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Mobster Domenico Raccuglia, 'The Veterinarian,' Is Arrested In Italy

AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Mob, Rome, Crime, Organized Crime, Mafia, Raccagulia Arrested, Sicily, Palermo, Domenico Raccuglia, Costa Nostra, World News

ROME — Police captured one of Sicily's top Mafia fugitives on Sunday, dealing a stiff blow to the island's Cosa Nostra crime syndicate, Italian ...

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Junior Gotti Trial: Closing Arguments Begin In Racketeering Case

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Gotti Trial, Murder, John Junior Gotti, Mob, Junior Gotti, Hung Juries, James Trezevant, Gotti, Mafia, Racketeering, New York News

NEW YORK — Don't believe a defense lawyer's argument that John "Junior" Gotti quit organized crime with a sudden epiphany more than a decade ago...

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Victoria Gotti Unleashes Tirade After Judge Dismisses Two Jurors

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York

Read More: John Gotti Jury, Mob, John Junior Gotti, Victoria Gotti, Junior Gotti, Organized Crime, Mafia, John Gotti, John Gotti Trial, Gotti Family, New York, New York City, John Gotti Racketeering, Victoria Gotti Courtroom Outburst, New York News

NEW YORK — John "Junior" Gotti's mother unleashed a profanity-laced tirade Wednesday after a judge dismissed two anonymous jurors at her son's r...

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Naples Police Release Mafia Murder Video (VIDEO)

The Independent | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Italy Mafia, Naples, Italy, Naples-Mafia, Mafia, Murder Video, Mafia Arrests, Mafia Hit Video, Naples Mafia Hit, Mafia Hit, Naples Mob Hit, Mob Hit Video, Mafia Murder Video, Naples Murder Video, Mob Hit Naples, Mafia Hit Naples, Video of Mafia Murder in Naples, World News

Michael Day in Rome | The Independent Even by the mafia's brutal standards, the killing of a man smoking a cigarette outside a central Naples bar in ...

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Robert Mormando Renounces Mafia At Trial

AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York

Read More: Gotti Trial, Mafia, Robert Mormando, Brooklyn, Mob, John Gotti, New York News

NEW YORK — A would-be hit man has renounced the Mafia in a New York courtroom, surprising the federal judge who was sentencing him. Judge Jack ...

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6 Bonnano New York Crime Family Members Plead Guilty To Racketeering In Florida

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York

Read More: Organized Crime, Racketeering, Florida, Mob, RICO Law, Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law, Mafia, Mafia Probe, South Florida, New York, Bonnano Crime Family, Bonnano, New York News

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — One by one, members of a South Florida crew of the New York-based Bonanno crime family stood before a federal judge Wedn...

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Punishing the Health Insurance Cartel for Extortion and Fraud

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Ahip Study, Olympia Snowe, Ahip, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Mafia, Joe Lieberman, Keith Olbermann, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Bob Cesca

If there was any lingering doubt about the ethical bankruptcy of the health care cartel, we now have incontrovertible evidence in the form of a new report commissioned by the health insurance lobby.

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Gotti Trial: Government Casts "Junior" Gotti As Evil Killer In Latest Trial

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Gotti Trial, John Alite, Crime, Mob, Junior Gotti, John Gotti, Gambino Crime Family, New York Mafia, Mafia, Racketeering, New York News

NEW YORK — As his sister Victoria Gotti began a book tour like a celebrity author, John "Junior" Gotti sat in court, portrayed as a merciless ki...

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Vito Pipitone: Alleged Mafia Associate Arrested While On Honeymoon In Honolulu

AP | Posted 10.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Hawaii, Mob Arrest, Mafia Arrested on Honeymoon, Racketeering, New York Mob, New York Mafia, Honeymoon Arrest, Honolulu, Mafia Arrests, Mafia, Vito Pipitone, The Mob, Crime, New York, Vito Piptone Arrested on Honeymoon, New York News

HONOLULU — An alleged Mafia associate was arrested on racketeering charges while on his honeymoon in Honolulu. Twenty-seven-year-old Vito Pipit...

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John "Junior" Gotti Shouts "You're A Punk" At Witness

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 10.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Gambino Crime Family, John Gotti, Gotti Trial, Mafia, John Alite, John Junior Gotti, Mob, New York News

NEW YORK — John "Junior" Gotti's anger toward a former close friend who now blames him for a trail of organized crime violence exploded Thursday at ...

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NRA Targets Bloomberg, New Yorkers In Commercial For Bob McDonnell (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Gun Show Loophole, National Rifle Association, Mob, Gun Shows, Michael Bloomberg, Bob Mcdonnell, Campaign Commercials, Mafia, Nra, New York News

The NRA is taking aim at Mayor Bloomberg, New Yorkers, and apparently the mafia (who one would think would be some of the gun rights group's biggest s...

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Alite: Junior and Gottis Taught Me Treachery of Mob Life

Jerry Capeci | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Gambino Family, John Gotti, Bruce Gotterup, Louis DiBono, Mob, John Alite, Junior Gotti, Mafia, Charles Carnegli, George Grosso, Sammy Bull Gravano, Philip Baroni, Goodfellas, Charles Carnesi, Willie Boy Johnson, New York News
Jerry Capeci

"John Gotti Jr. was my boss," Alite said as he told of his all-out devotion to his mob boss and the good life they had during a decade long crime spree that began in the early 1980s.

