All Blog Posts Tagged 'Genovese' (108)
The Genovese Crime Family
Estimate members: Between 200 and 225 (according to Jerry Capeci)
First Boss: Charles "Lucky" Luciano
Primary activities: The most powerful and wealthy crime Family in the New York area, and perhaps the entire country. The Genovese Family maintains major muscle in narcotics, loan-sharking, extortion rackets,…
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Associate of Genovese crime family’s Springfield faction pleads guilty to extortion charge
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Killing Frank: How the Los Angeles Mob Removed a Problem
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Carl Sifakis in The Mafia Encyclopedia writes this about Frank Bompensiero:
“In the treacherous world of Mafia hit men, few characters proved shiftier than Frank ‘Bomp’ Bompensiero.... For decades regarded as one of…
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How gangsters try (and fail) to evade government surveillance
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Drug traffickers and gangsters all over the globe were shocked to find their encrypted text messages in the hands of law enforcement agencies in Europe and the United States. Large service providers called EncroChat and…
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Kill to be on top of the hill - Profile of Genovese Mafia family soldier Louis Auricchio
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
In the Mafia, you don’t get to the top without leaving a trail of dead bodies in your wake. You have to kill to be on top of the hill. Whether you’re John Gotti, Carlo Gambino or Vito Genovese. Their soldiers know…
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A Gangster Christmas: Stories from the underworld
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
‘Tis the season! Merry Christmas everyone! At Gangsters Inc. we don’t really do presents. But we do do gangster stories! Lots of ‘em! Especially for Christmas we’ve dug up four stories that show how mobsters spend their Christmas. Spoiler alert: Two end in murder.
“Carmine DiBiase went out on Christmas Day and got drunk. Very…
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Genovese Mafia family’s union muscle sentenced to 4 years in prison
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
Genovese Mafia family soldier Frank Giovinco was sentenced to 4 years in prison on Monday for extortion conspiracy and participating in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with the Genovese mob’s control of two local…
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Only the Dead know Brooklyn
By Thom. L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong kind of friend was the worst thing that ever happened to Frank Santora Junior.
As he walked along a street in…
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“I’m in waste management!” - Genovese Mafia family soldier Frank Giovinco guilty of racketeering
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
A Genovese Mafia family mobster was convicted of racketeering on Tuesday. The jury found 52-year-old…
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The Irishman: Meet the real Mafia muscle behind Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Martin Scorsese’s latest Mafia epic The Irishman finally hit…
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Five Minutes to Midnight: The Sicilian and New York Mafias, the Catholic Church and a huge finance scandal
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
“You never know what enough is unless you know what is more than enough.” - William Blake
It’s a story with more twists and turns than a novel by Agatha Christie. A list of…
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Five Minutes to Midnight – Part 2: The Sicilian and New York Mafias, the Catholic Church and a huge finance scandal
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“Alleged” street guys bring Irish mob crew The Westies back to life in upcoming tv series The Flannagans
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
The infamous Westies gang from Hell’s Kitchen, New York, continues to fascinate fans of the true crime genre. Upcoming television series The Flannagans will…
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The Boys from Bethnal Green: How the infamous Kray Twins ruled the London underworld
By Thom L. Jones
East is East
American author Robert Warshow declared in an essay: “For the gangster there is only the city, he must inhibit it in order to personify it….not the real city but that dangerous sad city of the imagination which is so much more important, which is the modern world. And…
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The Boys from Bethnal Green – Part 5: How the infamous Kray Twins ruled the London underworld
By Thom L. Jones
This is the final part of a 5-part series. To go back to part 4 click here. To start at the beginning…
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The Boys from Bethnal Green – Part 4: How the infamous Kray Twins ruled the London underworld
By Thom L. Jones
This is part 4 of a series. To go back to part 3 click here. To skip to part 5 scroll down.…
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The Boys from Bethnal Green – Part 3: How the infamous Kray Twins ruled the London underworld
By Thom L. Jones
This is part 3 of a series. To go back to part 2 click here. To skip to part 4 scroll down.
Boss…
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The Boys from Bethnal Green - Part 2: How the infamous Kray Twins ruled the London underworld
By Thom L. Jones
This is part 2 of a series. To go back to part 1 click here. To skip to part 3 scroll down.
Going…
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The Real John Wick: Separating fact from fiction in Hollywood’s violent gangster vengeance blockbuster
By David Amoruso
Is John Wick indestructible? Movie audiences are about to find out in the third installment of the blockbuster movie franchise starring Keanu Reeves as the skilled assassin placed on a universal hit list by the Italian and Russian Mafias, the Chinese Triads, and the Japanese Yakuza. But…
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Son of New York Mafia boss Vincent “Chin” Gigante pleads guilty to racketeering charges
By David Amoruso
The son of late New York Mafia boss Vincent “Chin” Gigante pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday. 51-year-old Vincent Esposito (photo above, left) admitted conspiring with other Genovese crime family mobsters in extorting union officials.
Esposito is the…
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