Federal Hill is the heart of mob territory in Providence. The historic neighborhood has played host to a considerable amount of gangland violence through the years. Here’s a look back at the biggest Federal Hill mob hits of all-time.

The Federal Hill Hit List (1932-1992):

September 24, 1932 – African-American numbers boss Arthur (Daddy) Black is shot to death inside his office on Cranston Street. The WWI hero was the richest man of color in the state of Rhode Island and slain in a feud with Italian mafia leaders over sharing proceeds of his policy lottery.

August 10, 1955 – Mob soldier George (Tiger) Balleto is shot to death as he sat at the bar inside the Bella Napoli Café on Atwells Avenue.

July 13, 1966 – Bookie Willie Marfeo is gunned down inside the Korner Kitchen restaurant.

April 20, 1968 – Mobster Rudy Marfeo and his bodyguard Anthony Melei are shot to death inside Pannone’s Market ,a small grocery store on Pocasset Avenue.

March 15, 1976 – Mob capo Dickie Callei is beaten and shot to death inside the Acorn Social Club.

April 12, 1978 – Hartford mobster Joe (Joey Onions) Scanlon is lured to a Federal Hill social club on Knight Street, shot in the face and head in front of his girlfriend and baby daughter and dumped in Narraganset Bay.

September 18, 1982 – Gangland figure Raymond (Slick) Vecchio is shot to death inside Vincent’s restaurant on Atwells Avenue.

September 18, 1992 – Renegade mob enforcer Kevin Hanrahan is gunned down on Atwells Avenue leaving The Arch steakhouse.

The post Providence Mafia Murder Meter: The Federal Hill Hit List (1932-1992) appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 4, 2020 — Western Massachusetts mob-affiliate Talal (Big T) Soffan was sentenced this week to two and a half years in federal prison for credit card and bank fraud. More than a decade ago, the Lebanese wiseguy took a pinch in Springfield for racketeering-related offenses and received probation.

Soffan, 46, pleaded guilty last year in U.S. District Court to ripping off a half-million bucks in fraudulent credit card expenses, lying when filling out forms to acquire a small business loan and then spreading the nearly $600,000 in expenses over 27 different credit cards and bank accounts. The original $35,000 loan was used to open a trash dumpster business called All Waste Management, Inc. According to his plea, he also rigged bids in acquiring bank contracts to repair and maintenance foreclosed upon homes in a real estate management business he owned.

Back in 2005, Soffan was busted alongside then Springfield mob capo Anthony (Bingy) Arillotta for collecting underworld debts. Arillotta, 50, went on to become a government witness and testify against leaders of the Genovese crime family out of New York.

The Springfield mob crew has always been a wing of the Genovese clan. Albert (The Animal) Calvanese, another former Arillotta enforcer, allegedly succeeded Arillotta as crew boss. Calvanese, 57, did a prison stint for loansharking from his days working under Arillotta in a case where he beat a debtor by slamming their head in a car door.

The post Time To Pay The Piper: Springfield (MA) Mobster Hit With Prison Time In Fraud Case appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 6, 2020 — The MGM Grand Casino in Detroit will not be held liable for millions of stolen dollars lost in gambling binges by a local wiseguy and con man, according to a ruling by the Michigan Court of Appeals this week.

Reputed Detroit mob associate Gino Accettola, who is currently in prison for an unrelated credit card scam, fleeced a dozen investors of a combined $6,000,000 and then gambled it away at the MGM’s blackjack tables, receiving perks and VIP treatment as a high-roller throughout an epic 2014 casino binge. Per the lawsuit, Accettola often bragged of his ties to the Motor City’s Tocco-Zerilli crime family and told the investors he was putting the money into construction projects in Florida. When they pressed him for a return on their money, he told them his “bosses in the mob” were delaying the payout.

Those investors filed suit in Wayne County Circuit Court seeking to hold MGM responsible for the losses because of a failure to vet Accettola’s background and finances when he applied for the casino’s extended credit program. The circuit court ruled against them in 2017 and the appellate court affirmed the decision in a ruling released Wednesday.

The 52-year old Accettola was sentenced to a minimum of seven years in state prison in August 2018 after pleading no contest to theft charges connected to a credit card scam where he ripped off a credit card company for $150,000 through his chain of tanning salons. Accettola, allegedly linked to the Detroit mob’s “Tocco crew,” owned five Miami Tan outlets in Southeast Michigan. He had done time in federal prison in the 1990s for fraud and took another pinch in state court for a con job in 2013 in which he got lucky and escaped with a suspended sentence.

The post Appeals Court: Swindled Investors Can’t Recoup Money Lost At MGM Casino By Mob Associate In Motown appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 7, 2020 — Notorious “Narcos” hit man Jhon (Popeye) Velasquez died of stomach cancer in Bogota, Colombia this week at 57. The one-time right-hand man and top enforcer for Pablo Escobar, the world’s most wanted drug kingpin of the 1980s and early 1990s, Velasquez did 22 years in prison for the assassination of Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan on Escobar’s orders. Released in 2014, he became an internet sensation, attracting more than a million subscribers to his YouTube channel, before being arrested for extortion less than two years ago.

