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Listening to the recording of a wire-tapped phone call, Nicola Gratteri shuddered at the words: ‘He’s a dead man walking.’ Italy’s most formidable mafia prosecutor was listening to the voice of a mobster he had been monitoring during a sweeping investigation into the nation’s most feared organised crime syndicate. Gratteri, who had begun the probe … Read more
An infamous Chicago-born mobster whose exploits in Las Vegas in the 1970s inspired the film Casino has died of coronavirus and other complications, aged 81. Frank Cullotta in his later years gloried in his past, running his own YouTube channel and organizing both a ‘Vegas Mob Tour’ and a Casino Tour, reveling in the 1995 … Read more
A notorious Canadian mobster has been assassinated in a hail of bullets three years after his brother was shot dead – and a year after he survived a similar attack. Pasquale ‘Fat Pat’ Musitano, 53, was gunned down at a Burlington, Ontario, parking lot in broad daylight at around 1pm on Friday, while meeting with … Read more
Tommy Manzo pleads not guilty to hiring Lucchese mobster soldier to attack husband of ex-wife Dina US District Court Judge Cathy L. Waldor set bail for Manzo, 55, at $100,000 Manzo appeared in federal court via Zoom for allegedly hiring mob soldier John Perna to attack Dave Cantin, husband of former The Real Housewives Of … Read more
A reputed mobster whose legendary airport robbery was recounted in the movie ‘Goodfellas’ has been released over fears he could contract coronavirus while serving his eight-year prison sentence. Vinny Asaro, 85, was jailed in 2017 on arson charges following a 2012 road-rage incident. But on Friday, he was granted compassionate release from prison over concerns … Read more
John Gotti Jr is reportedly under the FBI’s spotlight after forging close ties with the Latin Kings. John Gotti Jr is reportedly under the FBI’s spotlight after forging close ties with the Latin Kings. The mobster allegedly met with bigwigs Michael ‘King Merlin’ Cecchetelli and the latter man’s uncle David ‘Fat Chicky’ Cecchetelli’ at a … Read more
Short of stature and with a strangely expressionless face, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seemed the image of a boring bureaucrat when he was elected Russia’s third president 20 years ago. Yet today Putin has become the Godfather of a vast Mafia state – and to do that he has combined the dirty skills of a former … Read more