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David Amoruso
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Journalist, writes about organized crime, founder of www.gangstersinc.org
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Ex-Chicago Gangster Larry Hoover Eligible for State Parole: Will Gov. Pritzker Commute Hoover's 200 Years? If Parole Board Deny Him Freedom gangstersinc.org/2025/11/18/e... - #LarryHoover #Gangs #StreetGangs #Chicago #Crime
Ex-Chicago Gangster Larry Hoover Eligible for State Parole: Will Gov. Pritzker Commute Hoover’s 200 Years? If Parole Board Deny Him Freedom
Back in May, President Donald J. Trump handed a Hail Mary lifeline and commuted the federal prison sentence of Larry Hoover, one of Chicago’s most notorious gang leaders. One roadblock down o…
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November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Lucchese Mafia family soldier “Little Joe” Perna accused of running a student-athlete sportsbook crew in New Jersey gangstersinc.org/2025/11/14/l... - #NewJersey #Gambling #Sportsbetting #ESPN #Football #NFL #NBA #MLB #NHL #Mafia #Crime #CosaNostra
Lucchese Mafia family soldier “Little Joe” Perna accused of running a student-athlete sportsbook crew in New Jersey
While reading this, many of you are probably on your phone. Many of you probably just placed a bet on it with one of the countless gambling apps that are completely legitimate. If so you might be s…
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November 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Teflon Holdings, luxury cars, and a £250K watch | Profile of English drug boss Craig McKenzie gangstersinc.org/2025/11/13/t... - #England #Liverpool #Manchester #NCA #Drugs #Crime #Gangland
Teflon Holdings, luxury cars, and a £250K watch | Profile of English drug boss Craig McKenzie
An English drug boss was ordered in court to hand over £1 million in illicit income yesterday.  Craig McKenzie had tried to seem legit. To outward appearances his lavish lifestyle was funded by his…
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November 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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From Crypto King to Corpse in the Desert: Russian crypto fraud meets his demise after stealing from the wrong people gangstersinc.org/2025/11/12/f... - #Crypto #Russia #Dubai #TrueCrime #Crime #RomanNovak
From Crypto King to Corpse in the Desert: Russian crypto fraud meets his demise after stealing from the wrong people
Crypto dreams, crudely put, are usually made of fraud. That is why its successful “entrepreneurs” always flaunt their wealth on social media. Photos and videos of gold watches, fast cars, private j…
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November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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The Fall of the Poppy: How the Taliban crushed Afghanistan’s opium empire gangstersinc.org/2025/11/11/t... - #Afghanistan #Taliban #Opium #Heroin #Drugs #WarOnDrugs
The Fall of the Poppy: How the Taliban crushed Afghanistan’s opium empire
For decades, Afghanistan’s blood-red poppy fields were the beating heart of the global heroin trade. The dusty valleys of Helmand and Badakhshan fueled an empire of addiction that stretched all the…
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November 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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How I joined The Godfather: A tale of the New York Mafia and showbiz gangstersinc.org/2025/11/08/h...
How I joined The Godfather: A tale of the New York Mafia and showbiz
Gianni Russo rose from the mean streets of New York City, blessed with a dazzling smile he scored a role in one of the greatest films ever made: The Godfather. Growing up around the Mafia, he was q…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Rosaria Schifani: A Mafia Widow gangstersinc.org/2025/10/31/r... - #Photography #CosaNostra #Mafia #SicilianMafia #MafiaHistory #Crime #TrueCrime
Rosaria Schifani: A Mafia Widow
A widow in mourning for her husband and father of her child, a man who is gone forever, leaving only the shadows of a smile, a laugh, a touch and memories to cling to in the years ahead. Her name i…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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How the Camorra Mafia took over an entire football club in southern Italy: “I can do things in this stadium that you can’t” gangstersinc.org/2025/10/27/h... - #Camorra #Mafia #Naples #Football #Soccer #Corruption #ItalianMafia
How the Camorra Mafia took over an entire football club in southern Italy: “I can do things in this stadium that you can’t”
Mobsters have always had an interest in professional sports, as a hobby or a business or both. From football to basketball, sports and athletes offered gangsters ways to make money or mingle with i…
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October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The Rise and Fall of “Brother Wang”: The elusive fentanyl kingpin who connected China to Mexico’s cartels gangstersinc.org/2025/10/25/t... - #Mexico #Cuba #DrugCartels #Fentanyl #Narcos #China #Crime
The Rise and Fall of “Brother Wang”: The elusive fentanyl kingpin who connected China to Mexico’s cartels
It was an expected ending for the man once dubbed the ghost link between the Sinaloa Cartel and Chinese chemical suppliers: Dragged in handcuffs across a Havana tarmac. His name is Zhi Dong Zhang, …
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October 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Trump goon Steve Bannon gushes over Colombo Mafia family hitman gangstersinc.org/2025/10/23/t... - #MAGA #DonaldTrump #Mafia #AmericanMafia #Crime #Prison
Trump goon Steve Bannon gushes over Colombo Mafia family hitman
Prison hits different when you’re rich or famous – or both. Steve Bannon is another example of that. In a new book, he details his four months behind bars and shares stories about the inmates he me…
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October 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Mexican Beltrán Leyva Cartel boss faces possible death penalty in 2013 murder at Texas shopping center gangstersinc.org/2025/10/21/m...
Mexican Beltrán Leyva Cartel boss faces possible death penalty in 2013 murder at Texas shopping center
José Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez was once one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. He had vanished and become a ghost in the wind, a cartel boss whose reach stretched from the blood-soaked stre…
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October 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Violent temper brings down Gambino Mafia family capo’s crew as it tried to dominate NYC carting and demolition industries gangstersinc.org/2025/10/19/v... - #NewYork #Mafia #CosaNostra #Crime #NYC #AmericanMafia
Violent temper brings down Gambino Mafia family capo’s crew as it tried to dominate NYC carting and demolition industries
It was to be takeover that would make them rich. Instead the whole thing went up in flames. Gambino crime family captain Joseph “Joe Brooklyn” Lanni and six other wiseguys plead guilty on Friday to…
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October 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Heist at the Louvre: Thieves Strike Paris’ Crown Jewel gangstersinc.org/2025/10/19/h... - #Louvre #Paris #Heist #Theft #Crime #France #Napoleon
Heist at the Louvre: Thieves Strike Paris’ Crown Jewel
Paris woke up today to a bold crime straight out of a movie script. Early this morning, masked men hit one of the most iconic landmarks in the world: The Louvre Museum. Around 9:30 a.m., three or f…
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October 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Philadelphia Mafia leaders hit the streets as spotlight shines bright gangstersinc.org/2025/10/18/p... - #Philadelphia #Philly #Mafia #CosaNostra #AmericanMafia #Crime #SouthPhilly
Philadelphia Mafia leaders hit the streets as spotlight shines bright
Philadelphia’s underworld has seen a quiet but steady homecoming this year. One by one, key figures of the city’s notorious Mafia family are leaving federal prisons and making their way to halfway …
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October 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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#OTD (Oct 18) in 1924, future #Pittsburgh #Mafia boss John #Bazzano and Dominic Cimino are released under bond of $5,000 each after being charged with stealing whiskey from a government warehouse.

