Showing posts with label Crime Families. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime Families. Show all posts
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Ronald Reagan Supported by MCA, Lew Wasserman
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[From article]
A poor boy from a Russian immigrant family, Wasserman grew up in Cleveland, worked as a movie house usher at night, and after getting his high school diploma -- he never went to college -- joined up with what was known as the Mayfield Road Gang, an Italian-led Mafia organization with ties to the Jewish mob -- helping to run a casino.
Moving up the career ladder in Chicago, Wasserman was recruited by founder Jules Stein who saw him as a bright boy with good ideas and made him an MCA talent agent. Stein was well-connected: his MCA was booking bands for the flashy nightclubs and crooked gambling houses run by legendary crime boss Al Capone. By then, Wasserman had taken a wife -- his attorney father-in-law reportedly was a reputed Mob mouthpiece.
In the late '30s, Stein and Wasserman followed the adage of Horace Greeley and went west, setting up shop in the ritzy center of the entertainment industry -- Beverly Hills, around the same time that the Chicago Mob was putting down roots in the movie capital.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2635094/EXCLUSIVE-Revealed-MAFIA-helped-Ronald-Reagan-White-House-Shocking-documentary-reveals-Mob-connections-catapulted-presidency-probe-thwarted-highest-levels.html
EXCLUSIVE: Revealed, how the MAFIA helped Ronald Reagan get to the White House. Shocking documentary reveals Mob connections that catapulted him to the presidency - and how a probe was thwarted at 'the highest levels'
President Reagan owed his acting and political career to Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman, chief of entertainment behemoth MCA, who was in bed with the Mob
An investigation into the relationship between MCA and the Mafia was halted and Federal prosecutors believe it was one of the 'political favors' that can be traced back to Reagan's White House
'Ronald Reagan is a complete slave of MCA who would do their bidding on anything,' one secret Justice Department document revealed
According to the producer of the documentary, Wages of Spin II: Bring Down The Wall, one MCA executive had ties to Mob boss John Gotti
'Reagan's whole career in politics was subsidized by MCA,' he asserts, and helped him financially because for a long time he was living above his means
The Mob was probably working Nancy Reagan too, according to the producer. 'She was a driving force behind Reagan'
By JERRY OPPENHEIMER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 13:22 EST, 21 May 2014 | UPDATED: 03:42 EST, 22 May 2014
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Hollywood,
Nancy Reagan,
Ronald Reagan
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Large Drug Deal Busted, NY-Italy-South America
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[From article]
The clans of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, a version of the Sicilian Mafia on the southern mainland, and members of the Gambino Mafia family in New York, were in the advanced stages of plans to smuggle some 500 kg (1,000 pounds) of pure cocaine from Guyana in South America to the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria.
Italian investigators estimated the street value of the cocaine after cutting at about $1 billion.
The drugs, supplied by Latin American drug cartels, were to have been sent to Italy hidden in shipments of canned fruit. Some of it would then have been smuggled to the United States.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2556914/Notorious-Gambino-crime-family-linked-international-drug-trafficking-ring-authorities-bust-gangsters-advanced-stages-BILLION-dollar-cocaine-deal-Italian-mobsters.html
Gambino crime family linked to international drug-trafficking ring after authorities bust 'gangsters' in the 'advanced stages' of BILLION dollar cocaine deal with Italian mobsters
Authorities arrested 24 alleged mobsters in both Italy and New York
Officials say the gangsters were planning to move 1,000 pounds of cocaine from South America to Italy
After cutting, authorities estimate the cocaine was worth about $1 billion
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and REUTERS
PUBLISHED: 11:51 EST, 11 February 2014 | UPDATED: 18:19 EST, 11 February 2014
Authorities arrested 24 alleged mobsters in both Italy and New York
Officials say the gangsters were planning to move 1,000 pounds of cocaine from South America to Italy
After cutting, authorities estimate the cocaine was worth about $1 billion
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and REUTERS
PUBLISHED: 11:51 EST, 11 February 2014 | UPDATED: 18:19 EST, 11 February 2014
Labels:
Crime Families,
Illegal Drugs,
Italy,
New York City
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Boston Gangster Convicted of Attempted Homicide
[From article]
Prosecutors said Ponzo teamed up with a faction of mobsters that wanted to stop Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme from becoming the boss of the Patriarca crime family. Ponzo was convicted of being one of the triggermen who shot at Salemme in 1989 as he walked into a pancake house in Saugus, north of Boston.
