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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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Tadamasa Goto's Liver Transplant Profiled: How Yakuza Boss Got New Liver At UCLA (VIDEO)

Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Tadamasa, Lara Logan, Ucla Ethics, UCLA Medical Center, Crime, Organ Donation, Ucla, Organ Transplants, Ucla Medical Center Ethics, Fbi, Goto, Tokyo, 60 Minutes, Yakuza Liver Transplants, John Gotti, Mob, Yakuza, Japan, Health Care, Tadamasa Goto, World News

On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a report by Lara Logan on the puzzling liver transplants received by Japan's top crime bosses at UCLA Medical Center. Betw...

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Chris Christie Rips Off Monty Python, Troupe Threatens Suit

Martin Lewis | Posted 11.02.2009 | New York

Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey, has created an election commercial that steals copyright-protected material from Monty Python without permission or credit.

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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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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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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

"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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Marcus Sakey Is No Amateur at Writing Engrossing Novels

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Marcus Sakey, Alfred Hitchcock, Robbery, Ordinary People, Mob, Media News

There is a brilliant writer in America somehow flying under the radar of public knowledge. His name is Marcus Sakey and he has written four enormously enjoyable books, the latest being The Amateurs.

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

AP | Posted 11.17.2009 | 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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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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Another Corozzo Earns A Trip To The Big House

Jerry Capeci | Posted 09.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Gambino Family, Organized Crime, Joseph Corozzo, Mob, Nicholas Corozzo, New York News

Meet Nicholas Corozzo of Howard Beach, Queens, the fourth member of the Corozzo clan to earn a trip to the Big House for one reason or another since last year.

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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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New Gotti Jr. Charges on the Way?

Jerry Capeci | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York

Read More: John Gotti, Racketeering. P. Kevin Castel, Dapper Don, Lewis Kasman, Junior Gotti, New York, Mob, New York City, Organized Crime, New York News

Federal prosecutors have soured on controversial FBI informer Lewis Kasman, the turncoat "adopted son" of the late John Gotti, as a trial witness in Gotti IV.

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Gotti Junior Plans All-Out Court Assault On FBI Agent

Jerry Capeci | Posted 08.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Junior, FBI Agent Theodore Otto, Gotti, Mob, New York News

In Gotti IV, the former Junior Don will take the offensive against an FBI agent who has been on his case for five years. He will paint the G-man as the real villain in a "win at all costs" campaign against him by the federal government.

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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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Financial Crisis Goes Global, Slams into Europe

Danny Schechter | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: Organized Crime, Europe, Bear Stearns, Global Financial Crisis, Austria, Tim Geithner, Tony Soprano, Cosa Nostra, Mob, Mafia, Danube University, World News

People in the EU have politicized economic issues perhaps because of a more diverse media environment as well as the expectation that governments have a duty to protect their people.

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Sri Lanka: Mob Stones Red Cross Office

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

Read More: Icrc, Tamil Tigers, South Asia, Sri Lanka Civil War, Red Cross, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Mob, Sri Lanka, Asia, Colombo, Protestors, International Committee of the Red Cross, World News

The main office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was stoned by a mob today in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Although no one was hurt, the...

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