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This is a special guest post..... The Five Families, the biggest Mafia leaders in the history of time, they are still active and the press, media and people just thrive on the underground connotation related to the mafia. Charlie Lucky Luciano  The history of their origination is by far one of the most intriguing stories of all time, thus the attention the family name still receives. If you ever wondered if the mafia is still alive and around, the answer would be the same as the patrons visiting NoviBet Casino UK , always there and always gaining attention. Here is the story about the biggest mafia influences in the history of time. The Beginning of Time Italy created one of the biggest Organized Crime Families, who eventually made their way to New York, America. The country was ripe with dreams, the deliverance of an outcome of a better life. The family was officially recognized in the year of 1931 when one of the biggest murders in history took place, which was the beg...

Breaking news story courtesy of The Colombo Crime Family Blog * (see note at end)... Longtime Bensonhurst mobster Ilario "Fat Larry" Sessa was released from prison after spending just over a year behind bars. Sessa, who tips the scales at over 400 pounds, was charged back in July of 2018 with violating the conditions of his parole. Larry Sessa In court, he promised that he was trying to go "legit" after he was previously sprung from prison in 2017, having served six years behind bars for racketeering and loansharking. Sessa, whose full biography leading up to his 2011 arrest is exclusively available on thecolombomafia.com , told the court in 2018 that he had been working as a legit used-car salesman since his exit from prison on strict supervised release conditions. On paper, the portly mobster was working for 4 Guys Motors in Brooklyn, where he crossed paths with his old Colombo family pals. His lawyer says his contact with his old busine...

FINAL FINISHED VERSION Anthony Arillotta, who’d rise to replace his mentor as boss of the Springfield crew, was well regarded and considered a " capable and promising mobster " by then-Genovese acting boss Arthur Nigro, whom Arillotta began meeting regularly in the Bronx, as per court filings related to Nigro’s appeal. Frankie Roche, left, was gunman who shot Genovese boss Big Al Bruno, right. Loyalty to Nigro "gave me a lot of clout,” Arillotta declared in testimony during one of two trials about his standing in the Genovese crime family’s Springfield crew. “I didn't have to worry ... listen to anyone back in Massachusetts, Springfield. Gave me a lot of power, being direct with Artie. He was the boss. I could go anywhere in the country and I would have a boss that was the actual boss. I would belong to him, direct." Arillotta—who would boss a crew of murderers, drug dealers, loan sharks, and robbers—was inducted into the Genovese family by Nigro...

Charles (Chuckie) Russell, who boasted of pulling off thousands of burglaries in a four-year period,   died before he could be sentenced for gun possession in connection with a 2016 robbery plot, the Chicago Sun-Times reported , attributing this to court filings. Chuckie Russell  Russell, 70, a reputed member of the Chicago Outfit's Grand Avenue Crew (Joey the Clown Lombardo’s old bailiwick), was suffering from prostate cancer. On Dec. 21, 2016, he was arrested after purchasing eight guns from an undercover federal agent in Chicago. He pleaded guilty last year to possession of a revolver that agents found during a search of his home in Schaumburg. He reportedly faced at least 15 years in prison. However, because of his illness, Russell was released from jail and allowed to live at home via electronic monitoring, and was never healthy  enough to be sentenced. Russell had arranged to stay in a condo owned by girlfriend Patricia Spilotro, a relative of ...

Scott Bernstein of Gangster Report  did the podcast, something i didn't realize.... In the mid-1990s, mob associate Anthony (Bingy) Arillotta had a drug problem and didn't even know it... Nigro lackey John Bologna and Big Al, who was killed in 2003. Adolfo (Big Al) Bruno, the Genovese family capo who oversaw the crew in Springfield, Mass., had proposed Arillotta for membership. Big Al Bruno was the Genovese family's seasoned hand in western Massachusetts. He had worked for the Scibelli brothers, including Frankie Skyball, making them fortunes, before he himself rose to become “capo” of the Springfield crew. Bruno was the consummate professional, who started his day early in the morning and ended it late in the evening. Bingy had been Big Al’s protégé, and one can imagine Bruno’s high hopes for the young wiseguy. But then Bingy got caught doing one of the worst things a mob associate can do: he was found to be dealing drugs on the street. "Big A...

After entering his plea on Tuesday before White Plains Federal Judge Cathy Seibel, reputed Luchese capo Steven Crea Jr. , 46, of New Rochelle, didn't get to return home (as he undoubtedly had hoped) to enjoy his last few months of freedom with his family before sentencing. Steven Crea Junior. He was instead handcuffed and put in a prison cell. Prosecutors had sought his immediate arrest after citing for the judge statutes mandating incarceration once a defendant is convicted of a violent crime. Crea Jr. pleaded guilty to murder conspiracy and assault charges related to an unconsummated revenge scheme he and his father, Luchese underboss Steven (Stevie Wonder) Crea, cooked up to whack a Bonanno associate stemming from a bizarre 2012 clash between the Luchese and Bonanno families at a Bronx social club. As per the indictment, Crea Senior ordered the murder of Carl Ulzheimer, a Bonanno crime family associate who lived in the Bronx in 2012, according to the Feds. Specifical...

