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Despite the informal structure, the Dixie Mafia had one rule that members were expected to obey: "Thou shall not snitch to the cops". [6] Unlike members of the American Mafia, the members of the Dixie mafia were not connected by family or country of origin. They were loosely connected individuals of many nationalities with a common goal—to ...
The grisly triple murder of a mother, father and son found slain in a bathtub in 1972 has been solved 50 years later, thanks to information from a Georgia inmate, the Watauga County Sheriff’s ...
On August 8, 1987, Schiff was shot in the head while dining in a Manhattan restaurant. Manna was later indicted and on June 26, 1989, Manna was convicted of conspiring to murder John Gotti, Gene Gotti, and Irwin Schiff in aid of racketeering. [3] On September 26, 1989, Judge Maryanne Trump-Barry sentenced Manna to 80 years in federal prison. [4]
Kirksey McCord Nix Jr. (born 1943) is the former boss of the Dixie Mafia. [1] [2] He was a suspect in the assassination attempt on Sheriff Buford Pusser and in the death of Buford's wife on August 12, 1967. Nix has repeatedly refused to comment about Pusser's claims that he was one of his wife's killers. [1]
Out for Justice is a 1991 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by John Flynn and co-produced by and starring Steven Seagal as Gino Felino, a veteran police detective who sets out to avenge his partner Bobby's murder by killing Richie, the trigger-happy, drug-addicted mafioso culprit. The film was released theatrically on April 12, 1991.
A federal judge on Friday took the rare step of declaring a mistrial for two west suburban men accused in a juice loan extortion scheme after an FBI agent testified he investigated “organized ...
The Italian-American organized crime family began when two Sicilian mafiosi known as the DiGiovanni brothers fled Sicily to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1912.Joseph "Joe Church" DiGiovanni and Peter "Sugarhouse Pete" DiGiovanni began making money from a variety of criminal operations or rackets shortly after their arrival.
The social media star then posted a follow-up video. “A recent video of mine seems to have upset members of a certain community.” The “backlash” prompted her to do a “soul search,” she ...