Why, on the cold cobblestone streets of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn of course. Only blocks away from where the likes of Frankie Ioele, Al Capone, Albert Anastasia, Joe Gallo and Gaspipe Casso once roamed.
“You haven't understood, or rather you don't want to understand, what Corleone means. You are judging honest gentlemen whom the Carabinieri and the police reported on a whim . We want to warn you that if even one gentleman from Corleone is convicted , you will be blown up , you will be destroyed, you will be slaughtered as will your family members ... now all you have to do is be judicious!"
Polito's so-called extortion was him getting angry that a bettor who was given credit was not paying up. He did not go into a business and tell someone they had to pay him money or else--that is what extortion laws were meant for.
Capeci and a few in law enforcement are really out for Polito, especially their flunky Gerry Capeci. I noticed Capeci started writing more and more about Polito thookie D;Urso. Then it was revealed a book is coming out by the FBI agent who handled D'Urso. I bet Gangland will be covering this story.
Capeci has written lovingly about D'Urso, including astray last year of how brave and tough he was. The book was supposed to come out last year, then the release was pushed back till November, Then it was delayed again, with one author (A former prosecutor) dropping out. Polito did time for a murder the turned out to be innocent of, yet Capeci keeps trying to spin it that he is out on a technicality, I think a combination of trying to place a rat, help and FBI agent with his book, and get back at a guy they framed (As if that is his fault) all contribute to the book push.
Capeci also calls Politos former co-defendent , who sued for wrongful conviction and won, a "Genovese Mafia gangster) even though there is not indication of that. The book, if it ever comes out is also going to have D'Urso claiming a female FBI agent fired him to have sex over a long period of time.
Emanuele Libero Schiavone, Sandokan's son, is released from prison and returns to Casal di Principe
Emanuele Libero Schiavone has served his sentence and has been released . This is the son of the newly repentant Francesco Schiavone, known as Sandokan, and Giuseppina Nappa . Emanuele left prison and has been back in Casal di Principe . The son found his brother Ivanhoe while Carmine remain in prison, Sandokan's wife, Giuseppina Nappa, is not in Casal di Principe. Emanuele had been in prison since 2012, after a 12-year prison sentence for mafia association and extortion.
Two of his brothers also started a path of collaboration with justice with their father: Nicola and Walter. Before Sandokan, his first-born son Nicola decided to repent in 2018, then his second son Walter in 2021.
It's very rare a powerful guy from the Traveller community speaks out.
Ferry Bouman pales in comparison to the real Janus April 17, 2024
“The Little One” was the international nickname of Janus van Wesenbeeck. He is small in stature, but became one of the largest drug traffickers in Europe. Character Ferry Bouman from the Netflix series Undercover is just an excerpt, you could conclude from the book “ Drug Baron ” by crime journalist Vico Olling. The reality of the laconic violence, shootings and the brightly colored camper life in the book leaves Undercover pale.
Van Wesenbeeck (1961) is given ample opportunity to speak in the book.
His story is synchronous with important developments in the history of Dutch caravan residents. With the Caravan Act of 1968, the government wanted to concentrate and control the “travellers”. Large camps such as the Doolplein in Eindhoven were the result. This is where Janus was raised and was taught the norms and values. There are more of these in the microcosm of the caravan world than the ordinary citizen can imagine.
Many “Kampers” chose to earn a living independently. In the words of Van Wesenbeeck:
Travelers first started with waste paper, rags and iron. Everyone turned their noses up at that trade, except us. Until the government took that away. That's when we started the used car business. That has also been taken away. That's when we got into weed. They took that away from us too. Yes, and then we got into hard drugs.
Hammering away Van Wesenbeeck tells many stories from the past, where it is striking that from an early age the men in Janus' world have been quick to take action if something does not please them.
He calls drug trafficking 'an addictive game' that has 'literally cost him a lot of free time'.
Prosecutor Lombardo: "'Ndrangheta, Camorra and Cosa Nostra included in the world economic system" From Iacchite-April 17, 2024
“Drugs may leave no traces, money certainly leaves them” is the phrase that Giovanni Falcone loved to repeat regarding investigations into drug trafficking, before he was killed on May 23, 1992 together with his wife Francesca Morvillo and the police agents. escort Antonio Montinaro, Rocco Dicillo and Vito Schifani . The Palermo magistrate had already understood then that the shortest way to get to the mafia was to follow the "trail" of the money, checks and financial documents, thus revealing connections and exchanges of interests between the mafia, politics and the economy. With globalization and a financial universe that has gradually expanded, the mafia's horizon has also become increasingly market-oriented and projected into an increasingly international logic and, also thanks to the crisis, capable of infiltrating every sector.
Just a few years ago, in an information from the Reggio Calabria Flying Squad attached to the documents of the trial against the gangs of Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte resulting from the "Eyphemos" operation, it emerged as men of 'Ndrangheta, Camorra and Cosa Nostra wanted to launder 136 billion euros thanks to the help of a broker , Roberto Recordare , under investigation for mafia association and money laundering. A person capable, in his own words (as captured in wiretaps), of circulating funds for 500 billion euros. Money that could represent the tip of an iceberg. Because the question that arises spontaneously is simple: how many brokers are available to the mafias, used to launder dirty money?
We have discussed this point several times with the deputy prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Lombardo , who today, interviewed by Lavialibera , the magazine of Libera and Gruppo Abele , once again highlighted the strength of the 'Ndrangheta and the other mafias precisely from a financial perspective capable of also exploiting the pandemic emergency.