Escobar led the Medellin Cartel, responsible for flooding the United States with cocaine in the late 20^th Century. Galvan was the favorite to become president in Escobar’s home country, campaigning on an anti-Narcos platform. Velasquez planned the hit on Galvan, assembling the team of shooters and letting them loose at a Galvan rally where they gunned down the presidential hopeful on stage at a campaign rally. Escobar himself died in a hail of bullets in a 1993 rooftop shootout with Colombian and American military forces while on the run from authorities. His net worth at the time of death was close to 5 billion.

Nicknamed after the famous sailorman cartoon due to his time spent in the Colombian Navy, Popeye Velasquez rose up the ranks of the Medellin Cartel to where he was Escobar’s bodyguard and most trusted aid. Colombia officials estimate he was involved in hundreds of drug world-related homicides between 1982 and when he was finally jailed in 1992.

The post Pablo’s Prized Pupil, Popeye Velasquez, Dies Of Cancer In Colombia, Narcos Legacy Endures appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 8, 2020 — Great Lakes dreaming became a reality for Sonny Barger and the boys last month.

The Hells Angels, the world’s most infamous motorcycle club, have opened their first chapter in Michigan, establishing the Hells Angels Michigan Nomads near Mount Pleasant in the center of the state. Based on the West Coast, the iconic Hells Angels began expanding into the Midwest in the late 1960s, but until now, had never planted a flag in Michigan due to it being prime territory for the rival Outlaws MC, the nation’s preeminent rustbelt biker crew. A message announcing the new Hells Angels Michigan chapter on its website.

The Outlaws and Hells Angels have been at war since 1974 when Outlaws in Florida killed a group of Hells Angels from Boston. Headquartered out of Detroit and Chicago, the Outlaws have maintained a strangle hold on the Midwest biker scene for decades. When the Hells Angels moved into Illinois in the 1990s, violence between the clubs ramped up.

Ralph (Sonny) Barger, 83, founded the Hells Angels’ Oakland chapter in 1957, became the club’s overall boss and grew it to mythic proportions around the globe. Today, Barger lives in Phoenix and remains active in club affairs. Barger commissioned the opening of the club’s first Midwest outpost in Cleveland in 1967, sending Clarence (Butch) Crouch to Ohio to be his personal eyes and ears in the region. Crouch eventually turned state’s evidence and committed suicide in the Witness Protection Program.

In 1988, Barger was convicted in federal court for ordering the bombing of an Outlaws clubhouse in Louisville, Kentucky and did five years in prison. He played a recurring character on the hit FX television show Sons of Anarchy, about a fictional California biker gang.

Barger’s counterpart in The Outlaws, Harry (Taco) Bowman, died behind bars last year. The legendary Bowman headed the club from his home in Detroit for most of the 1980s and 1990s, finally convicted of murder and racketeering in 2001. Per testimony at his trial, Bowman put a murder contract on Barger’s head and had his lieutenants hunting the Hells Angels shot caller near his home in California. Bowman and Barger’s then second-in-command, George Christy, then engaged in a series of peace talks that fell through at the last minute.

The post The Devil Is In The Details: Hells Angels Set Up Shop In Michigan For First Time appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 10, 2020 — Old-school television star Robert Conrad, a close friend of the Chicago mob’s famously-feared Spilotro brothers, died of natural causes in Malibu, California over the weekend. The 84-year old Conrad played U.S. Secret Serviceman James West, a 19^th Century “James Bond on horseback,” on the hit show The Wild, Wild West for CBS in the late 1960s and became well known throughout Hollywood circles as a brawler with a quick temper.

His chosen company to socialize with also came under the microscope. Being from Chicago, Conrad knew, “Outfit” tough guy Tony (The Ant) Spilotro and his younger brother and protégé Michael aka “Mickey”, who Conrad helped get into acting and score roles on major television shows. Conrad met Tony Spilotro, diminutive, volatile and three years his junior, in the 1950s when he worked as a longshoreman on the docks of Lake Michigan and then dabbled in the Windy City’s boxing scene.

Tony Spilotro, 48, ran west coast operations for the Chicago mafia from 1971 until his untimely demise in 1986 and was suspected in carrying out or ordering more than two dozen gangland slayings in his mob career. Mickey Spilotro, 42, owned Hoagie’s Pub back home on the city’s Westside and like his brother, was facing a racketeering indictment at the time he was killed.

Both Spilotros were beaten, stomped and strangled to death inside a Bensenville, Illinois basement on June 14, 1986, after Tony upset his bosses with his troublemaking behavior in Las Vegas, where he was sent to watch over the Midwest mob’s interests in the casino business and became drunk on power. It was Spilotro’s outlandish antics in Vegas that eventually got the mob kicked out of town and led to him and his brother’s brutal murder.

