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A federal jury yesterday found reputed New England mob underboss Gennaro J. Angiulo, two of his brothers and an associate guilty of running a racketeering operation the government said included murder conspiracies, gambling and extortion.
Detectives quickly excluded the Notarnicola family as suspects. In nearby New Rochelle, Secret Service agents arresting three suspects for credit-card fraud inadvertently discovered a letter threatening further poisonings unless the three were paid $2 million. Investigators believed the note was a fraud, an attempt to cash in on a...
Ingram had been known to visit other universities in much the same manner, Johnson said. At the time, Ingram was under federal warrant for extortion and other crimes committed in the state of Maine.
Among the defendants, the big cheese for prosecutors is Gaetano Badalamenti, 50, a Mafia capo who fled Sicily after a bloody gang war erupted in the late 1970s over control of the heroin trade. Badalamenti and his son Vito were ^ arrested in Spain and extradited to the U.S. for trial...
The West Coast has been hardest hit, particularly the Los Angeles area. Says Detective John Clark: "We're keeping a lid on it, but that's about all." There are 422 gangs reported in the county, and they "are putting communities over the barrel of a gun," says Tom Garrison...