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POLL: Best Mafia Nickname of Suspects Arrested by the FBI Today

If you're writing a screenplay for a movie about the mob, and you're having a tough time coming up with nicknames your mafiosi, today's sweeping arrests by the FBI should help provide you with some inspiration. Surge Desk has a look at the most colorful aliases of the usual suspects taken into custody by the feds in what...

Meet the 7 Mafia Families Caught Up in a Major Mob Sweep

In a massive operation, the FBI and police have arrested 127 people allegedly connected to the mob in New York, Rhode Island, and New Jersey. It's the "largest single-day operation against La Cosa Nostra," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a press release on the arrests. Seven families associated with organized...

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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07/27/11 Reputed mob boss appeals Florida fraud sentence - Wall... Source: Jackson County Floridan - Marianna FL A reputed captain of the Gambino crime family's South Florida operations asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to reverse his nine-year prison sentence on real estate fraud charges.
05/10/11 Al Pacino joins "Gotti" film as mobster Dellacroce Source: FOX - KTXL 40 - Sacramento CA After making a name for himself playing fictional mobster Michael Corleone in the blockbuster film trilogy "The Godfather," actor Al Pacino will now be portraying a real one.
01/11/11 14 Gambino Crime Family Members and Associates Ple... Source: Euro Weekly News The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the guilty pleas of all 14 members and associates of the Gambino Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra (the "Gambino Family") who were charged in Manhattan federal court in April 2010 with crimes including racketeering, murder, sex trafficking, extortion, and wire fraud.

Background on gambino crime family

The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or La Cosa Nostra).

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