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In a head-spinning revelation, Gang Land News reports today that Bonanno boss Michael (Mikey Nose) Mancuso, 63, who recently finished a 15-year prison term for murder conspiracy, was so furious with certain members of his crime family that he has made dramatic changes in personnel. Bonanno boss Michael  (Mikey Nose) Mancuso Mancuso, a killer who came up in the Bonanno family's powerful Bronx crew, was so angered by his acting boss's " musical consiglieris " legal strategy that he broke down (demoted) and kicked the acting boss -- Joseph (Joe C) Cammarano -- plus three of his confidants--out of the mob.  All four were seasoned ranking members of the Bonanno crime family. As per Gang Land sources on both sides of the law, when a federal jury acquitted then-acting Bonanno boss Cammarano of racketeering charges last March, "Joe C figured he was golden. The clean win in court, courtesy of a jury of his peers, made him the only mob boss other than...

Tony Soprano, aka James Gandolfini, died on June 19, 2013, in Rome at the age of 51. Personally, our interest in a new Sopranos project went with him. That's why we've been sitting on this. Even though it's a prequel, the whole idea of a new Sopranos film is bittersweet, at best. David Chase, creator of the iconic HBO series, will co-write and produce the movie, which is set in 1960s Newark. Deadline.com reported that creator and showrunner Chase sold a script to New Line, the Warner Bros. unit. The working title is The Many Saints of Newark. Chase wrote the script with Lawrence Konner, a veteran TV/movie writer who wrote a handful of Sopranos episodes. It's been 11 years since we all thought our cable died in the final moments of the long-running series. The groundbreaking show ran for six seasons from 1999 – 2007. It won 21 Primetime Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and Peabody Awards for its first two seasons. Other stars on the show includ...

Reenactment of the killing of seven men on Al Capone's orders. Cosa Nostra News is pleased to present the following story by author  Chriss Lyon , who wrote the true crime book "A Killing in Capone's Playground." Everyone has heard of the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre , the 1929 slaughter of seven associates of the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran during the Prohibition Era . Not many are aware of the events that followed, however, which exposed small town America to the inner workings of big city brutality.