Cosa Nostra News

We've written about these guys -- and now, working with sources including from law enforcement, we've gotten access to additional bodycam videos from incidents involving Greg Caponegro and an unlucky tenant who Greg threatened with homicidal violence and attempted to extort simply because the tenant wanted to break a monthly lease. A word about body-cam video: In the past few years police departments across the country have been rolling out body-worn camera programs.  Just recently in New York, an appeals court ruling halted “years of drift into the fog of secrecy,” and declared that authorities are free to release body-cam video to the public, the Daily News recently reported. “The whole point of the cameras is to expose what actually happened in tense encounters between police and civilians. A mockery is made of that purpose when video is kept under lock and key,” as the News noted. We noted that at least five families who rented property in the Garden State ha...

"The mob ain't what it used to be, number one, and he’s not even part of the mob. They’re both so fcking crazy the mob wants nothing to do with them. But what they have is this intimidation factor 'cause they are fcking nuts .” --Police detective on the Caponegro brothers, Joseph and Gregory “I'm about ready to go to fcking jail!” --Greg Caponegro Greg Caponegro, brother of Joey Waterbed..... Story includes three videos, below A violent former associate of the Genovese crime family (formerly in the crew of one of the most powerful capos to ever rule the waterfront) and his twin brother have been on something of a tear recently, allegedly terrorizing residents of the Garden State. Many of said Garden State residents allegedly terrorized by the Caponegro brothers – that’s Joseph (Joey Waterbed) and Greg -- no doubt will feel some relief at knowing that the police have finally taken steps to put a damper on the not-so-dynamic duo’s over-the-top activiti...