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Clipping from October 19, 1924, Pittsburgh Press. Headline: "Two whisky thief suspects give bail."
October 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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#OTD (Oct 18) in 1963, #Florida turns gambler Frank #Rosenthal over to officers of #NorthCarolina, where he is wanted on charges of fixing a college basketball game.

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Frank Rosenthal
October 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Ecuador’s descent into chaos: Tortured bodies, explosions, and a judge killed while dropping his kids off at school gangstersinc.org/2025/10/18/e... - #Ecuador #Gangs #Crime #DrugCartels #Cocaine
Ecuador’s descent into chaos: Tortured bodies, explosions, and a judge killed while dropping his kids off at school
Ecuador’s descent into chaos continues. This past week saw an escalation of incidents. Brutal attacks left 14 people dead and 17 wounded, some of them showing signs of torture. Also: A judge was sh…
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October 18, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Mexican Cartels drop bombs from the sky: Drone attack targets prosecutor’s office in Tijuana gangstersinc.org/2025/10/17/m... - #Drone #Drones #Mexico #Tijuana #Narcos #DrugCartels #Crime
Mexican Cartels drop bombs from the sky: Drone attack targets prosecutor’s office in Tijuana
A drone strike hit the Baja California state prosecutor’s office in Tijuana, Mexico, this week, sending a chilling reminder that Mexico’s cartels are no longer just fighting on the streets, they’re…
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October 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Dubai no longer a gangster’s paradise as authorities crack down on criminal fugitives gangstersinc.org/2025/10/13/d... - #Dubai #UnitedArabEmirates #ScottishMafia #IrishMafia #Crime #Fugitive #Narcos
Dubai no longer a gangster’s paradise as authorities crack down on criminal fugitives
For years, Dubai was a place where fugitive gangsters from all over the world could sip espresso in the Burj Khalifa, park their Lamborghinis outside five-star hotels or luxury resorts, and run mul…
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October 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Former #NewYork #Mafia boss Ignazio #Lupo was suspected of the #Brooklyn murder of Roger #Consiglio on this date (Oct. 8) in 1930.

I have my doubts.

#OTD #MafiaHistory #Skystorians
Lupo unlikely to have killed Consiglio | American Mafia
Though he was arrested for it, there is no evidence to support the former-mob boss's alleged involvement in Castellammarese War-era Brooklyn murder.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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#OTD (Oct 10) in 1935, a federal grand jury at #NewYork indicts Dutch #Schultz on 11 counts of failing to file income tax returns.

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Dutch Schultz
October 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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#OTD (Oct 10) in 1973, two #NewYork television cameramen are beaten and have their equipment damaged when they attempt to film the funeral for the son of Paul #Vario (shown).

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Paul Vario
October 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Clan del Golfo’s European Connection: Cocaine pipeline and $700 million crypto flows gangstersinc.org/2025/10/09/c... - #DrugCartels #ClanDelGolfo #Cocaine #Crime #Europol #Crypto #Cryptocurrency
Clan del Golfo’s European Connection: Cocaine pipeline and $700 million crypto flows
A joint strike by Colombian and Spanish authorities, with backing from Europol, has taken down a major cocaine pipeline between South America and Europe. The operation targeted members of the notor…
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October 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Armenian Mafia war rages in Los Angeles: Gang hitmen busted in botched murder-for-hire job targeting mob boss gangstersinc.org/2025/10/07/a... - #LosAngeles #California #Armenia #ArmenianMafia #Gangs #StreetGangs #Crime
Armenian Mafia war rages in Los Angeles: Gang hitmen busted in botched murder-for-hire job targeting mob boss
War is raging within California’s Armenian Mafia as two factions have gone head to head for underworld supremacy. The beef led to the arrest earlier this year of Armenian Mafia leaders. Last week t…
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October 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Dead man hanging from highway sign turns out to be Albanian cocaine smuggler: “Executed as a warning” gangstersinc.org/2025/10/04/d... - #Albania #AlbanianMafia #Brussels #Belgium #EU #Narcos
Dead man hanging from highway sign turns out to be Albanian cocaine smuggler: “Executed as a warning”
People were shocked last week when the body of a man was found hanging behind a road sign along a busy Brussels highway in Belgium. It was like Mexico’s violent narco underworld had arrived in Euro…
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October 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM