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Las Vegas Mob Exhibit Gets Whacked (by Critics)
By Larry Knowles - AOL NewsA new Las Vegas Mafia exhibition that displays mob memorabilia and takes visitors on an interactive journey in which they may "get whacked" is attracting intense criticism from historians and Italian-American groups. The Las Vegas Mob Experience, which opened in early April at the Tropicana Hotel, has on display 1,500 artifacts purchased from the estates of Meyer Lansky, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Sam Giancana and other mobsters who gained notoriety in Las Vegas. During the interactive portion, patrons are given credentials with a new mob nickname and spirited through a series of role plays ...
Mob Wars Return to Vegas in Competing Attractions
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS -- It took decades to wrest control of this city's casinos from the mob, a bloody and drawn-out battle between law enforcement and its prey that left countless gangsters in jail, in witness protection or buried in unmarked desert graves. So imagine how surprised Bugsy, Lefty and their brethren would be to discover that a new Vegas mob war is brewing. Except this time, it's between the venerable Tropicana Hotel-Casino and the city of Las Vegas to see which can draw the most tourists to different multimillion-dollar attractions due to open by year's end. Steve Marcus, Las ...
Enrico Ponzo: 5 Facts on the Accused Mobster Nabbed on an Idaho Ranch
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsOnce a city slicker, always a city slicker. Enrico Ponzo, an alleged mobster on the run from the FBI, was arrested Monday at a ranch in rural Marsing, Idaho, where he'd been living under the alias "Jay Shaw." Marsing residents said they'd always had a few suspicions about "Jay," who was remarkably skilled with firearms and remarkably bad at ranching. Ponzo is being held without bail until a hearing Friday. Surge Desk has five facts on the man who didn't get away. 1. He's charged with attempted murder Ponzo was allegedly involved with the New England mafia in the 1980s. Authorities say he ...
Modern Mobsters Still Follow Dad Into the Mafia
By Allan Lengel - AOL NewsThe historic mobster roundup that collared more than 120 people in the New York region last month provided a snapshot of the Mafia of today: murder, gambling and extortion; big bosses and small fries; "made guys" and associates. But what it didn't show was the pervasive nepotism that still exists in organized crime -- only one son with a father with alleged ties to a crime family was arrested that day. Even so, organized crime experts say the mob of the 21st century, just like the one in the 20th century, is still a magnet for the younger generation. "Unfortunately, there's still quite a few ...
POLL: Best Mafia Nickname of Suspects Arrested by the FBI Today
By David Knowles - AOL NewsIf you're writing a screenplay for a movie about the mob, and you're having a tough time coming up with nicknames your mafiosi, today's sweeping arrests by the FBI should help provide you with some inspiration. Surge Desk has a look at the most colorful aliases of the usual suspects taken into custody by the feds in what is being called the largest arrest of reputed Mafia figures in U.S. history. 1. "Baby Shacks" Luigi Manocchio is said to have been given this name to honor his frequent liaisons with women. 2. "Baby Fat Larry" Anthony Durso's nickname offers an all-too-familiar visual of ...
127 Busted in Largest Mafia Roundup in FBI History
By Allan Lengel - AOL NewsFederal authorities today announced what they called the largest mob roundup in FBI history: the indictment of 127 people, including key Mafia figures from the New York, New Jersey and New England crime families, on charges ranging from murder and racketeering to gambling, extortion and loan-sharking. About 800 law enforcement members from the FBI, the Secret Service, the U.S. Labor Department, and state and local law enforcement today arrested 121 people who were named in 16 indictments filed in different jurisdictions. Four others were already in custody, and one member of the Colombo ...
Meet the 7 Mafia Families Caught Up in a Major Mob Sweep
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsIn a massive operation, the FBI and police have arrested 127 people allegedly connected to the mob in New York, Rhode Island, and New Jersey. It's the "largest single-day operation against La Cosa Nostra," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a press release on the arrests. Seven families associated with organized crime are represented in the sweep, including all of New York's "five families." So who are these real-life Soprano clans? Surge Desk introduces you to them. Genovese One of New York's "big five" Mafia families, the Genovese family allegedly specializes in labor ...
Feds Arrest More Than 120 in New York Area Mob Takedown
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- More than 120 organized crime associates face charges including murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking in one of the largest Mafia crackdowns in FBI history, prosecutors announced Thursday. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said at a news conference Thursday in New York City that the 127 defendants include high-ranking members of the Gambino and Colombo crime families and the reputed former boss of organized crime in New England. All of New York's five major crime families were targeted. The charges cover decades worth of offenses, he said, including "classic mob hits to ...
Sentenced at 93, Mob Underboss Was Wiseguy's Wiseguy
By Allan Lengel - AOL NewsThe story line of Colombo family underboss John "Sonny" Franzese, 93, of New York reads something like this: He knew Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. He got booted from the Army in World War II for displaying homicidal tendencies. His son testified against him in trial last year. And the feds recorded him talking about hiding bodies -- though he was never convicted of murder. And now Franzese, a wiseguy's wiseguy who a federal prosecutor said was responsible for the "glamorization of the Mafia over the past century," could spend what's left of his life in prison. His grandchildren and ...
Mafia Turncoat Salvatore Vitale Sentenced to Time Served
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- UPDATED, 5:45 p.m. EDT -- An epic New York mafia tale came to its climax today when a Brooklyn Federal Court judge sentenced Salvatore "Good Looking Sal" Vitale, an underboss of the Bonanno crime family who turned FBI informant in January 2003, to time already served. He has been in prison since he was arrested in 2003. Vitale, 63, pleaded guilty to 11 murders, but prosecutors asked Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis for leniency because of the extraordinary number of mobster convictions and law enforcement leads his cooperation has engendered. "Quite simply, Vitale has likely been ...
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