the river, the New Jersey Parole Board is still dealing with the fallout of its...

Where's Jimmy?

Police in Michigan had to chase down the latest Jimmy Hoffa sighting today, but came up empty. A formerly reliable snitch told authorities that he had information in a buried briefcase that could shed light on the case and as...

A Family At War

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how Nicky Scarfo took out Reds Caruso for Angelo Bruno. Here's a little more about Nicky Scarfo -- particularly how he gathered his allies around him to solidify his bid for the...

Youngstown Hitman

The news out of Youngstown, Ohio is that a 67-year-old hitman with a long memory is talking to the law and they like what they hear....

The Two Block Rule

The Genovese family has a very strict rule about not allowing bookmaking operations to set up within two blocks of an established joint. Sometimes that leads to trouble, but as the wiretaps showed, Fish Cafaro wasn't afraid to apply the...

Conspiracy: The Prosecutor's Darling

Criminal conspiracy is the most commonly charged federal crime and one of the most powerful tools in a prosecutor's bag. But just what is a "conspiracy?" What does a prosecutor have to do to use this popular, but difficult to...

21st Century Train Robbers

It does my heart good to see some news come out of Elizabeth, New Jersey. I used to be the night city editor of a now-defunct daily newspaper there and it was a grand place for blood-and-guts reporting. The bizarre...

Frank Locascio Strikes Out

Frank Locascio, serving a life sentence for his activities with the Gambinos, has nothing better to do than try to figure a way out of jail. Judge Leo Glasser has apparently had enough of Locascio and has rejected the mobster's...

Eastern Europe Gang Violence

In the face of weak economies and with lots of weapons left over from years of civil war, gang violence is heating up in Eastern Europe. So far, five men connected with organized crime have died in Macedonia and a...

Driver holds the key

A 39-year-old Chicago man may hold the key to the gangland slaying of Southside mob boss Anthony "Tony the Hatch" Chiaramonti. In a secret plea deal announced yesterday, Robert Cooper was the wheelman in the rubout and is reportedly cooperating...

The Crew from Utica

The Falange Crew from Utica, New York was not made up of button men, but they were a serious group of guys just the same. Associated with the Magaddino Family from Buffalo, they had a 16-year run of loansharking, bookmaking,...

The Hapless Fates

The Fates Motorcycle Club of Baltimore became involved in a series of attempts to avenge the death of one of their own at the hands of the rival Pagan MC and in doing so, ended up only hurting themselves....