UPDATED Luchese captain Steven Crea Jr. admitted to plotting with his father, underboss Steven Crea, to kill Bonanno associate Carl Ulzheimer in 2012 following a Bronx social club encounter that Crea Senior deemed a personal affront. Crea Senior during 1980s arrest for murder. He faces a maximum of 13 years behind bars for his part in an attempt to have another mobster whacked. A federal indictment accused the younger Crea of participating in the slaying of Michael Meldish, 62, the one-time co-leader of a homicidal crew called the Purple Gang, but he did not admit to the killing as part of his guilty plea Tuesday, his lawyers said. “Our client did not enter a plea of guilty to the murder of Michael Meldish because he is not guilty of that conduct. In fact, he took more time rather than enter a plea to something that is not true,” said his lawyers, Joseph DiBenedetto and Seth Ginsburg in a statement Tuesday night. Crea Jr., 46, passed a polygraph exam last November ...

FINAL A Springfield, Mass., man with a last name that harkens back to local mob royalty has been nailed for assaulting a wire-wearing informant described in court papers as a debtor. Skyball's descendant? Anthony J. Scibelli of Springfield. Anthony J. Scibelli, 51, of Springfield, was arrested on July 2 and was held at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island until his release to home confinement on Monday by a federal judge. He is a “ruthless mobster,” federal prosecutors say, who used violence to collect debts for a loan shark. Scibelli faces one charge for extortionate loan collection from an incident during which he allegedly assaulted a debtor while he wore a wire for the Massachusetts State Police and FBI. (The debtor had been wearing the wire since May.) Scibelli also allegedly used mace and a taser to collect debts, and spat on another man who reportedly died shortly after the incident, whatever that means (court documents don’t specify). He faces a ma...

UPDATE: He also copped to plotting to kill a Bonanno associate, as reported since this story was written. We're positive we made the error and no one else... In a standalone deal that extricates him from the long-running gangland murder case of Bronx -based mob associate Michael Meldish, reputed Luchese capo Steven (Stevie Junior) Crea has agreed to cop to racketeering and other charges, Gang Land News reported today. Scene of Meldish slaying in 2013. Prosecutors will seek a prison term of 13 years. The elder Crea and three other alleged Luchese wiseguys charged with the murder are still scheduled to go to trial on October 2. "The younger Crea is slated to plead guilty in White Plains Federal Court to three separate charges next week that do not include the November 15, 2013 murder of Meldish," Gang Land reported. "The mob scion could return home in 2028 at the age of 56. Crea Jr., who was granted bail a year ago, would get credit for the 14 months he...

On the evening of May 2, 1957, Frank Costello dined at Chandler’s Restaurant at 49 West 49th Street. In preparation for his role in The Godfather, Marlon Brando reportedly watched recordings of Costello speaking.  His companion may have been Philip Kennedy, a former semi-pro baseball player who was a sometime actor who managed a modeling agency. Costello likely enjoyed Kennedy’s company because Kennedy moved nimbly and freely among Manhattan’s wealthiest denizens. Costello, the insecure Don, was supposedly fixated on being accepted by those folks. The blue bloods made him self-conscious about his voice and his inability to lose the “deeze, doze, dem” East Harlem diction. (Bizarre stuff for the mob boss who filled Lucky Luciano’s shoes, but it is the insecurities that keep us interested in the guy, anyway.) Costello’s gravelly voice (which wasn’t as gravelly as you might think, as per the video below, which includes more of Frank talking than any other clip we’ve seen...

Thomas Hunt is among America's most preeminent mob historians, and anyone interested in anything Cosa Nostra-related should be familiar with his work, and that assortment would include Tom’s blog, his Informer journal, and his books (links to all follow below). We are popping this up belatedly (a mild health issue knocked us out of the game last week, but we’re poised to make up for lost time). Tom also is one of several who blog at The Writers Of Wrongs.com site; Christian Cipollini, about whom we've written , and Patrick Downey, who's written great books, including on Legs Diamond , also blog there. Cover of Informer, with historical story on one of the American mob's founding fathers.... Researchers have long been bothered by the lack of a photograph of Prohibition Era Mafia "boss of bosses" Salvatore Maranzano. But an image of the underworld chief, lost for nearly 88 years, was recently rediscovered. The remarkable find will be featured in an Au...