Mafia News

Former Colombo crime family boss Thomas “Tommy Shots” Gioeli may get one more shot at beating racketeering charges including murder conspiracy. Gioeli was scheduled to be sentenced next week but that has been postponed after prosecutors informed the judge about new information from an undercover informant. This new information indicates that some one other than Gioeli is responsible for the 1991 murder conspiracy he was previously convicted of. Read More ....

A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the... A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark ... (more)

More than 50,000 people have attended the beatification of Don Giuseppe Puglisi, a Roman Catholic priest murdered by the mafia in 1993.

Corporations, rather than mafia bosses, have forked over what U.S. Department of Justice officials have described as some of the largest cases in U.S. history, based on data and documents from the fiscal year 2010-2012. In this photo, Stanford Financial Group's assets are pictured.

I hate to say this, but the media is losing me. I'm mostly on their side when it comes to subpoenaing journalists' phone records, but the level of outrage and special pleading has gotten so palpable that I'm starting to waver.

Judge John Gleeson may reject the 'deferred prosecution deal' struck with the US Justice Department, meaning that the company could be barred from trading in the United States if found guilty.

The Uefa president has called for the introduction of a European sports police force as he aims to fight corruption within the game Uefa president Michel Platini has urged member nations to introduce the necessary legal tools to fight match-fixing as he feels a European sports police force is needed to keep football clean.

California authorities have arrested a 31-year-old Kansas resident who's accused of helping coordinate gang activities in Los Angeles.

The leader of a Mexican Mafia that operated in San Diego's North County pleaded guilty to conspiracy and drug trafficking charges on Thursday, the office of U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced.

The New Jersey TGI Fridays rip off sounds like a stunt Tony Soprano and his mafia pulled for profit when they sold black market cigarettes at regular prices.

Steven A. Cohen's lawyers made their best case argument a month ago to federal prosecutors about why the hedge fund billionaire and his SAC Capital Advisors should not be charged with criminal wrongdoing in a long-running insider trading investigation.

A Montreal man, named as part of the Mafia clan of Vito Rizzuto, pleaded guilty in New York City Thursday to international cocaine trafficking after raids found millions of dollars and large drug stashes in his fancy Beverly Hills home and luxury car.

Palermo, May 23 - Italian Premier Enrico Letta said on Thursday, the day in memory of slain anti-mafia judges Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone, that the fight against the Mafia was not done.

Palermo, May 23 - Arguments about punishment for mafia collusion are divisive and unnecessary, the Speaker of the Senate said Thursday.