The Chicago Syndicate: Luccheses
Showing posts with label Luccheses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Luccheses. Show all posts
Friday, September 23, 2016

Police Corruption and Cover-ups Surround "The Brotherhood - The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia"

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In 1994, an underboss of the Lucchese crime family, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, flipped. He was in federal custody, facing numerous m...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires By Selwyn Raab

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As the Mafia grew into a malignantly powerful force during the middle of the last century, it owed much of its success to its low-priority r...
Monday, October 12, 2015

2008 Survey Names the Top 10 Criminal Organizations in the World

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THEY trade in everything from stolen art to nuclear technology and leave rivals riddled with bullets in the streets of Moscow. Now the wor...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss

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Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso is currently serving thirteen consecutive life sentences plus 455 years at a federal prison in Colorado. N...
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Photo of Lucchese Crime Family Tree

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Lucchese Crime Family Alleged Leaders, Members and Associates (Click on Photo for Enlarged View)
Monday, August 03, 2009

Is the Food at Mob Eateries Overrated?

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SO, Fat Tony misses Ba monte's mussels, Rao's chicken, and "great pasta" at Parkside and Don Peppe! It just shows you how ...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

How Mafia Crime Families Adapted for the 21st Century

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New York City's Five Families owned the 20th Century. Now they must confront the 21st — still alive, still armed and still dangerous. To...
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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Did Organized Crime Firms Perform Work on Yankees and Mets New Stadiums?

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Millions of dollars worth of work associated with the new baseball stadiums for the Yankees and Mets was performed by companies that New Yor...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

Convictions of Mafia Cops are Reinstated

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The racketeering convictions of two retired New York City detectives who helped to kill at least eight men in their role as mob assassins we...
Friday, May 09, 2008

Reputed High-Ranking Gambino Figure Among 23 Named in Racketeering Indictment

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A man the feds call one of the highest-ranking members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey was among 23 people named Thursday in a rac...
Saturday, March 01, 2008

The History of Organized Crime Control of Gay Bars

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I had a reader send me a link to the the History of Gay Bars in New York City from 1900 to the present. In addition to the Big Apple, you c...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

New York's 5 Crime Families to Get Corporate Sponsors?

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Maybe the Mafia needs a new business model. The old one hasn’t been working well of late. That seems a reasonable surmise after the mass arr...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Lucchese Gambling Ring Broken Up

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Dozens of alleged members of the Lucchese Crime Family were arrested Tuesday morning in raids in New Jersey and New York that authorities sa...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

Old School Mobsters Among "Celebrities" Spending Time in The Big A

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The Big A has always been a rough joint. Before the turn of the last century, the government had no dedicated facilities for men convicted o...
Friday, July 27, 2007

Goodfella, Henry Hill, Says NBA Ref Donaghy Just the Tip of Scandal

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Friends of ours: Gambino Crime Family, Lucchese Crime Family, Jimmy "The Gent" Burke, Paul Vario Friends of mine: Henry Hill Tim D...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Old Days: Mobsters Whacked for Revenge; Now: They Evict

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If you can't settle a vendetta with blood, try real estate. Burton Kaplan, a Mafia informant in the "mob cops" case, was getti...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

Failed Bribery Scheme Leads to Mafia Indictments

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Friends of ours: Gambino Crime Family, Lucchese Crime Family, GEORGE DECICCO, JOSEPH ORLANDO, STEVEN FAMIGLIETTA, ROBERT DECICCO, RICHARD JU...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Merry Christmas Bin Laden!

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Only in New York would a Mafia associate nicknamed The Irishman allegedly provide a bomb used to destroy a Pakistani immigrant's deli th...
Monday, October 02, 2006

Stool Pigeon in Mafia Cops Case Freed

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Friends of ours: Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, Lucchese Crime Family Friends of mine: Louis Eppolito, Stephen Caracappa, Burton Kaplan ...