International Business News - Mob http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Rhode Island police have unearthed apparent human remains in their search for the victim of a 1970s mob hit. Police dogs on Wednesday sniffed out what appeared to be human bones, a boot and a jacket in a dirt lot behind an East Providence apartment complex. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/ri-police-remains-found-may-be-1970s-mob-victims.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:22:44 EST The Rhode Island State Police on Monday arrested 18 people allegedly connected to Mafia rings and used a backhoe to dig through an East Providence lot searching for the victim of a three-decade-old mob hit. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/176909-mob-investigation.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081117/ri-police-dig-for-victim-of-decades-old-mob-hit.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081117/ri-police-dig-for-victim-of-decades-old-mob-hit.htm Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:59:55 EST A bomb exploded in a car carrying one of Israel's top mafia kingpins on Monday, killing him and threatening to unleash an all-out war in Israel's increasingly violent underworld. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/176712-mideast-israel-mob-hit.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081117/officials-israeli-mob-boss-killed-in-car-bombing.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081117/officials-israeli-mob-boss-killed-in-car-bombing.htm Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:23:47 EST Former FBI agent John Connolly was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder for leaking information to Boston mobsters that led to the 1982 shooting death of a gambling executive who also had ties to gangsters. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/169511-new-england-mob.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081106/miami-jury-convicts-ex-fbi-agent-in-1982-killing.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081106/miami-jury-convicts-ex-fbi-agent-in-1982-killing.htm Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:50:05 EST A jailed reputed mobster was charged on Monday with the 1977 slaying of a gangland rival who used his last words to taunt him in a motel parking lot. "What're you going to do now, tough guy?" Giovanni "Coca Cola" Larducci asked when Michael Coppola's gun jammed during the New Jersey confrontation on Easter 1977, prosecutors said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081103/reputed-ny-mobster-charged-with-77-motel-murder.htm Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:13:13 EST Former FBI agent John Connolly knew he was setting up a hit when he tipped Boston mobsters that a gambling executive with gangland ties was likely to implicate them in other killings, a prosecutor said Monday in closing arguments of Connolly's murder trial. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081103/prosecutor-ex-fbi-agent-set-up-1982-miami-killing.htm Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:02:49 EST A mob mistress suspected of lying on the witness stand last year at the murder conspiracy trial of a former FBI agent will not face perjury charges, a special prosecutor concluded Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081022/mob-witness-didnt-perjure-in-fbi-agents-trial.htm Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:45:07 EDT A longtime girlfriend of fugitive mobster James "Whitey" Bulger testified Thursday in the murder trial of a former Boston FBI agent, describing a cross-country trip she and Bulger took days before he went on the lam in 1995. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081016/mobsters-ex-girlfriend-testifies-in-murder-trial.htm Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:53:15 EDT Italian police say they have arrested an alleged fugitive mobster believed to be the head of an organized crime clan involved in the slaying of six people in Germany last year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081016/alleged-top-mobster-arrested-from-bunker-in-italy.htm Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:23:20 EDT The FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the Mafia as "Donnie Brasco" refused Wednesday to testify in a fellow former agent's murder trial because he could be photographed and filmed on the witness stand. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/152885-new-england-mob.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081015/fbis-donnie-brasco-wont-testify-for-ex-agent.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081015/fbis-donnie-brasco-wont-testify-for-ex-agent.htm Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:29:18 EDT An anti-mafia prosecutor investigating a reported mob death threat against a best-selling author said Wednesday that an informant now denies having claimed there was a plot. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081015/doubt-cast-on-claimed-mob-plot-to-kill-author.htm Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:44:59 EDT Anti-Mafia prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating a reported Mafia death threat against the Italian author of "Gomorra," the best-selling expose on the criminal underworld in Naples. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/152000-italy-mob-death-threat.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081014/prosecutors-check-mafia-threat-against-journalist.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081014/prosecutors-check-mafia-threat-against-journalist.htm Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:53:43 EDT A former Boston FBI agent on trial for murder was key to major New England Mafia investigations because of his skill at recruiting and handling top confidential gangster informants, a former mob prosecutor, now a federal judge, testified Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/152139-new-england-mob-trial.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081014/judge-ex-fbi-agent-valuable-in-mafia-war.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081014/judge-ex-fbi-agent-valuable-in-mafia-war.htm Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:17:43 EDT It is a fitting backdrop for a ghost story: An old mansion on a secluded hilltop sits empty, save for a caretaker who lives upstairs. A no-trespassing sign is staked near the locked metal gates, and the stately grounds are covered in thistles. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/161342-north-koreas-gulags.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081013/scene-of-grisly-mob-slaying-has-haunted-past.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081013/scene-of-grisly-mob-slaying-has-haunted-past.htm Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:33:55 EDT A federal judge has cut seven years off the prison sentence of the man who killed reputed New Haven mob underboss William Grasso two decades ago, after tearful pleas that he was a changed man. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/conn-judge-reduces-mobster-killers-sentence.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:53:03 EDT William "Wild Bill" Cutolo was a feared mobster who vanished nearly a decade ago during a bloody struggle for control of the Colombo crime family. It had been widely believed that after rival gangsters killed him, his body was dumped off the side of a boat in the Atlantic Ocean. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/147686-mob-bones.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/fbi-body-of-missing-nyc-mobster-found-in-ny-field.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/fbi-body-of-missing-nyc-mobster-found-in-ny-field.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:12:20 EDT Las Vegas hopes its newest museum will be a hit. The city is opening The (redacted) Museum: The Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, which will showcase southern Nevada's colorful and storied past in organized crime. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/las-vegas-rolling-the-dice-on-its-new-mob-museum.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:33:31 EDT Say hello to your new little museum. The Las Vegas City Council unveiled the name of its planned mob museum Tuesday, along with logos resembling court documents with material blacked out--The (redacted) Museum: The Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/make-way-for-the-bad-guys-vegas-names-mob-museum.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:21:46 EDT Las Vegas hopes its newest museum will be a hit. The city is opening The (redacted) Museum: The Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, which will showcase southern Nevada's colorful and storied past in organized crime. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/las-vegas-rolling-the-dice-on-its-new-mob-museum.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:28:43 EDT Boston mobsters paid former FBI agent John Connolly roughly $235,000 over the years for protection and information that included fingering gang turncoats, a jailed gangster testified Monday at the agent's murder trial. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/136356-new-england-mob.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/mobster-ex-fbi-agent-received-protection-money.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/mobster-ex-fbi-agent-received-protection-money.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:21:53 EDT