Cosa Nostra News

I'm working on a story about the upcoming indy film detailing the story of Apalachin , which Nick Christophers mentions here in this story .... In November  1957, crime families from across the country met in Apalachin, a rural hamlet in upstate New York, at the home of mobster Joseph "Joe the Barber" Barbara, to discuss urgent business. Believed to be on the summit's agenda: the assassination of Albert Anastasia, the attempted assassination of Frank Costello, and the ascendancy of both Carlo Gambino and Vito Genovese.  The raid, during which more than 60 underworld bosses were detained, helped confirm the existence of a nationwide criminal organization that considered itself a shadow government. ... BY NICK CHRISTOPHERS It is no wonder that Greek-American actor George Andreakos has been slated to play a gangster in the projected film entitled “Apalachin”. He has already taken on gangster roles and aced them every-time. The title should ring a...

Note: I haven't been blogging much in the past week. Got some very bad news about an old friend. He married his high school sweetheart and has a daughter in college -- and one night about a week and a half ago he suddenly took a stroke and collapsed. Basically, he's now permanently disabled and unable to work ever again. He was seemingly in perfect physical health too -- right up until he collapsed....  John Kiriakou, former CIA counterterrorism officer. The False Claims Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, during the Civil War. Greedy contractors bent on filling their pockets by defrauding the government in wartime was the stimulus. Since criminals generally don't like to get caught, the thinking went, there should be encouragement for those who have knowledge of fraudulent activity to come forward. The False Claims Act -- which allows for the filing of Whistleblower or Qui Tam lawsuits -- provides a way for private citizens to share i...

"Patricia Adams used my disabled father to get to me. My father can barely walk unaided due to a work injury. ... However, she shamelessly approached him, just days after one of the most traumatic events of my life." Pisani, Bonanno associate. Patricia Adams, who operates the weekly Forum Newsgroup, threatened to use her position as publisher to virtually destroy a woman who had accused mobbed-up deli owner Robert Pisani of a sex crime. Adams was sentenced on Oct. 11 to five months in prison. (Pisani, found guilty of loansharking as well, was sentenced to 30 months.) What follows is the victim impact statement that was read by the young woman’s mother to the court before Adams was sentenced. Good afternoon Judge Matsumoto and Members of the Court, I stand here today to tell you the truth that you may not know about the woman before us, Patricia Adams. Instead of facing it at a trial, she has pled to save herself from it. To hide from the facts that ha...

A Howard Beach-based newspaper publisher has been sentenced to five months in prison for attempting to threaten a sex crime victim's father on behalf of a Bonanno crime family aassociate. Robert Pisani, alleged associate of the Bonanno crime family. (They used to hide their face just for being wiseguys.) Patricia Adams, who operates the weekly Forum Newsgroup, threatened to use her position as publisher to have a hatchet piece written and published in a Queens newspaper about a woman who had accused a mobbed-up deli owner of a sex crime. Adams was sentenced on Oct. 11. She also must pay a fine of $200, though the full restitution amount has not yet been determined. Adams had pleaded guilty on June 25 to misprision of a felony, acknowledging her efforts to conceal the felonious crime of interfering in the sex assault case against Robert Pisani, an associate in acting capo Ronald Giallanzo's Bonanno crime family crew . Pisani was among a group of 10 reputed Bonanno ...