Mafia

How Luigi 'Baby Shacks' Manocchio And Other Mobsters Got Their Nicknames

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Vincent the Chin Gigante, Video, Vinny-Gorgeous, Carmen Cheeseman DiNunzio, Mafia Nicknames, Vincent-Gigante, Luigi Manocchio, Organized Crime, Carmen DiNunzio, Mafia, Vincent Basciano, Mobster-Nicknames, Crime News

-- Former New England Mafia boss Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio was sentenced Friday to 5 1/2 years in prison for his role in the shakedown of Provide...

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84-Year-Old Ex-Mobster Gets 5 1/2 Years In Strip Club Plot

AP | LAURA CRIMALDI | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Rhode Island Crime, Providence Strip Clubs, Video, Luigi Manocchio, Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, Manocchio Case, Mobsters, Mafia, Rhode Island, Strip Clubs, Crime News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The former New England Mafia boss was sentenced Friday to 5 1/2 years in prison for his role in the shakedown of Providence strip ...

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Reputed Mob Boss Cleared Of Killing Officer

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Mafia, Mob Boss Tommy Guns, New York Crime, Thomas Gioeli, Mob Boss Thomas Gioeli, Mob, Nyc Mafia, Organized Crime, New York News

NEW YORK -- A reputed Mafia boss and a co-defendant were convicted Wednesday on racketeering charges. But in a blow to the government, they were acqui...

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Mob Boss Accused Of Shaking Down Strip Clubs

AP | LAURA CRIMALDI | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Bsoton, Video, Anthony Dinunzio, La Cosa Nostra, Organized Crime, Mafia, Peter Neronha, Rhode Island, Tony Dinunzio, US-Attorney-Peter-Neronha, Strip Clubs, Crime News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An investigation into the alleged shakedown of Providence strip clubs left the New England mafia without its reputed leader Wednes...

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'Mob Wives' Get Whacked And Make Up

Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Canada Tv, Reality TV, Mob Wives, Big Ang, Mafia, New York Mafia, Tv Replay, Renee Graziano, Carla Facciolo, Vh1, TV News

The "Mob Wives" (Sun., 8 p.m. ET on VH1) were in the festive spirit Sunday night, as Angela "Big Ang" Raiola prepped for her Christmas party. “I ...

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A List You Can't Refuse: The 15 "Boss" Gangster Directors Of Film History

Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Starz, Directors, Magic City, Martin Scorsese, Mob, Gangster Film Directors, Slidepollajax, Best Directors, Mafia, Film, Mafia Movie Directors, Classic Movies, Gangsters, Bslide-Starz, Entertainment News

Martin Scorsese may very well be a product of his environment: growing up in Little Italy while struggling with his Roman Catholic faith, only later t...

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'Dolphin Mafia' Gangs Rule Cetacean Society

| Virginia Morell | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Video, Animal Social, Strange-Animal-Behavior, Dolphins, Australia, Animal Psychology, Primatology, Dolphin Mafia, Animal Behavior, Mafia, Chimpanzees, Marine Biology, Shark Bay, Dolphin, Science News

The male dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, are known to marine biologists for their messy social entanglements. Their relationships with each other ar...

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Mob Wines: Ex-Mafia Lands Produce Award-Winning Vino

AP | COLLEEN BARRY | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Italian Wine Mafia, Mafia Wine, Mafia, Italian Wine, Italian Mafia, Mob Wine, Video, World News

VERONA, Italy -- A new wave of Sicilian winemakers are making an offer you can't refuse. This isn't the old-fashioned mob piling the pressure on loca...

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Breaking the Code of Omertà at Goldman Sachs

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, President Obama, Banks, Enron, Mafia, Bankers, Phil Angelides, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Occupy Wall Street, Greg Smith, Dodd-Frank, Ed DeMarco, Omertà, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Worldcom, Rico, La Cosa Nostra, Mafiosi, Greg Smith Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, Michael Bloomberg, Banking, Business News
Joseph A. Palermo

Greg Smith violated the ancient code of all mafia organizations: he spilled the game to the public. His former colleagues at Goldman Sachs no doubt now see him as a "rat."

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The Culture of Allegiance and Feminism in the Mafia

Chelsea Carmona | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Whitey Bulger, Mafia, Mob Wives, Women-in-Mafia, Catherine Greig, Mafia Arrests, James Whitey Bulger, Crime News
Chelsea Carmona

In a matter of weeks, I found myself, an intelligent young woman growing up in the nation's safest city, in a great deal of trouble. While I was quickly able to break it off and move forward, many women are not so fortunate.

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WATCH: Former Mob Associate Named 'Obama' Up For Adoption

Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Alfred DiCongilio, Video, Cafe Liberty, New York City Mob, Ny News, Cat Named Obama, New York City Mafia, Mafia, New York News, Bonnano Crime Family, New York News

The city's furriest mob associate is up for adoption, The New York Daily News reports. The old men who inherited a black cat when they took over forme...

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The 'Mob Wives' Stand Up For Women's Rights

Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Reality TV, Canada Tv, Video, Mob Wives, Organized Crime, Mafia, Tv Replay, Renee Graziano, Vh1, TV News

It's a brave -- or perhaps foolhardy -- man who takes on the "Mob Wives" (Sun., 8 p.m. EST on VH1) but one bar patron did just that. The ladies wer...

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New Mob Museum Opens: Should You Pay Admission or Break In?

