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  1981 in organized crime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1980 in organized crime, other events of 1981, 1982 in organized crime and the list of 'years in Organized Crime'.
Bufalino crime family Capo Edward Sciandra assumes leadership of the criminal organization.
May 5 - Dominick Trinchera, one of several members within the Bonanno crime family who attempted to take control over the organization from Philip Rastelli the previous year, disappears.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1981_in_organized_crime   (262 words)

  
 William D'Elia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
June 24, 1946) is an American mafioso and current leader of the Bufalino Crime Family.
D'Elia began working with the Bufalino crime family in the late 1960s as Russell Bufalino's driver.
In 1990 Bufalino was involved in a money laundering operation involving the Exeter, Pennsylvania based newspaper The Metro, in which the IRS claimed over $3.0 million was laundered from drug and prostitution rings from which non existent advertisements and subscribers were purchased until its eventual closing in 1998.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_D'Elia   (232 words)

  
 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The '''Bufalino Crime Family''' is a organized crime criminal organization based in Scranton, Pennsylvania Scranton, Pittston, Pennsylvania Pittston and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania United States of America USA within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known familiarly as the Mafia (also known as La Cosa Nostra).
Law enforcement estimates that the Bufalino family consists of approximately 25 members, and an unknown (but presumably large) number of associates, operating chiefly in the area of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Northwestern New Jersey, Southern and Western New York while maintaining strong contacts with mafia counterparts in [Los Angeles], New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and New England.
Image:Bufalino_billydelia.jpg thumb200pxWilliam "Big Billy" D'Elia, boss of the Bufalino crime family since 1994 Since Russell Bufalino's death in 1994, and Edward Sciandra's "retirement" to Florida, William D'Elia became the new boss of the crime family in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
www.mauspfeil.net /Bufalino_crime_family.html   (1028 words)

  
 Laborers-LIUNA Local 210 Ron Fino and Buffalo Mafia
However, in 1933 when remnants of another Cleveland gang, the Porrello family, tried to muscle in on the Buffalo corn sugar business, guns blazed and the Porrellos were turned back losing their fifth family member in four years.
The crime family members came to this conclusion after Peter Magaddino’s Niagara Falls apartment was raided and a suitcase containing $521,000 was found under his bed.
Angered by this rejection, he took his demands to the family leadership of which Salvatore "Sam" Pieri was the acting boss in the wake of Magaddino’s death.
www.laborers.org /AmericanMafia_Fino_.htm   (2954 words)

  
 Organized Crime
The coast-to-coast syndicate that ruled crime for most of the 20th century was an overarching, ruthless, and extremely deadly corporation.
The Brass Wall: The Betrayal of Undercover Detective In 1993, Vincent Armanti, Undercover Detective #4126, agreed to infiltrate the branch of the Luchese family responsible for the homicide of a beloved fireman.
Vehicle Crime -- Illicit trafficking of vehicles is a form of organized crime which generates large profits for the perpetrators (estimated at 19 Billion USD which disappears into a parallel economy) and a feeling of insecurity that affects the public particularly due to the increased used of violence.
www.karisable.com /crmob.htm   (6245 words)

  
 Big Sal Miciotta
He was prepared to testify that Gigante and the Luchese family had agreed to make Gotti and his underboss Frank DeCicco (photo at right) pay with their lives for the unauthorized slaying of Gotti's predecessor, Paul Castellano.
TEAMSTER from Pennsylvania wants Andy to "explain the relationship between the Bufalino Family in Pittston, Pa. and the DeCavalcante Family of North Jersey with the five families of NYC, especially in the area of labor racketeering" and to recommend books about the two families.
However, Russell Bufalino was well respected and had many influential connections with other families in the eastern states.
www.ganglandnews.com /column35.htm   (1318 words)

  
 Rosario "Russell" Bufalino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bufalino (known as "Russell Bufalino") rose to the leadership of a Scranton, Pennsylvania, based Mafia Family.
Bufalino became acting boss for the Scranton Family around 1956, when boss Joe Barbara began having serious heart problems.
Bufalino was likely calling the shots for the organization when the nation's mafiosi met at Barbara's Apalachin, NY, estate in 1957.
www.onewal.com /w-bufali.html   (147 words)

  
 The Mafia in America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In 1986,after three years of investigation and follow-up, the heads of three of the five crime families of New York were convicted of running the Mafia as a continuing criminal enterprise controlled by a ruling national commission.
The family is involved in airport cargo hijacking (one of their crews, headed by the late Paul Vario, was the subject of the 1990 motion picture Good Fellas), Florida gambling, the carting industry, construction, pornography, and labor union racketeering.
Maranzano was the principal architect of the “five family” organizational structure existing in New York, and the head of this particular family until September 10,1931 when he was murdered in his Park Avenue office.
www.search-international.com /Articles/crime/mafiaamerica.htm   (4786 words)

