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A Live Shakedown: Gangsters Target NFL Super Bowl

Online Players: A Live Shakedown

Hi-Tech Gangsters Target NFL Super Bowl in Multi-Billion Dollars Gambling Extortion

By Clarence Walker, Investigative Crime Journalist

February 7th 2010: Event: Super Bowl XLVI : Team: New Orleans Saints vs Indianapolis Colts.

On this highly anticipated… Continue

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Organized Crime Test: Japan's Mob Needs Gangsters With Brains!

By Clarence Walker, Investigative Crime Journalist

Intelligent gangsters wanted: Any guys out there ready to work in the underworld?

If so, Japan's organized crime syndicates need immediate assistance. They need extra muscle to run prostitution rings, drug trafficking, collect debts, assassinating rivals and shaking down bar owners. To join this outfit - a candidate might think a blood oath must be taken, as with the La Cosa… Continue

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Crime Does Pay. How? Italian Mafia Earned $167 Billion

By Clarence Walker, Investigative Crime Journalist

How many times have we heard these words? "Crime doesn't pay"....or a Judge will say, "it doesn't pay to commit crimes".

It is true crime didn't pay for some lawbreakers who were caught and lost their freedom and every dime they earned. Swindler Ken Madoff earned billions running a ponzi scheme that bilked investors and now he's been caught. With the exception of having… Continue

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Special Homicide Report: Australian Hitman For Hire. Cost: $380.00!

By Clarence Walker, Investigative Journalist, Houston Texas

Posted: March 20, 2008

If you was a cold-blood criminal how much you willing to pay a hitman to kill someone? Well maybe that depends on the amount of money you have and how much the assassin will charge to carry out a contract.

Throughout existence of mankind people have hired killers to murder others in exchange for sex, money, relationships, promise of marriage, favoritism, gold, pearls, diamonds, cars, and… Continue

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Special Report: Mob-murders Cools Off in Italy

Special Report: Mob-murders Cools Off in Italy

And other Historical Stories about the Sicilian Mafia.

By Clarence Walker, Investigative Journalist, Houston Texas.

Posted on October 8, 2007

Is it a myth or reality that mob-related murders are at its lowest decline in Italy's history of… Continue

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Did a Serial Killer Frame Mob Turncoat Gravano For a Cop's Murder?

Sammy "Bull" Gravano --vs-- Prosecutor John Molinelli

Did a Serial Killer Frame a Crimeboss For a Cop's Murder?

By Clarence Walker, Investigative Reporter & Documentary Producer of Cold-Case, Mafia-Murder stories (Houston, Texas)

"I killed 19 people...yes I did". "But I did not kill Officer Calabro". Those are the poignant words of former Gambino underboss Sammy "the Bull" Gravano (picture on the left).

Gravano, already serving a 20-year prison… Continue

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Facebook Nails a Mafia Assassin

Plus Three Other Stories of Most Wanted Criminals Captured Online

By Clarence Walker

Posted on April 10, 2010

Internet power strikes again. With lethal force, Facebook, the world's popular networking site--struck all the way into the remote corners of Italy, when police, after following up on a trail of online leads captured a Mob…

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American Gangster Myth

American Gangster Myth:

What's the Real Story Behind Hollywood's Portrayal of Harlem Drug Kingpin Frank Lucas?

By Clarence Walker, Investigative Reporter and New Criminologist Journalist, Houston Texas

First published on: 11/5/2007…

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Crime Bosses with a Feminine Side

By David Amoruso

Posted on January 14, 2010

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A gangster can never show weakness. He must always act like a man. But does he really have to be a man? Or is he allowed to ‘make some changes’? In the past year there were two separate cases in Italy and South Africa involving crime bosses whose stories would rock the criminal world.

