Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Dec 1, 2009, 2:07 pm
The ABA Journal's online directory has invited readers to vote for their favorite blogs from among their annual ABA Journal Blawg 100 in each of 10 categories. Every year, the list has occasioned....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Nov 30, 2009, 10:04 am
Chicago Outfit bosses have devised some shrewd excuses to stall justice, from feigning heart attacks and strokes to babbling incoherently as if possessed by an evil spirit.About the time most people.....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Nov 29, 2009, 2:20 pm
John Gotti Jr. sat at the defense table, the weight of his family history and whatever we have learned from countless movies and TV dramas about the Mafia, swirling around him.This was the fourth...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Nov 29, 2009, 2:07 pm
The Other Chicago Mob the story of Officer Gary Cohen, a cop from 1966 to 1988. He and his brother officers were almost universally opportunists, crooks, and in some way on the take in a police...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Nov 28, 2009, 2:46 pm
Matteo Garrone's GOMORRAH is a dense, sprawling exposé of the corruption plaguing the communities of Naples and Caserta in modern-day Italy. all-powerful Camorra syndicate influences the lives o...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Nov 20, 2009, 1:19 pm
A reputed member of the Chicago mob was sentenced to 71/2 years in prison Monday when he pleaded guilty to burglarizing a Lincolnshire house.Mario Rainone, 54, pleaded guilty to residential burglary.....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Nov 9, 2009, 9:56 am

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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Nov 5, 2009, 1:58 pm
Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the arrest of DANIEL BONILLA, age 26, whose last known address was 2544 North...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 29, 2009, 4:52 am
At least one company is making money off of social networking. The game developer behind 'FarmVille' and 'Mafia Wars' has seen its web-based games take off – and deliver profits.On a...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 28, 2009, 10:41 am
There's more infighting on the Gotti jury than at a gangland sitdown - and they're not even deliberating yet!A tattling juror revealed the bad blood in a letter to the judge - ratting out a...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 28, 2009, 8:28 am
Rising from a swampy flatland a little more than a century ago, Miami has grown to become a trend-setting metropolis known for tourism, fashion, nightlife and style. Miami is also the city of...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 27, 2009, 7:49 pm
A deputy U.S. marshal who was convicted of leaking secret information about a mob witness was sentenced today to four years in prison — a punishment a judge said is designed to deter others in law.....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 26, 2009, 2:24 pm
You don’t have to understand the intricacies of Italian politics to wholeheartedly enjoy Il Divo (on DVD 10/27), a fascinating and thrilling portrait of seven-time Italian Prime Minister Giulio...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 25, 2009, 2:01 pm
An undercover, six-month penetration of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, (CAIR) by a former federal agent under the guise of converting to Islam, is the subject of a book...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 23, 2009, 8:18 pm
It seems there are two types of The Office episodes: the story-based type that takes a plot progression and sprinkles comedic jokes throughout, and then the joke-based type that uses a wafer-thin...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 22, 2009, 9:42 pm
John Gotti Jr.’s lawyer is considering making a star defense witness out of the mob rat whose testimony consigned Gambino crime family boss John Gotti Sr. to a life prison term, but this time he may...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 22, 2009, 2:07 pm
Semion Mogilevich may be the most powerful man you've never heard of.The FBI says Mogilevich, a Russian mobster, has been involved in arms trafficking, prostitution, extortion and murder for hire....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 21, 2009, 8:20 am
Police often say organized crime in B.C. is big business. So perhaps it was only a matter of time before gangsters adopted the device of choice among corporate workaholics: the BlackBerry.It has...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 20, 2009, 2:28 am
For 23 years, it's been a mystery just where Chicago mob boss Tony Spilotro and his younger brother, Michael, were killed.CBS 2's John "Bulldog" Drummond got the very first look at a home in.....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 19, 2009, 1:10 pm
Jerome Tuccille's newest book, Gallo be Thy Name, follows the family saga of how the Gallo wine family rose from abject poverty in the early 1900s to become the most successful wine company in the...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 18, 2009, 2:20 pm
Illinois state Sen. James DeLeo (D-Chicago) -- who has made public statements questioning the existence of the Chicago mob -- was credited by former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office with trying to he...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 18, 2009, 11:51 am
Two cars traveled down a country road towards the Conkle farm, two miles south of a small town named Clarkson on the eastern edge of Ohio. It was 4:10 on the afternoon of October 22, 1934, and...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 16, 2009, 4:07 pm
Reputed suburban Chicago mobster Rudy Fratto pleaded guilty Tuesday to evading thousands of dollars in federal income taxes.Fratto, 65, of suburban Darien, pleaded guilty to a single charge of...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 15, 2009, 2:52 am
Of the 21 people banned from Nevada casinos between 1990 and 2000, most had alleged mob connections. From 2001 to today, only seven names were added to the list, and all except one were casino...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 13, 2009, 8:23 pm
"When Enough is Enough"I have been informed that the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois has requested that the Attorney General of the United States extend the S...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 13, 2009, 7:13 pm
