The pic is self-explanatory lol

Be pretty funny if they used the guy's tongue to lick the envelope. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in THAT DNA lab!!

Newsweek
Russia on Course for Deadliest Week in Months: Kyiv

Published Apr 30, 2024 at 11:31 AM EDT
Updated Apr 30, 2024 at 1:06 PM EDT

By Brendan Cole
Senior News Reporter

Russia's daily personnel losses have surpassed 1,000 for the fifth time in the last seven days, according to Kyiv's latest figures.

In its update on Tuesday, Ukraine's Defense Ministry said that Russia had lost 1,250 troops over the previous day, taking the total since the start of the war to approximately 468,720

The latest daily total is the fourth day running that Russian losses have topped four figures, following Kyiv's announcement on Monday of 1,320 the previous day, 1,096 the day before that, and 1,124 on April 27.

Over the past week, the spike in the daily tally, which includes both those killed and injured, follows a push by Russian forces in the Donetsk region, following their capture of the town of Avdiivka in February. It comes as Kyiv awaits the delivery of military assistance approved by U.S. Congress.

According to Kyiv, there were 1,040 Russian casualties on April 25, and the tally over the last week has been 7,660. This is a daily average of 1,094—almost twice the mean of 588 over the entire course of the war, signaling how Russian losses have increased significantly in the latter half of April. In March, the 1,000 daily figure was surpassed nine times, 13 times in February, and only four times in January.

An accurate number of Russian losses in the war is difficult to ascertain with Ukraine's tally higher than other estimates. Moscow has not updated its official number of losses revealed in September 2022 as just under 6,000.

However, a British estimate has come close, with U.K. Secretary of State for the Armed Forces Leo Doherty saying on April 27 that Russia had personnel losses of 450,000, which like the Ukrainian figure, includes those who have been killed or wounded.

Nazar Voloshyn, spokesman for Khortytsia Operational and Strategic Troop Grouping, said on April 25 that 85 percent of Russian losses of personnel and equipment took place in the eastern direction of the front.

In February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian losses totaled 180,000 killed and up to 500,000 wounded as he revealed for the first time that 31,000 of his troops had been killed, although this is believed to be an underestimate.

On April 26, independent Russian media outlet Mediazona, along with BBC Russian, confirmed they had the names of 51,679 Russian soldiers killed in the war, an increase of 1,208 since its last update in mid-April.

The outlets emphasize that the actual figures are likely considerably higher since their figures only come from public sources such as obituaries, social media posts and reports by local authorities. Its tally includes over 3,400 officers, with 395 holding the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Newsweek reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-losses-deadliest-week-1895619

Go thru this

“Keep your eyes on the stars, but your feet firmly on the ground.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Thats called a Bingo! Good job, Lou.

HIGH VOLTAGE
'Ndrangheta in Australia and the fear of a new "war": a murder and two restaurants on fire in Melbourne
On the night of April 30, two rooms were set on fire in just a few minutes. In March, however, the ambush against Latorre. In the background "well-known" Calabrian families and common origins

It is still early to define the contours, investigators, as often happens in these latitudes, prefer caution, but what happened in the north-west of Melbourne on the night of 30 April raised more than one alarm bell. And it couldn't be otherwise considering the episodes that were at least unusual: two restaurants set on fire, one just a few minutes apart. The first to catch fire was “La Porchetta” around 2.30 am. The second, however, was the “Negroni 888” .

The restaurant "La Porchetta", for example, is part of a chain born from the entrepreneurial idea of ??the Calabrian Rocco "Rocky" Pantaleo, who died in 2010 in a car accident. As reported by the local press, Pantaleo began his business in the second half of the '80s together with Felice Nania, investing in a place called "La Porchetta", transforming it in a few years into a real chain of franchised places. The news of recent years, as well as the investigative activities, link the brand to that of another family of Calabrian origins - from Messignadi, a hamlet of Oppido Mamertina - who since 2010, through a subsidiary company, have purchased some company shares .

