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Fact Check: Rumors Say Real-Life Mob Got Involved in Making of 'The Godfather.' Here's What We Found
Snopes via Yahoo News· 1 day agoGetty Images Claim: Real members of the Mafia were involved in the making of 1972 film "The...
Former U.S. mafia member will share his story on UK tour
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMichael Franzese was a high ranking member of the Italian-American Colombo crime family before he...
DOJ: Jim Biden associate conspired with alleged mafia boss to defraud Medicare
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 month agoProsecutors said a business associate of Jim Biden conspired to defraud Medicare alongside an...
Mobster and drug gang killer ordered released by federal judge: ‘I am letting two murderers...
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwo convicted killers — including mob capo Anthony Russo, who ordered murders during the bloody Colombo crime family civil war — are being released from prison by a federal judge. Russo and ...
Jailed New York mobster has ‘no regrets’ about topless photo that led to arrest
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe photograph of DiMatteo in a Florida pool that revealed the wanted man's location A notorious New...
Reputed Colombo consigliere pleads guilty to racketeering, money laundering
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA high-level Colombo crime family leader pleaded guilty Thursday to federal racketeering and money laundering charges. Reputed mob consigliere Ralph DiMatteo, 68, stood in Brooklyn Federal Court ...
Elderly mafia boss, 86, gets short sentence in union shakedown due to age
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAn elderly mafia underboss charged in a union extortion scheme caught a break because of his age when a Brooklyn judge sentenced him to 15 months in prison Monday. Benjamin “The Claw” Castellazzo ...
Reputed NYC mob boss pleads guilty in Queens union shakedown
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAn ailing crime family capo pleaded guilty on Friday to charges related to a union shakedown in Queens and threats on a labor leader’s life. So entrenched was Vincent Ricciardo in the labor ...
Reputed mobster gets four years in prison for extorting NYC labor union
Associated Press via AOL· 2 months agoA Mafia member was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in federal prison for his role in a long-running scheme in which he and others extorted funds from a New York City labor union, ...
Tony Sirico, Paulie Walnuts on ‘The Sopranos,’ Dies at 79
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTony Sirico, the actor known for playing mobster Peter Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri on “The...