On Comparing the President to a Mob Boss STEPHANOPOULOS: How strange is it for you to sit here and compare the president to a mob boss?
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Comey compared Trump to a mob boss in the memoir, writing that Trump sought loyalty "like Sammy the Bull's Cosa Nostra induction ceremony," a reference to the infamous mob boss.
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"I feel like I'm with the mob boss," he said.
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Norris most recently played a mob boss on TNT's "Claws."
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Let's say I am federal prosecutor investigating a mob boss.
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Desperate, he borrows a hundred grand from the mob boss Galasso.
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A witness testifies that she felt intimidated by the mob boss.
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"I'm not some mob boss," Ms. Wazwaz said in an interview.
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Comey compared Trump to a mob boss in his book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership," writing that Trump sought loyalty "like Sammy the Bull's Cosa Nostra induction ceremony," a reference to the infamous mob boss.
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The feared mob boss had been sucking on it like a bib.
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That's "Gotti," the new John Travolta film about mob boss John Gotti.
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As she speaks, the mob boss denigrates the witness in a tweet.
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Indeed, the list of indictments would have made mob boss John Gotti blush.
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Comparing the President to mob boss, for example, doesn't seem so extreme anymore.
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"It's something a mob boss would do," said another, former Representative Joe Walsh.
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One memo cited possible collusion with mob boss Sam Giancana for a paid hit.
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Gandolfini, who played mob boss Tony Soprano, died in June 2013 at age 51.
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Mob boss Carmine Falcone is the biggest threat casting a shadow across the city.
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Here are some of the most notable claims in the book: Comey compares Trump to a mob boss Comey takes a number of shots at his former boss in the upcoming book, likening him to a mob boss and criticizing his physical appearance.
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Even the twist of who the true mob "boss" is here — Hermione Lodge (Marisol Nichols)!
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Instead, known mob boss Luke Aitkens (Matt Stokoe) was actually the mastermind behind Julia's murder.
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Mob boss Paul Castellano was gunned down outside the East 46th Street location in 1985.
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The reputed Gambino mob boss Frank Cali was murdered outside his home on Staten Island.
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Ever wondered what life would be like growing up with a mob boss as a father?
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Mr. Obama even trotted off to a baseball game in Havana with the Cuban mob boss.
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Klaew was the big brother, the mob boss of Bangkok and the baddest man in Thailand.
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It is what the Mob boss tells his lieutenants: be loyal and you'll get your cut.
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He was also a producer of "The Departed," Martin Scorsese's film about a Boston mob boss.
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Infamous mob boss Al Capone has an iconic look, and somehow Tom Hardy is nailing it perfectly.
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Berman, a writer, filmmaker and daughter of mob boss Davie Berman, was killed on or about Dec.
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Honestly, I think Hank is better suited to being like a hotel concierge than a mob boss.
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"I've heard people on your show and many others comparing trump to a mob boss," Peters said.
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Quick hits: Comey said Trump is "untethered to the truth" and compared him to a mob boss.
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Winning elections isn't in the cards, but burning a local mob boss and making a little cash?
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One problem brought Vollmer face-to-face with one of notorious mob boss Al Capone's top lieutenants.
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A Reno lounge singer hiding from a mob boss in a conservative convent — what could go wrong?
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But it had been decades since a mob boss was killed in New York City, until Wednesday.
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Among the suspects was John J. Gotti, grandson and namesake of New York's infamous "Teflon Don" mob boss.
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Richard Stratton will never forget the time he was locked up behind bars with mob boss John Gotti.
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The suspected Gambino mob boss killer scrawled "MAGA Forever" and apparent QAnon messages on his hands in court.
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"This is like Carmela Soprano," said Westley, referring to the wife of fictitious TV mob boss Tony Soprano.
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Comey also ripped Trump as "untethered to truth" in the book and compared him to a mob boss.
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It is more intrusive than even a Title III criminal wiretap of a drug dealer or mob boss.
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Philadelphia mob boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino beat racketeering charges on February 20 thanks to a hung jury.
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When he was caught engaging in illegal racial discrimination to please a mob boss, he paid a fine.
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Stephen Root and Glenn Fleshler get the most material as Barry's agent and a Chechnyan mob boss, respectively.
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When Trump was caught engaging in illegal racial discrimination to please a mob boss, he paid a fine.
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In 2009, Globo aired a video from 1995 showing Macedo laughing like a low-rent mob boss as he
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"I've heard people on your show and many others comparing trump to a mob boss," Peters said of Trump.
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Reid added that he disagrees with former FBI Director James Comey's frequent comparisons between Trump and a mob boss.
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Nevertheless, Strangis and Melngailis were done in by a pizza, as was a mob boss in Italy last month.
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He was an inspiration for Jack Nicholson's mob boss in Martin Scorsese's 2006 film, "The Departed," set in Boston.
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The mob boss was Ruggiero (Richie the Boot) Boiardo, the long-lived patriarch of organized crime in North Jersey.
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And Comey's newly released book, A Higher Loyalty, dishes the dirt on Trump's mob boss mentality in the White House.
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A dispute over the mine's ownership saw a business rival report Jin to police, claiming he was a mob boss.
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The fact that a mob boss lives in the White House should not excuse him from being brought to justice.
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In the end, our system offers no mechanism besides impeachment to check a president who operates like a mob boss.
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There's no way in the world if a mob boss hit anybody that that guy would come back at him.
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" Hillary Fogelson said, "It was like you were the new mob boss, and they all wanted to kiss the ring.
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Famed mob boss Whitely Bulger once killed three of his victims in the home and buried them in the basement.
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According to excerpts from the book, Comey describes Trump as someone with ethics akin to those of a mob boss.
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In reality, Putin is just another mob boss you&aposve got to grease to get that new casino off the ground.
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Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme, a former mob boss, is seen in a 1995 file booking photo taken in West Palm, Fla.
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Like a good mob boss, he hedged his bets by gathering derogatory information on both presidential candidates during the 2016 campaign.
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Our little mob boss from oldbabies Even cats should be respect their elders: My twin cats meeting their new baby brother!
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The unusual situation takes an unexpected turn when the Italian mob boss dies on the operating table during a routine surgery.
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Gaitonde narrates his life from his childhood as the son of a poor monk to mob boss of Mumbai's Gopalmath district.
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One local mob boss, a Serb named Sreten Jocić, joked that Willem Holleeder was the Netherlands' best-known product since cheese.
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The attention that Costello got from law enforcement prevented him from shedding that image of a racketeer, of a mob boss.
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Four days later, James "Whitey" Bulger, the Boston mob boss was brutally beaten and killed at the federal prison in Hazelton.
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As my colleague Ezra Klein put it, Trump's behavior is not that of a president; it's that of a mob boss.