Conrad was often observed by FBI surveillance units visiting the Spilotros in Nevada and Illinois and the Spilotros were seen visiting him in California. The Spilotro brothers grisly execution was depicted in the 1995 film Casino, with Oscar-winner Joe Pesci playing the role of Tony the Ant. Newspaper photographers snapped photos of a terry-eyed and visibly shaken Conrad attending the Spilotros’ funeral.

Due to his friendship with Conrad, Mickey Spilotro ironically got cast in a couple small cop roles, first in the NBC television mini-series “The Duke,” starring Conrad as a Chicago boxer-turned- private investigator and on then on CBS’s widely-popular Magnum P.I. series starring Tom Selleck. Through Conrad, the Spilotros were close to Magnum P.I. co-star Larry Manetti.

Conrad had also aided in Manetti’s start in the acting world. Shortly after befriending Tony Spilotro in Chicago, Conrad moved to L.A. to pursue acting and was soon cast as the lead in the ABC show Hawaiian Eyes about P.I. work on the same island mustachioed Selleck’s Thomas Magnum character would patrol two decades later.

The post Chicago Mob Asset In Hollywood, Spilotro Bros. Buddy, Bob Conrad, Dead At 84 appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 11, 2020 — Philadelphia mob powerhouse Phil Narducci was released from prison this week after an eight-month stay for loan sharking. He was serving his time in New York and as of Monday was on home confinement back in South Philly, per newsbreaker Dave Schratwieser of Fox29, who first reported it on his social media accounts. The 57-year old wiseguy is alleged to oversee his own faction of the Bruno-Scarfo crime family.

Last year, Narducci was indicted by the feds for handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars in juice loans and then physically attacking a debtor who was slow making payment. The assault occurred on the property of his trendy gastropub, Chick’s, on Washington Avenue. He pleaded guilty to extortion last May.

Chick’s is named after his dad, former Philly mafia captain Frank (Chickie) Narducci, who was slain in a 1982 gangland hit. His older brother and fellow button man Frank (Frankie Windows) Narducci, Jr. died of natural causes back in the fall.

Narducci did 25 years behind bars for racketeering and the 1985 mob murder of Frank (Frankie Flowers) D’Alfonso, a conviction he eventually had tossed on appeal and was acquitted of at a retrial. Walking free in 2012, he reportedly returned to “The Life” and began building a powerbase of old allies and independent, eager-to-please youngsters. His co-defendant in his most recent run-in with the law, Jimmy Gallo, told debtors Narducci had killed anywhere between 8 and 14 people in conversations listened in on by Uncle Sam.

According to his January 2019 indictment, Narducci loaned a mob associate with alleged ties to Middle-Eastern Muslim extremist group, $125,000 and when he missed a number of weekly payments, Narducci physically assaulted the victim in October 2018 by throwing him against a wall in his office at Chick’s and pushing his head into a car windshield in the parking lot. Weeks prior Narducci made a gun signal with his right hand while telling him, “This is what happens if you don’t pay.”

Two days later, the victim gave Gallo, 45, an envelope of cash for Narducci. Gallo warned him not to be delinquent again and to be scared of Narducci.

“He’s a killer you fucking idiot, he’s fucking killed 8 people,” Gallo chided.

The intimidation tactics sent the debtor to the FBI. By December, he was wired for sound.

“Stop playing games, (stop) playing with this guy (Narducci),” Gallo yelled at him in a meeting before Christmas. “Ya know when you’re going to care about this? When this guy (Narducci) shows up at your place with a fucking ski mask on, you’re going to say ‘Oh, no’ and that’s going to be the last thing you ever fucking say. And you know what? I don’t care. It’s not my problem. That’s what this guy (Narducci) does. He’s mentioned in 14 fucking murders. I mean, like what’s your problem here? What don’t you understand about this?”

The post Back In A Flash: Phil Narducci Completes Short Prison Term, Philly Mob Capo Returns Home appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 13, 2020 — New Jersey Pagan’s Motorcycle Club boss Tim (Pita) Fowler was recently released from prison after a decade behind bars for plotting to kill rival Hells Angels club leaders. The 51-year old Fowler is a former U.S. Marine and served as president of the Pagan’s Trenton chapter in the 2000s.

It’s unclear what role — if any —Fowler will play in an era where the Pagan’s are actively looking to acquire more territory in his home state.

The Pagan’s national president Keith (Conan the Barbarian) Richter issued the “Blue Wave” initiative two years ago, an expansion edict, per law enforcement memos and press briefings, specifically targeting parts of Northern New Jersey — perceived as Hells Angels turf —, and other parts of the Northeastern U.S. Under Richter’s orders, Pagan’s in the region wear an “East Coast” rocker rather than one that identifies any particular city or state as is customary in most other clubs’ protocol. There have been seven new Pagan’s chapters opened in recent years.

