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Two alleged members of the Gambino crime family were granted bond in time for Thanksgiving by a Brooklyn judge who noted the current crop of mobsters aren’t as violent as their predecessors.

“You know, in the past we would let murderers out on bail,” Brooklyn federal Judge Frederic Block said at a hearing Tuesday for Diego “Danny” Tantillo and Angelo “Fifi” Gradilone, the Daily News reported.

More than 200 defendants in one of Italy's biggest mafia trials for generations have been sentenced to a total of more than 2,200 years in jail.

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Suzanne Shepherd, veteran actress known for playing the mother of Edie Falco’s Carmela Soprano on “The Sopranos,” has died.

New Jersey developer Fred Daibes is indicted over claims he tried to bribe Sen. Bob Menendez with gold bars. He was also accused of corrupting a town council and sending money to mob

An FBI organized crime investigation into the Gambino crime family led to Orange County, NY where agents were digging for possible bodies, sources said.

Over 300 alleged members of the 'Ndrangheta – Italy's most powerful organised crime group – and their white-collar collaborators face sentencing this week following a major trial lasting almost three years

The threat came as Joseph Lanni and Vincent Minsquero were thrown out of Roxy's after an argument with another patron, authorities said.

In turn of the century New York City, criminals calling themselves "the Black Hand" preyed upon Italian immigrants who were afraid to report the crimes. One determined police officer took on what has been called the precursor to the mafia. The History Guy remembers Joe Petrosino.

The museum's home is an 18th-century neo-classical palace.

In what Italy hopes will be a significant crackdown on organized crime, officials from the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza in Milan have once again gone after the ‘Ndrangheta mafia. This latest attempt to break up the leading mob in illegal gambling, drug and human trafficking, and other crimes has ensnared Italy’s primary rail operator, RFI.

• Eight of ten members and associates of the Gambino crime family stayed in custody after pleading not guilty on racketeering charges Wednesday
• Salvatore DiLorenzo was the only one of the mobsters allowed to walk free on Wednesday night
• Four were remanded in jail due to being seen as a risk by the state, with four others having made bond but the DOJ attempting to keep them in custody

• Sixteen defendants were arrested in New York and Italy on charges related to Mafia activities, authorities said.
• The defendants in Brooklyn included alleged members and associates of the Gambino organized crime family.
• Prosecutors said the New York defendants committed extortion, assault, arson and crimes related to unions in an attempt to dominate the city's demolition and carting sectors.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The 1962 car bomb murder of Youngstown mobster “Cadillac Charlie” Cavallaro and his son, Thomas, riveted the nation.

The final blow in a two-year mob war that rocked the city, it has become part of local lore.

It is fairly common knowledge that for decades, Palm Springs has been a haven for celebrities and Hollywood A-Listers looking to escape the craziness of Hollywood and relax in a sort of wide-open exclusion – a place where they could hang out and be pretty much left alone. As it turns out, during the 1950s and 1960s, the laid-back vibe of the Coachella Valley desert was attractive to more than just movie stars. The presence of mobsters in Palm Springs turned this town into the first so-called “Gangster’s Paradise.”

Paul Moses' gripping new book tells a story that begins in Sicily on Friday. March 12, 1909, at 8:45 p.m. Three gunshots thundered in the night, and then a fourth. Two men fled, and investigators soon discovered who they had killed: Giuseppe Petrosino, the legendary American detective whose exploits in New York were celebrated even in ltaly.

The American Mob Exhibit details how the government enacted laws to bring down leaders of the mob

Today, the most popular cheese used for pizza across New York and New Jersey is Grande Cheese, a low-moisture mozzarella that has impeccable melting capabilities and a distinct, cheesy flavor. The cheese—based out of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin—is considered by many pizza enthusiasts to be the gold standard of pizza cheese. And while it’s nice to assume that Grande’s rise to fame was strictly due to its high quality, the actual story of how Grande came to be the apex of pizza cheese is much more cynical.

This documentary’s examination of the singer, the president and organised crime is exhilaratingly grubby. The twisting, steadily intensifying story is a corker

Federal prison officials have their hands full keeping convicted mob bosses John Gotti and Vincent ”Chin” Gigante apart, The Post has learned

The feds fear that if the two mob chieftains meet, they’ll hatch plots together – or threaten to kill one another over past gripes, sources said.

Jeffrey Civitello Sr., 52, owner of Focus Construction in Schenectady, learns fate for role in NYC-to-Schenectady cocaine pipeline involving son and Bon

Angelo D'Onofrio was killed in 2016 while he was reading a newspaper at a café in Ahuntsic-Cartierville.

A nonprofit group of cold case crime investigators believes it has located a site in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa is buried.

The Case Breakers said a “dying police sergeant’s scribbled instructions on an ace of spades” playing card helped lead their years-long investigation to the old site of Milwaukee County Stadium in Wisconsin, according to a Wednesday press release.

James "Jimmy I" Inendino has always been known as a devoted Outfit member and lately known as one of the top leaders of the Chicago Mob. Now, the I-Team is revealing what has been unknown to most.

Inendino is listed in FBI records obtained by the I-Team as Informant Number 6931-C. Documents show his FBI connection dates back in the late 1960s and mid-1970s. This information did not appear to be common knowledge all the way up to Inendino's death of natural causes at age 80 this past week.