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Mobster ‘Vito Love’ is denied home confinement

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A mobster nicknamed “Vito Love” wasn’t shown any by a judge in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday. Judge Sandra Townes denied Gambino associate Vito “Vito Love” Cortesiano’s bid for home confinement to care for his disabled young son. His crimes — including gambling and loan-sharking — require jail, the judge said in sentencing him to 15...

Ex-cop among alleged mobsters busted for drugs, extortion

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Four alleged Gambino crime family associates — one of them a former Port Authority cop — were busted Tuesday in connection with the sale of narcotics and the extortion of a Manhattan businessman, sources told The Post. Two of the four, ex-PA cop Steve Cilluffo, 62, and Quentin Carbone, 49, were expected to be charged with extortion...

Mobster who had in-law killed gets off with time-served

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​A veteran mob rat was rewarded with a sentence of time served — just three days — for helping to whack his own brother-in-law despite pleas for punishment Thursday from his victim’s relatives. Calling his cooperation “historic,” prosecutors said Gambino associate Anthony Ruggiano Jr., 61, helped the feds bag capos Bartolomeo “Bobby Glasses” Vernace and...

US cops arrest alleged NY mobster at Italy’s request

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New York FBI agents on Thursday busted a reputed Gambino crime family underboss wanted in Italy on extortion charges. A court in the southern Italian city of Potenza had ordered the arrest of 61-year-old Francesco Palmeri after he and seven other mobsters allegedly tried to shake down an Italian businessman for $1 million. Federal agents...

Reputed mobster with reality TV past indicted

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A reputed Gambino associate whose criminal past and crumbling marriage were featured on the 2011 reality show “I Married a Mobster” is up to his old tricks. Fiore “Philly” Caruso, 59 — who once did a prison stint for drug-trafficking — has been indicted for allegedly selling undercover cops $23,000 worth of cocaine and nearly...

Fashion-conscious mobster gets over 3 years for gunrunning

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​This wiseguy turned in his scarf and blazer for prison duds. A fashion-conscious Italian mobster ​— ​who moved to New York to run a gun-dealing operation — ​was ​rewarded with a three-year-plus prison sentence Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court. Eschewing the American mob’s weakness for tracksuits and sneakers, Raffaele Valente wore a scarf​-​accented blazer-and-cardigan ensemble during...

Gotti, guns & gay bars: Inside NYC’s mob history

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Florida has Disney World, but New York has Gangland. The history of the mob in America begins here, at Ellis Island. Between 1899 and 1910, nearly 2 million southern Italians fled grinding poverty to arrive at the gateway to America — Giuseppe Masseria, Frank Costello and Salvatore Lucania (the future Charles “Lucky” Luciano) among them....

John Gotti’s ex-son-in-law arrested in car-theft probe

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Victoria Gotti ex and convicted Gambino mobster Carmine ­Agnello has been running the same old scrap-metal scam he plied in Queens in his new haunts in Ohio, according to an indictment charging he helmed a $3 million stolen-car racket there. Detective Lynn McCarthy, of the NYPD Organized Crime Investigation Division, on Wednesday handcuffed Agnello and...

Judge not impressed with John Gotti at ex-son-in-law’s bail hearing

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John Gotti apparently doesn’t have any pull in Cleveland. Prosecutors dropped the late mob legend’s name to no avail there Friday in asking that Victoria Gotti’s ex Carmine Agnello be held in lieu of a $1 million bail. A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge was not impressed, instead setting a $100,000 personal bond plus...

Mobster’s son: Tell us where ISIS is and fuhgeddaboutit

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The son of infamous mob figure John Gambino says La Cosa Nostra is ready to fight ISIS in New York City — and that the Mafia can do a better job of protecting the city from terror attacks than the NYPD. Giovanni Gambino said during an interview with NBC (below) that “the rise of global...

Brooklyn DA aide fired for alleged OT abuse during mob probe

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A supervising investigator in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office has been fired for skipping out on work she was getting paid for — and five other investigators are now being probed over possible overtime fraud during a lengthy, mob-tied gambling probe, The Post has learned. Detective Investigator Nicole Byrd, who oversaw the DA’s 24-hour command...

Gotti grandson takes the stand in car torching case

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The grandson of the late Dapper Don John Gotti appeared before a grand jury in Brooklyn federal court Thursday to answer questions about a Queens car arson, his lawyer told The Post. John Gotti, 22, the son of the late Gambino boss’ brother, Peter Gotti, is not a defendant in the case and opted to...

Biopic on mob boss John Gotti won’t be filming in New York City

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What, did they confuse the Queen City with Queens? A long-awaited biopic about notorious Big Apple mobster John Gotti is set to start filming in far-off Cincinnati — not New York City — on July 25. Production of “The Life and Death of John Gotti,” which stars John Travolta, is finally underway after years of...

‘Nicky the Wig,’‘Tugboat,’‘Tony the Cripple’ and dozens more mobsters arrested

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The mob rule of omerta may be a thing of the past, but one tradition clearly remains from La Cosa Nostra — wiseguys love their nicknames. Federal authorities in Manhattan rounded up dozens of Mafia soldiers, capos and associates Thursday — spanning four of the five New York crime families — with names like “Tugboat,”...

John Gotti’s namesake grandson busted on drug charges

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The namesake grandson of the late “Teflon Don” John Gotti, was busted in his grandpa’s old house in Queens early Thursday on drug charges, law enforcement sources said. Gotti and his girlfriend, Eleanor Gabrielli, 27, were grabbed up by cops in his Howard Beach home. Gotti is facing charges tied to peddling Oxycodone and other...

In scene out of a movie, over 40 mobsters pack courtroom

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This Manhattan mob case is so huge that it needed an especially large courtroom Tuesday — and even had to stuff reputed crime-family honchos into the vacant jury box just to fit all the defendants. “This is a complete mess,” muttered one of the more than 40 accused wiseguys, who go by nicknames such as...

Feds raid Victoria Gotti’s home, sons’ auto-parts business

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Federal agents on Wednesday raided the Long Island home of Victoria Gotti, daughter of late mob boss John Gotti, and an auto parts store in Queens run by her sons with mobbed-up ex-husband, Carmine Agnello, sources said. Agents executing a search warrant from the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office raided Gotti’s Old Westbury home and the...

Radio host denies sharing steamy pics with John Gotti’s daughter

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A radio-show host says his career was ruined — and he’s now in hiding — because ex-Gambino enforcer John Alite accused him of exchanging X-rated photos with John Gotti’s daughter. Jeff Lowman, known professionally as Jeff Canarsie, says in a new Brooklyn federal lawsuit that he lost business, including his “Mob Talk Radio” show broadcast online...

Reputed mobster ‘cannoli king’ sexually harassed waitress: suit

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A Little Italy waitress is taking on a reputed soldier in the Gambino crime family, accusing him of trying to stuff more than cannolis at his famous eatery. Angela Henderson, 27, says in a Manhattan federal court lawsuit that ex-boss John “Baby John” Delutro — known as the “Cannoli King” of Little Italy — sexually...

Gambino mobster sentenced to life in prison

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It took more than three decades, but a Gambino mobster finally met his fate in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday ​for the senseless 1981 slayings of two Queens bar owners. Former Gambino capo Bartolomeo Vernace, 65, was sentenced to life in prison for ​taking part in the murders, sparked by a drink​ ​innocently ​​spilled onto his...
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