Pita Fowler was indicted in September 2010 in Operation On The Road Again along with one-time New York Pagan’s chapter bosses Jason (Roadblock) Blair and John (J.R.) Ebeling, charged with conspiracy in a plot to firebomb Hells Angels social functions and personal residences. Fowler pleaded guilty in the spring of 2012. Blair and Ebeling used to run “Conan” Richter’s Long Island chapter prior to their incarcerations.

In 2006, Fowler was arrested by authorities in Monmouth County for the kidnapping of a rival biker from a bar in an effort to get him to provide information on the address of a fellow Bandanas MC member who the Pagan’s were in a beef with. Blair, 46, has another four years on his prison sentence. Ebeling, 47, only did five years and got out in early 2015.

The post Pagan’s MC Chief Walks From Prison, NJ Biker Power “Pita” Fowler Back For Club’s Expansion Push appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 14, 2020 — Former Teamsters delegate and Detroit mob associate Chuckie O’Brien died this week at 86 living in retirement in Florida and actively trying to clear his name after decades of most-likely wrongly being implicated in the crime of the century. O’Brien was iconic labor leader Jimmy Hoffa’s surrogate son, for years a top suspect in his famous disappearance and murder and the inspiration for the Tom Hagen character in the book and film, The Godfather.

Author and Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith, O’Brien’s step son, broke the news of O’Brien’s passing on his blog Thursday, writing that he had died of a heart attack. Last year, Goldsmith penned an excellent book titled In Hoffa’s Shadow, making a very strong and compelling case that his stepdad had nothing to do with Hoffa’s death. O’Brien was booted from the Teamsters in the 1980s due to his connections to a number of high-ranking organized crime figures around the country.

Actor Jesse Plemons depicted O’Brien in 2019’s Oscar-nominated movie, The Irishman, with Al Pacino playing Hoffa. The Martin Scorsese-helmed pic was adapted from the book I Heard You Paint Houses, chronicling the relationship shared by Hoffa and Delaware Teamsters boss Frank (The Irishman) Sheeran, who dubiously copped to being the triggerman in the hit in the months before he died of natural causes in 2003 and was portrayed by Robert DeNiro in the film.

Hoffa was slain in a dispute with the very same mobsters who put him in power as president of the monolithic Teamsters union years earlier. The film controversially places O’Brien, albeit unknowingly, right in the middle of the conspiracy to murder Hoffa in Southeast Michigan 45 years ago.

The fiery 62, year old Hoffa disappeared from a suburban Detroit restaurant parking lot on the afternoon of July 30, 1975. His remains have never been found and nobody has ever faced charges in his mythic kidnapping and murder.

O’Brien’s name got dragged into the investigation right away because on the day Hoffa vanished he was in possession of a maroon-colored Mercury Marquis that the FBI believes was used to drive Hoffa to his execution and transport his body to where it was disposed of. The car belonged to Joseph (Joey Jack) Giacalone, the son of Detroit mafia street boss Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone, the man Hoffa was on his way to meet at the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan to try and settle a beef between him and New Jersey mob capo Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, also slated to be present.

The younger Giacalone’s vehicle was seized by federal authorities on August 9, 1975 and is the only piece of physical evidence ever collected in the case. Hoffa’s DNA was traced to the car’s backseat and trunk. Joey Giacalone and O’Brien was close friends and O’Brien admitted to driving the vehicle the day Hoffa was killed, but always steadfastly denied any involvement in the notorious gangland slaying.

While investigators initially considered O’Brien a conspirator in Hoffa’s murder, in recent years, most current and retired FBI agents familiar with the case now dismiss that as a possibility and absolve him of playing a role in the hit. According to Goldsmith’s book, in 2013, the FBI had promised to issue a public statement clearing O’Brien of wrongdoing if he passed a polygraph, however once he did, the statement never came.

O’Brien’s biological father was a Kansas City wiseguy. He moved to Michigan in the 1940s with his mom, mob paramour, Sylvia Pagano, who dated Hoffa, Tony Giacalone and other Detroit hoodlums as well as facilitated the business relationship between Hoffa and the mob which went on to fund the 1960s casino construction boom via the plump Teamster pension fund. Hoffa had O’Brien live with him and his family and brought him into the Teamsters to be groomed. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was very rare to see Hoffa without O’Brien by his side acting as his right hand man.

By the time Hoffa was on the outs with the mob in the 1970s though — following a prison stint for bribery and fraud —, he and O’Brien were on increasingly bad terms, culminating in a 1974 Thanksgiving meal blowout that resulted in the pair cutting off communication. Hoffa had stepped down from being president of the union when he was behind bars and wanted to reclaim his post. As part of his plan to retake the Teamsters, he distanced himself from the mob and shunned O’Brien, refusing to back him for a administrative position in his old Local 299 located in Southwest Detroit.

O’Brien moved to Memphis in the direct aftermath of Hoffa’s murder. Hoffa’s family openly placed blame on O’Brien and told him he was no longer welcome in their home.

