Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Six defendants prepare for Montreal Mafia trial

Court officials in Canada have set aside two weeks in September for pretrial motions in the racketeering case against six reputed leaders of the Montreal Mafia, according to a story by the Canwest News Service. The six men have opted for trial by a judge alone.

More than 100 people were arrested in Project Colisee in November 2006. Government attention has focused on six big shots, including 83-year-old Nicolo Rizzuto (left), father of jailed mob boss Vito Rizzuto. Vito is serving time in the United States for participating in three 1981 murders.


Posted by Tom Hunt at 3/26/2008 04:53:00 AM

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US Mafia was born in New Orleans

book coverDeep Water:
Joseph P. Macheca and the
Birth of the American Mafia
Written by Thomas Hunt and Martha Macheca Sheldon, Deep Water captures the life and times of Joseph P. Macheca. It finally sets the record straight on the man who was a warrior for the corrupt New Orleans Democratic machine, a pioneer of the Crescent City’s fruit trade, a Confederate privateer and the legendary “godfather” of the first Mafia organization to germinate in American soil.
While answering at last the questions surrounding the 1890 assassination of Police Chief David Hennessy and the subsequent Crescent City lynchings, Deep Water establishes the factual details of Macheca’s life and sets them against the vivid backdrop of Gilded Age New Orleans. Published by iUniverse.


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Tom has managed the MobNews blog since spring 2006 (first on Bloglines and then here on Blogger). On the web, he also publishes the American Mafia history website (www.onewal.com) and the CagedWolves: History of the Morello Mob website (www.cagedwolves.com), moderates a Yahoo discussion group on Mafia topics and edits organized crime and crime books and authors categories for the Open Directory Project (dmoz.org). He is coauthor of the book, "Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia." He has written and co-written articles on organized crime for the On the Spot Journal.
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