'Tis the season to be jolly. Deck those halls with boughs of holly, or whatever else is handy. New Yorkers have been doing it all month long, eating, drinking and making merry. Except at the Banner Social Club in Brooklyn, where some spoil sport feds took the fa-la-la-la-la right out...

Over the years, as they've prosecuted mob associate Edmund (Eddie) Boyle in federal courts on both sides of the East River, the feds have changed the name of the crew he ran with several times. His reputed associates haven't changed. Merely the name of the gang the feds say he's...

The feds kept John (Junior) Gotti from telling his side of the story on 60 Minutes while he was behind bars awaiting trial in Gotti IV. Once he was emancipated though, Junior quickly proved - at least to Gang Land's eyes and ears - that getting him on camera...

Unless the feds stumble across some new and deeply disturbing behavior on the part of John (Junior) Gotti, last week's mistrial should be the final racketeering prosecution against the embattled mob prince.

For our money, Manhattan Federal Judge P. Kevin Castel waited at least a week too long to...

Gregory DePalma, a colorful, self-assured wiseguy whose loyal mob soldier status will be forever tarnished because he was suckered into proposing a Cuban-born FBI undercover agent for induction into the Gambino family, has died a lonely death behind bars. He was 77.

DePalma became a "made man" during the reign...

Mob prince Alphonse (Allie) Persico, who is serving life for the 1999 rubout of then-underboss William (Wild Bill) Cutolo, has been linked to the gangland-style slayings of two high-flying penny-stock promoters who were killed that same year in a Colts Neck, N.J. mansion where one of the men lived, Gang...

Two weeks ago, the show in Manhattan Federal Court was 'Blowing Up Gotti,' as matriarch Victoria (Mama) Gotti blew a gut at the judge, accusing him of lynching her son. Last week's episode could be dubbed 'Showing Up Gotti' since it was John (Junior) Gotti himself who threw a snit,...

Gotti IV: Another week, another circus.

Victoria (Mama) Gotti yelled at the Judge. The Judge bounced two jurors. And a former prosecutor who spent four years in the organized crime unit of the prestigious Manhattan U.S. attorney's office testified that he had never heard of legendary mob capo John (Sonny)...

And in the seventh week, Gotti IV became a farce.

It happened on the day that the defense began its case. This was last Tuesday, which coincidentally, would have been the 69th birthday of the late Mafia Boss John Gotti, the onetime Dapper Don who died in prison, the same...

Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano helped sink Mafia boss John Gotti but mob scion John (Junior) Gotti thinks Sammy Bull just may be the lifeline he needs right now.

In a mind-boggling turn of events, Gravano is one of three federally protected mob turncoats that the onetime Junior Don may call...

Anthony Scotto may have quit the mob, but a close relative who was convicted along with the former dockworkers' union boss 30 years ago of extorting $350,000 in payoffs from waterfront companies -- Anthony (Todo) Anastasio -- is clearly still in "The Life."

Anastasio was only a bit player back...

John (Junior) Gotti may have met his Sammy Bull.

John Alite took the stand last week in Gotti IV to testify against his old pal and quickly evoked the image of perhaps the most famously devastating mob turncoat witness.

Gambino family defector Salvatore Gravano, the first Mafia underboss to take...

The feds pulled out all stops last week as they began efforts to send John (Junior) Gotti to the same death sentence behind bars that they served up for his dad, the late John Gotti, the swashbuckling Dapper Don whom the son emulated and followed to the top of the...

Mob turncoat John Alite has had a lot to say about his old buddy John (Junior) Gotti -- but he's also found time to tell the feds some amazing stories about corrupt cops and detectives.
Alite -- set to be a key witness at Gotti IV -- has given...

Who killed Police Officer Ralph Dols?

The feds say the cop's 1997 murder in front of his Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn was a mob hit, one that was ordered and orchestrated by a jealous high-level mobster who was outraged that the young, muscular housing cop had married the wiseguy's ex-wife.

Mob stories continue to be such a hit with movie audiences that you can't blame Mafia sons -- whose dads did the crimes and the time -- from trying to cash in.

The latest picture is from Fred Carpenter, an independent filmmaker who has written, directed and produced quite a...

Before their downfalls, Mafia Cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa had to be on the lookout for all kinds of threats: Prosecutors, FBI agents, disgruntled mobsters, even fellow cops. But even in their worst nightmares, the rogue detectives never would have dreamed that they would be brought down by an...

The feds say he's a mob associate who engineered a sophisticated $100,000 tax fraud scheme. His lawyer, who happens to be his cousin, says he's just a hard-working, hard-luck guy who strayed off the straight and narrow a few years ago when his ice cream parlor business went belly up.

In a case tinged with irony, intrigue and tragedy, the mother of a top FBI organized crime supervisor has pleaded guilty to swindling investors out of $4.5 million through several bogus global recycling companies she ran with her late husband.

Milana Murcia - who allegedly funneled hundreds of thousands of...

It was just a pre-trial session but the Gotti IV case was already an SRO event last week.
Lawyers, FBI agents, prosecutors, news reporters, sketch artists and other spectators took up so many seats on Tuesday morning, that a few late-arrivals to courtroom 520 had to scurry to locate...