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Last month, Trump, using classic mob-boss speak, called Cohen "rat," days after his former attorney pleaded guilty to lying to Congress.
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When Louie first offers Mowgli his protection, he sounds for all the world like a mob boss shaking down a local business.
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In the book, Comey describes Trump as being "untethered to the truth" and likens him to a mob boss and a bully.
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In Part 1, Ciro defends his clan's turf by setting fire to the home of a rival mob boss — and war ensues.
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In 2011, mob boss and former informer James "Whitey" Bulger was arrested in Santa Monica after years of living on the run.
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Trump's comments as alleged in the Comey statement make Trump sound more like a mob boss than the president of a democracy.
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His fate was revealed in 1992 at an organized-crime trial: He had been killed for crossing the mob boss John Gotti.
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On Friday, Reeves took to Twitter to announce that John Turturro—the Jesus himself—has been cast as mob boss Carmine Falcone.
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Notorious Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger was found dead at a West Virginia prison on Tuesday, federal officials told NBC News.
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When Mikey is kidnapped and held hostage by mob boss Eddie King (Cage), his brother JP turns to a detective for help.
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Our law enforcement sources said cops believe Comello may have murdered Cali because the mob boss was blocking him from dating Cali's niece.
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That year, the FBI says, Mogilevich paid a Russian judge to spring a fellow mob boss, Vyachelsav Kirillovich Ivankov, from a Siberian gulag.
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The show's creators — and even Ness — appear to view the enterprising ex-policeman as less sympathetic than the aging mob boss he targets.
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John Gotti, the well-tailored mob boss who died in 2002, looked so self-satisfied that his walk amounted to a perp strut.
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This includes the son of a Kansas City mob boss, Wendy's little brother, and an FBI foe, who actually might be a friend.
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The loaded cast includes Jack Nicholson as the sneering mob boss as well as Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin and Vera Farmiga.
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The former Boston mob boss and FBI informant was killed in the US Penitentiary Hazelton just a day after he was transferred there.
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Other criminals who have spent time there include Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, mob boss John Gotti, and "Blind Sheikh" militant Omar Abdel-Rahman.
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The whole gang is here: De Niro as Sheeran, his face digitally Botoxed for much of the movie to look a few decades younger; Joe Pesci as mob boss Russell Bufalino, in a subdued performance that nevertheless suggests a coiled menace; Harvey Keitel as Angelo Bruno, an even bigger mob boss, carrying himself with the ease of an elder statesman.
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Travolta was spotted this week filming scenes in Brooklyn for "The Life & Death of John Gotti," his upcoming movie about the notorious mob boss.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The grandson of former New York mob boss John Gotti pleaded guilty on Wednesday to selling illegal opioids, according to prosecutors.
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In 2012, his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for identity fraud and helping the mob boss avoid capture.
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This kicks off an entire series of events, as one of the drunks turns out to be the nephew of a powerful mob boss.
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The source said that Comello had some kind of relationship with one of Cali's family members, and the mob boss disagreed with the relationship.
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His girlfriend, Catherine Greig, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison in 2012 for identity fraud and helping the mob boss avoid capture.
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What's more, Sater's father — a mob boss in his own right — had connections to other criminals, and one of his associates helped protect Sater's business.
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In Casino, Stone plays a mob boss wife in the seventies who swaddles herself in all-white designer goods and pounds of gorgeous Bulgari jewels.
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But that leaves the deeper question: Does Trump actually behave like a real-world mob boss, or is he just some cartoonish version of one?
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Among the references present is Stephanie St. Clair, a mob boss during the Harlem Renaissance, alongside various portrayals of femininity from the dawn of television.
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And the now-disbarred attorney — unlike Eva Peron — repeatedly sought to portray himself as a victim of a client he described as a mob boss.
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I would halt the proceeding — for the safety of the witness — and ask the judge for a warrant for the arrest of the mob boss.
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Trump is often compared to a mob boss, but Michael Corleone would never turn on a loyal capo, only on one who had crossed him.
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The chairman described Trump as acting like a mob boss who hears what someone wants and then makes clear their demands before bestowing such asks.
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Until he meets Jane, Calogero's primary conflict is with his father, a hard-working bus driver who fears Calogero's involvement with the mob boss, Sonny.
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Heymann's office had sent a former FBI agent to prison for protecting a murderous South Boston mob boss for decades to maintain him as an informant.
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Catherine Greig, the longtime girlfriend of notorious New England mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a federal criminal contempt charge, PEOPLE confirms.
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As we reported ... someone rolled up to Cali's Staten Island home Wednesday night and opened fire on the mob boss, apparently running him over as well.
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The Sopranos followed the life of Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss as he dealt with personal and professional issues in his home and business.
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The Sopranos followed the life of Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss, as he dealt with personal and professional issues in his home and business.
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Damon is the bad boy, mentored by Jack Nicholson's South Boston mob boss (loosely based on Whitey Bulger) to be a mole in the state police.
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The Sopranos followed the life of Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss as he dealt with personal and professional issues in his home and business.
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"The president was engaged in an extortion in the same way that a mob boss would shake somebody down," Luján said on MSNBC on Sunday night.
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In the book, he accuses the president of acting like a mob boss and said he pursued a "relentless attack" on the FBI and Justice Department.
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Mr. Wayne's correspondence reveals an acceptance of Ms. Kyle, who in her time has been a jewel thief, a villain, an antihero and a mob boss.
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Schiff, however, has compared Trump's request to that of a "mob boss," in which he didn't have to explicitly say it to make his request known.
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Nick has troubles of his own, involving a mob boss and his sadistic henchman (the always energizing Patrick Fischler), and a highly unlikely partnership is born.
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But the authorities believed that Carmine J. Persico, a mob boss who died this month in prison, had a strong hand in his and other murders.
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The new Gotti, which stars John Travolta as the infamous mob boss, seems like a solid contender for the title of worst movie of the year.
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This trailer suggests that mob boss Carmine Falcone is one of the big threats, though — given Batman's sizable costumed rogue's gallery — that could be a red herring.
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Bulger, an Irish mob boss in Boston, was found guilty in August 2013 on 31 of 32 counts, including extortion, money laundering, drug dealing and weapons possession.
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Gandolfini, 19, is starring in the movie as a young Tony Soprano, taking over the iconic role from James, who's best known for playing the mob boss.
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Lee told Boston 25 News in 2015 that notorious mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger was investigated as a possible suspect in the "Lady of the Dunes" slaying.
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" A clip released of the interview shows Stephanopoulos asking Comey, "how strange is it for you to sit here and compare the President to a mob boss?
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Zito died at 87, a long life for anyone, but especially long for a former mob boss believed to have been involved in up to six murders.