http://www.krem.com/news/national/232832301.html
Alleged mobster who posed as Idaho rancher convicted in attempted hit
by Associated Press
KREM.com
Posted on November 21, 2013 at 6:55 AM
Updated yesterday at 11:14 AM
Labels:
Boston MA,
Conviction,
Crime Families,
Hitman,
Idaho
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
FBI Unable to Find Violent Serial Murderers Without Giving Immunity to Informants
[From article]
Martorano was the catalyst. If he doesn’t step forward in 1998 and start talking about the murders, this day might have never arrived. Once Martorano vanished from “the pod” in Plymouth, it wasn’t long before Kevin “Two” Weeks started telling where the bodies were buried, literally.
What does that say about the competency of the FBI? Or is it the corruption of the FBI? The FBI knew what was going on as well as a few local police, state police and politicians. How many prosecutors and US Attorneys knew? The Speaker of the US House of Representatives helped Bulger avoid abuses in prisons. The Director of the FBI was in on it. The entire trial and the many news articles show that there is a very limited ability to comprehend the depth of the corruption of the government. Why have so few persons recognized the pervasive corruption in police departments and FBI offices? The Mollen Commission in New York recognized that constant scrutiny of police is needed. The FBI has more abuses of power, and there is no scrutiny of that known den of corruption.
No one was watching Bulger, Martorano, Weeks, and Flemmi. No police, not even their crime family rivals, or Communists. Yet in Cambridge, MA, for the past 17 years local police, Harvard University campus cops, Communists, and government psychologists took turns conducting non stop surveillance, harassment, provocations, insults, ridicule and humiliation of a now 70-year-old white male who all of the above-mentioned groups say has a disability. It shows that police love to target vulnerable persons, but fear focusing on known violent criminals. The Massachusetts economy is dominated by education. Harvard University dominates education. What role does Harvard University faculty experts play in setting public safety priorities for the state and especially for Cambridge, on property owned and operated by the President and Fellows of Harvard College?
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2013/08/carr_johnny_martorano_s_move_got_ball_rolling
Carr: Johnny Martorano’s move got ball rolling
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
By: Howie Carr
Boston Herald
Martorano was the catalyst. If he doesn’t step forward in 1998 and start talking about the murders, this day might have never arrived. Once Martorano vanished from “the pod” in Plymouth, it wasn’t long before Kevin “Two” Weeks started telling where the bodies were buried, literally.
What does that say about the competency of the FBI? Or is it the corruption of the FBI? The FBI knew what was going on as well as a few local police, state police and politicians. How many prosecutors and US Attorneys knew? The Speaker of the US House of Representatives helped Bulger avoid abuses in prisons. The Director of the FBI was in on it. The entire trial and the many news articles show that there is a very limited ability to comprehend the depth of the corruption of the government. Why have so few persons recognized the pervasive corruption in police departments and FBI offices? The Mollen Commission in New York recognized that constant scrutiny of police is needed. The FBI has more abuses of power, and there is no scrutiny of that known den of corruption.
No one was watching Bulger, Martorano, Weeks, and Flemmi. No police, not even their crime family rivals, or Communists. Yet in Cambridge, MA, for the past 17 years local police, Harvard University campus cops, Communists, and government psychologists took turns conducting non stop surveillance, harassment, provocations, insults, ridicule and humiliation of a now 70-year-old white male who all of the above-mentioned groups say has a disability. It shows that police love to target vulnerable persons, but fear focusing on known violent criminals. The Massachusetts economy is dominated by education. Harvard University dominates education. What role does Harvard University faculty experts play in setting public safety priorities for the state and especially for Cambridge, on property owned and operated by the President and Fellows of Harvard College?
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2013/08/carr_johnny_martorano_s_move_got_ball_rolling
Carr: Johnny Martorano’s move got ball rolling
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
By: Howie Carr
Boston Herald
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