Full article: https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...-e-due-ristoranti-in-fiamme-a-melbourne/

Springfield (MA) Mob Crew’s ‘Our Gang’ Back Together Again Under New Management, But Same Faces, Lifelong Friendships Remain

Freshly-baptized Ralphie Santaniello and his boys’ return to the forefront of mafia affairs in Springfield (MA) is a reunion of sorts. Coming back with him will be the so-called usual suspects from his longtime inner circle, per sources with intimate knowledge of the situation.

Johnny Cal. Richie the Postman. Lou the Shoe and Frankie the Shark. Gerry D and even Fat Chickie should be making some cameos. In other words, the band is getting back together, minus Big Al, Bingy and The Animal.

Santaniello and his dad, Amedeo, seized power in the Springfield mob crew last week, leading a Genovese crime family-sanctioned mutiny to reclaim the regime back from renegade crew boss Albert (The Animal) Calvanese by taking back control of the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Society Social Club by force. Calvanese, 61, almost died in a horrific car crash earlier this spring and is recovering from breaking both his legs. He’s first cousins with Ralphie Santaniello and is Amedeo’s nephew. Although the Springfield crew has always been a satellite branch of the Genovese crime family, Calvanese never earned an official job appointment from the Westside and instead simply declared he was assuming command sans blessing out of the Bronx.

The Santaniellos ran the Springfield mob crew along with Calvanese in the first half of the 2010s, until Ralphie and most of his loyalists were busted and sent to prison in the summer of 2016 and Amedeo was forced on the shelf, with Calvanese coldly stealing their rackets for himself. Over the past few years, mafia shot callers in New York and Boston became increasingly irritated with Calvanese’s antics, which included allowing outed mob informants and leaders of the Latin Kings to do business on the grounds of the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel club, filing a police protection order to keep the Santaniellos from stepping foot on the property and shunning sit-down requests and

According to sources on both sides of the law, 56-year old Ralphie Santaniello, received induction into the Genovese mob at a recent ceremony in New York and got the Westside’s sign-off of on his and his dad’s power play. Amedeo Santaniello, 85, is firmly back in the good graces of Genovese shot callers and being looked to by them to serve as his son’s pseudo underboss and consigliere in their tasking him with righting the ship in Springfield, these sources allege. The elder Santaniello reportedly angered imprisoned Genovese bosses in the late 2010s regarding a photo he was in with a known cooperator who put several influential and beloved Westside chieftains behind bars for life, but by now has recaptured his status and the faith in him from the powers that be in the Big Apple.

Last Monday morning, the Santaniellos’s men changed the locks and evicted the Calvanese camp from the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel club in Springfield’s South End. Then, on Thursday, local Goodfella Gerry Daniele called a meeting of the club’s roster of due payers and called a vote to allow a changeover of club administration and the Santaniellos to be let back in as members; the Santaniellos were unanimously voted back into the club’s ranks.

Daniele is part of Springfield’s “Our Gang,” the group of old-school Santaniello loyalists lining up back behind them like it’s the 2000s or 2010s all over again. Most of these guys have all known each other since childhood. Per more than five sources, Springfield mob stalwarts, Frank (The Shark) DePergola, Lou (The Shoe) Santos, Richard (Richie the Postman) Valentini and Giovanni (Johnny Cal) Calabrese. are alleged to be part of the Santaniellos’ remodeling plans, a kind of old is new vibe with veterans and smarter-from-past-mistake mobsters eager to help the Santaniellos bring the crew back to esteem for themselves, the city’s underworld pride in general and the bosses in New York for the Genovese clan.

Former bookie and Springfield mob figure David (Fat Chickie) Cecchetelli grew up with Ralphie Santaniello and was present last week when the club changed hands and Daniele successfully proposed Santaniello and his father to have their full-membership rights at the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Club returned to them. Cecchetelli is retired from the mafia life and making a go off it in the film-production and social-media space. The entire group of Western Massachusetts knockaround guys, along with Calvanese, came up in the rackets in the Scibelli brothers and Adolfo (Big Al) Bruno regime of the 1990s and were contemporaries of one-time Springfield mob crew boss Anthony (Bingy) Arillotta, Big Al Bruno’s protege-turned-adversary-and-eventual-successor.