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Earlier this year, the FBI and NYPD coordinated to bust Boris Nayfeld, a reputed mob boss who reportedly headed a heroin trafficking ring out of Brighton Beach.
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Its subject seems like unlikely musical fodder: It's an oddly heartwarming narrative about a boy torn between his values and his loyalty to a local mob boss.
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Gaynes was also known for playing Henry Warnimont on the NBC series Punky Brewster and mob boss as Frank Smith on General Hospital, as well his stage work.
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"Sopranos" star James Gandolfini died in 2013 of a heart attack at age 51, and supporting actor Frank Vincent, who played mob boss Phil Leotardo, died last year.
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Al Capone was an infamous gangster in Chicago that garnered a reputation for being a feared mob boss before his final conviction in 1931, according to the FBI.
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Victoria Gotti's life will be immortalized in a new Lifetime biopic set to premiere Saturday that explores her complicated relationship with her father, late mob boss John Gotti.
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They declined to hear 87-year-old former Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger's appeal of his 2013 conviction for committing or ordering the murders of 11 people.
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Back home in Philadelphia, this attitude endears him to a Pennsylvania mob boss named Russell Bufalino (Mr Pesci, riveting as a dapper but wizened goblin, dripping with evil).
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In the other, Richie gets further entangled with the mob boss Corrado Galasso — which proves to be more hazardous than the time an entire building collapsed on him.
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And then there's the technology involved, which made it possible for De Niro, Pacino, and Joe Pesci, who plays the mob boss Russell Bufalino, to look decades younger.
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Comey's tell-all book was harsh in its criticism of Trump and his administration, describing the president as "unethical" and his leadership style akin to a mob boss.
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Manafort's attorneys argued Tuesday that Mueller is treating their client like a mob boss for the "esoteric" crime of failing to file a form, but it's no coincidence
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Jordan Chan, who played Chicken Chiu in Andrew Lau's "Young and Dangerous" movies in the '90s, stars here as another bird — the detective's mob-boss name is Phoenix.
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Ms. Falco won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of the strong-willed wife of the mob boss Tony Soprano.
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She had flings with film stars and Howard Hughes, and in 1941 married Pasquale di Cicco, an actors' agent and associate of the mob boss Charles (Lucky) Luciano.
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He initially told detectives he was romantically interested in one of Mr. Cali's female relatives and had been told by the mob boss to stay away, officials said.
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But "Gotti" mostly incoherently bounces around the '70s, '80s and '90s, recounting "highlights" of his criminal exploits, including the assassination of the mob boss Paul Castellano in 1985.
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The bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt also wears David August suits — but he looks, at best, like a mini-Conor, and, at worst, like a mob boss on Halloween.
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"I really want your take on an FBI director who compares a sitting president to a mob boss," Hannity said as he welcomed Dershowitz back on his program.
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The mob boss, who took Osama bin Laden's place at the top of the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted list, hid in plain sight in Santa Monica, California.
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He said the mob boss would ask him to take walks with him when they were both alone in the unit and Bulger would offer up gruesome details.
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He told a U.S. ambassador of his consultations with the notorious Russian mob boss Semion Mogilevich, according to a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable, though Firtash has denied it.
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There was a time when the racketeering trial of a mob boss would have dominated headlines, just as the trial and conviction of John Gotti did in 1992.
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According to the Times, Comello told detectives he was high on marijuana during the incident and shot Cali because he feared the mob boss was going to shoot him.
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James "Whitey" Bulger, a notorious Boston Irish mob boss, was killed at age 89 at the United States Penitentiary-Hazelton in West Virginia on Tuesday, per the Boston Globe.
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She's not like a mob boss or anything, but she's shady, and people like her can get into trouble pretty quickly, and there's a lot of potential in that.
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The elder Gandolfini, who died in 2013 at age 51, originated the role on The Sopranos, and won three Emmys for his portrayal of the anxiety-prone mob boss.
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In two months, the personal effects of notorious mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger and his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig, will be hitting an auction block in Boston, PEOPLE confirms.
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Needing protection in order to survive, he carries out a soul-coarsening atrocity on behalf of a Corsican mob boss who runs a criminal operation within the prison walls.
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Demanding complete loyalty from subordinates, exerting absolute control and caring only about his own needs and interests, Donald Trump behaves like a mob boss rather than a democratic leader.
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"How strange is it for you to sit here and compare the president to a mob boss?" host George Stephanopoulos asks Comey in a clip shared by ABC News.
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Ms. Obst said that she loved the book — her first film project — and Ms. Berman's take on growing up in Las Vegas, the privileged daughter of a mob boss.
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Berman, the daughter of a mob boss, was found shot to death in her home in December of 2000 shortly after New York investigators reopened the case into Kathleen's disappearance.
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Last August, Chapo moved to hire Jeffrey Lichtman, a high-powered New York defense attorney who helped keep mob boss John Gotti Jr. out of prison in the early 2000s.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A former FBI agent admitted on Monday that he lied on the witness stand during the 803 trial of former Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, officials said.
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Before his death in 2003, the alleged Bufalino crime family member claimed to have killed Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa (played by Pacino) on the orders of mob boss Russell Bufalino.
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The 2013 conviction of James "Whitey" Bulger will stand, PEOPLE confirms — meaning the New England mob boss and convicted murderer will spend the rest of his days behind prison bars.
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Acting on the orders of mob boss Dutch Schultz, a gunman entered the store, telling the cashier and customers to "keep cool now," drew a tommy gun, and opened fire.
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The book has drawn Trump's ire as Comey compared the president to a mob boss who stresses personal loyalty over the law and has little regard for morality or truth.
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Indeed, as Brian Beutler argues in Crooked Media, Trump's worsening legal situation may lead him to act like a mob boss, drawing Republican officials and his supporters closer to him.
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And during another lengthy exchange, Comey elaborated on his past comparison of Trump to a mob boss, saying the president favored loyalty toward him over the betterment of the nation.
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"You" are Jackie Estacado who, on his 21st birthday, is marked for assassination by his own uncle, a New York mob boss voiced by old A-Team weirdo Dwight Schultz.
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The 1981 murder of mob boss Stefano Bontate signaled the beginning of a two-year killing spree known as "The Slaughter", in which Riina sought to annihilate his many rivals.
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The police have charged a Staten Island man with the murder of the reputed mob boss Francesco Cali, and officials say the killing might not be related to organized crime.
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How all of the story's incongruous pieces — a mob boss, a far-right conspiracy theory, a struggling young man from a middle-class Staten Island home — fit together remains unknown.
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Or, how did the love triangle between good guy Fred Andrews (Luke Perry), Hermione Lodge (Marisol Nichols), and relentless mob boss Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos) end up the way it did?