According to the magistrate, like the other mafias, the 'Ndrangheta is also in a waiting phase, avoiding sensational initiatives. Then, "when the contagion numbers are clearer and the emergency phase tends to wane, then we will try to understand which economic scenarios will emerge in Italy and abroad" . “The mafia analysts – he further explained – on behalf of the large criminal organizations, will be called upon to identify the most attractive production sectors, into which to inject the enormous dirty capital that the overall mafia system has at its disposal. The leaders will plan, without a shadow of a doubt, the most massive financial doping operation generated by mafia capital that recent history can remember, capable of destabilizing large swathes of the legal economy". According to the deputy prosecutor of Reggio, at this particular moment, the mafias will operate in order to strengthen their "social role" with initiatives that will go well beyond the granting of "user loans".
The reference is to the work of the high mafia which "will adopt strategies aimed at two main objectives. In the short term it will guarantee forms of survival for categories that have no other financial parachutes (I am thinking of the large sections of the underground, irregular or unsecured economy), obviously not wasting the opportunity to broaden the basis of social consensus among the beneficiaries of aid. The second objective will, however, be medium-long term: the large mafias will aim to consolidate, in a phase of very limited global liquidity, their role as indispensable components of the global economic and financial system". “The biggest risk – he added, raising an alarm – is represented by the attempt by the large mafias to take advantage of the global crisis and the ever-creeping corrupt practices to carry out the never-abandoned project of creating a banking system parallel to the legal one, aimed at providing liquidity no longer to the entrepreneur, but to the broader financial system that channels resources towards large businesses”.
Finally he concluded: “When the emergency is over, the mafia criminal system will try to stabilize its role in the changed global economic scenario. That will be the moment in which the monitoring activity of all suspicious financial transactions will be strengthened, given that the 'Ndrangheta will no longer aim only to acquire the hidden management of companies, but will seek, more than in the past, to strengthen its presence in the management of essential services, extending from waste disposal and the cement cycle to the credit sector, the healthcare sector, medical supplies or, more generally, basic necessities" .
By this time you guys know what Malavita meant by, “You know the drill.”
So, here’s the challenge.…The eight hoodlums listed below each had the nickname “Nose” or a variation thereof. Seven were connected to various NYC Families. One was with the Chicago Outfit.
Your job is to identify each man by listing his REAL “first and last name” and matching the (letter) of his nickname with the corresponding (number) of the state he was affiliated with. For instance, you could say C-2, and his real name was Frank Russo.
Have at it fellas. Let’s see how many guys you can knock down.
A) Larry Nose B) Mikey Nose C) Big Nose Sam D) Tony the Nose E) Big Nose Mike F) Chris the Nose G) Big Nosed Larry H) Tony Nose
First we'll be delving into the life of a top Detroit Family capo. Next, we'll be moving onto one of their lesser known, but very active, soldiers...Coming next week
Drug Barons Can’t Be Trademarked, EU Court Tells Escobar Brother Tiffany Tsoi, Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) -- Pablo Escobar, the name of the late Colombian drug kingpin, can’t be registered as a trademark in the European Union after judges said that approving his brother’s bid would go against “principles of morality.”
The public “associate that name with drug trafficking and narco-terrorism and with the crimes and suffering resulting therefrom, rather than with his possible good deeds in favor of the poor in Colombia,” the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg said on Wednesday.
Trademarking the name is “counter to the fundamental values and moral standards prevailing within Spanish society,” the court said.
Escobar’s brother, Roberto de Jesús Escobar Gaviria, applied to register “Pablo Escobar” as an EU trademark for goods and services with the European Union Intellectual Property Office in 2021. He founded Escobar Inc. in 2015, a company which currently sells cryptocurrency “Escobar cash” on its website.
In the past, the company has been accused of selling mobile phones that were never delivered to customers.
Catania, mafia and corruption in the municipality of Tremestieri: 11 arrests, the deputy governor of Sicily Luca Sammartino suspended
Sammartino is vice president of the Region and leader of the League. The mayor, a former opponent under house arrest, was arrested
The Carabinieri of the provincial command of Catania are executing a precautionary measure order against 11 people including political exponents, municipal officials and entrepreneurs accused, in various capacities, of political-mafia electoral exchange, extortion aggravated by the mafia method, aggravated corruption, incitement to corruption and disturbed freedom of auctions.
Among those arrested was the mayor of Tremestieri Etneo, Santi Rando. His political opponent, Mario Ronsisvalle, later his ally, was under house arrest. The vice president of the Region and leader of the League Luca Sammartino has been suspended from public duties for a year.
The investigation, coordinated by the District Prosecutor's Office of Catania and conducted by the Catania investigative unit between 2018 and 2021, shed light on illicit agreements between some administrators of the municipality of Tremestieri Etneo and elements close to the "Santapaola-Ercolano" mafia gang, concerning the election in 2015 of the current mayor Santi Rando, recipient of pre-trial detention in prison for political-mafia electoral exchange and aggravated corruption
Did Rocco have to die? What would our take be as to why Rocco was killed off? It didn't morph into anything
Rocco was the only one of Michael's men who didn't return -- died on a successful job [I am in the minority! that killing Roth need not have been a suicide mission at all. Rocco had no escape plan whatsoever]
Don't know why Rocco was killed off? True didn't morph into anything
I too reckon killing Roth need not have been a suicide mission at all. He was like a deer caught in headlights, having no escape plans whatsoever
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