After Arillotta engineered Big Al’s headline-grabbing assassination at the urging of Genovese brass in New York City in the parking lot of the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Club on November 23, 2003 and became a skipper at just 33 years old, he filled his crew’s top spots with his boyhood pals. Ralphie Santaniello was his right-hand man and Calvanese, his No. 1 loan shark and collector. “Lou the Shoe and “Fat Chickie” were his main bookmakers and Amedeo Santaniello and “Frankie the Shark” DePergola were his primary advisers, sounding boards and go-betweens with the New York mob. The Geas brothers (Freddy & Ty) were Arillotta’s most-trusted enforcers and Valentini, Calabrese and Daniele reported directly to the Santaniellos, according to federal-court filings and FBI records.

DePergola, 67, was Big Al Bruno’s driver and was with him when he was killed. Upon Arillotta flipping and the Geas getting locked up for facilitating the Bruno hit, both DePergola and Ralphie Santaniello were nominated for getting their respective buttons. Right before he cut his deal with the government, Arillotta suspected Lou the Shoe, a slick Dominican-born sports-gambling lieutenant, was talking to the feds and put a $10,000 murder contract on his head that’s wheels never got into motion. Calvanese’s decision to allow “Bingy” Arillotta, 55, to return to the Western Mass region and back into the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Club following his release from prison to record a podcast interview made waves in New York City and Boston and was at least partially related to his ouster, per a number of sources with intimate knowledge of the situation.

Thanks a lot @G and I really appreciate it. Lots of haters these days but thats good, since that gives us even more energy to deal with those "devils" with the help of facts and hard work. The thing these guys hurts the most is "free". Thats the antidote. Cheers

'Spanish police make a link between suspected Dutch woman and Taghi's group'
May 1, 2024

The 27-year-old Dutch woman who was arrested in the Netherlands for her involvement in the failed assassination attempt on Spanish politician Alejandro Vidal-Quadras maintained contacts with Dutch-Moroccan criminals in the Netherlands, anonymous police sources told Spanish media .

Checking accounts
The National Police tracked down the woman by examining suspects' payment accounts and images on security cameras in Madrid. She is said to have carried out reconnaissance near the politician's home in Calle Núñez de Balboa in Madrid, where the attack took place on November 9.

Brother
The woman knew the brother of Ayari Mehrez, the suspected shooter of Tunisian descent who is on the run. This Mehrez is also said to have been involved in assassination attempts on Iranian dissidents in the Netherlands. He is also linked by the sources of the Spanish newspaper to the group around Ridouan Taghi. But these sources cannot say what that relationship would look like.

It is certain that the police in the Netherlands believe that Naoufal “Noffel” F., who was sentenced to life in prison for directing the liquidation of an Iranian in Almere , was included in Taghi's group.

Engine
According to Spanish police, the suspicious woman sent money to other members of the conspiracy. This would include purchasing the motorcycle with which the shooter was transported and which was found burned out shortly afterwards. The money has also been used to provide temporary housing to people in Madrid.

Spanish authorities had issued a European arrest warrant months ago. A few days ago the woman was arrested in Amsterdam, according to Spanish media, according to Algemeen Dagblad in Den Bosch. She lived in hiding because she knew the police were after her.

Venezuela
The National Police in Spain arrested three suspects shortly after the attack: a young man in Mijas who owned the motorcycle, and two others in Lanjarón (Córdoba). One of the latter is Naraya Gómez and his wife. This woman was released shortly after the arrest.

The other suspect is Venezuelan Greg Oliver Higuera Marcano, alias “Maquia”. He was arrested in Colombia while trying to get to Venezuela. The police believe he directed the execution. Marcano knew the suspect from Granada from a hotel on the Costa del Sol where they had worked together.

Brain
The mastermind behind the attack, who should also have had contact with the principals, was, according to Spanish police sources, a Moroccan identified as Sami Bekal Bounouare, nicknamed “Pacho”. He is also currently on the run.

https://www.crimesite.nl/spaanse-po...te-nederlandse-vrouw-en-groep-van-taghi/

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Thats correct, MS.

The ”Chicago expert" claimed there was not enough background info available to compose a worthwhile biography on Dominick Nuccio. Yet, we accomplished it with flying colors. So It appears, after all is said and done, that the “Chicago expert” may not be the expert he'd like everyone to think he is after all.