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The Trump-as-mob-boss trope isn't just the work of Mafia junkies who can't get enough of The Sopranos—it's rooted, at least in part, in the president's official conduct.
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Suspected mob boss Frank "Cadillac" Salemme, who had a "hidden interest" in The Channel, was suspected of aiding in the murder, the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a 2004 press release.
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An FBI memo described Gigante as "an efficient hit man" for Genovese, although his most famous foray into mob murder was the botched May 1957 hit on mob boss Frank Costello.
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I can't think of anyone with a mob pedigree like his: Protégé of Vito Genovese, would-be killer of Costello, and ultimately the most powerful mob boss in the United States.
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In the book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership," Mr. Comey denounces the president as "unethical, and untethered to truth" and said Mr. Trump reminded him of a mob boss.
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Critic score: 55%Synopsis: In this adventurous comedy, a criminal goes to great lengths to capture a prized antique gun for a mob boss, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend.
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In the book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership," Mr. Comey denounces the president as "unethical, and untethered to truth," and said Mr. Trump reminded him of a mob boss.
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We're right into the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, and the "mob boss" comparisons are appearing all over the joint, popping up like a surprise a horse head in your bed.
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The chairman described Trump as acting like a mob boss who hears what someone wants and then makes clear their demands before bestowing such asks, an argument he'd also made Wednesday.
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Carmela Soprano's consultation with the Jewish shrink is priceless: Facing the truth about Tony, her mob-boss spouse, the upscale Mafia housewife tries to compartmentalize her marriage from its funding sources.
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But the source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN that Comello had some kind of relationship with one of Cali's family members, and the mob boss disagreed with the relationship.
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Russo also says he was an errand boy for the mob back in the day -- and had close mobster friends, including Gambino mob boss Paul Castellano, who was killed in 1985.
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It tells the story of Qiao (Zhao Tao), girlfriend of mob boss Bin (Liao Fan), who one night takes the fall for Bin and winds up in jail for five years.
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The beat changes as soon as he grabs the mic and talks about getting owned by alcohol, listening to Redman and Naughty By Nature, and just running shit like a mob boss.
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So, however conscious it is, if you're sitting on the Hill and saying those words, to everyone you've fired or who you think has betrayed you, you're something of a mob boss.
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A former mafia hit man is a suspect in Tuesday's prison slaying of 89-year-old James "Whitey" Bulger, a notorious New England mob boss turned informant, according to multiple news reports.
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John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (R-La.) invoked the tooth fairy, the Easter bunny and former mob boss Jimmy Hoffa in a question to Inspector General Michael Horowitz about bias in the FBI.
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Earlier this month, Trump made the unwelcome comparison between that former campaign boss, Paul Manafort, and Al Capone, the infamous mob boss ultimately brought down by the IRS on tax evasion charges.
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Besides introducing Pattinson as the title character, "The Batman" will also introduce Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Paul Dano as Riddler, Colin Farrell as Penguin and John Turturro as mob boss Carmine Falcone.
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A Bronx Tale isn't trying to draw a direct parallel between its mob boss and the new president-elect, but it doesn't have to try for the parallel to be glaring anyway.
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The new Lifetime movie Victoria Gotti: My Father's Daughter gives an inside look at the world of the daughter of mob boss John Gotti — and PEOPLE has the first look at the film.
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Jenkins, who is black, tracks white supremacists to film and "dox" them — Spencer introduces him with a weirdly theatrical description of "Daryle the Barrel," like a hardboiled detective talking about a mob boss.
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The lawyer representing Catherine Greig, the longtime girlfriend of notorious New England mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, claimed in court on Monday his client intends to plead guilty to a federal contempt charge.
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The people of The Deuce fall into roughly three categories: The women of the Deuce, the men of the Deuce, and the men who collude with Rudy Pipilo (Michael Rispoli), a mob boss.
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In 1935, as the only woman and the only African-American on the legal team pursuing the Mob boss Lucky Luciano, she had the idea of prosecuting him for his ties to prostitution.
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" Comey's book "A Higher Loyalty," of copy of which CNN obtained, details his conversations with the President, compares Trump to a mob boss, and slams the "forest fire that is the Trump presidency.
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The raunch is cranked up when the story takes LaRocca into a porn studio owned by a rival mob boss, which contains the golden dick statues mentioned at the beginning of this piece.
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Almost as soon as a powerful mob boss was shot and killed—seemingly assassinated—in front of his Staten Island home last week, the temptation to label it a mob hit was compelling.
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Washington (CNN)Roger Stone says an attempt by prosecutors to show his jury a clip from the film "The Godfather: Part II" -- that could suggest he's a mob boss -- is out of bounds.
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He and the Donald, the lawyer who was a mob buster and the president who acts like a mob boss, cooked up a harebrained plan to get Trump past the Stormy Daniels problem.
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" He also found success playing his hard-bitten screen image for laughs, in such comedic roles as an insecure mob boss in "Analyze This" and a retired CIA operative in "Meet the Fockers.
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As VICE News reported earlier this week, Guzmán recently moved to hire Jeffrey Lichtman, a legendary New York criminal defense attorney who helped keep alleged mob boss John Gotti Jr. out of prison.
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With the premiere of "The Sopranos" in 1999, Americans were riveted by the story of Tony Soprano, a brutal New Jersey mob boss and father who liked to kill people with his bare hands.
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In their forthcoming book, Last Don Standing: The Secret Life of Mob Boss Ralph Natale, veteran crime reporter Larry McShane and producer Dan Pearson lean on the gangster's own recollections to tell his story.
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With total access to the mob boss turned rat, Last Don tells a story of the Mafia near its prime, when everything still seemed possible for an aspiring criminal who knew the right people.
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His clients also included the Native American protesters at Wounded Knee, S.D., the family of the rogue real estate heir Robert A. Durst; Mr. Leary, the LSD guru; and Mr. Gotti, the mob boss.
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Dressed in all black everything with a grey-streaked World Cup striker haircut, Hisato Hamada looks the part of a stylish movie mob boss, but the only blade he carries is a chef's knife.
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In Lost Highway, they're a souped-up ride that a mob boss uses to ram a tailgating dickhead off the road before offering a violent lesson on the importance of consulting the user's manual.
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Trump, however, seems to reject the entire premise of a mutual defense, viewing NATO as a kind of bizarro protection racket, in which the Mob boss hands out envelopes of cash to the shopkeepers.
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Rating: 5/10"The Sopranos" (1999-2007)If a mob boss was ever visiting a psychiatrist, he'd be in the trunk of his car by the end of the week, along with the psychiatrist.
