NYC jury in 'Junior' Gotti case goes home for weekend after signaling possible deadlock Jurors at the racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti ...
Nevada gambling agency to share in assets seized from Japanese organized crime figure Nevada gambling regulators will get a share of money seized ...
Gangland slayings pushed up Canada's otherwise declining murder rate by two percent last year, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. The government agency said police reported 611 homicides in Canada in 2008, 17 more than the previous year. The rise was "due almost entirely" ...
Deputy marshal sentenced to 4 years for leaking information about witness in Chicago mob case A federal deputy marshal was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for leaking information about the government's star witness at Chicago's biggest organized crime trial in ...
Eight men were charged in Serbia and Croatia on Monday over the mafia-style killing of a high-profile Croatian journalist and his marketing chief a year ago, prosecutors said. In Belgrade, three Serbs were indicted for "criminal association and murder" of Ivo Pukanic, ...
Lurid mob trials transfix Chinese as Communist government cracks down on gangs After she refused a corrupt cop's demand that she turn her teahouse into an illegal casino, three thugs beat Chen Yanling with electric batons, sending her to the hospital for ...
A court in southwest China sentenced six people to death Wednesday in trials that have lifted the lid on the murky underworld in Chongqing, with sordid tales of sex, gambling and corruption. The court in Chongqing, one of China's largest cities, sentenced ...
Would-be hit man renounces Mafia in NY court, surprising judge who has asked many to do so A would-be hit man has renounced the Mafia in a New York courtroom, surprising the federal judge who was sentencing him. Judge Jack Weinstein said ...
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's justice minister on Monday promised a full investigation into allegations that governments in the early 1990s held secret negotiations with the Mafia to try to stop spate of attacks on the state. Angelino Alfano, speaking during a visit ...
6 Fla. members of New York's Bonanno crime family plead guilty in racketeering case One by one, members of a South Florida crew of the New York-based Bonanno crime family stood before a federal judge Wednesday to plead guilty to racketeering charges, ...
Pirates operating off the coast of Somalia are being controlled by crime syndicates, including foreigners lured by the multi-million-dollar ransoms, Interpol and other officials said on Wednesday. The pirates have also acquired sophisticated weapons and tracking devices allowing them to extend their ...
The list of people banned from Nevada casinos includes 21 names added between 1990 and 2000 all men, most with alleged mob connections, many with monikers: The Fixer, Moose, Dicky Boy, The Pope. In the near decade that has followed, however, between ...
