Five Families of New York City

Updated news on the Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno, Lucchese and Colombo Organized Crime Families of New York City.

Updated news on the Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno, Lucchese and Colombo Organized Crime Families of New York City.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

N.J. Supreme Court orders reputed NJ Lucchese family Boss back to jail

  July 30, 2009    Dapper_Don

Martin "Marty" Taccetta via WikipediaWhen a judge overturned Martin Taccetta's conviction on racketeering charges nearly five years ago, the reputed Lucchese crime family mobster celebrated his release from prison with a cigar. Today, the state Supreme Court ordered that...

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John A. "Junior" Gotti's kidney stones plea rolled over

  July 30, 2009    Dapper_Don

A Manhattan federal judge doesn't want to hear anymore of John A. (Junior) Gotti's whining about his kidney stones.Judge Kevin Castel on Tuesday rejected Gotti's request to delay the Sept. 14 start of the mob scion's racketeering trial for 45 days. Castel was not moved by lawyer Charles Carnesi's claim that Gotti hasn't been allowed to speak to his attorneys by phone from a Brooklyn federal lockup....

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Anthony Tassone, reputed Gambino soldier, dead at 82

  July 24, 2009    Dapper_Don

Anthony Tassone Sr., reputed mob boss of Mercer County and one of the last remnants of the city's old-school gangsters, died Thursday at his home in Ewing. He was 82. Tassone, who was formerly connected to the Gambino organized crime family, was a colorful character who once testified in court he made his living "playing cards and shooting dice." Much of his business was conducted in the neighborhoods...

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Gotti lawyers question credibility of G-man who has been on mobster's tail

  July 24, 2009    Dapper_Don

John A. "Junior" Gotti's lawyers raised questions about the integrity of the G-man who's been on the mob scion's tail for the past several years because of his involvement in a Mafia investment scheme.In court papers filed Thursday, Gotti attorneys Charles Carnesi and John...

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Gangster who ratted out the Mafia Cops dies

  July 22, 2009    Dapper_Don

Burton Kaplan, the bespectacled Jewish gangster from Brooklyn whose turncoat testimony was pivotal in bringing the murderous "Mafia Cops" to justice, has died. Kaplan, 75, was in the federal witness protection program and had been relocated outside New York State, sources...

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Monday, July 20, 2009

Vinny Gorgeous vows to act as own lawyer at trial

  July 20, 2009    Dapper_Don

Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano by Thomas Roche via FlickrMobster Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano is threatening to play lawyer at his own death penalty murder trial - possibly cross-examining his ex-boss turned mob rat, fallen Bonanno chieftain Joseph Massino.The truth-is-stranger-than-fiction...

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REPUTED MOBSTER 'MIKEY CIGARS' WENT ON LAM TO AVOID JUSTICE: US ATTORNEY

  July 20, 2009    Dapper_Don

Reputed Genovese capo Michael "Mikey Cigars" Coppola packed up his wife and spent nearly 11 years as a fugitive to avoid what is happening to him today -- his fate being put in the hands of a federal jury. As jurors prepared to begin deliberating, Assistant U.S. Attorney...

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Saturday, July 18, 2009

DNA a pain in ash for "Cigars"

  July 18, 2009    Dapper_Don

It's never a good day when someone wants your DNA. Reputed Genovese capo Michael "Mikey Cigars" Coppola wrote in his date book that Aug. 8, 1996 -- the day the feds subpoenaed his DNA -- was a "sh- - day," a Brooklyn federal prosecutor said yesterday at the wiseguy's racketeering trial. Investigators needed the sample to compare with evidence from the 1977 murder of Johnny "Coca Cola" Lardiere....

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Bernie Madoff begins 150-year term at N.C. prison alongside Colombo Boss Carmine Persico

  July 15, 2009    Dapper_Don

Colombo Boss Carmine Persico via WikipediaInmate number 61727-054 — Bernard Madoff to you — arrived today at the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution Butner in North Carolina and is settling in to the non-penthouse accommodations he'll occupy for the rest of...

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Genovese linked NYC School Bus Inspectors Sentenced, Union Officials Indicted in Bribery Scam

  July 15, 2009    Dapper_Don

Even with the Genovese Crime family no longer in the driver's seat, Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union hasn't been entirely clean. But the union's legacy of corruption recently received a major blow in Manhattan federal court with a round of criminal actions. On May 26, Neil Cremin, a former New York City Department of Education (DOE) school bus inspector, was sentenced in U.S. District Court...

  

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MOB TURNCOAT: I'VE KILLED A LOT OF PEOPLE

  July 15, 2009    Dapper_Don

Deceased Genovese "Front" Boss Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno via Wikipedia A mob turncoat took the witness stand again today, lashing out at prosecutors for forcing him into a life of poverty and admitting that he killed "a lot" of people during past mob wars. "I had a job,"...

  

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Monday, July 13, 2009

LexisNexis warns of potential breach by Bonanno family

  July 13, 2009    Dapper_Don

nformation broker LexisNexis has warned more than 13,000 consumers, saying that a Florida man who is facing charges in an alleged mafia racketeering conspiracy may have accessed some of the same sensitive consumer databases that were once used to track terrorists. Lee Klein, 39, of Boynton Beach, Florida, was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice in May following an undercover sting operation...

  

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Junior Gotti loses another NY bail attempt

  July 09, 2009    Dapper_Don

Deceased Gambino Boss John Gotti via WikipediaA day after John “Junior” Gotti complained about the agony of kidney stones, a judge ruled Wednesday that the Mafia scion must remain jailed until his fourth consecutive racketeering trial in the fall. The ruling by U.S. District...

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Reputed Genovese hitman Michael (Mikey Cigars) Coppola did hit job 'with tears,' says mob rat

  July 08, 2009    Dapper_Don

Reputed Genovese gangster Michael "Mikey Cigars" Coppola was a hit man with a soft spot for at least one gangland victim he gunned down, a government witness testified Tuesday.Coppola admitted killing gangster John "Johnny Coca Cola" Lardiere outside the Red Bull Inn in...

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Junior Gotti says stone agony 'worse than childbirth' in bid to get freed on bail

  July 08, 2009    Dapper_Don

Former Gambino Boss John Gotti by 4PIZON via FlickrMaybe he should just have a baby. Lawyers for former Gambino Acting Boss John A. "Junior" Gotti say the excruciating pain he's endured from kidney stones is far worse than the pain only a woman could know. "It is common...

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Current Leadership of all Five Families

  July 08, 2009    Dapper_Don

These charts and names have been compiled through research, wikipedia, forums articles, and news reports.Gambino Crime FamilyBoss: Nicholas "Little Nick" Corozzo (jail)Gambino Boss Nick Corozzo via WikipediaRuling Committee/Panel: Daniel Marino, Giovanni "John" Gambino,...

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Monday, July 6, 2009

North Jersey Genovese Enforcer on Trial

  July 06, 2009    Dapper_Don

Genovese Captain Tino Fiumara via WikipediaA reputed North Jersey mob figure who spent more than a decade on the run from a murder investigation was once part of a notorious Genovese crime family hit team known as “The Fist,” according to government documents filed in U.S....

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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Authorities fear civil war after gangland murder of Bonanno soldier in Staten Island

  July 02, 2009    Dapper_Don

A Bonanno crime family soldier was gunned down at a Staten Island bus stop Thursday, sparking fears of a brewing mob civil war. Anthony "Little Anthony" Seccafico, a hot-headed "made man" in the notorious Mafia family, was shot several times near his home at 4:30 a.m. Seccafico,...

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