This weekend, the Olof Gallery presents former mobster turned government snitch, Dominick Montiglio, as he joins the co-op of the autistic, insane, molested and otherwise marginalized artists paraded each year by the Outsider Art Fair. Dominick ‘The Cape’ Montiglio was once a high-ranking member of the infamous Gambino crime family. Read more »
After being tried four times on a variety of mafia-related charges, all ending in mistrials, the government announced today that they’re giving up on trying to send John Gotti Jr. to prison, which means there’s a big pot of celebratory sauce being whipped up somewhere in Long Island right now. |Times|
For as long as the mob has been operating within the United States, it has used pizza joints, butcher shops, cafes, etc. as front business for their illegal endeavors. I know this because I’ve watched every episode of The Sopranos. So I suppose it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Ray’s Pizza on Prince Street, the very first of the city’s 8 million Ray’s Pizza joints, was a longtime front for mobster Ralph Cuomo’s billion-dollar heroin trafficking enterprise, and since he died last year there’s been a whole bunch of fighting over who gets control of the restaurant. Now, one of the parties involved is breaking with mob oath and taking a disagreement into the court system. This cannot end well. Read more »
Whoa! Well here’s a new twist on the seemingly endless mobster trials that take place here in New York: convicted mob hitman Robert Mormando renounced his blood oath to La Casa Nostra and then proceeded to out himself in court yesterday as a lover of dong! Read more »
A raid of an Italian mafia guy’s home turned up something rather out of the ordinary, even for a mobster: a crocodile! Authorities say that the beast, likely imported illegally from Latin America, was used to…wait for it…scare the living shit out of people! Antonio Cristofaro, the aforementioned mafia guy, was charged with illegal possession of animals, which could become the Italian equivalent of the American RICO statutes, apparently. |CNN|
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