  
 Organized Crime Syndicates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A bar-be-que for such faraway crime bosses like Frank DeSimone of Los Angeles, James Coletti of Colorado, Carlo Marcello of New Orleans, Jack Civello of Dallas, Santo Trafficante of Tampa and Cuba were in attendence.
All the crime families of the midwest and the northeast were represented.
Gambino had now assumed control over the Brooklyn crime family and prior to the Anastasia murder his underboss, Frank Scalise, was killed on the belief he had been selling memberships into the secret society.
www.geocities.com /OrganizedCrimeSyndicates/GiuseppeBarbara.html   (1066 words)

  
 The Hoffa Wars: Chapter One
Although other mob families had at first been neutral in the "Banana Wars," which lasted from 1963 to 1969, their attitude quickly changed when they uncovered a plot to murder two other New York crime bosses, Carlo Gambino and Thomas Lucchese.
As president of the Teamsters he had had a close working relationship with the New York crime families as well as Marcello and Trafficante, but his ties to the latter two mobsters were exceptionally close and personal.
Russell Bufalino had also been among the mob chieftains whom the CIA solicited for direct action against Castro, and Genovese crime captain Provenzano had in 1974 come under the jurisdiction of gangland leaders, including Russell Bufalino, who were now trustees of the Genovese family.
www.moldea.com /Hoffa.html   (4356 words)

  
 Memorandum and Order for Trusteeship-Chicago District Council
Although there were reports of organized crime in various areas of the United States dating from the early 1920s, the existence of a national organized crime structure gained media attention in 1957, when a number of individuals were arrested while attending a secret meeting in Appalachia, New York.
Court-authorized electronic surveillance of organized crime leaders revealed that the Commission of LCN existed and acted as a unit for coordinating joint ventures and settling disputes among organized crime units across the country.
A legitimate inference may be drawn, based upon the actual organized crime associates and the sons and nephews of organized crime figures in the District Council, that this union is a safe haven for the employment of relatives of organized crime figures.
members.tripod.com /jimmcgough/memordchi.htm   (16526 words)

  
 Alleged mafia boss Jack Tocco, 16 leaders indicted by grand jury for extortion, obstruction of justice
In the past 12 months, the heads of crime families in Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Newark and New York City have been indicted or convicted as part a national crackdown on La Cosa Nostra.
Bufalino charged that many of the allegations in the indictment came from party store owners whom federal authorities caught running illegal bookmaking and numbers games and evading taxes.
Bufalino claimed federal grandstanding, but federal authorities said their five-year investigation was meticulously detailed.
www.forensic-intelligence.org /mob/40062.htm   (1398 words)

  
 TESTIMONY OF RALPH SALERNO
They established that there were families, that this was the ruling body of the commission, that those families that do not have a leader who is on the commission can have their interests represented for them before the commission.
The families have a position known as counselor, or they use the Italian word consigliere, who is considered to be an adviser and who is available to all of the members of the family.
Permissive crime is the name for the organized crime that flourishes in the ghettos, designed, directed, and activated by the white national crime syndicates operating numbers, narcotics, and prostitution rackets freely in protective sanctuaries of the ghettos.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu /russ/jfkinfo2/jfk5/saler.htm   (18638 words)

  
 The Literary Group International
As head of the Bonanno crime family, Joseph Massino was smart, cautious and treacherous.
The last Five Family Don in operation, he was taken down in 2004 for seven brutal murders.
A six-foot, 300-pound capo in the Philadelphia-South Jersey crime family, he ran every mob scam and gambit from drug trafficking, prostitution, and extortion to flimflams that cost an Atlantic City casino millions.
www.theliterarygroup.com /books/crime.html   (1257 words)

  
 In the Matter of Local 1058  Laborers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In the absence of direct evidence of knowledge of a person’s organized crime ties, knowledge may be inferred from the duration and quality of the association.
Sixty-two organized crime leaders from across the nation attended what appeared to be a national conference at the home of Joseph Barbara.
The hierarchy of leadership in each LCN family consists of the head of a family, the boss; his assistant, the underboss; and, an advisor, the consigliere.
www.thelaborers.net /decisions/t00-08pittsburgh-1058.htm   (7203 words)

  
 Wise guy blabbermouths damage Detroit Mob's image / Underlings flub tasks, are caught on FBI tapes
But that was when the family, and Giacalone, were better known for their role in one of America's most famous disappearances.
But what he couldn't keep secret was the way the fortunes of the Detroit family's business so closely had tracked his own -- vigorous in youth, famous and intimidating in middle age, a bit soft, suburban and infirm at the close of the century.
The family had built close ties to the big labor unions so prevalent in Detroit's auto industry, which is how Giacalone became an associate of one- time Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/05/03/MN97650.DTL   (1489 words)

