At 5.30 am on Tuesday 14th April 1903, in front of the building at 743 East 11th Street at Avenue D, a barrel was found with a man's body inside. The throat was cut from ear to ear, and the head almost severed from the body with eighteen stab wounds in the neck. The body had been forcibly pushed int.[...]
The Early Years
In 1892, Giuseppe Morello arrived in New York from Corleone. Six months later his family arrived, including his mother, step-father, four sisters, and his step-brothers Nicola, Ciro and Vincent Terranova. The family stayed in New York for around a year, but suffered from the lack of available work. .[...]
History of the beginning of the mafia
Organised crime attacks the foundations of society in which we live, it is a global phenomenon that penetrates deep and solid, which destroyes through various means. In the United States people are talking about the American Mafia (Mob). But frequently the criminalists use the term Italian-American .[...]
TPM's Guide To Mobster Country
More than 120 suspected mobsters were arrested in yesterday's massive mafia bust. And along with the arrests came hundreds of pages of court documents detailing alleged illegal activity taking place across three states: New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island. From allegations of extortion in Midtown .[...]
FBI: 'Largest' Mafia Takedown in History
*Taken from Yahoo News. For nearly 30 years, federal authorities say, reputed gangster Bartolomeo Vernace got away with murder. They say the bloodshed — a double slaying at the Shamrock Bar in Queens — was all over a spilled drink. Vernace's luck ran out Thursday when he was charged in the killings .[...]
U.S. arrests 119 in biggest Mafia bust (Reuters)
Reuters - Authorities arrested 119 organized crime suspects on Thursday in what the FBI called the largest single-day operation against the Mafia in history.[...]
Transnational Crime: Camorra & Reconstruction of Twin Towers
NY Daily News article There is obviously a lot of news about the recent FBI mafia bust. The NY Daily News has mentioned Massive FBI Mafia bust: Organized crime still has firm grip on unions, even at Ground Zero (1/21/11) Related: Investigative journalist Roberto Saviano's book Gomorrah: A Personal J.[...]
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