When author Mario Puzo was researching the mob for what would become his magnum opus, The Godfather, he came across the story of Hoffa essentially adopting O’Brien and used that narrative to craft the relationship between Godfather characters, Don Vito Corleone and his consigliere and surrogate son, Tom Hagen. O’Brien was also very close with Tony Giacalone, referring to him as “Uncle Tony.” Tony Jack died of kidney failure in 2001, awaiting trial for racketeering.

The post Hoffa Foster Son, Chuckie O’Brien, Dies In Florida Never Officially Being Cleared Of Role In Hoffa Hit appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 15, 2020 — The feds in Detroit took down a drug and prostitution ring on the city’s westside Friday morning, indicting reputed partners-in-crime, Erskin (Evil) Perryman and Elijah (Pops) Goodman. Both men are convicted felons with arrest records dating back decades.

For at least the past four years, the pair have headed a racketeering enterprise, trafficking narcotics, selling guns and pimping women out of a house near the corner of Hazelwood and Rosa Parks Drive, according to Friday’s criminal complaint. Allegations of rape and physical brutality also dot the indictment.

A number of women have told the FBI that Perryman and Goodman beat and sexually assaulted them at the home in question. One of the prostitutes they employed was found dead inside the residence back on December 16, 2019. Perryman and Goodman are scheduled to be arraigned next week.

The post Westside Detroit Drug World Figures, “Evil & Pops,” Arrested For Running House Of Horrors appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 16, 2020 — Federal authorities in Miami filed an extradition order last week looking to take custody of Dominican Republican drug lord Cesar (The Abuser) Peralta, currently jailed in Colombia after a flight from justice and alleged connections to Major League Baseball players. Peralta’s name surfaced in the Boston press last year in theories behind the June 2019 shooting of retired Boston Red Sox great David (Big Papi) Ortiz at a bar in Santo Domingo.

The 45-year old Cesar the Abuser Peralta appeared on the FBI’s Most Wanted List during the several months he was on the run from a February 2019 narcotics-trafficking indictment out of South Florida. Officials consider Peralta the biggest drug kingpin in the Caribbean and the most prominent narcos figure in South America. He was apprehended back in December in Cartagena, Colombia.

While his indictment only cites Peralta for selling five kilos of cocaine, U.S. Treasury documents allege he is responsible for shipping thousands of tons of cocaine and heroin to South Florida wholesale dealers since 2007. Prior to his bust in Florida, he was indicted out of Puerto Rico in November 2018.

Last summer, FBI agents and Santo Domingo police rounded up a number of Peralta associates as well as Octavio Dotel and Luis Castillo, two well-known former MLB stars from the Dominican Republic. Both were cleared of any wrongdoing in the weeks that followed.

Dotel pitched in MLB for 14 seasons, playing for 13 different clubs. Castillo was a Gold-Glove winning infielder who made three MLB All-Star games and was a staple in the Miami Marlins lineup of the 1990s and 2000s.

Big Papi Ortiz is considered a national treasure in the Dominican Republic and is a bona fide sports god in New England, having led the beloved Red Sox to three World Series championships. On June 19, 2019, Ortiz was almost killed, shot in the back as he sat having a drink on the patio of a Santo Domingo nightclub (Dial Lounge) by a man on a motorcycle with ties to Cesar the Abuser. Although initially listed in critical condition in the hospital, Ortiz recovered quickly.

Santo Domingo police issued a statement that the shooting was a case of mistaken identity but others in the media and within Ortiz’s own inner circle have speculated it wasn’t that simple and Peralta may have had a personal beef with Big Papi and ordered a hit on him.

The post Drug Kingpin “Cesar The Abuser” Will Be Headed To South Florida Soon To Face Coke Case appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 20, 2020 — Detroit drug kingpin DeMarco (Polo) Temple was sentenced to 30 years in prison this week in federal court after being convicted in a widespread narcotics and racketeering case. The 31-year old Temple and a dozen underlings were indicted for pushing heroin, cocaine and Fentanyl in the summer of 2016. Authorities consider Fentanyl from the Temple organization, based on Detroit’s east side, responsible for a number of overdoses and at least one death.

Eleven of those indicted in 2016 pleaded guilty, while Temple and his half brother and second-in-charge Kenny (K.O) Sadler went to trial in March 2019 and were found guilty. Sadler was sentenced to 25 years back in the fall. One of those convicted, Temple lieutenant, Haratio (Show Nuff) Heard, was slain in October 2018, just weeks before he was scheduled to report to prison to begin serving his 10-year sentence.

The post Motown Crime Boss “Polo” Temple Will Spend The Next 30 Years Behind Bars appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 23, 2020 — The Chicago Police cleared a 54-year old mob hit recently, officially putting to bed the gangland slaying of former Outfit loan shark Larry Stubitsch. The killing is steeped in Midwest mob lore but until late last year was still considered a cold case by the FBI and CPD.

