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NY Feds Indict 14 Tied to Gambino Crime Family

(April 20) -- The New York feds came crashing down on the Gambino crime family today, indicting 14 members and associates -- including one of the top bosses -- on charges ranging from murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking to tampering with the 1992 jury of then-boss John Gotti. The 23-count indictment alleges...

Would Stymied Gotti Prosecutors Try (Try, Try, Try, Try) Again?

(Nov. 20) -- Legally, there's no limit. But all the same, prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York working the case of mobster John Gotti Jr. must be wondering: When a defendant gets off thanks to repeated mistrials, how many times can you retry him before it's time to concede defeat? Gotti's ongoing trial,...

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At Last, Some Decency on Wall Street

By the time you read this, the PR hacks of Goldman Sachs will be vigorously pressing their efforts to destroy the reputation of whistle-blower Greg Smith, a former Goldman executive director whose exposÃ© in Wednesday's New York Times Op-Ed page was so devastating that the 143-year-old firm might actually, finally, be held...

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10/08/11 Mexico Captures Alleged 'Zeta Killers' Source: FOX - KTTV 2 - Detroit MI The Mexican navy said Friday it captured eight alleged members of a drug-cartel death squad dubbed the Zeta Killers that is suspected in the killings of at least 67 people in the past two weeks in the strategic Gulf of Mexico port city of Veracruz.
06/29/11 New England Mafia is weakened but still pursued Source: Sify The New England organized-crime landscape that's taken shape since James "Whitey" Bulger (BUHL'-jur) went on the lam 16 years ago is a shell of its former self.
03/29/11 When the Family Secrets are Incriminating Source: Elmhurst College - Elmhurst IL As a young man, Frank Calabrese Jr. yearned to win his father's approval.
01/21/11 Papers sealed in suit alleging coverup by prosecutor Source: NorthJersey.com - Hackensack NJ A Superior Court judge has sealed all documents in the lawsuit of a former state investigator who alleges that his bosses squelched an investigation into possible corruption among high-ranking members of a prosecutor's office â apparently the one in Bergen County.