He also starred in HBO mobster series The Sopranos for five seasons, as well as the 2012 mobster comedy Analyze This, also starring De Niro.
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A new mobster movie from the king of mobster cinema, with a cast led by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, sounded like a good bet.
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All good ... De Niro still nails the mobster role.
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The two had a falling out when Carolina married the mobster five years earlier, but they make up quickly; Humpty seems more angry at her for leaving home than for marrying the mobster.
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Could Ed Sheeran have a mobster in the family tree?
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The F.B.I. enforces federal law, as any good mobster knows.
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This one looks like a Hollywood still, a mobster film.
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Chuck Schumer looks like a mobster who's plotting revenge #SOTU pic.twitter.
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Dounia and Maïmouna are the prototypical upstarts from a mobster movie.
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We sat down with Michael Franzese, a former New York mobster.
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"Gotti" stars John Travolta as real-life New York mobster John Gotti.
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Later in life, he'd be an associate of the mobster Dutch Schultz.
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A CIA agent met with mobster Sam Giancana in Miami in 1960.
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Ronnie recognizes her dad's mobster-drug lord machinations have gone too far.
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Manafort, Trump complained, was being treated worse than famous mobster "Alfonse" Capone.
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In the world of mobster fiction, opening up is being a rat.
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A mobster is said to have used it as a bedside rug.
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In "Bugsy," her brassy dame wondered: Why not double-cross a mobster?
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He was not beyond threatening reporters in the vernacular of a mobster.
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Instead, Mr. Profaci planned to give the rackets to an older mobster.
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Authorities said Salemme was worried DiSarro would cooperate with authorities investigating the mobster.
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Sheeran became a mobster and was involved in union leader Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance.
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Kicking things off: senior writer and almost definitely not Chechen mobster Jason Parham.
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The flashy, unforgiving, and high-profile mobster has been a legend ever since.
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Imagine having a pizzeria—most are in good hands, of course—but if a mobster or the associate of a mobster owns a pizzeria, at the end of the day you can produce fake receipts because it's a mostly cash business.
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Also known as la belva (The Beast), Mr Riina is an exceptionally ferocious mobster.
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The story of the mobster is the rags-to-riches story of the underdog.
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I was with her step by step through the I Married a Mobster interview.
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Despite this however, Takakura-gumi's ex-mobster actors only ever play villains and thugs.
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She was tough as snakeskin, foul-mouthed as a mobster and filled with love.
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The duo was filming Martin Scorsese's mobster thriller "The Irishman" on Tuesday in Queens.
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President Trump visits Pittsburgh, Venice floods and a notorious mobster meets a grisly fate.
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The city's history has been immortalized in Scorsese mobster films and now classic comedies.
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Abe Vigoda, who played the mobster Sal Tessio in "The Godfather," has died at 94.
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Attendees encouraged to dress in '20s-style mobster attire, and to arrive at 6 p.m.
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The Times published an obituary of Carmine Persico, a noted New York mobster, on Friday.
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The victim was an aging mobster, someone plenty of people had reason to want dead.
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While Romano brought to life lawyer Bill Bufalino, Pesci played his mobster relative Russell Bufalino.
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Think: Martin Scorsese producing and directing his three-hour mobster drama The Irishman for Netflix.
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Oh, and Joe Pesci's performance as mobster Russell Bufalino is one of his best ever.
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Well, as a lawyer- You had the guy in the bathrobe who was the mobster.
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The hearings offered everyone a crystal-clear window into the president's mobster-like mode of operation.
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Another mobster beat up Breslin outside a restaurant in 1970 because of something he had written.
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Despite his new sleeve of tattoos and shaved head, we're told patrons recognized the former mobster.
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But it was a 2012 road rage incident that ultimately landed the mobster with prison time.
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John Travolta and Kelly Preston star in the mobster movie, directed by "Entourage" star Kevin Connolly.
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Sater, the son of a Russian mobster, had immigrated to the United States as a child.
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Audience members encouraged to dress in '20s-style mobster attire and to arrive at 6 p.m.
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The mobster cliché also persists, with "The Godfather" movies retaining a prominent role in popular culture.
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Even more surprising was that he wasn't the only old-school mobster recently killed in Toronto.
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"The Many Saints of Newark" will explore the life of the young mobster in the 1960s.
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Yet in every incarnation — mobster, diplomat, secret agent — they encounter figures from their real-life history.
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"The Sopranos" starred James Gandolfini, who died in 2013, as Tony, a likable New Jersey mobster.
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You had a mobster who had to go to a shrink and what is that about?
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For 30 years, James (Whitey) Bulger was a notorious South Boston mobster and an F.B.I. informer.
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In the hearing, Schiff delivered a self-described "parody" of the call using mobster-like language.
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The mobster was pronounced dead at Staten Island University Hospital after 9 PM on Wednesday night.
