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Considered by law enforcement to be the dominant organized crime figure in the San Fernando Valley, Torres, 59, was killed last July at California State Prison, Sacramento, where he was serving ...
John Gotti [1] [note 1] (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ t i / GOT-ee, Italian:; October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002) was an American mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.He ordered and helped to orchestrate the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano in December 1985 and took over the family shortly thereafter, leading what was described as America's most powerful crime syndicate.
After Salerno's recovery from his stroke and the March 31, 1981, death of Genovese front boss Frank Tieri, Salerno succeeded him.Although law enforcement at the time thought that Salerno was the boss of the Genovese family, it was an open secret in New York Mafia circles that Salerno was merely a front man for the real boss, Vincent "the Chin" Gigante.
Bulger’s family sued prison employees after his death, alleging prison wardens and other correctional officers were “intentional or deliberately indifferent” to the danger Bulger faced in ...
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.
Crime was a family affair for Messina Denaro, born to a known Mafia boss in Sicily on April 26, 1962. Among those arrested in the 2009-2010 crackdown was his brother, Salvatore Messina Denaro, who ...
His eldest son, Nicolo Rizzuto (Nick Jr.) – named after his grandfather – was born on 4 December 1967. He was shot six times and killed near his car in the Montreal borough of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on December 28, 2009. [9] His other son is Leonardo Rizzuto, [10] and the third child is his daughter, Libertina "Bettina" – named after her ...
His arrest came 30 years and a day after the Jan. 15, 1993, capture of the Mafia’s “boss of bosses,’’ Salvatore “Toto” Riina in a Palermo apartment, also after decades in hiding.