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In statements and tweets since, Trump condemned the treatment of his former aide, who was held in solitary confinement as he awaited trial, as worse than that of the legendary mob boss Al Capone.
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It's hard to imagine anyone other than Pacino as Michael Corleone, but the film's executive producers hated him for the part, arguing that he was too short to play the war hero-turned-mob boss.
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"I see many more differences than similarities," Diego Gambetta, a professor of social theory and an expert on mafias at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, told me of the Trump–mob boss comparison.
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A mermaid smokes a cigarette in the bathtub; a prom Queen and King experience their first night of lust; a prostitute and her pimp hatch a plan to overtake one of their mob boss client.
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Looking back on history, who was treated worse, Alfonse Capone, legendary mob boss, killer and "Public Enemy Number One," or Paul Manafort, political operative & Reagan/Dole darling, now serving solitary confinement - although convicted of nothing?
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The crowning achievement of American filmmaking powerhouse Francis Ford Coppola is undoubtedly his Godfather trilogy, which tells the story of mob boss Michael Corleone's ascent (or descent, depending on which way you look at it).
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Robert De Niro stars as Frank Sheeran, a war vet turned hitman; Al Pacino plays union boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975; Joe Pesci comes out of retirement to portray mob boss Russell Bufalino.
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Mr. Gandolfini, best known for his portrayal of the mob boss Tony Soprano in the "Sopranos" TV series, had lived there with his first wife, Marcy Gandolfini, and their son before their divorce in 2002.
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Death of a reputed mob boss: Francesco Cali, 53, who was said to be the leader of the Gambino crime family, was fatally shot outside his home on Staten Island on Wednesday, the police said.
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James (Whitey) Bulger, the Boston mob boss who was found beaten to death in a West Virginia prison on Tuesday, may have been killed by inmates with ties to organized crime, a prison worker said.
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Little did he know that it would end with the murder of his best friend, his imprisonment for that same murder, and his reaching a startling conclusion about who really killed legendary mob boss Sam Giancana.
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Vinnie and his brother-in-law (played by Chris Bauer from True Blood) concoct a scheme this week to make money off of construction workers, enlisting the help of Rudy Pipilo (Michael Rispoli), a mob boss.
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In the first half of the episode, Reggie's actions make sense, as it's revealed mob boss Hiram is paying the Dark Circle to stir up vigilante trouble in the Southside as part of a political scheme.
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Gottlieb argued that Comello, who has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and weapons charges, only took out his gun when the mob boss appeared to be going for his own weapon, in his waistband.
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He is reportedly connected to the reputed Russian mob boss Semyon Mogilevich, an entry on the FBI global most wanted list and for years a major funder of the who's who in Ukrainian politics, including Yanukovych.
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" Comey describes the Trump presidency as "a forest fire" in his book, and in an ABC News interview Sunday evening he compared Trump to a mob boss and said he was "morally unfit to be president.
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Comey reemerged as a Republican target earlier this year with the release of his book, in which he took personal shots at the president, commenting on Trump's physical appearance and comparing him to a mob boss.
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" His tweets were in reaction to excerpts from Comey's memoir, "A Higher Loyalty," a tell-all book in which he compares Trump to a mob boss, and slams the "forest fire that is the Trump presidency.
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"Himes said the very language of the phrase can be confusing, when he thought it should be simple to communicate "that the president acted criminally and extorted in the way a mob boss would extort somebody.
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According to The Boston Globe, Bulger's reputation was shredded during his racketeering trial in federal court in 2013, where he was portrayed as a mob boss who bribed FBI agents and strangled at least one woman.
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But it's a little depressing to see the things many of us worry about in the all-important spheres of policy and politics seeping into something as inconsequential as a terrible movie about a mob boss.
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A Bronx Tale was supposed to be a simple coming-of-age narrative about a kid who grows up under the spell of a local mob boss during a period of tremendous racial and class tension.
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Everyone else may already understand Archie is a young teen boy who should have never confronted a hooded murderer or assassinated his girlfriend's mob boss dad, but Archie has yet to absolve himself for such normal behavior.
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David Chase's incisive look at the violence and psychology surrounding a mob boss and his family — both blood and Mafia — has since gone down in the annals as one of the great TV dramas of all-time.
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For three generations, members of the gangland dynasty have been imprisoned for crimes that have included shaking down construction sites, murdering a mob boss at a steakhouse and trying to extort the action-movie hero Steven Seagal.
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For proof, we have the return of "The Sopranos," and with it, the revival of the argument over its famous final cut to black as the mob boss Tony Soprano sits with his family at a diner.
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MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - An Italian mob boss, who had been imprisoned in Uruguay since 2017, escaped from jail overnight as he was waiting to be extradited back to Italy, the South American country's interior ministry said on Monday.
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By the time ABC aired an hourlong interview with James B. Comey on Sunday night, his feelings on President Trump were clear: that he was volatile, immoral, fixated on allegations made against him, akin to a mob boss.
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James "Whitey" Bulger, the notorious Boston mob boss who spent 20153 years on the lam and was the subject of a movie starring Johnny Depp, was found dead Tuesday at a federal prison in West Virginia, PEOPLE confirms.
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Yes, Vicki Vale shows up, and while she promises to keep whatever she sees or hears at the Manor off the record, she can't help but watch Bruce like a hawk when mob boss Carmine Falcone shows up.
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A lawyer for the man charged with murdering an alleged mob boss in Staten Island argued his client was influenced by rhetoric emanating from the White House and online conspiracy theories, according to the New York Daily News.
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The second episode of the game has Bruce investigating an idea that was suggested early on: that his parents weren't actually wealthy do-gooders, but instead were deeply connected to dangerous criminals like the mob boss Carmine Falcone.
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"Looking back on history, who was treated worse, Alfonse Capone, legendary mob boss, killer and 'Public Enemy Number One,' or Paul Manafort, political operative & Reagan/Dole darling, now serving solitary confinement - although convicted of nothing?" the President tweeted.
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While there aren't many documented cases of police forces using malware to get around encryption, in 1999 the FBI used a hacking tool that logged his keystrokes to get evidence against a Philadelphia mob boss who used PGP.
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"His use of the term 'rat' for Michael Cohen and mischaracterizing this as a break-in into his attorney's office frankly makes him sound more like a mob boss than the president of the United States," Coons said.
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A quick time-skip to a few years later reveals that a resulting chain of events, beginning with Kennedy's impeachment for sharing a mistress with the mob boss Sam Giancana, left the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation.
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It felt like a mob boss deciding that murdering a snitch is beyond contempt because of how pathetically he begged for his life, or a referee calling off a boxing match after one overmatched fighter's eyes has swelled shut.
