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More than 120 busted in northeast U.S. mafia crackdown

World Jan. 21, 2011 - 06:08AM JST ( 13 )

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ExportExpertJan. 21, 2011 - 09:18AM JST

And i wonder how many more of these hoods will turn Nark, used to be a code once stay quiet, stay staunch, but no one sticks to it nowadays. Mortadella!!
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american_bengoshiJan. 21, 2011 - 10:34AM JST

The FBI can bring down as many NY crime families as it wants. Unfortunately, new crime families pop up immediately to replace the departed. Organized crime cannot be completely eliminated. Human greed and lust for power will always overcome and endure.
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keika1628Jan. 21, 2011 - 10:53AM JST

Joe Bananas will turn in his grave learning that prosecutors praised Vitale's total betrayal of his own crew .
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lovejapan21Jan. 21, 2011 - 10:54AM JST

Mortadella, hahahhaha
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sabiwabiJan. 21, 2011 - 10:59AM JST

I guess they got in the way of the government-backed crime gangs...
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goddogJan. 21, 2011 - 12:06PM JST

This creates a great opportunity for the Latinos, Jamaicans, and Russians.
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TheQuestionJan. 21, 2011 - 01:15PM JST

Bah, all the real mobsters went to Windsor and Toronto years ago, I see them near the Ambassador bridge a lot. Sad too, they kept the other gangs in line for a long time. At least Anthony Zerilli has some class, since the mafias largely left the city the violence associated with the crappier parts of Detroit have spread to Warren and other, previously respectable, parts of Metro Detroit.

When the mafia was around I could walk down Woodward Avenue without a care in the world. But after years of muggings and the occasional group beatdown, just for the heck of it most of the time, most of us got CCW's just to get from our buildings to our cars. It used to be that if there was an Italian place on the block you'd expect a level of stability.
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paulinusaJan. 21, 2011 - 02:29PM JST

Always loved the nicknames: Benny Eggs, Fat Tony, Louie Lump Lump, Nicky Nails, Tony Tea Bags, and even Tokyo Joe (Ken Eto, a Japanese-American mobster in Chicago, you can Wiki him)
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goddogJan. 21, 2011 - 02:36PM JST

All the Japanese mafia in my town disappeared about two years ago as if spit out of the universe like a water melon seed.
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BadseyJan. 21, 2011 - 04:07PM JST

This is a good start -but they should be going after the financial terrorists that are stealing trillions of dollars every year now.
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ExportExpertJan. 21, 2011 - 04:24PM JST

They need to go through the mexican, african, middle eastern, chinese and other ethinic crime groups too and not just be stuck on the italian crime groups just because have been trying to take them down for 60 years.
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jason6Jan. 21, 2011 - 05:10PM JST

Italians are old news, but they still controlled large swaths of the north-eastern US and this was a culmination of years of work trying to turn this wiseguy. As for the people who wax nostalgic for the good old days when crime was controlled by these mafia, you have got to be kidding me. They were busy sucking the life blood out of society, laughing at useful idiots like you who approved of their "class".
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ThonTaddeoJan. 22, 2011 - 06:03AM JST

sentenced John “Sonny” Franzese, 93, to eight years in prison

Ouch.