Surveilance video provides the precise moment a gunman opens fire on Gavin 'Capable' Preston, killing him. Abbas 'AJ' Maghnie, the son of late crime boss Nabil Maghnie was hit by gunfire. He is expected to survive. Oz cops are on the hunt for two gunmen after Gavin Preston was gunned down while eating at Sweet Lulu’s cafe in Keilor East, Melbourne.
“They’ll be holding the wake in a phone box,” an underworld source said.
Known as Gavin 'Capable' Preston, he was released from jail earlier this year after serving 11 years for the 2012 shooting of drug dealer Adam Khoury. He was capable of anything, and had that tatooed on his neck. In jail, the gangland figure was the victim of a stabbing that nearly killed him. The gangster's list of enemies was extensive. He was suspected of plots to kill former Bandidos enforcer Toby Mitchell and underworld figure Mick Gatto.
Preston was among the most feared and despised members of Melbourne's underworld.
'How can you charge these guys like you charged somebody like myself when I was a criminal?' asks former Gambino hitman John Alite. 'They’re being treated no different than I was,' the rat says. John Alite confessed to murdering six and assaulting many more. He was arrested in Brazil after years evading capture following a federal indictment. He made a deal with prosecutors and testified against former associates.
The Albanian testified against John A. 'Junior' Gotti in 2008. Asked if he believed Trump was aware of his past when he posed for a photo with him, Alite said, “I assume he knows who I am”.
Russell Allen Lyles, Jr., aka J.R., 36, bolted when his Sonoma County Hells Angels MC was busted. He was reeled in and sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to involvement in a racketeering conspiracy and assault. “Lyles often used his fists to punish individuals for their behavior or to ‘toughen them up,” his attorney wrote in a document that denies Lyles committed assaults to further the Hells Angels. While Lyles pleaded guilty, six other Hells Angels took their case before a jury in two separate trials.
Five of the six were convicted of crimes including assaults, robberies, extortion plots and the murder of a Hells Angel. The sentence is the first to be handed down in the large bust of the club, which started in 2017 and included top HA in Sonoma, Fresno and Boston. Several more HA, including four convicted of murder, are expected to receive life or decades in federal prison. Raymond 'Ray Ray' Foakes and HA Christopher 'Rain Man' Ranieri are among the done for.
Church of scientology leader David Miscavige on Dec 3, 2016.
US actor Danny Masterson, 47, has been sentenced to serve 30 years to life in prison for drugging and raping two women. Three women were members of the cult and were victimized for years.
Masterson starred in 'That '70s Show'. Masterson relied on his status as a high profile scientologist to avoid consequences for his long running crimes.
Throughout the trial, prosecutors argued that the Church of scientology helped cover up the assaults.
Tom Cruise says scientology is a 'beautiful religion'.
On Tuesday, Air Canada said it apologized to two passengers who were escorted off the plane by security after protesting that their seats stank of puke. This came after Health Canada waded in to suggest that "These fluids, and the surfaces that come in contact with them, should always be considered as contaminated,”
Grossly expensive joke flag carrier Air Canada has done it again. Two women were removed from Air Canada flight AC 1706 travelling from Las Vegas to Montreal on August 26. They complained about a foul stench and the fact their seats were filled with puke. Flight attendants tried to mask the smell by placing coffee grounds in the seat pouches and spraying perfume, but those measures didn't help. A flight attendant supervisor explained the women could not move seats. The asshole pilot then arrived and informed them that they had two choices: They could leave the plane on their own accord and organize flights on their own dime, or they would be escorted off the plane by security and placed on a no-fly list.
The goof pilot left in a snit and complained to security who removed the women for 'being rude' to flight attendants, which witnesses denied. Take a bow, again, Air Canada and the idiots working for it. (Yes it has gone bankrupt multiple times despite the highest fares on earth.)
Giuseppe (Joe) Lopez, 59 was murdered while driving a motorcycle near a home his family owns in Juan Dolio in the Dominican Republic. He had close ties to the Montreal Mafia and was known for his involvement in the wholesale cocaine trade. He and his twin brother Franco, and their brother Pasquale, 50, were accused in a major cocaine trafficking ring linked to the Hells Angels during the Magot-Mastiff bust in 2015. 43 were busted in all.
In communications intercepted by cops, the brothers were referred to as Espresso, Cappuccino and Caffe Latte.
