The Animal’s Kingdom: Govt. Has Springfield (MA) Mobster In Crosshairs, Crony...
The feds in Western Massachusetts are breathing down the neck of reputed Springfield mob crew boss Albert (The Animal) Calvanese. One of the Calvanese’s alleged lieutenants Anthony Scibelli was...
View ArticleThe Lights Go Out In Chitown: Outfit Soldier Chuckie Russell Succumbs To Cancer
August 20, 2019 — Cancer-stricken Chicago mafia enforcer Charles (Chuckie the Electrician) Russell didn’t make it to his sentencing in federal court on weapons violations. The 70-year old mob heavy...
View ArticleRibbing & Running In A Fast Crowd: Detroit Eatery Closes Down, Had Pistons,...
August 21, 2019 — The Bad Boys hung there after games, toasting their championship success among adoring fans. Another group of bad boys were often on the scene as well. After being a Metro Detroit...
View ArticleHustle Or Die: Pleas Keep Piling Up As Four Corner Hustlers Trial Approaches...
August 22, 2019 — Another member of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang pleaded guilty to a federal drug and murder indictment this week, shedding one more co-defendant for an upcoming pair of trials...
View ArticleThe Pride Of Youngstown: Mob Busting Mayor Pat Ungaro Put To Rest In Ohio
In some circles of working class Ohio, they called him “Saint Pat,” for the sense of pride he re-instilled in a community of suddenly shuttered factories and mills being ravished by gangland...
View ArticleDetroit Native Waiting To See Jury Again In North Carolina Says He’s No Drug...
Rudy Coles wants people to know he’s getting a raw deal. The 63-year old Detroiter is being held in a North Carolina prison on drug charges, awaiting a second trial. Last December, Coles had a...
View ArticlePhilly Mob Boss Skinny Joey’s Bodyguard Has Capo Uncle In The NY Mafia
August 29, 2019 – This week’s Gangland News column sheds new light on the young buck recently let into Philadelphia mafia chief Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino’s inner circle. According to the Dean of...
View ArticleFour Corner Hustlers Trial In Chicago Left With One Defendant To Face Jury
With this week’s plea deal cut by Keith (Lil’ Keith) Chatman, next month’s Four Corner Hustlers federal drug and racketeering trial in Chicago will only have a single defendant. Chatman, a suspect in...
View ArticleHustling With Muscle: The Ripple Effects Of 2012 Snoopy Green Slaying In...
August 31, 2019 — The murder of Four Corner Hustlers affiliate Dominique (Snoopy) Green in Chicago in the summer of 2012 set off a violent chain reaction. Snoopy Green was the brother of Four Corner...
View ArticleBreaking The Seal By Breaking An Oath: Philly Don Natale Was First Boss To...
Behind bars and abandoned by his men, embattled Philadelphia mob don Ralph Natale became the first official American mafia boss to flip when he cut a deal with the feds 20 years ago this month. In...
View ArticleThe Rolling Stones Vs. The Hells Angels: Mick Jagger Dodged Murder Contract...
The Rolling Stones’ famous frontman Mick Jagger narrowly avoided being killed in a dispute with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in the 1970s, according to a new podcast interview with former Hells...
View ArticleHoffa Tipster Dies, Detroit Dope Peddler Pointed Feds Towards Hidden Dreams...
They never found Jimmy Hoffa on his tip, nonetheless it earned him his freedom. Convicted drug dealer Don Wells, 88, died of natural causes last week in Detroit, 13 years after his debriefing with the...
View ArticleD.C. Street Legend Looking For Time-Served Nod, Feds Want Him To Do Another...
Federal prosecutors specified their sentence- reduction request for notorious Washington D.C. drug boss Rayful Edmond this week, asking U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan to change Edmond’s life...
View Article“Supreme” McGriff Movie Starring Jamie Foxx In Pipeline For Former Murder,...
Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx will play fabled New York drug kingpin Kenny (Supreme) McGriff in a future movie according to the Gotti brothers, Irv and Chris, former owners of the Murder, Inc. hip hop label...
View ArticleA Big Gesture From Behind Bars: BMF’s Big Meech Hosts Back-To-School Bash
September 15, 2019 — From his federal prison cell in Portland, former drug kingpin Demetrius (Big Meech) Flenory organized a back-to-school giveaway for kids in his hometown of Detroit over the...
View ArticleLast Of Four Corner Hustlers Pleads Out Of Trial In Chicago, Tito Sims Set To...
September 16, 2019 – The feds scored a clean sweep last week in Chicago, as Four Corner Hustlers street gang lieutenant Stevon (Tito) Sims pleaded guilty to racketeering and drug charges, concluding...
View ArticleDetroit Mobbing On The Water: Boat Rackets & Bad Bosses
Below is an excerpt from Detroit gangster-turned-author Alan (Gunner) Tocco Lindbloom’s popular Lindbloom Chronicles, a series of blogs about his life in the mob back in the 1990s and early 2000s. I...
View ArticlePhilly Mob Associate To Try His Luck At Trial, Merlino Pal Won’t Plead Out
September 18, 2019 — Philadelphia mafia bookie and reputed flim-flam man Stephen Sharkey will take his fraud case to trial, per Fox29’s Dave Schratwieser, a longtime leading authority on gangland...
View ArticleBob Cousy & The Mob: NBA MVP Cozied Up To Massachusetts Mafia
According to FBI records, retired Boston Celtics star point guard Bob Cousy had social relationships with powerful east coast mobsters Jerry Angiulo and Frank (Frankie Sky Ball) Scibelli during and...
View ArticleOpening Up The Books: Philly Mafia Figure’s 2010 Wedding Wasn’t What It...
September 21, 2019 — The FBI believes Philadelphia mobster Anthony Staino’s 2010 wedding doubled as an induction ceremony for new members of the Bruno-Scarfo crime family, part of a pattern by the...
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