Cosa Nostra News

Nick Christophers wrote the following based on his interview with Maria Stewart, niece of Theresa Ferrara, Tommy DeSimone's alleged girlfriend .  Theresa Ferrara was found brutally murdered Stewart authored   Looking for Closure, the Theresa Ferrara Story. There have been quite a few mob-related books and television shows told from a women’s point of view. Antoinette Giancana and Rosalie Bonanno , both of whom were related by blood or marriage to American Cosa Nostra royalty: one was a mob boss's daughter and the other was a wife of one. A nonfictional work by Linda Milito , author of Mafia Wife whose late husband, Gambino mobster Louie Milito , had been Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano 's compadre when the two were seeking admittance to the Gambinos. Depending on who you believe, Louie Milito may have gotten Sammy in with the Gambinos, rather than the other way around. Mlito made fatal mistakes, having the unfortunate luck to be imprisoned duri...

UPDATED The East Coast LCN Enterprise Case finally reached court this week with the Manhattan premiere of the federal racketeering trial of Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino . Joseph Merlino isn't a crook, he's a degenerate gambler, his lawyer said. Merlino, 55, was among the 46 defendants arrested in the summer of 2016 Mafia crackdown of an alleged confederation of criminals focused on extortion, loan-sharking, gambling, credit card fraud, and health care fraud. Dubbed the East Coast LCN Enterprise, the ring operated in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida, and New Jersey, comprised of mobsters connected to the Genovese, Gambino, Luchese, Bonanno, and Philadelphia crime families, though the Philly family's participation is limited to Merlino, actually a Floridian. Skinny Joey Merlino played a key role overseeing an alleged $157 million health-care scheme that involved bribing doctors to write prescriptions for pain cream, said Assistant U.S. Attor...

New York's Five Families can expand their ranks each year and have multi-million-dollar slush finds. (The Genovese family's is below). We're being flippant, of course, taking literally what's been said in a court document. Picture of the cash found in Vincent Esposito's townhouse. That is noted in an appeal letter to US District Judge of New York's Southern District Victor Marrero from the interim-US Attorney. The appeal is regarding the pretrial release of Vincent Esposito, a high-ranking member of the Genovese crime family.  Appeal letters are by nature extreme documents, with the Fed's essentially arguing their case and giving the judge the verdict, which they depict as inevitable. It isn't, of course, until Esposito exercises his constitutional right to a trial by a jury of his peers. Esposito, a son of Vincent (Chin) Gigante, and four other reputed Genovese mobsters were arrested earlier this month and charged with running a longtime r...

UPDATED Canadian law enforcement probing two murders in Southern Ontario linked to the country's Ndrangheta are on a roll, announcing several breaking developments this month. The man in black shot a 28-year-old woman. The same man killed Musitano months later. The investigation centers on the murders of Hamilton organized crime figure Angelo Musitano  last spring and a 28-year-old woman in Woodbridge shot to death months prior. A man she was meeting was likely the true target. At a news conference earlier this month, local law enforcement officials revealed for the first time that the two murders, of Mila Barberi in March 2017 and Musitano in May 2017, were linked. This was based on several main factors: from studying surveillance of the lead suspect in each shooting, police determined he is the same person. Also, a black Honda Civic Coupe was connected to both homicides, police said. Mila Barberi was slain by mistake. Police also recently revealed tha...