PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Boston mobster acknowledged he was the acting head of the New England Mafia as he pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to one count of racketeering conspiracy for shaking ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When 84-year-old Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio is led away to prison, the New England Mafia will lose an "old school" former boss who came up through the ranks during the mob's ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The acting head of the New England Mafia was sentenced on Wednesday to 6 1/2 years in prison for shaking down local strip clubs for protection money. Anthony L. DiNunzio, 53, ...

BOSTON -- When James "Whitey" Bulger ruled the streets of South Boston, the New England crime scene was a battleground for a bloody turf war between the Italian Mafia and Irish street crews. But some ...

After a fabled run as one of Boston’s last old-school mobsters, Carmen “The Cheeseman” DiNunzio, reputed boss of the New England Mafia, died Sunday at the age of 68. The East Boston resident “passed ...

Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, the once powerful New England Mafia boss who was serving a life sentence behind bars for the 1993 killing of a Boston nightclub owner, has died at the age of 89, ...

The former don, the last to lead the organized crime ring out of Providence, died at a veterans home in Bristol, R.I., on Sunday PROVIDENCE — Luigi “Louie” Manocchio, who was the last to lead the New ...

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When James "Whitey" Bulger ruled the streets of South Boston, the New England crime scene was a battleground for a bloody turf war between the Italian Mafia and Irish street crews. If you purchase a ...