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Gotti Grandson Makes Bizarre References to Last Week's Howard Beach Murder

John Gotti grandson UPDATED In an exclusive interview with the New York Daily News on Saturday, John Gotti (grandson of the notorious former Gambino crime family boss) detailed some of the dynamics that he believes led to his arrest two days prior to his discussion with two journalists.

His own decision to allegedly mastermind the selling of Oxycodone and other diverted prescription drugs didn't figure once in the interview. And, disturbingly, for reasons of his own, he referenced the bruta...

Gotti Grandson Disturbingly References Last Week's Murder in Howard Beach

John Gotti grandson
In an exclusive interview with the New York Daily News on Saturday, John Gotti (grandson of the notorious former Gambino crime family boss) detailed some of the dynamics that he believes led to his arrest two days prior to his discussion with two journalists.

His own decision to allegedly mastermind the selling of Oxycodone and other diverted prescription drugs didn't figure once in the interview. And, disturbingly, for reasons of his own, he referenced the brutal rape...

Daily News Missed Major Sopranos' Cue

Bada Bing bada boop The New York Daily News doesn't know a good lede when it sees one...

(With apologies to "Chin" author Larry McShane, who had nothing to do with this Confidential article published today.)

The newspaper, in a piece that highlights newly released book Big Blue Wrecking Crew, notes how the championship-winning 1986 New York Giants played hard but partied even harder.

"Drugs, sex and all-night partying were key parts of the game plan for some of the players, according to...

Philly Connection to "East Coast" Case? (And What's Compound Cream, Anyway?)

Compound lotion kingpin Joey Merlino....
The "massive" federal racketeering conspiracy indictment that broke this past Thursday named 46 mobsters, of which 39 were arrested.

Among the arrested was Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino, whom the Feds say still runs the Philadelphia mob family, which was also named in the indictment (though not a single mobster was yanked off the streets of Philly by the Feds during the "East Coast Syndicate" bust, as it's been dubbed.)

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the S...

The Mob's Grip on New York's Nightlife

John Gotti, in a surveillance video. Source
The Friends of Ours blogger is offering for 99 cents a Kindle ebook that is such a worthy addition to your library of books about the Mafia, I feel dutified to promote it. (Did I just invent a word?)

The author raises questions some mobsters most likely are uncomfortable discussing publicly. Which is putting it mildly.

It should come as no surprise that mobsters were killed over mere allegations of homosexuality. According to what one Mafia c...

Alleged Drug-Dealing Grandson Broke John Gotti's Cardinal Rule

Grandson of John Gotti.

John Gotti, Gambino crime family boss, never, ever conducted mob business in his home.

The reason was simple: he never wanted what happened yesterday to happen to him. The legendary mob boss sought to protect his family from anything related to that other world.

Yesterday was the first time ever that anyone entered the late John Gotti's Howard Beach home uninvited. And it was NYPD cops armed with a search warrant who gained entry and reportedly ransacked the place as per...

Latest Indictment Shows Mafia Has Fallen

Bronx-based restaurant allegedly owned by Genovese capo on ruling panel of East Cost Syndicate case.
REVISED
The Italian-American Mafia is still something of a force in New York City, if nowhere else. 
But despite American law enforcement's efforts to depict it as otherwise, it's clear the mob is nowhere near the menace it once actually was. Even the nicknames suck.

It's difficult to read this latest indictment and believe this entity was once a mighty, highly structured criminal organizatio...

Gotti Grandson, Others, Charged with Running Queens-based Drug Ring

Former Gambino boss John Gotti's grandson and namesake appears to be facing a long, uphill legal battle, at the end of which a possible 25-year prison stretch may await him.
And in an ironic twist, it may be his own words that do him in.
Gotti, who was arrested with six others today, is alleged to have sold drugs to undercover officers -- and most of the buys were allegedly videotaped. In addition, numerous incriminating conversations were recorded as part of the year-long operation led by...

Merlino, Dozens of New York Mobsters Arrested; Gotti Grandson, Six Nabbed in Queens Drug Probe

Philadelphia mob boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino and more than 40 made members and associates from four of New York's Five Families were arrested this morning in a massive Cosa Nostra takedown. (Looks like I was more accurate than I thought with that headline about 2016 not coming up aces for Merlino.)

The federal indictment alleges this unique criminal operation spanned from New York and the Northeast to Florida (and Costa Rica, even), according to the indictment. No one in Philadelphi...

Kenji Gallo's Breakshot Reissued; Sequel Due

See Manhattan skyline
Kenny "Kenji" Gallo is back with a reissued updated version of Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia, his story about serving as a Colombo crime family associate. (He also had ties to the Luchese and Los Angeles crime families, when the latter still existed.)

Seeing the dead-end nature of "the life" he was living, Gallo, an Asian-American, flipped, wore a wire and testified against all three crime families, which resulted in him writing and publish...