Ripped apart by mob-faction wars for over a decade now, the Canadian mafia landscape is as tumultuous as ever. Just this past spring, Hamilton, Ontario mob boss Angelo Musitano was murdered almost exactly 20 years after he and his older brother Pasquale (Fat Pat ) Musitano assumed control of mafia affairs in the hardscrabble factory
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At the top of the list of pending Iraqi deportees from Detroit in grave danger if he gets shipped back to his former Baghdad home is Lou Akrawi, a one-time sworn enemy of the state when the Baath Party was in power and controversial Christian-Iraqi community leader in Southeastern Michigan for over the past four
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The downfall of Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman, the world’s biggest drug lord in modern history, can ultimately be traced to his relationship with the young, savvy and industrious Flores brothers in Chicago, his main wholesale supply dispensers in the United State during the 2000s. Pedro (Little Pete) Flores and Margarito (Junior) Flores, identical 34-year-old twins
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The Buffalo mafia was treacherous terrain in the late-20th Century, from the time surrounding the 1974 passing of crime family namesake Stefano (The Undertaker) Magaddino until the start of the New Millennium, the Italian mob in western New York averaged roughly one gangland murder per year, with the 1970s and 80s being particularly brutal on the streets of Buffalo. May 8,
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