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Frank Capri, 52, of Scottsdale, Arizona--whose real name is Frank Gioia Jr., a Luchese soldier from New York who flipped in the 1990s and moved to Arizona in the early 2000s— was arrested February 5 with his mother . Frank Gioia, undated photo Capri -- or Gioia -- made a name for himself as a big-shit real estate and restaurant developer in Arizona. Do all these ex-wiseguys move to frigging  Arizona ? He and his mom appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle H. Burns following their arrest. On January 28, 2020, a federal grand jury returned a 16-count indictment charging Capri, Debbie Corvo, and another individual with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with the operation of various branded restaurant locations in Arizona and across the United States. The trial is scheduled for April 7, 2020, before United States District Judge John J. Tuchi. Capri was reportedly behind the collapse of a restaurant chain named after ...

COSA NOSTRA NEWS EXCLUSIVE In November 1991, John Gotti was at MCC—the squalid, roach-infested hole he’d been calling home for about the past year—when he learned that his underboss, Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, had flipped. One of the then-Gambino boss’s first remarks reportedly was: " If  Fat Andy had been out, I wouldn’t be in this mess .” Fat Andy  Ruggiano relaxes at the Copa Lounge. Ruggiano went away in 1984 and got out in 1997, serving 13 years of a 40-year sentence. (Fat Andy Ruggiano died about two years after getting out, in 1999) For him, getting pinched when John Gotti was Gambino boss meant missing a golden opportunity. Had Fat Andy been out on the street during John Gotti’s reign, he likely would’ve changed the calculus — meaning Gambino family history would be different. A longtime power in East New York and a mentor to powerful wiseguys, Fat Andy could have played a significant role. “My father had bad timing," Anthony Ruggiano J...

Reviled and now quite dead billionaire Jeffrey Epstein told police that a man dressed in ninja garb who had ties to the Gambino crime family  was stalking him during his house arrest. Epstein island... Documents obtained by The Sun reveal that Epstein's lawyer shared this information in a letter to the State Attorney General Office while asking to modify his client's probation. The lawyer, Jack Goldberger, said that Epstein's security "intercepted a person who was dressed in black like a ninja and hiding in some bushes." The security guards then chased the man to his car and recorded his license details, explained Goldberger. Research of the man's license plate number apparently somehow linked him to (a) Gambino family figure(s), as per the Sun reporting that the ninja was  " in the mafia and had strong ties to the Gambino crime family".... The AG office replied to Goldberger blasting him for even asking to have Epstein's sentenc...

Aging, physically ill, embittered, and alone, Ralph (Whitey) Tropiano finally reached the end of his rope at Leavenworth, then one of the toughest prisons in the country, and he played his final card: He sent a message to the FBI that he was, at long last, ready to talk... Not too many years earlier, in 1964, Whitey Tropiano had been at his pinnacle when he hit upon what he believed was the grand solution to all his pressing legal problems. He’d simply give the cops in New Haven, Connecticut, piles of cash and they'd leave him the hell alone. To protect his gambling operations in New Haven, Whitey offered to send payments of $150-$500 a week, in addition to a one-time upfront good faith payment of $2,000 each, to New Haven Detective Stephen Ahern and a West Hartford police official. Ahern and the West Hartford cop graciously accepted Whitey’s largess, thanked him profusely, and then went straight to their superiors to tell them all the details of what had transpired. In Feb...