  
 Organized Crime / U.S.
Organized crime in New York City has been controlled since the 1920s by five Mafia families, the largest of which was the Gambino family.
From Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel to the Kennedy family, and from Mormon bankers and the Mafia to Hank Greenspun, Howard Hughes and Paul Laxalt, the events that intersect this little piece of deranged desert are too vast for even two reporters.
Moldea chronicles the long-standing relationship between the NFL and organized crime, which has resulted in no fewer than 26 past and present NFL team owners with documented ties to either gambling or the syndicate, evidence of 70 fixed professional games, and the suppression of at least 50 law enforcement investigations of NFL corruption.
www.namebase.org /books45.html   (1963 words)

  
 Union Corruption: Why It Happens, How to Combat It   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Nearly a decade later, in 1971, a commission, the Bi-State Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, concluded that the Brooklyn docks were heavily infiltrated by the Gambino crime family, the New Jersey docks by the Genovese crime family, and the Manhattan docks by a Florida-based crime syndicate.
Embezzlement is a crime of bookkeeping, not coercion, and for this reason has the reputation as being the province of accountants and secretaries.
Provenzano was a capo in the Genovese crime family, and boss of Teamsters Local 560 in New Jersey.
www.nilrr.org /corruption.htm   (20610 words)

  
 KCKPL AS/New Books November2003
Other inverted worlds included here are a yellow journalist, a porno tycoon, and a corpse in the hold of a stricken airliner, apparently determined, even in death, to bring down the plane that carries his spouse.
Laura Banner gathers her children and family around her during the Christmas holiday to celebrate their lives together, to prepare them for their future without her, and to leave them with her blessings for a happy life.
Alex Cross’ family is in terrible danger – at the same time that his new job with the FBE brings him the scariest case of his career.
www.kckpl.lib.ks.us /refdept/nbks1103.htm   (3700 words)

  
 Extratv.com : 'The Sopranos'
They've been missing so long, you’d think America’s favorite crime family joined the Witness Protection Program.
But Entertainment Weekly's senior editor Jamie Bufalino says you will still see wise guys and wiretaps, and a major mob hit.
Bufalino says unlike most network shows, the lengthy time away has actually helped, not hurt, the critically acclaimed series.
extratv.warnerbros.com /dailynews/extra/08_02/08_29b.html   (193 words)

  
 Nuclear 9/11: Interview with Dr. Paul L. Williams by Ryan Mauro – The New Media Journal.us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
I came upon the story of bin Laden's acquisition of tactical nuclear weapons while working as the editor/publisher of THE METRO and a consultant on organized crime for the FBI.
Several members of the Chechen Mafiya, who had emigrated to Little Odessa, muscled into the operations of the Bufalino Crime Family in Northeast Pennsylvania by selling choice Number Four heroin, guns of every description, and stolen high-end cars from New York and New Jersey.
The Albanians have taken over the operations of the Italian-American crime families and have become, according to the FBI, the leading criminal organization in the US.
www.therant.us /guest/mauro/01052006.htm   (2752 words)

  
 Laborers local 1058 (Pittsburgh) Order and Memorandum imposing supervision in lieu of trusteeship
  In the absence of direct evidence of knowledge of a person’s organized crime ties, knowledge may be inferred from the duration and quality of the association.
  The hierarchy of leadership in each LCN family consists of the head of a family, the boss; his assistant, the underboss; and, an advisor, the consigliere.
The LCN code of conduct dictates that members follow their superiors’ orders without question; refuse to give information or assistance to law enforcement; pay assessments imposed by superiors; respect other members regardless of personal feelings; and, refuse to information about the organization to outsiders.
www.ipsn.org /pittsburgh/t2000-08t-03-9-2001.htm   (5018 words)

  
 THE LINE 6 USER GROUP DISCUSSION FORUM - The man commissioned to nuke the U.S.
That's one of the most idiotic positions you've taken so far.
I'm not on welfare, bud, and I protect my home and family probably far better than you.
There's a significantly good chance that one of the former Soviet nukes (or, other nation but, nations tend to hold onto them very tight whereas the USSR kind of imploded) has fallen into the hands a hostile group.
www.instituteofnoise.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20650   (897 words)

  
 Paul Williams: Al-Qaida plotting nuclear attack with weapons already in U.S. - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Al-Qaida plotting nuclear attack with weapons already in U.S. Posted: September 3, 2005
Paul L. Williams is a former consultant to the FBI on organized crime and terrorism.
Several members of the Chechen Mafia, who had emigrated to Little Odessa, muscled into the operations of the Bufalino Crime Family in Northeast Pennsylvania by selling choice No. Four heroin, guns of every description, and stolen high-end cars from New York and New Jersey..........
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=229321   (399 words)

  
 Whistle Stopper Political Forums - American Hiroshima: Al-Qaeda plotting nuclear attack with weapons already in U.S.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Nothing like some nice Saturday morning reading material to go with the coffee.
According to Paul Williams in The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime, And the Coming Apocalypse, a nuclear attack that will make the United States go "night-night" is imminent.
I urge even the most skeptical to read the following few paragraphs and tell us what you think.
www.whistlestopper.com /forum/showthread.php?threadid=34977   (2779 words)

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