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It's why murderous mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), actual serial killer Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), and literal terrorist Nick Brody (Damian Lewis) are all beloved ne'er do wells with the Emmys nods, and wins, to prove it.
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Bruce Gordon's glowering mob boss, Frank Nitti, a study in pinstripe suits and heavy-lidded malevolence, was a particularly useful foil, but actors as powerful as Peter Falk, Lee Marvin and Joseph Wiseman made repeat appearances in villainous roles.
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To guard against that, the new team, led by Jeffrey Lichtman — who previously represented ex–mob boss John Gotti Jr. — want the Justice Department to promise not to confiscate their paychecks, a request the judge was unwilling to grant.
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About a dozen candidates for public office in the U.S. have promoted or dabbled in QAnon, and its adherents have been arrested in at least seven episodes, including the slaying of a New York City mob boss last year.
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Based on Misha Glenny's best-selling book and produced in concert with the BBC, the series stars James Norton as Alex Godman, the son of an exiled Russian mob boss (Aleksey Serebryakov, who almost exclusively speaks in subtitled Russian).
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Mark Zuckerberg has made his fair share of enemies over the years, but he doesn't have — or he didn't, at least early on — like mob boss mafioso types ready to break his legs for entering their market or whatever.
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Comey describes Trump's presidency as a "forest fire," likens the president to a mob boss, and says Trump pressured him more than once to investigate the "pee tape" in previews of the tell-all, which will be released April 17.
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After the second world war, Winchell made money renting jukeboxes to restaurants and bars – a business that was then controlled by Mickey Cohen, a notorious West Coast mob boss (this perhaps explains why Winchell never talked much about his early life).
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The pair arrive to promote the opening of the El Royale boxing gym, a space gifted to Archie by Hiram Lodge (Mark Conseulous) as reparations for the countless times the mob boss tried to kill his daughter's (now ex) boyfriend.
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Violent exes are her specialty, including but not limited to O.J. Simpson, a mob boss, and a sniper who would never shoot her because he was "afraid of his own mother" — there is perhaps no greater kiss-off for an ex.
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The agents found evidence that Tom's grandfather had traveled to Europe in 1933 with Joseph Stacher of Newark — the guy who ran gambling operations for mob boss Abner "Longie" Zwillman, and was also connected to the powerful gangster Meyer Lansky.
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The town of Oppido Mamertina in the Calabria region made headlines in 2014 when locals carrying a statute of the Madonna in a traditional religious procession diverted its route to pass by the home of local mob boss who was infirm.
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Up until now, Negan has been portrayed as a stubbornly opaque and shallow villain, characterized by his violence, the baseball bat he commits it with, and the fact that he runs a racketeering operation like a pre-apocalypse mob boss.
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" In the hit HBO drama "The Sopranos," Mr. Margulies played the lawyer Neil Mink in eight episodes, including the finale, in 2007, in which he warned Tony, the mob boss played by James Gandolfini: "Somebody's giving grand jury testimony on something.
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" And there was this: "Looking back on history, who was treated worse, Alfonse Capone, legendary mob boss, killer and &aposPublic Enemy Number One,&apos or Paul Manafort, political operative & Reagan/Dole darling, now serving solitary confinement - although convicted of nothing?
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WATCH: Sopranos Cast Reunites and Shares Favorite Memories with James Gandolfini: He Was 'Really Special' The Sopranos followed the life of Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss as he dealt with personal and professional issues in his home and business.
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Recently released prisoner Jake Green (Statham, in rare full-hair glory) seeks revenge on mob boss Dorothy Macha (a scene-chewing Ray Liotta) by using a scheme he learned from his former cellmates, a brilliant conman and a master chess player.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Former Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger's longtime girlfriend could spend the rest of her life in prison for refusing to say whether anyone helped the couple during their 16 years on the run, a judge warned on Wednesday.
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In the nine months since that conversation, Mr. Comello, 25, has claimed to his lawyer that he killed Francesco Cali because the mob boss was part of "the deep state," a member of a liberal cabal working to undermine President Trump.
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It seems like a promising set up for a gritty, mob boss interpretation of the DC villain, but let's not forget, the role of the Clown Prince of Crime was recently, and memorably, taken on by Jared Leto in last summer's Suicide Squad.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Former Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger's girlfriend will spend an additional 21 months in prison for refusing to say if anyone helped the couple evade capture during their 16 years on the run, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Thursday.
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James "Whitey" Bulger, a former mob boss who ruled Boston's criminal underworld for a quarter of a century, named the men as suspects in the killing more than a decade ago, an attorney for Weadick said at a court proceeding in September.
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That was a term created by the government to describe the indictment brought in 2016, which demonstrated a loose relationship between some of the New York mob families and an alleged tie between the Genovese family and Philly mob boss Joey Merlino, specifically.
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"—Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) November 10, 2019Himes said the very language of the phrase can be confusing, when he thought it should be simple to communicate "that the president acted criminally and extorted in the way a mob boss would extort somebody.
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An inmate who called himself "Po Boy," a native of Chicago doing time on a parole violation who like several others in this article requested his real name be withheld for fear of retribution, argued Trump carries himself like a mob boss.
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Also recently, Anthony Comello, 25, said in a New York City court in December that his belief in QAnon had led him to murder a mob boss, Francesco Cali, who he asserted was part of the deep state cabal working against Mr. Trump.
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After being dragged from retirement back into an underworld of impossibly sexy assassins, John's outstanding debt comes flooding back: In the second film, Chapter 2, mob boss Santino D'Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio) asks John to honor his blood oath by killing Santino's sister.
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Comey takes personal shots at the president in the book, commenting on Trump's physical appearance and comparing him to a mob boss — comments that have been met with criticism by those who say he is politicizing the FBI and unfairly attacking Trump.
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At the end of his violent life, feared former mob boss Bulger was an 89-year-old lifer confined to a wheelchair and suffering from a heart condition and other ailments, according to US Bureau of Prisons records and interviews with union officials.
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Two of the supporting-actor slots this year may be taken up by Martin Scorsese's latest crime drama, which gives Al Pacino his best role in ages as Jimmy Hoffa and successfully casts Joe Pesci against type as a soft-voiced mob boss.
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The very first episode that's been documented, to my knowledge, was in 21977 when David Bogatin — who is a Russian mobster, convicted gasoline bootlegger, and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened.
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Giorno plans to use his stand to become a mob boss in order to protect his hometown of Naples, so he joins up with a mobster gang made up of other stand users in order to stop the mob's drug trafficking from inside the organization.
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Donald Trump, he said, in an appearance intended to publicise his forthcoming book, "lies constantly", runs his administration like a mob boss, treats and speaks of women like they are "pieces of meat" and is, for these and other reasons, "morally unfit" to be president.
