This story originally ran in LDS Living in 2005. Mario Facione passed away in 2015. Here is his story.
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There are certain people in the world that you don’t want to mess with, those who control some of the largest organized crime operations on the planet. Organized crime has always been a problem, but as we move into 2012 some syndicates have exploded with profit and influence. Criminal groups that used to follow illegal schemes have turned to more reliable forms of profit. The people that will be highlighted in this article include the current leaders of the Sicilian Mafia, American Cosa Nostra, Neopolitan Camorra, 'Ndrangheta, Russian Mafia, Albanian Mafia, Chinese Triads, Japanese Yakuza, Montreal Mob, Solntsevskaya Bratva, Clerkenwell crime syndicate, Los Rastrojos, Sinaloa Cartel, and the Juárez Cartel.
Mafia members and mobsters have a thick history in America. Here's a gallery of mugshots of famous gangsters and mobsters, past and present.
Mafia members and mobsters have a thick history in America. Here's a gallery of mugshots of famous gangsters and mobsters, past and present.
Philip Gigante, 41, whose grandfather Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante was the head of the Genovese crime family, was elected into the positions by residents of Airmont.
Jim Colosimo 1910 - 1920 Big Jim wasn't actually the first boss of the Chicago Outfit, as it wasn't called the Outfit until after his death. However, he played a major role in the pre-prohibition days of the gang, in creating a vast prostitution empire in Chicago. By 1909,
Ex-mafia hit man and turncoat Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, convicted of running an Arizona Ecstasy ring, was released from prison on parole.
He reportedly passed away on Wednesday during open-heart surgery
Various organized crime flow charts presented into evidence at the trial of Roy Lindley DeVecchio October 15, 2007 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. DeVecchio, a former FBI agent, is accused...
John Dillinger was a cult hero to many: he robbed banks that people blamed for the Great Depression. But after being dubbed 'Public Enemy Number One' by...
The rich elite, the top families, have the support of the CIA, the Mafia and the Vatican. Professor Paul L. Williams has written Operation Gladio: The Untold Story of the Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia The Washington Book Review According to Paul L. Williams: 1. In 1942, US Intelligence recruited Lucky Luciano, a Mafia drug lord. They allowed him to build up his empire and sell narcotics in the USA. (Reportedly, the CIA is heavily involved in running the drugs trade, on hehalf of the rich elite) 2. During World War II, Allen Dulles, who became boss of the CIA, met various Nazi officials in order to maintain an alliance. (Dulles was a Knight of Malta. People linked to the Knights of Malta include Reinhard Gehlen (Nazi), Heinrich Himmler, Franz von Papen (Hitler enabler) Fritz Thyssen (Hitler’s financier), David Rockefeller, members of the Bush family, Rupert Murdoch...) 3. After World War II, the Vatican helped to finance the CIA's false flag terror operations. .. NATO is a tool of the Pentagon. 4. After Nixon became president in 1969, Henry Kissinger got his assets in Italy to carry out various terrorist attacks. This was the CIA's Operation Gladio. The aim was to keep the rich elite in power and to discredit any opponents of the rich elite. In 1969, CIA assets arranged for a bomb to go off in a bank in Milan. Seventeen people died. Within an hour, three bombs exploded in Rome. The opponents of the rich elite were blamed for the bombings. The average Italian knows more about the CIA than the average American. 14,591 acts of terror took place between 1969 and 1987. 491 people died and 1,181 were injured. GLADIO STYLE ATTACK. 5. The CIA's terror attacks took place in other European countries from 1965 to 1981. The USA tried to kill De Gaulle. De Gaulle then denounced 'the secret warfare of the Pentagon' and expelled the European headquarters of NATO. (The CIA-NATO terror attacks still continue) A child victim of the Marc Dutroux child abuse gang who reportedly worked for the security services. In Belgium, assets of the CIA randomly killed people in a supermarket. (Meanwhile, the CIA and its friends were running child abuse rings so as to control the top people in Europe) The Nazi General Pinochet of Chile. 6. In Latin America, in the 1970s, the CIA and the Vatican launched Operation Condor in order to crush anyone who opposed the rich elite. The Vatican's Opus Dei got the support of Chilean bishops for the overthrow of the government of President Allende. "In 1971, the CIA began shelling out millions to the Chilean Institute for General Studies (IGS), an Opus Dei think tank, for the planning of the revolution." The Pope was fully behind the purging of clerics who opposed the rich elite. Under Chile's General Pinochet, hundreds of thousands Chileans disappeared. Osama bin Laden, who reportedly was close friends with the CIA and MI6. 7. FBI whistle blower Sibel Edmonds said: "Between 1996 and 2002, we, the United States, planned, financed, and helped execute every major terrorist incident by Chechen rebels (and the Mujahideen) against Russia. "Between 1996 and 20002, we, the United States, planned, financed, and helped execute every single uprising and terror related scheme in Xinjiang (aka East Turkistan and Uyhurstan). "Between 1996 and 2002, we, the United States, planned and carried out at least two assassination schemes against pro-Russian officials in Azerbaijan."
