January 22, 2021 – Colombo crime family capo Dominic (Donnie Shacks) Montemarano, a Brooklyn transplant living in Southern California the past 25 years, died recently of the COVID-19 virus. Gangland News was the first outlet to report on Donnie Shacks’ passing. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Donnie Shacks Montemarano was moving and shaking
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January 10, 2021 – Members of the Cleveland Browns were probed for point shaving by the NFL and FBI in the 1980s for their connection to Cleveland crime lord Frank (The Black Godfather) Sumpter, per DEA documents and Sumpter’s FBI file. No charges were ever brought, however, a number of players, battled substance abuse issues
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January 9, 2021 – Hall of Fame MLB manager Tommy Lasorda, colorful as he was wide, was linked to Los Angeles mob figure Joe De Carlo, a former member of the old Mickey Cohen Gang of the 1940s and 50s. The friendship was revealed in a 1986 Sports Illustrated article on gambling in pro sports.
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January 6, 2021 – Former Detroit drug chief and pro boxer Darrell Chambers walks free this week after 25 years in federal prison for narcotics distribution in the Kronk Boxing cocaine case. Chambers, 60, benefited from a sentence reduction for being a non-violent offender. His original sentence amounted to life in prison without parole for
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