Lucchese family hit with sweeping indictments 34 arrested

Posted By Mafia News On May 17, 2010 - 2 responses

Authorities in New Jersey have hit the Lucchese crime family with sweeping indictments. Thirty Four reputed members and associates of the Lucchese family have been charged with racketeering and multiple other crimes as part of an ongoing operation they called “Operation Heat”. The operation stretches all the way back to 2007 mainly targeting a 2.2 [...]

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Billion Dollar Camorra Mafia Clan Bust in Italy

Posted By Mafia News On April 8, 2010 - No Comments

Italian police have made a major move against the Camorra organized crime organization in Naples. In an operation that the Italian police have named “Nemesis” over 200 officers were used to raid multiple properties owned by the Casalesi Clan of the Camorra one of the most powerful clans within the criminal organization. Seized was property [...]


Genovese Capo Arillotta’s defection prompts search for missing body

Posted By Mafia News On April 7, 2010 - No Comments

As the fallout continues over the decision of Anthony Arillotta a capo in the Genovese crime family to turn rat the Fed’s are now literally digging deeper. The Fed’s have now begun to search for the body of an Arillotta associate named Gary D. Westerman who disappeared just before the mafia hit on Adolfo “Big [...]


Junior Gotti eyeing Book , Documentary, and full feature film

Posted By Mafia News On April 5, 2010 - No Comments

Looks like John “Junior” Gotti is ready to tell his story and tell it to the whole world. Junior Gotti is considering doing a documentary film , a book , and even a full feature film on his life and the Gambino crime family. Gotti who was once the head of the Gambino crime family [...]


Genovese mobster turns Rat ?

Posted By Mafia News On April 2, 2010 - No Comments

Seems as if a rare occurrence in the world of the New York Mafia has happened this week a Genovese Crime Family member has turned rat. There have only been 3 Genovese family members to turn on the family since Joe Valachi did it almost 50 years ago. The Genovese have long been one of [...]


Rat surfaces in Persico-Garofalo extortion case

Posted By Mafia News On March 31, 2010 - No Comments

Reputed Colombo crime family mobsters are once again finding out that the rat’s are everywhere. In whats being called the Tall Guy’s Case where Edward “Tall Guy” Garofalo Jr , Michael Persico, Theodore “skinny” Persico Jr , and others are being indicted on extortion scheme’s involving the removal of debris from Ground Zero the Fed’s [...]


Las Vegas Mafia Museum unveils several exhibits

Posted By Mafia News On March 29, 2010 - No Comments

The Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement is set to open its doors in mid 2011. The museum’s opening is highly anticipated by many as it covers a theme of great interest to many of the American public as mobsters and the mafia have always been a vastly interesting subject. The creative [...]


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