Cosa Nostra News

A social gaming firm is preparing to bring a game based on The Godfather to Facebook this fall, reports  The Hollywood Reporter . Just what we need -- another Mafia Internet game! San Francisco-based Kabam has developed the game, called The Godfather: Five Families, based on a license from Viacom's Paramount Pictures, the LA Times reported. The game takes place in 1930s New York City, about 10 years before when the first movie in the great trilogy starts, according to THR. Players are in one of the five mafia families featured in the franchise and must fight or scheme their way to the top to become the boss. Read the full article:  ' 'The Godfather' Game to Launch on Facebook - The Hollywood Reporter

Meir Abergil is back in Israel. Reputed organized crime figure Meir Abergil returned to Israel from the United States Thursday after a California court approved a plea agreement setting him free, reports Haaretz Daily Newspaper . Abergil served about three years in prison in Israel and then the United States, following a U.S. request for extradition. Abergil was charged - along with his brother Yitzhak and three others - with various alleged crimes involving the contract murder of an Israeli drug dealer in Los Angeles; laundering money from the Trade Bank of Israel in the United States; extorting and threatening Israeli business people; and trafficking in the drug Ecstasy. U.S. authorities reportedly struggled to build a case that would stand up in court against Meir Abergil, who allegedly played a relatively minor role in the apparent crimes. He was allegedly involved mainly in the extortion of Asi Vaknin, the former co-owner of a modeling agency. Therefore, U.S. authoriti...

Now Chazz Palminteri is on board the new Gotti biopic, which also stars John Travolta and allegedly Al Pacino, but not Joe Pesci, who is suing the producer for switching roles on him -- and cutting a couple million dollars off his salary after pushing him to gain about 30 pounds. So reports  Reuters . Is it us, or does anyone else think that Chazz would have made a superb Vincent "Chin" Gigante? Does the Oscar-winning thespian look like the Chin or what. Anyway, this will actually be Chazz's second outing as Paul Castellano, the Gambino boss whom Gotti whacked in a two-pronged strategy to save his life and advance his position. Chazz's first whack as Big Paul was in a TV film, Boss of Bosses, that turned his ugly Colombian maid, with whom the former Gambino boss was having an affair, into a ravishing Latin beauty. Producer Marc Fiore confirmed that Palminteri will star as Castellano. "Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father" also stars Kelly Preston and Ben Fost...

University of Notre Dame professor G. Robert Blakey is considered the nation's foremost authority on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO. "The remedy under criminal law is to take away the criminal. But if you just take people out one by one -- and all of the conditions remain the same -- it doesn't matter how many individual convictions you get," Blakey said in a report on  EastChicagoCommunity.com . "Think of it as a merry-go-round," he added. Read the article:  Author of federal act used to prosecute former E.C. mayor explains RICO's power . Also, read our exclusive intervew with Mr. Blakey here .