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It seems with the background of Nancy Pelosi, the Mafia has a stake in what is going on in our government. You might ask what are Nancy's ties to the Mafia. Her father raised with ties to the Mafia... For example, when Nancy Pelosi's father ran for governor of Maryland, he had to drop out because of mob money contributed to his campaign as well as mob ties to her father. She was raised in an environment with mobsters around her... Her father was Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. Some links about this: Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. - Wikipedia Revealed: JFK Worried Pelosi's...

Walking with the Wise -- A Homily for Epiphany Msgr. Charles Pope • January 2, 2016 • Archdiocese of Washington There are so many wonderful details in the Epiphany story: the call of the Gentiles, their enthusiastic response, the significance of the star they seek, the gifts they bring, the dramatic interaction with Herod, and their ultimate rejection of Herod in favor of Christ.In this meditation I would like to follow these Magi in their journey of faith to become "Wise Men." As magi, they followed the faint stars, distant points of light; as wise men they follow Jesus, who...

29 indicted in trash hauling scamPhil Helsel, Register Staff 06/10/2006 NEW HAVEN — A federal grand jury Friday indicted 29 people — including Danbury garbage magnate James Galante and former Waterbury Mayor Joseph Santopietro — who prosecutors allege participated in a mob-backed scheme to divide up Connecticut’s trash-hauling industry. Operators of refuse firms in Cheshire and North Branford were among those named in the indictment. Galante, 53, allegedly ordered his trash carting companies to pay a "mob tax" to Genovese crime family boss Matthew "Matty the Horse" Ianniello to enforce the scheme, in which trash haulers divvied up customers among...

NEW YORK - It's getting harder to tell the cops from the crooks around here. Imagine the surprise of 32 mobsters arrested this past week, including the head of the Gambino crime family, when they discovered that their brother-in-firearms for the last two years was an undercover FBI (news - web sites) agent. And imagine the disgust of New York police officials when a pair of retired detectives were arrested in an Italian restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip, charged with being mob hit men responsible for eight murders and a failed plot to kill Mafia turncoat Sammy "The Bull"...

Informant's tip led FBI to burial site in Queens lot NEW YORK (CNN) -- The New York Medical Examiner's Office has identified the skeletons of Philip "Phil Lucky" Giaccone and Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera, two Mafia figures believed to be the victims of a gangland shooting more than 20 years ago, FBI officials said Tuesday. Agents from the FBI's Bonanno and Gotti squads, along with the New York City Police Department's cold case squad, dug through concrete and sifted through dirt in a Queens lot for three weeks in October after a tip by an informant. Giaccone's remains were initially...

<p>October 19, 2004 -- The woman who's suing TV personality Bill O'Reilly for sexual harassment boasted she had written a book to "take [him] down" — months before she went back to work for him, a witness swore yesterday.</p> <p>Andrea Mackris also bragged that she was good buddies with O'Reilly's arch nemesis — Air America talk show host Al Franken, the witness said.</p>

Federal investigators continued their search-and-destroy mission through the ranks of the decimated Bonanno crime family, announcing yesterday the indictment of 28 reputed members and associates, including the acting bosses and a key mob leader in Canada. The 20-count racketeering indictment charged many of the defendants with complicity in 15 murders or murder conspiracies from 1978 to 1992. Gambling, loan-sharking and drug charges also were included.