Son of mafia boss killed during Naples street celebration

Vincenzo Costanzo, 26, was gunned down during delirious celebrations by football fans in Naples, after the city’s team won its first Serie A title in 33 years. He was the son of Maurizio Costanzo, a leading member of the D’Amico Camorra clan, the Neapolitan mafia in Ponticelli, where a feud among clans is ongoing. Most suspect the murder is linked to a war for control of the eastern part of Naples. It was probably a settling of scores that took advantage of the party to strike. The late Diego Maradona was Napoli’s star player when the city won its last Scudetto in 1990.

Biker patch used in alleged extortion attempt

Two men, including a member of the Red Devils, the Hells Angels support club, are on trial in an extortion case where they are alleged to have used a biker gang’s patch to intimidate the head of a finance company. Mario Blais, 57, of Quebec City, is a member of the Red Devils.

Mario Blais and Frank Bernier arranged a meeting, and having a bad feeling, the owner installed a camera in his company's conference room.

Yves 'Apache' Trudeau

Yves "Apache" Trudeau (1946–2008) was a former member of the Hells Angels North Chapter in Laval, Quebec. During the early 1960’s, Trudeau worked with explosives at CIL, which later proved valuable. He was often hailed as the “mad bomber.” Trudeau began Quebec’s first biker gang, the Popeyes, which became the first Canadian chapter of the Hells Angels in 1977. Trudeau was also the first Canadian to receive the Hells Angels’ “Filthy Few” patch, which is reserved for those who kill for the club. In 1979 Trudeau founded the Laval chapter.

Trudeau started what became known as the Hells Angels’ graveyard, a part of the St. Lawrence River that became a dumping site for corpses.

On March 24, 1985, the eight highest-ranking members of the Laval chapter were ordered to meet with Hells Angels officials in Sherbrooke, Lennoxville. Trudeau was unable to attend the meeting, as he was in a Montreal detox center for his cocaine abuse. Of the eight Laval members who attended the Lennoxville meeting, five were immediately shot dead and dumped into the St. Lawrence River. Hearing there was a $50,000 contract on his life, Trudeau turned to the cops. “I was as good as dead already. I was supposed to be dumped in the river” so Trudeau became the first full patch Hells Angel to become a police informer. In exchange for his testimony, which could not be used against him, he received an informant contract and lenient sentence. He confessed to being associated with 43 murders.

Throughout his 15-year career as a hitman, Trudeau admitted to doing half of the murders himself (29 with guns, 10 with bombs, three with baseball bats, and one using strangulation), and the other half he claimed only to be an accomplice. Trudeau was sentenced to life, for which he offered a guilty plea of 43 counts of manslaughter, but because of his contract, he was allowed parole after only seven years. Trudeau provided information on over 100 murders and helped implicate at least 80 individuals.

In 1994, Trudeau was released under the new identity of Denis Cote. He led a secret life doing odd jobs like driving a bus for the handicapped until being arrested in March 16th of 2004 for sexual assault. In April of that year, Trudeau pleaded guilty to six counts of sexual exploitation, sexual interference, and invitation to sexual touching of a male victim under the age of 14. In 2006 Trudeau was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer. On July 15, 2008 he was released by the National Parole Board who deemed him a low risk to reoffend, having months to live. He died in 2008, age 62.

Goldy Brar among Canada’s top most-wanted criminals.

Prime accused in Sidhu Moosewala’s killing, gangster Goldy Brar, is now among Canada’s top 25 most-wanted criminals. The RCMP have listed him as number 15. Fugitive Satinderjit Singh, alias Goldy Brar, has been added to the list of the most-wanted criminals in India through the “Bolo Program” in Canada. India has repeatedly pleaded with the Canadian government to not allow criminals and terrorists to plan and carry out anti-India crimes from its soil. See ---->Punjabi rapper Sidhu Moose Wala whacked See ---->Gangster Goldy Brar needs to go, and others

132 ‘Ndrangheta arrested in Belgium, Italy and Germany

Executed by 10 countries, 132 members of one of the world’s most powerful criminal networks have been taken into custody. In the early morning hours cops in Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Romania, Brazil and Panama raided multiple locations and seized several companies. Over 2,770 officers were involved. ‘Ndrangheta families are based mainly in the town of San Luca in the Italian province of Reggio Calabria. Families have been involved in decades-long clan violence known as the San Luca feud. Shootings in Italy and abroad, such as the Duisburg massacre in Germany in 2007 were a result. Two of those busted had been on the EU Most Wanted list.