Although most of the circumstances surrounding the Stubitsch murder have been known for quite a while, the CPD finally closed the case file back in December, as first reported by the Chicago Sun-Times last week. Stubitsch was gunned down by fellow Outfit figure Dickie DeAngelo on the night of September 17, 1966 in front of Bistro A-Go-Go, a one time popular lounge and mob hangout on the Windy City’s Northwest side.

Bistro A-Go-Goby was owned by future Chicago mafia boss Felix (Milwaukee Phil) Alderisio, then a capo and feared hit man in Outfit circles. DeAngelo worked at the establishment and as a collector for Alderisio and had been in a long-standing feud with Stubitsch, who was 29 when he was killed.

Soon thereafter, Milwaukee Phil became boss of the Outfit for a short time before going to prison and then dying behind bars in 1971. DeAngelo died of natural causes in 2007 following years of doing mob dirty work and being employee by the Teamsters union. He was kicked off the Chicago police force in the months preceding the Stubitsch hit.

At the time of his murder, Stubitsch’s partner in a loan sharking business was notorious Chicago mobster Frank (Frankie Breeze) Calabrese. During the Family Secrets trial in the 2000s, Calabrese testified about his knowledge of the Stubitsch hit, which he witnessed. DeAngelo told responding police officers he shot gunned Stubitsch because he was trying to rob the Bistro A-Go-Go.

Calabrese was convicted at the 2007 Family Secrets trial of several Outfit-related murders and died in prison serving a life sentence eight years ago. According to his son, Calabrese was ordered to pay Milwaukee Phil Alderisio $500 a month in tribute for Stubitsch after Stubitsch was slain because the pair was at odds with Alderisio and DeAngelo over juice loan territory.

The post The Bistro A-Go-Go Hit: Book Finally Closed On Famous Chicago Mafia Murder appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 25, 2020 — Police in New Orleans believe revenge was the motive in the New Years Day murder of gang member Chris (C-Boogie) McCann and that his killers were planning on bumping him off since he had gotten out of prison back in the summer, per law enforcement sources in the Big Easy. The exact motive for the slaying is unknown at this time.

The 45-year old McCann was a part of the notorious 3NG Gang and walked out of a ten year prison stint in July 2019. He was busted with 3NG boss Kevin (Slick Black) Hickerson in a 2013 drug, murder and racketeering indictment and had been incarcerated since October 2009 on unrelated charges. McCann himself was not convicted of any acts of violence.

At around 5:30 pm on January 1, McCann was shot to death as he drove on Claiborne Street in what witnesses described as a high speed chase ending with McCann slamming his vehicle into a telephone pole. McCann was released from prison on July 21.

The 3NG crew has been involved in a long standing beef with rival drug gangs dating back to the early 2000s. The beef claimed the lives of New Orleans hip hop stars Soulja Slim and Magnolia Shorty. Soulja Slim was a seminal rap artist for Master P’s glitzy, groundbreaking No Limit Records label. Magnolia Shorty was the “First Lady of Cash Money Records,” and found herself collateral damage of the warfare in 2010 — being in the wrong place at the wrong time when 3NG gunmen sprayed a car belonging to a man 3NG suspected was tied to the 2003 Soulja Slim homicide.

The post LE Sources: Boogie McCann Murder In Big Easy Had Been In Works For Months appeared first on The Gangster Report.

February 26, 2020 — The FBI broke up a Chicago sports gambling ring being run out of Orland Park last week, indicting 10 people for allegedly operating an off shore betting business on the internet. The lead defendant in the case is Vincent (Uncle Mick) Delgiudice. Sources claim the gambling ring paid protection to the Chicago mob.

Two of Delgiudice’s co-defendants stand out from the pack; one is a long-time Chicago cop and the other is the Mayor of a small town in Lake County and the brother of beloved Chicago Bears‘ Hall of Fame linebacker, Brian Urlacher. Chicago policeman Nick Stella, who has been on the force for almost 20 years, and Casey Urlacher, the 40-year old Mayor of Mettawa, Illinois, are charged with acting as “agents” for Delgiudice’s on-line offshore sports book based in Costa Rica, directing bettors to Uncle Mick‘s website in exchange for a piece of their losses.

They all face up to five years in prison if convicted of the gambling counts. Delgiudice could get a 20-year term because he was hit with an additional money laundering charge.

Urlacher was elected Mayor of pint-sized Mettawa in 2013 and then re-elected in 2017. He moved to Illinois with his family in 2000 upon his older brother Brian being drafted by the Bears out of New Mexico.

Casey Urlacher played fullback at Lake Forest College and in the Arena Football League. Brian was an 8-time All-Pro at middle linebacker, captaining the franchise to the Super Bowl in the 2006 campaign and retiring in 2012.

Stella, 42, joined the CPD in 2002. He was placed on “desk duty” back in the spring when word of the federal investigation into his activities reached his superiors. The indictment claims the Delgiudice gambling enterprise raked in millions in proceeds from 2016 until last year.

Delgiudice was caught on an FBI wiretap telling an associate he had more than 1,000 clients betting through him. An April 2019 raid of his residence uncovered 1.1 million in cash and another $500,000 in jewelry and bars of pure silver.

