Organized Crime
A NYC Mobster Dodged Hit After Hit. His Son Finally Got Him.
Someone kept trying to kill Sylvester Zottola, month after month. The first attack came in September 2017, when a man approached Mr. Zottola, whom the authorities described as a Mafia associate, outside his Bronx home and knocked him down with a punch in the face. That November, someone tried to shoot Mr. Zottola as he […]
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Violence in Rural Mexico Ensnares Doctors, Causing Worker Shortages
“They forget about a patient’s primary right, which is to be cared for wherever they are, and it’s because of this that we needed to resort to contracting foreigners,” Dr. Jorge Alcocer Varela, Mexico’s secretary of health, told reporters at a recent news conference. The announcement about the Cuban doctors provoked outrage among many Mexican […]
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Bodies Pulled From Parched Lake Mead Stir Wise-Guy Ghosts of Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS — It’s the mob guy who went missing after skimming from the Stardust casino. No, it’s the lake resort manager hunted down by the Chicago Outfit. Could it be the work of a biker gang muscling in on Mafia turf? Or maybe someone just fell off a boat after one too many. Ever […]
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Why Daniel Kinahan is Being Disavowed By Boxing Promoters
According to Bob Arum, the founder of United States-based boxing promoter Top Rank, Top Rank paid Kinahan over $4 million in consulting fees for four Fury fights it promoted between 2019 and 2021, showcasing Kinahan’s involvement in the highest levels of boxing. Fury is fighting against Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday […]
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With ‘The Godfather,’ Art Imitated Mafia Life. And Vice Versa.
A table for five at CaSa Bella in Little Italy in the late 1970s included a few mobsters, a girlfriend and the man they knew as Donnie Brasco, actually an undercover F.B.I. agent. There was business to discuss, but then the mood lightened. “The restaurant’s strolling guitarist came to our table,” the agent, Joseph Pistone, […]
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Search for Jimmy Hoffa Leads the F.B.I. to Jersey City Landfill
The disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, a mystery that has gripped the American imagination for half a century on its ascent to national folklore, is the subject of a new F.B.I. investigation centered on the site of a former landfill in Jersey City. A worker, on his deathbed, said he buried the body underground in a […]
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