The South African underworld was shocked this week when it… Continue

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Turncoat Mobster Once Again Involved in Dirty Business

By David Amoruso

Posted on September 19, 2009

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DeCavalcante mobster Vincent “Vinny Ocean” Palermo (photo right) disappeared into the witness protection program at the turn of the millennium after giving testimony about mob rackets in New Jersey and New York. Like all criminals who decide to cooperate, he hoped to get a second chance at life. But it seems he is up to his old tricks… Continue

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Italian Police Are Closing in on Cosa Nostra Boss

By David Amoruso

Posted on June 28, 2009

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Italian authorities are closing in on Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro (47). In one week, police in Italy and Venezuela arrested over a dozen men who are all being accused of helping Denaro run his criminal operations. By the end of the week even Denaro’s (photo on the right) most valuable drug contact had been put in handcuffs.

On Saturday… Continue

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Mexican Drug Cartels Number 1 Organized Crime Threat US?

U.S. Government Crisis: Mexico Drug Cartels:

Are they Number 1 Organized Crime Threat in America?

By Clarence Walker, Investigative Crime Journalist

The U.S. government is on the defensive. There's a major crisis threatening America's security. This diabolical threat do not involve foreign terrorists, chinese spys, Al-Qaeda; nor… Continue

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The Message: Don’t Fuck With Antonino Accardo

By David Amoruso

Posted on March 13, 2010

Originally written for Mob Candy Magazine

It was 1951. The Italian-American Mafia, known as La Cosa Nostra, was doing great. Throughout the United States the mob held sway. From the East coast all the way to the West coast, and everything in between was controlled by twenty-some mob families.

But not all families were equal. The five New York families and the Chicago family, known as The Outfit, held the most…

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'Ndrangheta Hitman to be Extradited

By David Amoruso

Posted on May 15, 2009

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A Dutch court has ruled that ‘Ndrangheta hitman Giovanni Strangio will be extradited to Italy where he is charged with membership of a criminal organization and involvement in the murder of six Italian men in Duisburg on August 15, 2007. According to Judge Fred Salomon… Continue

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The High Roller: Jimmy Chagra, Gambling & Poker

By David Amoruso

Posted on May 22, 2008

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Poker has become one of the most popular games worldwide. It is played by millions of people of all ages in countries all over the world, at casinos, home games, bars, and the past few years on the internet. Poker has become an accepted form of entertainment, loved by cops, criminals and regular citizens alike. But poker wasn't always this popular, and it's… Continue

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Cosa Nostra Bosses Pledge Loyalty to the End

By Puparo and David Amoruso

Posted on November 5, 2007

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At the end of August some very interesting news reached the world press. Two of the most violent and powerful Cosa Nostra leaders exchanged their wedding rings when one moved to the other's prison cell. To most in the media this ring exchange could only mean one thing: An end to the peace between Cosa Nostra and the Italian state. The Sicilian Mafia… Continue

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'Ndrangheta Murders in Duisburg, Germany

By David Amoruso

Posted on August 17, 2007

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In the early morning of Wednesday, August 15, six Italian men exited the Da Bruno Italian restaurant in Duisburg, a city in Germany's industrial heartland, the Ruhr, that has been hit by high levels of unemployment. One of the men had just turned 18 and they had celebrated his birthday there. Outside the… Continue

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The Israeli Mafia's brief, but violent invasion of New York

By David Amoruso

During the 1980s a small group of Israeli criminals started earning a reputation throughout New York that they were serious men, capable of deadly violence. This rep earned them their place within New York's underworld, which was ruled by the five La Cosa Nostra families, Russian gangsters, Asian Triads, as well as African-American and Latino drug gangs.…

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Chicago's Family Secrets

By David Amoruso

Posted May 20, 2007

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This summer several of the most powerful mobsters in Chicago will stand trial for 18 murders and racketeering spanning several decades. The trial…

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Elderly Genovese Mobsters Ran South Florida

By David Amoruso

Posted: February 23, 2007

Updated: May 28, 2007

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Florida has the highest percentage of senior citizens in the United States. 17% of Florida’s citizens are 65 or older. It is clear then that Florida attracts the elderly. Mobsters also like Florida for the sun and warm temperatures, and of course they always look for ways to make an extra dollar. On June 30, 2006 two aging Genovese… Continue

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