The post Windy City Gambling Ring Cracked Wide Open By Feds, Mayor & Cop Down For The Count appeared first on The Gangster Report.

March 1, 2020 — The son and daughter of The FBI Most Wanted Mexican drug lord Nemesio (El Mencho) Oseguera Cervantes are both in American custody. His son, Ruben (El Menchito) Oseguera Gonzales, 30, was extradited to the United States last month to face narcotics and racketeering charges. His daughter Jessica (La Negra) Oseguera Gonzales was arrested on five counts of a drug trafficking conspiracy last week in Washington D.C. while trying to visit her younger brother in jail.

Federal authorities allege the 33-year old La Negra was giving financial support to a series of legitimate businesses in Mexico, including a pair of sushi restaurants and a tequila company, that her father’s organization uses to funnel drug proceeds through. The DEA estimates that at least one-third of the cocaine, heroin and meth flowing into the U.S. stem from El Mencho’s purview.

El Mencho, 53, is the founder and leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (alternatively known as “CJNW” or just “New Generation”). He spent his formative criminal years in Northern California. His offspring have each pleaded not guilty to the charges pending against them.

The FBI is offering a $10,000,000 reward for El Mencho’s capture. He’s considered the most wanted Narcos boss in the world today. Beginning his career in the international drug world in the now-defunct Milenio Cartel working as an enforcer under the Valencia brothers, who headed the group.

In his capacity as a lieutenant of the Valencias, El Mencho was a liaison to his predecessor as the globe’s most notorious drug kingpin Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman and Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel, being in charge of purchasing and distributing Sinaloa Cartel cocaine in Guadalajara on behalf of the Valencias. When the Milenio Cartel fell apart at the start of the 2010s, El Mencho planting his New Generation flag, moving his base of operations from Guadalajara to Jalisco.

El Chapo is serving a life sentence in a U.S. federal prison after his capture in 2016 following more than a decade on the run and several daring escapes from Mexican detainment centers. He was convicted on a multitude of federal offenses at a highly publicized trial in New York last year.

The post In The Name Of The Father: Feds Snag Narcos Kingpin “El Mencho’s” Kids appeared first on The Gangster Report.

March 3, 2020 — The FBI had a Chicago bar and mob headquarters under surveillance last month when a murder occurred outside the establishment, according to exclusive Gangster Report sources. After the Chicago Police interviewed and released the suspect on February 24, the Feds pushed Cook County prosecutors for homicide charges to be filed, these sources claim.

On Monday, 30-year old Thomas Tansey was charged with murdering Kenny Paterimos in the late-night hours of February 21 on the sidewalk in front of Richard’s Bar on Chicago’s near west side. Richard’s Bar is the longtime nerve center of the Outfit’s Grand Avenue crew, led by reputed Chicago mafia capo and street boss Albert (Albie the Falcon) Vena. Whether or not Tansey has any connection to Vena’s mob crew or if Vena was present at the time of the incident is unclear.

Tansey, who has a history of violent behavior, stabbed Paterimos, 23, to death with a box cutter outside Richard’s Bar at around 11:30 p.m. after an altercation inside the bar was allegedly escalated with a homophobic slur Tansey hurled at Paterimos. Bouncers had tossed Tansey, an ex-Marine, out of the bar minutes earlier. He waited for Paterimos to exit the tavern and then attacked him, according to the arrest warrant. A bloodied Paterimos stumbled back into the bar following being stabbed and collapsed.

As of Monday night, Tansey remained at large. During his initial interrogation by CPD detectives, he told investigators he had stabbed Paterimos in self defense. In 2016, Tansey was convicted of assault out of suburban Arlington Heights and received probation.

Paterimos lived in what is referred to as the Windy City’s West Town neighborhood and was known to frequent Richard’s Bar at the Grand Avenue and Halsted intersection. Friends and family members of Paterimos have scheduled a protest outside Richard’s Bar for Tuesday.

Richard’s Bar and the La Scrola Italian restaurant next door has been the headquarters of the Grand Avenue mob crew since the 1990s when it was run by the legendary Joey (The Clown) Lombardo. Shortly after Lombardo’s arrest in 2006 in the epic Operation Family Secrets, sources claim the diminutive, highly feared Albie Vena, called by some the most dangerous man walking the streets of Chicago today, assumed control of the crew. Lombardo died of natural causes in prison back in October.

Multiple sources say at some point in the past decade, Vena, 71, was promoted to overall street boss of Windy City mob affairs. Grand Avenue crew soldiers and associates are known to carry box cutters for enforcement duties claim sources.

Vena has been the target of a multi-agency investigation into racketeering and a series of cold case gangland murders for the last several years. Reputed Grand Avenue affiliate Bobby Dominic owns the building where Richard’s Bar and La Scrola is located.

The post Mob Hot Spot Was Being Watched By FBI As Homicide Unfolded On Chicago’s Westside appeared first on The Gangster Report.

