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Surveillance photo of Joe Waverly Joel "Joe Waverly" Cacace, a high-level Colombo mobster who still carries lead in his chest from previous gunfights, has been acquitted of ordering the killing of an NYPD officer who married the Mafioso's ex-wife. A jury took only four hours to reach their verdict clearing Cacace of murder in aid of racketeering in the killing of Police Officer Ralph Dols, who was shot to death in 1997 outside his home in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. The verdict was reached yesterday, Nov. 26. Last year, Colombo gangster Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli was acquitted of carrying out Cacace's alleged order, along with Dino Saracino. Cacace, 72, didn't walk out of the courtroom a free man following his acquittal as he is in the process of serving a 20-year sentence for racketeering after admitting to carrying out a hit on a federal prosecutor. He is not due to be released from prison until 2020 when he will be close to 80. ...

Wonder if the mob reads Thomas Harris... they either stole this from the third Hannibal Lecter novel, or Harris stole it from them, though he seemed to associate this peculiar ritual to the island of Sardinia... I kind of doubt this has anything to do with Harris. Man-eating pigs , I hadn't realized, are not as uncommon as you may think, even in the U.S. Italian mafia fed man alive to pigs, police say - ChicagoTribune.com : ROME (Reuters) - A group of Calabrian mafia assassins beat a rival with a spade and fed him alive to pigs, Italian police said after rounding up 20 people for various mob crimes including five murders.

To all my readers, no matter which side of the law you're on, I want to wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving! Can't believe Christmas is upon us already and writing "2013" finally stopped looking weird to me; before I know it I will have to get used to writing 2014... Don't eat too much turkey and what do you all say we try to do a good deed each day. All of us are capable of this, even FBI agents and mob bosses! Remember: Pay it forward! I hated the movie, but love the phrase....

Anastasia whacked by Gambino drug dealers--not Persico/Gallo faction. Albert Anastasia (Umberto Anastasio, Sept. 26, 1902 – Oct. 25, 1957) was one of the most ruthless and feared Cosa Nostra mobsters in U.S. history, bar none. A co-founder of LCN, Anastasia during the pre-war years ran Murder Inc., a group of primarily Jewish hit men always on call. He was boss of what became the Gambino crime family in 1957, having killed his boss, Vincent Mangano. Anastasia's own execution in a midtown barbershop is one of the most spectacular mob hits ever. It was the most high-profile "hit" since the big mob war of the 1930s. And Carmine "the Snake" Persico and the Gallo brothers had nothing to do with it. One source told Cosa Nostra News : "Joey Gallo went around after the Anastasia hit telling people to call he and his pals the 'Barbershop Quartet.' That means nothing. I have had guys intimate to me that they clipped a certain guy, when I knew for ...

From YouTube : "The very first reality mob convention in Las Vegas. A small tribute to those who participated in this year's first annual reunion for those of us who celebrated back in the day": Susan Ferritto is a good friend of ours and we want to take a minute to thank her for all the help she has given us behind the scenes, setting up interviews, getting us tickets to the Vegas convention which we ultimately couldn't attend because of work, and finding hot topics for us to report on and write about. You will see new stories we're working on in the weeks and months ahead....  Susan, you're one classy lady. And a looker too. Ray Ferritto may have been a "big bad Mafioso hitman," but he sure as hell wasn't all bad if he was smart enough to marry you! [And if he were still here, we sure as hell wouldn't have said this out loud -- especially the "looker" part!] We still wish he was here -- no disrespect intended ...

Bensonhurst native Marco Manfre , who marked his 2013 debut on Cosa Nostra News with this story, is the author of two books, Returning to the Lion’s Den: Life in an Organized Crime Family and The Outcast Prophet of Bensonhurst , both of which are set in the Brooklyn borough of his childhood, based on people who defined that place and time for him. At the time of the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination I was glad Marco sent this. I always found it interesting that the mob's involvement in one of the most infamous "hits" in history has always been a given for G. Robert Blakey , the main drafter of the RICO act and self-proclaimed smarty pants who named it after Hollywood gangster  Caesar Enrico "Rico" Bandello (played by Edward G. Robinson) in "Little Caesar."