Surgically Removed From The Equation: The Man Who Organized Hit Attempt On...
March 29, 2022 — The head of the hit squad dispatched by Dominican Republic drug kingpin Cesar (The Abuser) Peralta to kill retired MLB superstar, David Ortiz back in the summer of 2019 was slain last...
View ArticleDetroit Businessman Robert Carmack Denied Ability To Give His Mom Proper...
March 30, 2022 – The disturbingly bitter personal and legal feud between the City of Detroit and Downriver businessman Robert Carmack has once again veered into unnecessarily vindictive behavior. This...
View ArticleRedemption Alley In The D: The Boxer, The Fall & The Frame-Up At The Historic...
April 1, 2022 — The first time former pro fighter Darrell Chambers walked back into a boxing gym after nearly three decades away behind bars serving federal prison time for drug trafficking was an...
View ArticleThe Fugitive In Florida: Rochester Mob Hit Man “Trigger Dom” Taddeo Ditches...
April 2, 2022 — With less than a year left to spend in a halfway house, Rochester (NY) mafia enforcer Dominic (Trigger Dom) Taddeo, has escaped and is on the run as a fugitive. It’s a status he’s not...
View ArticleBig Vic DeLuca Bound For 10 Piece In Prison, Philly Mafia Strong Arm’s...
April 2, 2022 — Already in the can for narcotics trafficking, Philadelphia mob enforcer Victor (Big Vic) DeLuca was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for drugs and racketeering. The sentences run...
View ArticleThe Rochester Mafia Rubout Hit List: The Alphabet Wars & More Of The Greatest...
The mafia in Rochester, New York, sometimes referred to as the Valenti crime family, no longer exists. It died out in the late 1990s from attrition, infighting and incarceration, an apt ending for a...
View ArticleBattle Of The Dead Dons: Colombo Mob Underboss Sonny Franzese Thought Boss...
April 4, 2022 – According to the new book, Sonny: The Last of The Old Time Mafia Bosses by S.J. Peddie, the New York Daily News isn’t the only one to think historic New York mob don Carmine (The Snake)...
View ArticleWeek In Paradise Ends In Handcuffs: U.S. Marshals Find Escaped NY Mob...
April 5, 2022 — Rochester (NY) mob hit man Dominic (Trigger Dom) Taddeo is back in custody of the BOP after a week on the run as a fugitive. The 64-year old Taddeo never returned to his Orlando halfway...
View ArticleThe Sonny Franzese Murder Timeline: Colombo Mob Underboss Connected To Glut...
New York mafia legend John (Sonny) Franzese is a man linked to dozens of gangland slayings; some he carried out, some he ordered, some were sanctioned by his rivals to hurt him. Here are some of the...
View ArticleFeds Take Possession Of Fat Cat Nichols After NY Paroles Him, Iconic Queens...
April 8, 2022 — Murderous New York drug lord Lorenzo (Fat Cat) Nichols could be a free man in just four years or less. Having cooperated with the government, Nichols, who has been incarcerated for the...
View ArticleCadillac Frank Was Unlucky In His Foray Into Black Market Art Scene, Boston...
April 9, 2022 — Former New England mob don Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme tried arranging for the sale of the stolen masterpieces from the famous Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery, but never...
View ArticleKilling Fields Of New England: The Cadillac Frank Salemme Murder Timeline...
During New England mafia don Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme’s reign as boss of the Patriarca crime family, bodies dropped frequently. Salemme, who emerged from a decade and a half prison term in 1987...
View ArticleOne Of The Last Of The Mohicans In The Ohio Mafia, “Billy D” DiLeno Made His...
April 13, 2022 — Longtime Cleveland mafia figure William (Billy D) DiLeno died of natural causes last week. C-Town’s own “Billy D” was 84 and beloved for his humor and compassion. According to FBI...
View ArticleThe Blaze Of Glory: Legendary Detroit Crime Chief Henry Marzette’s Passing In...
April 14, 2022 — The death of Detroit drug boss Henry (Blaze) Marzette 50 years ago this week quelled a multi-year heroin war on the city’s Eastside and brought an end to the reign of Motown’s first...
View ArticleThe Brittany Murphy Revenge Murders That Never Happened: FLA-By-NJ Mobster...
April 15, 2022 — Brittany Murphy’s gangster dad, Angelo (A.J.) Bertolotti, took out a murder contract on his famous-actress daughter’s husband Simon Monjack after Murphy died of a drug overdose and...
View ArticleBlack Caesar Vs. The New York Mafia: When The Genovese Mob Tried Ripping Off...
April 18, 2022 — Genovese crime family affiliates tried robbing legendary African-American drug lord Frank (Black Caesar) Matthews back in 1973 and almost got one of their associates killed in the...
View ArticleThe Meeting Of The Mob Bosses: NYC Don Mush Russo & Philly Godfather Natale...
April 22, 2022 — After earning the support of the Genovese and Gambino crime families to lock down his ascent to the Philadelphia mob throne in 1994, former Bruno-Scarfo crime family boss Ralph Natale...
View ArticleThe Lenny Senibaldi Sit-Down That Wasn’t: Boston Mob Don “Cadillac Frank”...
April 23, 2022 — Future New England mafia boss Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme arrived at the International House of Pancakes in Saugus, Massachusetts on the morning of June 16, 1989 expecting a...
View ArticleYou Do Not Want To See This Man On Your Doorstep: Springfield (MA) Mob Figure...
April 24, 2022 — Longtime Springfield (MA) mafia enforcer Rex Cunningham is once again in a pinch with Uncle Sam for alleged extortion. Cunningham, 71, pleaded not guilty this past week to state...
View ArticleArrest Made In Mexican Mafia’s 2021 “Lil’ Man” Ortiz Murder, Ex-La Eme...
April 26, 2022 — Police arrested alleged La Eme hit man Cesar Palomino for the November 19, 2021 murder of black-balled Mexican Mafia soldier Donnie (Lil’ Man) Ortiz earlier this month. After dodging...
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