The three Lopez brothers escaped unscathed in the fall of 2019 following a stay of legal proceedings due to unreasonable delay. Giuseppe Lopez was staying in the Dominican Republic with his uncle, Serafino Oliverio, 'Sergio Lopez'. He survived a shooting in Montreal two years ago. The residence owned by the Lopez-Oliverio clan, located about 60km east of the capital Santo Domingo, is usually protected by armed security guards. Oliverio was an associate of former crime boss Vito Rizzuto, and was considered by cops the head of an organized-crime clan.
Sindh Rangers, a paramilitary force, has announced a crackdown on illegal hydrants and smuggling operations, following orders from military brass. An incident took place in Jaranwala in which the Christian community was targeted. Politicos say that the enemies of Pakistan are planning to carry out more incidents like Jaranwala.
Bertino also pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm. The felon had an arsenal.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Jeremy Bertino, 43, lieutenant, pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy in federal court and cooperated with the Justice Department. His rat agreement means he could spend five years in prison.
Bertino posted to rioters, writing “DO NOT GO HOME. WE ARE ON THE CUSP OF SAVING THE CONSTITUTION.”
Rédoine Faïd, who escaped prison in 2018 aboard a hijacked helicopter in a jailbreak that astonished France, went on trial in Paris. Eleven accomplices, including members of his family, are on trial alongside Faïd, charged with helping him in the escape for 3 months. The prison escape was Faïd’s second in five years.
In April 2013, he used explosives to blow open gates and took four hostages to escape from Sequedin Prison in northern France. Faïd wrote that he discovered his "calling" at the age of 12, having, he claimed, already stolen candy from a supermarket at the age of six.
In 2010, he co-authored a book about his adventures entitled “Braqueur: Des cites au grand banditisme” (Armed Robber: From housing estates to organized crime) Access to the courtroom was under special protection and mobile phone signals scrambled. Rédoine Faïd was spotted by cops near Paris.
He fled the scene and abandoned a car with plastic explosives and fake license plates in a car park. On 1 July Faïd, 46, broke out of a prison with the help of armed accomplices who hijacked a helicopter. The Jailbird King, as he is dubbed by French media, was serving a 25-year sentence for a failed 2010 robbery during which a police officer was killed.
Some 2,900 police officers joining a national manhunt to track him down.
France's Justice Minister called it "a spectacular escape. It was an extremely well-prepared commando unit that may have used drones to survey the area beforehand."
Donald Trump's bid to open the first casino in Sydney in the 1980s was thwarted by the New South Wales government due to his "mafia connections". In 1987 Trump’s joint venture with the Queensland-based Kern Corporation was one of the four bidders for the casino's tender.
Scarfo with Salvatore "Salvie" Testa
What swung the decision against Trump were his dealings with mob-related personalities while buying property to further his casino establishments in Atlantic City. To enlarge Trump Plaza in the early 80s, Trump bought a nightclub that was owned by Salvatore 'Salvie' Testa and Frank Narducci Jr, mob hitmen known as the Young Executioners. The two worked for Atlantic City’s mob boss Nicodemo “Little Nicky” Scarfo. Trump bought the 5,000-square-foot lot that had been bought five years earlier for $195,000 for $1.1 million, more than twice it's market value.
Nicodemo 'Little Nicky' Scarfo
Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno
Trump hired mobbed-up firms to erect Trump Tower and his Trump Plaza apartment building in Manhattan, including buying overpriced concrete from a company controlled by mafia chieftains Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno and Paul Castellano. That story eventually came out in a federal investigation, which also concluded that the Trump Plaza apartment building benefited from connections to racketeering. Salerno and Castellano controlled the ready-mix business in New York. The indictment on which Salerno was convicted in 1988 and sent to prison, where he died, listed the $8m contract for concrete at Trump Plaza. In the summer of 1982 there was citywide strike, but the concrete work continued at the Trump Tower.
Donald Trump with editor Edward Kosner, center, and Roy Cohn, a Trump mentor and lawyer whose clients included bosses Salerno and Castellano.
It was a multitude of deals such as these that fueled rumors of Trump’s association with the mafia. Trump's Taj Mahal casino was fined $10 million for the money laundering that occurred over it's lifetime.
Thanks in large part to the laxity of New Jersey gaming investigators, Trump has never had to address his extensive dealings with mobsters head-on. On the campaign trail, Trump was coy about his past dealings with unsavory characters. But he couldn’t resist Trumpisms: "I've known some tough cookies over the years"
