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Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, the once powerful New England Mafia boss who was serving a life sentence behind bars for the 1993 killing of a Boston nightclub owner, has died at the age of ...
L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) — Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, died on Monday in a hospital prison ward, several months after being ...
Fotios "Freddy" Geas -- the ex-Mafia enforcer already serving a life sentence -- was given an additional 25 years by a judge Friday for bludgeoning New England crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger to ...
When Rastelli was sent to prison in 1976, [20] Galante seized control of the Bonannos as unofficial acting boss and in turn becoming de facto boss. [ 21 ] During the late 1970s, Galante allegedly organized the murders of at least eight members of the Gambino family , with whom he had an intense rivalry, to take over a massive drug-trafficking ...
Joseph Charles Massino (January 10, 1943 – September 14, 2023) was an American mobster.He was a member of the Mafia and boss of the Bonanno crime family from 1991 until 2004, when he became the first boss of one of the Five Families in New York City to turn state's evidence.
Anthony Salvatore Casso (May 21, 1942 – December 15, 2020), nicknamed "Gaspipe", was an American mobster and underboss of the Lucchese crime family.During his career in organized crime, he was regarded as a "homicidal maniac" [1] in the Italian-American Mafia.
Matteo Messina Denaro (Italian pronunciation: [matˈtɛːo mesˈsiːna deˈnaːro]; Sicilian: Matteu Missina Dinaru; 26 April 1962 – 25 September 2023), also known as Diabolik (from the Italian comic book character), was a Sicilian Mafia boss from Castelvetrano.
Ezequiel Romo, a gang leader who ordered murders of rivals and followers alike to maintain control over drug and collection rackets in Panorama City, was stabbed to death at Centinela State Prison.