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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'gambino'

May 5, 2008

The NY Post must have a quota of Gotti front pages it must fill each year, because today's big news--according to the Post--is that the Gotti family is fighting over money that may or may not exist. While greed is nothing new to the Gambinos, what does make this story interesting are details of a taped conversation between Gotti's daughter Victoria and "adopted son" Lewis Kasman. Kasman says to Victoria, "Do you realize how f---ed......

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April 10, 2008

Alleged Gambino family consigliere Joseph "Jo Jo" (or "Miserable") Corozzo decided to represent himself in a racketeering trial. Corozzo, 66, told federal Judge Jack Weinstein yesterday, "I would like to represent myself." His son, lawyer Joseph Corozzo Jr., can't represent his father (a potential government witness is a former client), so his father said, "I really don't want Legal Aid." The elder Corozzo was taken in during the February raid of dozens of Gambino crime......

Continue Reading "Gambino Consigliere to be Own Legal Consigliere"

February 26, 2008

The Smoking Gun, via a Freedom of Information Act request, received the last photograph taken of John Gotti, the former Gambino crime family head also known as the Dapper Don or Teflon Don. According to TSG, the photo - a 1"x1" "institution commissary photo" was taken on "October 17, 2001, less than eight months before he died, at age 61" and two years after cancer surgery. Gotti was sentenced to life in prison in 1992,......

Continue Reading "Not That Dapper: John Gotti's Last Photo"

February 11, 2008

If your actions helped lead to what many called the biggest mob bust in two decades, would you be showing your face in the five boroughs for the Five Families to see? Well, Joseph Vollaro, who is supposed to be in witness protection, seems to live life to its very edge, as the Post reports he "brashly strolled into a Staten Island sushi restaurant Saturday night," picking up take-out. Vollaro went to Mizu in Tottenville......

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February 10, 2008

Photograph of arrested mobsters being led by the FBI on Thursday by ~Raymond on Flickr It turns out that Thursday's take down of 62 mob figures, many of them high-ranking members of the Gambino crime family and called the biggest mob bust in decades, was spurred by a Staten Island trucking company owner. Joseph Vollaro, who made a lot of money for the Gambinos, ended up becoming a government informant after being caught in......

Continue Reading "Gambino Bust: The Trucker Who Brought Down the Family; All About Mob Nicknames"

February 8, 2008

Sixty-two men associated with the Gambino, Genovese and Bonanno crime families were arrested yesterday in a federal, state and local coordinated sweep in the New York region. A number of Gambino-related arrests were also made in Italy, and authorities have described this as the biggest mob bust in decades. Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Benton Campbell said, "Our goal is and always has been simple: to dismantle the Gambino organized-crime family in a coordinated and consistent......

Continue Reading "Gambino Family Goes Down in Feds' Mafia Sweep"

February 7, 2008

This morning, federal agents have arrested over 50 members of the Gambino, Genovese and Bonanno crime families in New York City, New Jersey, and Long Island. Authorities are calling this the "biggest mafia bust in more than 20 years." The Post reports the 80-count indictment includes charges of murder, labor racketeering, "racketeering conspiracy, extortion, , theft of union benefits, mail fraud, false statements, loan sharking, embezzlement of union funds, money laundering and illegal gambling." One......

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November 26, 2007

The feds must believe if you try, try, try and fail, fail, fail, you must try again, because it seems they are going to charge John Gotti Jr. with a new set of murder charges. The Post reports "Junior will likely be charged with at least five murders," including a Queens man who Gotti Jr. "allegedly disemboweled" in 1983, using a boxcutter or linoleum knife. And that's not all: Junior allegedly got help from "more......

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