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Victoria Gotti Talks Junior Gotti's Secret Mafia Ceremony

nydailynews.com | By Helen Kennedy | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York

Read More: John Junior Gotti, Crime, Mob, Junior Gotti, Victoria Gotti, John Gotti, Mafia, Victoria-Gotti-Book, New York News

John A. (Junior) Gotti became a Mafia "made man" on Christmas Eve 1988 in a shadowy blood ceremony that he compared to joining nobility, his sister re...

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Victoria Gotti Admits John Gotti Was A Killer

people.com | Michael Y. Park | Posted 09.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Sparks, Crime, Five Families, Victoria Gotti, Mob, John Gotti, Gambino Crime Family, Paul Castellano, Mafia, Teflon Don, The Famiy of Mine, New York, New York News

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Charles Carneglia, Mafia Assassin For John Gotti, Gets Life In Prison For 4 NYC Murders

AP | Posted 09.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Mob Killings, John Gotti, Mob, Gambino Crime Family, Organized Crime, Crime, Mafia, Charles Carneglia, New York News

NEW YORK — An aging hit man once used as an enforcer by mob boss John Gotti has been sentenced to life in prison for four cold-blooded killings....

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Italian Mafia 'Sunk Toxic Waste'

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 09.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Calabrian Coast, Italy, Mafia, Mafia Ship, Mafia Sunk Toxic Waste, Cunsky, Cunsky Ship, Home News

Italian authorities have begun investigating a shipwreck allegedly containing toxic waste off the Calabrian coast, after claims it was deliberately su...

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Robot Hunts Toxic Waste Dumped By Mafia Off Italian Coast

AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Mafia Toxic Waste, Mafia, Italy, Robot Submarine, Robots, Green News

ROME — Italian authorities have dispatched a robot submarine with a video camera to a shipwreck off the Calabrian coast to see if if it's carryi...

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Mafia Accused Of Creating Berlusconi Sex Scandal

Times London | Josephine McKenna | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Mafia, Italy Mafia, Silvio Berlusconi, World News

A key coalition partner in Silvio Berlusconi's Government said yesterday he believed that the Mafia had orchestrated the sex scandal engulfing the Pri...

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Mafia Looking For Cut Of Stimulus Pie

New York Times | WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Corruption, New York, Economic Stimulus Package, Mob, Organized Crime, Five Familes, Fbi, Mafia, Economic Stimulus, New Jersey, New York News

Everybody is looking for stimulus money. From bridge builders to food stamp recipients, from roofers to subway riders, from teachers to housing proje...

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Godmothers Rise Among Naples Mafia

AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

Read More: Crime, Mob, Mafia Godmothers, Godmothers, Naples, Criminals, Mafia, Italy, World News

NAPLES, Italy — They go by such nicknames as "Fat Cat" and "Tomboy." Their simmering power struggles once drove them into the streets, guns blaz...

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John "Junior" Gotti Will Not Face Death Penalty If Convicted

AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York

Read More: Gotti Death Penalty, Gotti Trial, Junior Gotti, No Gotti Death Penalty, John Gotti, John Junior Gotti, Mob, Gambino Crime Family, Mafia, New York Mafia, New York News

NEW YORK (AP) -- The federal government has decided not to seek the death penalty if John "Junior" Gotti is convicted. Gotti goes on trial Sept. 14 i...

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"Corruption Shtick" in the Garden State

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mafia, Bernard Madoff, Rabbis, New Jersey Corruption, Satire, Racketeering, Politics News
Eric Dezenhall

Philip Roth called it right when he said, "We now live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist lies helpless before what he knows he will read in tomorrow morning's newspaper."

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Mafia-Tied Cafe From 'La Dolce Vita' Seized By Italian Police

AP | MARTA FALCONI | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Mafia, Sicilian Mafia, Mafia Arrests, Cafe De Paris, La Dolce Vita, World News

ROME — Italian authorities on Wednesday seized about euro200 million ($284 million) in assets and businesses owned by a crime syndicate, includi...

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Salvatore Miceli, "Mafia's Foreign Minister", Extradited From Venezuela To Italy

AP | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Venezuela, Mafia, Sicilian Mafia, Salvatore Miceli, Salvatore Miceli Extradited, Salvatore Miceli Deported, World News

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela deported a convicted European drug trafficker dubbed the "Mafia's foreign minister" to Italy on Tuesday, where he...

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Giacomo Ieni: 'Sad' Mafia Boss Freed From Italian Prison Because He's Depressed

BBC | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Carlo Vizzini, Sad Mafia Boss, Giacomo Ieni, Mob, Foreign Affairs, Sad Mafia Boss Freed, Italy, Mafia, Mobster, Advocacy, Sicilian Mafia, World News

An Italian senator has demanded the government intervene after a convicted Mafia boss was freed from jail because he was suffering from depression....

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