Cosa Nostra News

Former Bonanno street boss Anthony (Tony Green) Urso, 84, now resides at the Residential Reentry Management field office in Brooklyn, according to the BOP inmate locater. His release date is June 27, 2021. Anthony (Tony Green) Urso We looked Urso up after a longtime source told us that Tony Green had recently been spotted in Franklin Square, Long Island. Tony Green went away to serve a 20-year stretch for murder and racketeering while he was street boss, a promotion he got after the family's official boss, Joseph Massino, was indicted in 2003. Massino went on to flip, wear a wire, and testify against acting boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano. Newsday journalist  Anthony DeStefano has written two excellent books about both Massino and Basciano,  Vinny Gorgeous: The Ugly Rise And Fall Of A New York Mobster  and King of the Godfathers . Urso was tape-recorded calling for murdering the children of turncoats, arguing that it was the only way to stanch the seemingly endless...

Now available for purchase on Amazon! Cosa Nostra News: The Cicale Files, Volume 1: Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire . Both print and ebook versions are available, priced at $6.99 and $4.99. This is a short-format ebook (equal to around 62 pages, the length of the print edition.) It reached no. 2 on Amazon Kindle's best-seller list.... It also generated specious negative feedback --  It's a pamphlet! Too many names and dates! Hollywood garbage! --  by idiots who obviously never read the book.

Now available for purchase on Amazon Kindle!  Cosa Nostra News: The Cicale Files, Volume 1: Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire . "As a capo in the Bonanno crime family, Dominick Cicale was privy to the inner workings of organized crime. Cicale was a rising star in the Bonanno family until Joseph Massino, the family's boss, was arrested on a murder rap and turned on his own people. Massino's betrayal took down Cicale and his mentor Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano, and many others. Faced with the disloyalty of Massino (the only Mafia Godfather to break the code of "omerta,") Cicale began cooperating with federal authorities. Here, Cicale not only reveals an insider’s view of the Mafia’s secret society, but provides readers with shocking details of the reign and fall of Joseph Massino." As noted it is priced at $4.99 (it is not a full-length book, as it is around 20,000 words), and we packed it with as much value as possible. Researchi...