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18 hrs ago | NorthJersey.com

Pequannock man accused in plot to extort Hawthorne landscaper

A Pequannock man who battled allegations of mob ties when he served as president of Teamsters Local 560 in the 1980s was arrested Thursday in an alleged plot to extort more than $200,000 from a Hawthorne landscaper by using the threat of Mafia muscle.

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Related Topix: Pequannock, NJ, Union City, NJ, Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Out of Control

New At Reason: Treating Wall Street Like the Mafia

I have a new commentary posted at Reason Online looking at how Sen. Dodd's new Agency for Financial Stability would be the financial equivalent for the FBI seeking to take down La Cosa Nostra: Perhaps Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd thinks of himself as a modern day John Sherman.

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Related Topix: US Senate, US Politics, Democrat, US News, Christopher Dodd

CTV.ca

Who's been torching cafes in Montreal?

Home : Top Stories : Who's been torching cafes in Montreal? Who's been torching cafes in Montreal? The Canadian Press Date: Friday Nov.

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Related Topix: Social Software

Independent Online

Suspect in Naples video killing nabbed

Naples, Italy - Italian police arrested on Thursday the suspected gunman whose shooting of an alleged mobster in Naples was controversially distributed on video last month, news reports said.

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Related Topix: Italy, World News,

WEAR TV3

Billings' Murder: An Indepth Look

It's been 4 months since a group of men, dressed as ninjas, burst into the home of Byrd and Melanie Billings and shot them to death.

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Related Topix: Gonzalez, FL, Escambia County, FL

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Austrian Times

Police says they have arrested CCTV Mafia killer

Policemen in southern Italy say they have caught the hitman who cold bloodedly gunned down a Mafia boss in broad daylight outside a bar.

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Related Topix: Italy, World News,

Slam Sports

Quebec AG pours fuel on construction-scandal fire

Quebec's auditor general lambasted the province's handling of the construction industry Wednesday, fuelling a scandal that has already prompted numerous demands for a public inquiry.

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Related Topix: Winter Sports, Curling

FoxNews.com

Junior Gotti Claims He Has, but Can You Quit Mob?

FILE: John Gotti Jr. exits Manhattan federal court IN 2006 after his third trial ended in a mistrial in New York.

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Related Topix: Federal Prisons, Marion, IL, Prison

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Weekday Magazine - Azerbaijan

Lawyer's Death Puts Spotlight On Kremlin's Battle With Investment Fund

A Russian lawyer representing the embattled Hermitage Capital investment fund has died in a Moscow prison after complaining for weeks that he was denied adequate medical treatment.

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Related Topix: Prison, Vladimir Putin

Seguin Gazette-Enterprise

Two charged with murder in shooting death

Police concluded their investigation into the Oct. 16 shooting of Garland Taylor on Tuesday serving a pair of murder warrants on men previously arrested and already in custody on organized crime allegations.

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Related Topix: Guadalupe County, TX, Seguin, TX, McQueeney, TX

The Times

Sicilian Mafia arrest gives...

Comment about "Sicilian Mafia arrest gives Italy's mob leadership problems" Phone Name Comment 0 Sicilian Mafia arrest gives Italy's mob leadership problems Philip Pullella, Reuters Masked Italian police officers accompany captured fugitive Domenico Raccuglia to a police station in Palermo.

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Related Topix: Italy, World News

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Edmonton Journal

Surgeon target of alleged murder plot

A prominent laser eye surgeon who operates at an Edmonton clinic was the target of a murder-for-hire plot commissioned by his business partner and former brother-in-law, court documents allege.

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Related Topix: Prison

Daily Business Review

Special Report: Health Care Fraud

Ali Shaygan ponders how to put his life back together as New Age music filters from the stereo.

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Related Topix: Drug Enforcement Administration, Drugs, Prison, US Governors, Charlie Crist

Mon Nov 16, 2009

BBC

Two more mafia bosses arrested

Italian police say they have arrested two more suspected mafia bosses, a day after seizing their brother in a raid near the southern city of Naples.

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Sun Nov 15, 2009

NY Daily News

Italian police arrest Sicilian mafia boss on run for 15 years

Domenico Raccuglia is considered one of the most prominent members of the Cosa Nostra.

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Montreal Gazette

Media use the M-word too much

Nicolo Rizzuto, once considered the mafia godfather of Canada, is led away by police.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

Star Tribune

Petters associate Reynolds begins testifying

Today is the day that Tom Petters' attorneys have been waiting for. Larry Reynolds, a Los Angeles business associate who has pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy in what the government contends was a $3.5 billion Ponzi scheme run by Petters, began testifying this morning in a federal court room in St.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Boston Metro, Religion, Scientology

Fri Nov 13, 2009

The Independent

Sarah Sands: Why it takes a mother to make the male of the species blush

The New York racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti, son of the late mafia boss, so far suggests a man who knows his own mind.

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Related Topix: Opinion

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Get Wokingham

Out on DVD: Public Enemies

Set during the great depression of the 1930s, Public Enemies tells the story of bank robber John Dillinger.

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Related Topix: Public Enemies, Edward Scissorhands, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Johnny Depp

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Haaretz

On the origin of criminals

Not even the Iranian threat, the spread of poverty in Israel or the growing violence are as frightening to Shas leaders as what they consider the real danger threatening the existence of the State of Israel - the Gentiles.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Judaism, Prison

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