Malcolm Kushner | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Mafia, Museum, Gangster, Las Vegas, Mob, Organized Crime, Mobsters, Mob Museum, Mob Museum Las Vegas, Las Vegas Mob Museum, Weird News News
Malcolm Kushner

What child won't cherish the memory of a photo of him or herself strapped into an electric chair?

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A 'Mob Wives' Star Inspires Tattoos

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Salvatore Lombardi, TV Canada, Video, Canada Tv, Reality TV, Mob Wives, Angela Raiola, Big Ang, Drita D'avanzo, Mafia, Celebrity Tattoos, Genovese Crime Family, Vh1, Tattoos, TV News

Angela Raiola, better known as "Big Ang," is the breakout star of VH1's latest hit reality show "Mob Wives" (Sundays, 8 p.m. on VH1). Big Ang is th...

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Vampires 'Turn' Into More Than Humans... They Turn Into Mafia Hitmen! (PHOTOS) (VIDEO)

Alexandra Holzer | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Web Series, Mafia, Crowdfunding, Entertainment, Indie Film, Vampires, Video, Entertainment News
Alexandra Holzer

Vampire Mob is an indie TV series which is audience-funded. Yep. We enter the age of crowd-funding and audience participation financially before we can get to good ol' Hollywood.

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Notorious Mafia Boss Nabbed North Of Naples

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Mafia Boss Captured, Armchair Detective, Michele Zagaria Captured, Casalesi Clan, Michele Zagaria, Mafia, Italy, Mafia Boss, Video, World News

ROME (AP) -- Police on Wednesday captured one of Italy's most-wanted fugitive mobsters, arresting the last major boss of one of Italy's bloodiest mafi...

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Feds Crack Down On Mob-Run Strip Clubs

AP | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Mob Ties, Mafia, New York Crime, Strippers, Mob, Strip Clubs, New York Crime Family, New York News

NEW YORK -- A mob-run ring that lured women from Russia and other Eastern European countries with the promise of waitressing jobs – only to send...

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Mafia Takes Over Publicly Traded Company

DailyFinance | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Mafia, Firstplus Financial Group, Nicodermo S. Scarfo, Firstplus, Occupy Wall Street, Business News

As Occupy Wall Street protestors chant about the criminals in the boardroom, actual thieves -- including men associated with the mafia -- have spent y...

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Mob "Moving From Back Alleys To Boardrooms": Feds

AP | GEOFF MULVIHILL | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Lucchese-Crime-Family, Mafia, Lucchese Family, Nicodemo Scarfo, New Jersey Crime, Firstplus, Salvatore Pelullo, Michael Ward, Crime News

CAMDEN, N.J. — Federal prosecutors say members of a Philadelphia-area mob have turned to a modern crime – pillaging the assets of a mortga...

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Astoria Characters: The Guy Who Really Gives a Fig

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Fig Tree, Italy, Tomato, Zucchini, Tank, Mafia, Palermo, Bayside, Mussolini, France, Rummy, Army, Manhattan, Joe Vitale, Grape Vine, Italian Club, Russia, Squash, Prickley Pears, Astoria Characters, Apricot, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Joe Vitale, who was born in Palermo, Italy and christened Pepino by his parents, is the fig savior. When he bought his house six years ago, the fig tree in back was all but dead. Joe nursed it back to health.

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Bulger Pleads Not Guilty On 19 Murder Counts

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Boston, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Whitey Bulger Not Guilty, Organized Crime, Whitey Bulger Pleads Not Guilty, Whitey Bulger Pleads, Whitey Bulger Trial, Fbi, Whitey Bulger, Mafia, Massachusetts, James Whitey Bulger, Crime News

BOSTON — Former crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger has begun answering to charges that he participated in 19 murders and a host of other crimes ra...

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The Limitations of Law Enforcement

Sam Kitchener | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: James Whitey Bulger Arrested, Fbi Investigation, Humour, The Departed, Organised Crime, Italy Mafia, Mafia, Paris, James Whitey Bulger, Berlin, Comedy News
Sam Kitchener

James 'Whitey' Bulger, a notorious Boston gangster on the FBI's 10 most wanted list for his alleged role in 19 murders, has been captured near Los Ang...

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14 Biggest Mafia Conspiracies

TruTV.com | David Moye | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Goodfellas, Gambino, Crime, Mobsters, John Gotti, Godfather, Mafia, Frank Sinatra, Teflon Don, Weird News News

The mafia has long become a major part of American pop culture, thanks to TV shows like "The Sopranos," and movies like "Goodfellas" and "The Godfathe...

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Minority Report

Lev Raphael | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Jews, Christians, Kate Clinton, Kids in the Hall, College, Fundamentalists, Passover, Lenny Bruce, Hillel, New York, Catholics, Fordham, Anti-Semitism, Mafia, Judaism, Religion News
Lev Raphael

Lenny Bruce once riffed that "If you live in New York or any other big city, you are Jewish. It doesn't even matter if you're Catholic; if you live in New York, you're Jewish."

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New England Mafia Is Weakened But Still Pursued

AP | LAURA CRIMALDI | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Whitey Bulger, James Whitey Bulger Arrested, Mafia, Whitey Bulger Arrest, James Whitey Bulger, Organized Crime, Crime News

BOSTON — When James "Whitey" Bulger ruled the streets of South Boston, the New England crime scene was a battleground for a bloody turf war betw...

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