Cops found that the network was working with the Colombian cartel Gulf Clan and an Albanian crime group operating in Ecuador and multiple European Countries. ‘Ndrangheta were also involved in international firearms trafficking from Pakistan to South America, providing weapons to the PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) in exchange for cocaine.

HA Gaétan David busted

Gaétan David (left) was wearing his Hells Angels colours during the alleged assault.

Full patch Gaétan David and four of his goons were arrested. The men are suspected of being involved in the attack on a man in a bar and intimidation. Since the Hells Angels resuscitated the Sherbrooke chapter a decade after Operation SharQc, their members have been discreet. That changed following the assault at the strip club 'Le Cabaret Chez elle' in Sherbrooke.

B-17F Hells Angels

B-17F 41-24577 "Hells Angels" was assigned to Bangor on Oct 14, 1942. It completed 48 missions without an abort or a crewman injured. It returned to New Jersey on 10 February 1944 for a War Bond tour. 'Hells Angels' was the first aircraft to complete 25 missions, earlier than the Memphis Belle. The event was important because it proved to flight crews it was possible to survive. The statistics of bomber losses were grim: most crews were gone by their fifth mission. Statistically, a man flying his sixth mission was “on someone else’s time.”

B-17F Hells Angels remained in theater until 1944. Hells Angels dropped more than a quarter of a million pounds of bombs on enemy territory. It was sold for scrap in Stillwater, Oklahoma on 7 August 1945. On February 3, 1944 GI’s swarm over the Hells Angels, to put their names on the Flying Fortress before its take-off for the US and a War Bond tour.

Lewis Kasman - Gotti rat

At Mizner County Club, Lewis Kasman is known as the man who refused to wear a jacket at a Hanukkah dinner in December 2018, spawning long running litigation that upheld the right of the club to revoke his guest privileges. What residents at the high-end country club didn't know is that Kasman was once an integral part of boss John Gotti's operation. He was known as the adopted son of the mobster. He agreed to wear a wire to record conversations with top mobsters. In exchange, Kasman was spared prison time in 2010 for racketeering and fraud. Kasman is the former right-hand man to John Gotti.

Kasman brought down a host of top mobsters, including Peter Gotti and capo Vincent Artuso.

Kasman said Gotti's operation brought in between $500k and $1m per month in cash from construction and garment rackets, extortion, loans, gambling and drugs. He sought a deal to put him in witness protection but that deal fell through. He moved to Delray Beach to live with his mother at Mizner Country Club. During much of his stay there, he was involved in a long series of lawsuits alleging that lawyers failed to properly represent him and his wife in a contentious divorce. He lost them all.

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Iran's car mafia

A mafia-like group is behind a ban on car imports to eliminate competition in Iran's auto industry. Policymakers are indirectly supporting Chinese auto parts manufacturers and turning the industry into "assemblers of Chinese parts". Iran's automotive industry, the largest after oil and gas, employs 700,000. Iran builds nearly 1.5m vehicles annually with the two largest automakers Iran Khodro and Saipa enjoying a monopoly. The sector is in debt for billions and is a burden for the government. Officials have repeatedly warned about inadequate safety standards of domestic cars. After massive collisions in Iran during which all the cars airbags failed to open, officials called domestically produced cars "carriages of death".

Lawmakers are responsible for rising car prices. Iran's centrally-run economy is rife with political interference and corruption. A falling Iranian currency has created 50% annual inflation rate and US sanctions contribute to economic woes.

Bail hearing for Prince Albert drug kingpin Jim Lakatos goes poorly

Jim Lakatos, 34, is charged in connection to Prince Albert’s biggest drug bust. He was sitting at a table counting $34k when cops busted down his trailer door. Cops landed 31.2 kilos of cocaine at the Whispering Pines trailer court, along with $55,000 in cash, handgun ammunition and drug trafficking paraphernalia. Bail was denied after it was found Lakatos’s release would pose a risk to the public, with the judge adding he had no confidence Lakatos would not re-offend.

Also busted is Spencer Evans, 27, Santana Foulds, 28, and Gordon Greer-Vandale, 30. A warrant has been issued for Dean Marchand, 31. The bust was 3 times larger than the previous record.