Joseph "Mousie" Massimino, the reputed underboss of the Philadelphia mob, is coming home after serving more than five years of a 10-year sentence on a New Jersey racketeering charge.Judge Anthony...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 13, 2009, 6:57 am
Lured by easier money and shorter prison sentences, Mafia figures and other violent criminals are increasingly moving into Medicare fraud and spilling blood over what was once a white-collar crime....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 11, 2009, 7:53 pm
Victoria Gotti may be starting off a book tour like a celebrity author, but her brother John "Junior" Gotti has been sweating it out in court as prosecutors try to show he was a typical organized...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 11, 2009, 7:03 pm
And on the seventh day, he lost it.An enraged John A. (Junior) Gotti exploded Thursday, fed up after a week's worth of damning testimony from his ex-best friend - reportedly threatening to murder ...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 11, 2009, 6:50 pm
An alleged Mafia associate was arrested on racketeering charges while on his honeymoon in Honolulu.Twenty-seven-year-old Vito Pipitone is in custody awaiting a federal judge's decision on whether ...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 11, 2009, 6:47 pm
The mob may no longer run Las Vegas but the mafia took over The Bank at Bellagio last night.Three 6 Mafia, that is.The Academy Award-winning group was at the glamorous nightspot Thursday night to...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 11, 2009, 6:35 pm
Chris Charles says he warned his star up front: "But I don't think it really registered till his first day of shooting in downtown Chicago."Charles had cast Frank Vincent as the lead in Chicago...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 11, 2009, 6:27 pm
In "Chicago Overcoat," Lou Marazano (Frank Vincent), a has-been hit man who hung up his weapons in the 1980s, comes out of retirement 20 years later to resume his career as a triggerman for the...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 11, 2009, 6:12 pm
If this column were written regularly in Turkish and I were a columnist of greater importance, I would have sworn that the man opposite me had been reading my mind. The man opposite me is, of course,....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 11, 2009, 6:01 pm
The I-Team has learned that the Chicago Police Department's renowned gambling unit has been disbanded. It's a decision that some call a bad bet.Here we are at the height of the football wageri...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 11, 2009, 4:40 pm
Kate "Ma" Barker (October 8, 1873 January 16, 1935) was an American criminal from the "public enemy era", when the exploits of gangs of criminals in the Midwest gripped the American people and press.....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 11, 2009, 3:28 pm
The man frequently identified as a kingpin of organized crime in the Worcester area for much of the latter half of the past century and a highly decorated World War II combat veteran died Monday at...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 9, 2009, 12:28 pm
A 33-count indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn federal court charging members and associates of the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (the Bonanno family) variously with racketeering,.....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Oct 7, 2009, 5:34 pm
After being released from prison and living in Las Vegas, former Illinois politician Betty Loren-Maltese is ready to spill the beans.
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Sep 29, 2009, 10:16 am
Try as she might to be a typical working mother, Victoria Gotti will always be known as the mob boss's daughter.So, when her family approached her about writing a memoir about life as a Gotti, she...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Sep 29, 2009, 10:10 am
Far from being the self-made man he says he is, Joseph N. Merlino was actually set up in the construction business by his father, a convicted Mafia killer, a retired federal corruption investigator...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Sep 29, 2009, 10:02 am
Bada-bing. For some people, The Godfather is no mere movie but a manual – a guide to living the gangster's life. They lap up all that stuff about going to the mattresses and sleeping with the fi...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Sep 25, 2009, 1:15 pm
An Italian mafia boss used his pet crocodile to threaten people and extort money, authorities said.The caiman was 1.1 meters long (3.6 feet), the Italian Forest Service said.Antonio Cristofaro kept...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Sep 24, 2009, 12:24 am
A city of Chicago zoning inspector was arrested on federal charges for allegedly accepting a $600 cash bribe from a cooperating individual to provide two residential certificates of occupancy in...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Sep 23, 2009, 8:40 am
Plans for a Mafia exhibit in Las Vegas would include artifacts that lift the veil on how Mafia bosses really lived -- down to their favorite chairs, fancy china and shotguns.The Las Vegas Mob...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Sep 20, 2009, 10:50 am
It’s called Omerta – the code of silence. It’s an old world Mob term that still applies here in modern-day Chicago. And when we started asking about two companies tied to the Mob, we saw it in.....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Sep 17, 2009, 7:54 pm
Everybody is looking for stimulus money.From bridge builders to food stamp recipients, from roofers to subway riders, from teachers to housing project residents, people are eager to feel some part of....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Sep 16, 2009, 7:30 pm
The anonymous jury that decided the Family Secrets case was exhausted.After methodically working through stacks of evidence to convict four mob figures and a former Chicago police officer of...
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Sep 15, 2009, 9:00 am
Six Columbia alumni will debut their first feature-length film, Chicago Overcoat, at the Chicago International Film Festival on Oct. 10.Loosely based on the Chicago crime syndicate, Chicago Overcoat.....
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Joe B. posted an article on The Chicago Syndicate - Sep 11, 2009, 12:00 am

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