Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On 22 May 2008, she made her debut for the U23 national team, which lost 1-0 to the United States. [7] A short time later, White was included in the preparation squad for the 2008 Olympic football tournament by national coach Silvia Neid.
The 19th Hole, Furnari's social club, was the hub of criminal activity in Bensonhurst. Mobsters from every New York crime family conducted business in the club and socialized over food and drink. In the mid-1960s, aspiring mobsters Vittorio "Vic" Amuso and Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso joined Furnari's crew. Furnari saw that both men could make money ...
[60] [61] In 2012, a group of Bonanno family associates forced their way into a Lucchese family Bronx social club and one of the Bonanno associates offended Underboss Steven L. Crea. [60] After the intrusion Steven Crea ordered his son capo Steven D. Crea Jr. to have the Bonanno associate killed and Crea Jr. passed the order to Bruno and Paul ...
The Springfield faction of the Genovese crime family is a group of Italian-American mobsters who control organized crime activities in the Springfield, Massachusetts area. The Springfield faction is a crew led by a caporegime who oversees illegal activities in racketeering, illegal gambling, loansharking and extortion.
Weiss and other Prohibition-era mobsters served as the basis for many gangster films of the 1930s. James Cagney, for example, based his character on both Weiss and Chicago gangland figure Dean O'Banion in The Public Enemy (1931). [9] In 2013 and 2014, Weiss is portrayed by Will Janowitz on the third and fourth seasons of Boardwalk Empire.
The Colorado crime family, also known as the Smaldone crime family, the Denver crime family, the Arvada Cop Mafia, the Denver Mafia or the Mountain Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pueblo and Denver, Colorado. The family originated as a bootlegging organization headed by the brothers Pete and Sam Carlino, which was ...
Christina Weiss Lurie is a Mexican-American documentary producer, philanthropist and minority owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles. Weiss Lurie is president of the Eagles Youth Partnership, the team's charitable foundation, [ 1 ] and co-founder of three independent film companies – Vox3 Films, Tango Pictures, [ 2 ] and Screen Pass Pictures.
Becoming a made man during the 1950s, LoCascio was a bookmaker and loanshark for the Gambino family. Later on, he was promoted to caporegime of a crew in the Bronx, New York . After the December 1985 assassination of boss Paul Castellano , Gotti became the new Gambino boss and LoCascio joined his inner circle.