East Coast and Featured and Mafia and Mafia Insider and New York and Sports and West CoastJanuary 22, 2021 LA-By-NY Mob Capo Donnie Shacks Dead At 81, FBI Probed Point Shaving Claims Linking UCLA Football & Colombos 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 shakingCONTINUE READING
African-American and Drug Gangs and Featured and Midwest and SportsJanuary 10, 2021 The Cleveland Browns & The Black Mafia: Sumpter Crew Alleged To Have Had Hooks Into Kardiac Kids 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 issuesCONTINUE READING
Featured and Mafia and Mafia Insider and Sports and West CoastJanuary 9, 2021 Tommy LaSorda & The Mob: Legendary Dodgers Baseball “Don” Kept Company With The Mafia 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.CONTINUE READING
African-American and Detroit and Drug Gangs and Featured and Midwest and SportsJanuary 6, 2021 Scapegoat, Kingpin Or Both? Kronk Boxer Darrell Chambers Getting Out Of Prison, Returning To Detroit 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 forCONTINUE READING