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The tirade followed news accounts of Comey's book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership," which paints a deeply unflattering picture of Trump, comparing him to a mob boss who stresses personal loyalty over the law and has little regard for morality or truth.
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When I heard about Franco's acting stunt, I was skeptical: The duplication trick could easily have become the focus of the show, as the brothers attempt to become smut impresarios with the help of a rotund, industrious mob boss named Rudy Pipilo (Michael Rispoli).
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Trump's "flippers" comment came up recently in a different federal drug trial in Manhattan, but Jeffrey Lichtman, who previously defended mob boss John Gotti Jr., told VICE News that he never planned to mention the president in the courtroom as part of Chapo's defense.
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Tommy had all but signed over all his assets in order to end the vicious vendetta with the mob boss; however, just as he is about to do so, Arthur bursts in and shoots Changretta, ending the violent back and forth between the families.
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House Republicans have seized on Schiff's exaggerated rendition of Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to make it sound like a mob boss shakedown, as well as a New York Times report that a whistleblower sought guidance from an Intelligence Committee aide.
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Glover is playing the iconic character first portrayed by Williams, but that cast also includes Thandie Newton (Westworld), while Paul Bettany's mob boss Dryden Vos was originally played by Michael K. Williams — before he was replaced due to scheduling problems after the film's original directors were fired.
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It takes a firm talking to from his mother (Molly Ringwald), over dinner one night to remind Archie that maybe his father isn't a mob boss who can buy anyone in Riverdale, but he's a hardworking, kind person who literally put the roof over his ginger head.
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Prosecutors allege that Durst killed Berman, a journalist and daughter of mob boss Davie Berman, because he didn't want her talking to New York police about the mysterious 1982 disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen Durst, in which he has long been suspected but never charged.
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Danny, who had inherited his own father's talent for mimicry, insisted on doing his major speech in a Vito Corleone voice, even though he was supposed to be a member of the English nobility, and even though there was already a Mob boss in the movie.
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Donald Trump may be a know-nothing demagogue and would-be authoritarian who thinks and acts more like a mob boss than a statesman, but he has at least one indisputable talent: puncturing the pieties that prevail among members of the country's political and journalistic establishments.
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Trump should have learned something from firing James Comey; that misstep didn't stop the investigation but assured that Comey's book will be a best seller when it comes out next week, and handed Comey the ABC interview in which he apparently compares Trump to a mob boss.
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Battle Royale and Death Note star Tatsuya Fujiwara has a major role, but the most notable part is a small-time elderly mob boss played by yakuza movie legend "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, whose turn is laced with pathos and woven through the heart of Yakuza 6's narrative.
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In his new book, The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld, out March 20, the master of true crime TJ English explores the life of the Cuban mob boss who, the author concluded, consciously modeled himself on Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone as he got older.
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He gave a rambling, nearly incoherent interview to Fox News, in which he not only seemed to confess to a campaign finance violation, one of the things Cohen pleaded guilty to, but he also made himself sound more like a mob boss than a law-and-order president.
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Exclusive 'Walking Dead' clip teases the rise of Alpha and the Whisperers John Oliver interviews Stephen Colbert in the most delightful 'first date' ever Stephen Colbert uses perfect 'Godfather' joke to mock Trump mob boss comparisons Harry Styles drops dreamy new track 'Lights Up' with an extremely naked video
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According to Brandt, who did an interview about his book with JOE, Sheeran made money after World War II helping out in organized crime, and Russell Bufalino, the biggest mob boss in New York City at the time, allegedly put Sheeran and Hoffa in touch with each other.
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It has simultaneously become more embedded in American pop culture—we compare Donald Trump's diction to that of a mob boss; we celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the premiere of The Sopranos and the developing prequel film; we watch mob-related reality television shows—as its actual sway has dwindled.
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Nevada has scheduled meetings on Saturday to determine the fate of their primary and Arizona's decision is expected later in September, per the AP. What they're saying: Walsh compared the president to a "mob boss" for the states' decisions to remove primaries, in an interview with the NYT and on Twitter.
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Much of the memo's contents were included in a book by Comey titled "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership" and published this week in which he compares the Republican president to a mob boss who stresses personal loyalty over the law and has little regard for morality or truth.
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This week, Fox News' Sean Hannity said Comey was getting ready to "cash in on his very public hatred for President Donald Trump" and showed his viewers a graphic with "The Comey Crime Family?" sprawled on top — ironically, or maybe intentionally, referring to Comey's contention that Trump leads like a mob boss.
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Among these people were Kenneth Shapiro, who was identified by law enforcement as an agent of Philadelphia mob boss Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo; Robert LiButti, a gambler convicted of tax fraud who was banned from New York racetracks; and John A. Cody, a union leader found guilty of racketeering, the Journal reports.
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"I think of him as Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano; he knows where the bodies are buried and he could bring down the whole organization," said Morgan Wright, a cybersecurity consultant who has worked with tech companies like Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent, referencing the underling who helped bring down mob boss John Gotti.
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Disney's 'Jungle Cruise' trailer really leans into its roots as a theme park ride Exclusive 'Walking Dead' clip teases the rise of Alpha and the Whisperers Stephen Colbert uses perfect 'Godfather' joke to mock Trump mob boss comparisons Seth Meyers rounds up the weirdest Rudy Giuliani TV moments of impeachment season (so far)
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He compares Trump's need for loyalty to that of a mob boss, claims that Trump repeatedly asked him to disprove lewd claims about him that surfaced in the so-called Steele dossier, and repeated the accusation that Trump told him to back off an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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After the release of the partial transcript, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats express alarm over whistleblower complaint, but offer few details Trump seeks to shift questions from impeachment at UN House Intel member calls whistleblower complaint 'deeply disturbing' MORE (D-Calif.) compared Trump's request to a mob boss shakedown.
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Jane has to hand in her thesis chapters; the ongoing mob boss mystery of Sin Rosetro continues; Jane's mother considers giving up her singing dreams even when faced with Gloria Estefan herself; her father tries to sell a show to a little-known network called "The CW." Life goes on, as it always does.
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Seth Meyers rounds up the weirdest Rudy Giuliani TV moments of impeachment season (so far) 'Hot Ones' makes Priyanka Chopra cry and Jimmy Fallon do laps eating spicy wings Stephen Colbert uses perfect 'Godfather' joke to mock Trump mob boss comparisons Harry Styles drops dreamy new track 'Lights Up' with an extremely naked video
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The interview, which was more than five hours long and edited down for the one hour special, included Comey's assertion that the president acts "like a mob boss" and is "morally unfit" to sit in the Oval Office, among other jabs that included mocking the size of the president's hands, his height and his tan.