March 5, 2020 — All eleven people charged in last month’s big-money gambling bust in Chicago pleaded not guilty Wednesday in federal court, including alleged ringleader Vincent (Uncle Mick) Delgiudice and Metawa, Illinois Mayor Casey Urlacher, brother of Chicago Bears’ all-time great Brian Urlacher. The 54-year old Delgiudice lives in Orland Park and according to multiple sources, came up in the bookmaking business in a mob-connected crew linked to the Chicago Outfit’s Southside or Chinatown regime.

Urlacher and veteran Chicago cop Nick Stella, are accused of acting as “agents” for Delgiudice’s on-line offshore sports book based in Costa Rica, directing bettors to Uncle Mick‘s website in exchange for a piece of their losses. According to two sources, the gambling ring paid protection to the mob.

They all face up to five years in prison if convicted of the gambling counts. Delgiudice could get a 20-year term because he was hit with an additional money laundering charge.

Urlacher, 40, was elected Mayor of pint-sized Mettawa in 2013 and then re-elected in 2017. He moved to Illinois with his family in 2000 upon his older brother Brian being drafted by the Bears out of New Mexico.

Casey Urlacher played fullback at Lake Forest College and in the Arena Football League. Brian was an 8-time All-Pro at middle linebacker, captaining the franchise to the Super Bowl in the 2006 campaign and retiring in 2012.

Stella, 42, joined the CPD in 2002. He was placed on “desk duty” back in the spring when word of the federal investigation into his activities reached his superiors. The indictment claims the Delgiudice gambling enterprise raked in millions in proceeds from 2016 until last year.

Delgiudice was caught on an FBI wiretap telling an associate he had more than 1,000 clients betting through him. An April 2019 raid of his residence uncovered 1.1 million in cash and another $500,000 in jewelry and bars of pure silver.

The post “Uncle Mick,” Urlacher’s Baby Bro, Plead Not Guilty In Federal Gambling Case Out Of ChiTown appeared first on The Gangster Report.

March 6, 2020 — The epic Canadian mafia war raging for over a decade hit Hamilton, Ontario in 2017 and shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. Local real estate agent and convicted bookmaker Giorgio Barresi was murdered in his drive way this week, the latest victim in a bloody feud that began in Montreal in the late 2000s and has spread across the country in recent years.

The 42-year old Barresi was gunned down in his Stoney Creek neighborhood Monday morning. Shot in the back of the head, he was pronounced dead at the scene. His wife and children were inside his home when he was killed.

Barresi was connected to the Musitano crime family in his younger days. He pleaded guilty to running a sports book in 1999. Reputed Hamilton mob boss Pasquale (Fat Pat) Musitano was originally indicted in the same case but had the charges dropped.

What role if any Barresi played in current underworld affairs in the Hamilton area is unknown at this time. Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigated Barresi for bookmaking in the mid-2000s, no charges were ever filed though at the conclusion of the probe.

Fat Pat Musitano, 53, survived an assassination attempt last April outside his attorney’s office near Toronto — Musitano was shot four times. Angelo (Big Ange) Musitano, Fat Pat’s younger brother, was slain in his driveway in a May 2017 gangland hit. There have been at least four related homicides tied to the Musitano slaying since, two of them ending the lives of mobbed up realtors.

The Musitano brothers took power by force in 1997 with the murder, John (Johnny Pops) Papalia, a capo in the Buffalo mafia family. They served time in prison for the hit and re-emerged on the streets in 2006. Following the murder of Johnny Pops, the Musitanos aligned with Montreal don Vito Rizzuto, who at that time was affiliated with the Bonanno crime family out of New York City.

The modern day Canadian mob clash can be traced back to Rizzuto’s extradition to the United States in the 2000s to serve a prison term for a 1981 Bonanno clan triple murder depicted in the Al Pacino-Johnny Depp film Donnie Brasco. With Rizzuto away, his mob empire went up in flames, as a number of his main lieutenants joined together to try and oust him from power.

Rizzuto came out of prison and returned to Canada in 2012, escalating the violence against his rivals. He died of an aggressive form of cancer in December 2013, however the violence has yet to cease.

The post And The Beat Goes On: Another Brazen Mob Hit Occurs In Hamilton (ON) appeared first on The Gangster Report.

March 8, 2020 — The leaders of Detroit’s HNIC Gang were sentenced to long terms of federal prison last week. Antoine (HNIC Pesci) Woods was hit with a 31-year bid for heading the westside drug-dealing outfit and his brother Austin (HNIC Killa Ken) Woods, was slapped with a 14-year stint.

The HNIC Gang was dismantled with a 2017 federal racketeering and drug indictment. The Woods brothers were convicted at trial in March 2019. Part of their case stemmed from threats of violence made over social media.

The post No Longer In Charge: Detroit Drug Bosses “HNIC Pesh” & “HNIC Killa Ken” Sent Away To Prison By Federal Judge appeared first on The Gangster Report.