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In Every Day Is Extra, Kerry tracks his career from his time in the Navy and serving as a prosecutor in Massachusetts (when he took down a mob boss), to his five terms serving as senator, the challenges he faced while attempt to find peaceful solutions while secretary of state, and his bid for the presidency in 2004.
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He also tried to gin up sympathy for Manafort by suggesting he was treated worse than notorious gangster Al Capone ... or something: Looking back on history, who was treated worse, Alfonse Capone, legendary mob boss, killer and "Public Enemy Number One," or Paul Manafort, political operative & Reagan/Dole darling, now serving solitary confinement - although convicted of nothing?
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After all, the man killed in the shooting, David Byrne, was a reputed lieutenant in the feared trafficking gang the Kinahan Mob, which, it has been rumored, was responsible for the murder last September of Gary Hutch, nephew of famed mob boss Gerry "The Monk" Hutch, in Costa del Sol, Spain, a "second home" for Irish gangsters in exile.
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But Avenatti, who was at the initial court hearing Friday related to Cohen's request, in a subsequent tweet on Sunday morning referenced a scene from "The Godfather II." In that particular part of the movie, a Mafia turncoat recants his testimony after mob boss Michael Corleone brings the informant's own brother with him to watch that testimony.
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This quality in Joe—that he both wants to do the right thing but is at turns too selfish, manipulative, or incompetent to follow through—drives the action of the film, which leads Joe into increasingly complicated confrontations with a crooked cop, a dying mob boss with a sadistic son, and a district attorney with a vendetta.
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Comey's tell-all was sharply critical of President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE and his administration, describing the commander in chief as "unethical" and his leadership style akin to a mob boss.
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Seth Meyers rounds up the weirdest Rudy Giuliani TV moments of impeachment season (so far) Stephen Colbert uses perfect 'Godfather' joke to mock Trump mob boss comparisons Harry Styles drops dreamy new track 'Lights Up' with an extremely naked video 'Stranger Things' star Finn Wolfhard creeps out the nanny in haunted house horror 'The Turning' trailer
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Trump and the GOP have seized on Schiff's mid-hearing exaggerated rendition of Trump's phone call with Ukraine to make it sound like a mob boss shakedown, as well as a New York Times report that a whistleblower sought guidance from an Intelligence Committee aide, which Republicans have used to allege without evidence that Schiff helped coordinate the complaint.
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Trump and the GOP are targeting Schiff's mid-hearing exaggerated rendition of Trump's phone call with Ukraine to make it sound like a mob boss shakedown and invoking a New York Times report that the whistleblower sought guidance from an Intelligence Committee aide, which Republicans have used to allege without evidence that Schiff helped write the complaint.
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Mueller would oversee the prosecution of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, mob boss John Gotti, and the controversial investigation into a vast money laundering scheme run through the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, known as the Bank of Crooks and Criminals None of his cases in Washington, though, would affect him as much as the bombing of Pan Am 103.
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HBO host Bill Maher joked on Friday that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's administration is "modeled on the mob," casting the president as an old New York City mob boss.
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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough says U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Haley: 'Threats of China on full display' in Hong Kong Juan Williams: Trump's trouble with women MORE acted "like a mob boss" in pressuring countries to oppose a resolution condemning the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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Those who do know about the time Capone spent in the City of Brotherly Love probably accept the commonly held myth that the mob boss, feeling the heat from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre he had engineered on the North Side of Chicago, set up his own arrest to remove himself from the public eye and the possibility of retaliation from other mobsters.
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Balarezo is set to take over entirely on October 2, and he's expected to be joined by Jeffrey Lichtman, another attorney Chapo has on retainer who is famous for defending New York City mob boss John Gotti Jr. READ: We talked to El Chapo's lawyer about defending a notorious drug lord Balarezo took the job despite the possibility that U.S. authorities could try to confiscate his paycheck.
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Read more: Trump is a 'cartoon of a mob boss': Former Fox News contributor says the president isn't competent enough to be compared to the real mobIn the publicly released summary of the Trump-Zelensky phone call in July, Trump was said to have asked the Ukrainian president for a "favor" in investigating a conspiracy theory about the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 US presidential election.
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The drug kingpin is best know for being one of the brains behind the "Golden Triangle," an area in Southeast Asia where he used the coffins of fallen American soldiers from Vietnam to transport drugs into the U.S. His origins with drugs came from his involvement with gangster Bumpy Johnson, whose mob boss actions inspired films in Hollywood as well, and even appeared in American Gangster, played by Clarence Williams III.
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The man who allegedly killed a mob boss in Staten Island reportedly made a court appearance on Monday with messages supporting President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE written on his hand.
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The conversation was prompted by an ABC promotional video that indicates that former FBI Director James Comey characterized President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE as a "mob boss" during his interview with George Stephanopoulos that is slated to air Sunday night.
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Read more:An ex-mob boss breaks down depictions of the mafia in movies and TV showsA 14-year-old boy has been arrested and charged as an adult in the fatal stabbing of Tessa MajorOne of the suspects in the killing of Hae Min Lee in the' Serial' podcast has now been linked to a violent 1996 cold case murderPolice say the man who said his daughter was abducted from his driveway fabricated part of his story
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For a 6-year-old snared in the immigration maze, a memorized phone number proves a lifeline What it was like reporting on a teenager marked for death by the gang MS-13 DHS chief is confronted with ProPublica tape of wailing children separated from parents Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called MS-13 the most brutal of the gangs driving the drug trade, and promised to go after the group like the government went after mob boss Al Capone.
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Giuliani is joining Trump's team just as the president escalates a very bitter, and very public, fight with former FBI Director James Comey, whose new book, A Higher Loyalty, paints Trump as a liar who runs his administration like a mob boss The former mayor will have a very personal reason for joining the White House broad and nasty attack on Comey: the fact the former FBI chief's book blasts the former mayor almost as harshly as it blasts Trump.
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Schiff said while Trump did not explicitly state that he will withhold financial aid from Ukraine unless it investigated former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE and his son, he approached it like a mob boss would by making his request right after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned that his country needed such resources in order to combat Russian aggression.
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It's about whether the U.S. system can fairly apply justice to an international figure like Chapo, and whether he is entitled to the same constitutional rights every other person has when they face federal criminal charges in the U.S. "This is a circus — that's all this is, a three-ring circus," said Jeffrey Lichtman, a high-powered Manhattan defense attorney best known for winning an acquittal for mob boss John Gotti Jr. Lichtman doesn't officially represent Chapo yet but has been meeting with him regularly.
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McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing McCabe says it's 'absolutely' time to launch impeachment inquiry into Trump MORE accused President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE of acting like a mob boss and releasing a "strain of insanity," according to a copy of his new book obtained by The Guardian.
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