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The late James Gandolfini plays Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mobster, loving husband, and father of two.
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Christopher Walken lends his distinctive voice to the mobster-like King Louis, overlord of the simian world.
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Then she is used as a platter for a meal at a table of mobster-looking men.
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In 1996, his eldest son Victor was kidnapped by infamous Chinese mobster "Big Spender" Cheung Tze-keung.
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Twenty years ago today, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office and changed the course of television.
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Well, yes, and a mobster can "hope" this nice little business you got here doesn't get torched.
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Then Tommy Cronin, a hard man from the I.R.A., is sent by a mobster chieftain named Gavigan.
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Pelosi's definition of "negotiation" seems like something she might have gotten from some fictional motion picture mobster.
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During that trial, one of Mr. Daggett's co-defendants, a reputed mobster named Lawrence Ricci, went missing.
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In the chronicles of gangster lore, "Scarface" Al Capone is typically recognized as the most infamous mobster ever.
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The 2019 Chinese crime drama "Ash is Purest White" tracks the long-term romance between a mobster couple.
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Ryan McGuigan, the defense attorney for mobster Robert Gentile, told the Guardian that his client is near death.
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Not every father approves of his daughter's suitor — but then again, not every father is a notorious mobster.
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In 1941, at age 17, she wed agent (and rumored mobster) Pasquale "Pat" DeCicco in Santa Barbara, California.
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Trump freely acknowledged that what he was proposing sounded to some like a mobster asking for protection money.
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Johnny Depp was good as mobster Whitey Bulger in "Black Mass," but the movie didn't do very well.
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Take Vincent Gigante, for example, a New York mobster known for wearing a robe and pajamas around town.
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The actor stars as mobster John Gotti and his real-life wife, Kelly Preston, plays Gotti's wife Victoria.
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Although he goes by Frank Capri now, he used to be Frank Gioia, Jr, a third-generation mobster.
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LaRocca, apparently, is the illegitimate son of Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, a mobster-turned-rat who got whacked.
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Yet again, John Wick is reluctantly pulled out of retirement to fulfill a debt to an Italian mobster.
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Federal agents were looking into his role in helping to win a casino license for an accused mobster.
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It marked the first time the son of a New York mobster turned state's evidence on his dad.
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Let's turn to the mobster side of the show, in which only Nacho seems to have a conscience.
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That union produces a daughter, Sunja, who falls in love at 16 with a prominent (and married) mobster.
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Tommy DeSimone was a famous mobster and a member of the Lucchese crime family from New York City.
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The 82-year-old mobster remains a person of interest in the investigation into the Gardner museum heist.
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Because Russo says the killer broke a SACRED mafia rule that no Italian mobster would dare to violate.
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Maybe Mary can shake Archie out of his mobster dealings of this season and bring back the music man!
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Watching this week's case is sort of like seeing notorious mobster Al Capone face a jury on tax evasion.
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At some point, Jeffrey Tambor shows up and is delightful and then gets tortured to death by a mobster.
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A local mobster named Bobby Batts informed Buzz that he had to take the fall for some made men.
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A dozen years ago, New Jersey mobster drama "The Sopranos" was king of the network when it stopped airing.
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In the case of the prisoners' dilemma, keeping quiet is never a good idea, whatever the other mobster chooses.
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Michael Rispoli ("The Sopranos") also portrays another memorable mobster, and Dominique Fishback shines as one of the working girls.
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"That's the money quote," said Patrick Cotter, a former federal prosecutor who helped take down the mobster John Gotti.
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Posing as a Russian mobster, the undercover agent told Mr. Rodriguez he was interested in acquiring a similar system.
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"Joey" was an elegy for my father's friend, mobster Joey Gallo, whom he met through Marta and Jerry Orbach.
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Trump and his family have already been accused of litany of crimes that would make mobster Lucky Luciano jealous.
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He was so wary of being tarred as a mobster that he even chose what to wear with care.
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The reviews are in for the mobster movie Gotti which profiles the life of notorious crime boss John Gotti.
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And the CIA was going to pay $150,000 to a gunman hired by a mobster to take Castro out.
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I can nourish and raise him to be in the street, just like a mobster can nourish his son to be a better mobster than what he was, to maybe get made, and go higher, and become the boss of the family, whereas — though he didn't make it, if that makes sense.
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Berman, the daughter of a Las Vegas mobster, was shot in the back of her head on or around Dec.
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Mr. Comey has said that Mr. Trump is not fit to hold office and has compared him to a mobster.
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The mobster is shot by an unseen individual while bragging on the phone to Hermione about his impeccable criminal forethought.
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Barely recognizable images of the actor in costume as famed mobster Whitey Bulger had the internet buzzing about Black Mass.
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Abner "Longy" Zwillman was a very powerful Jewish mobster about a century ago who most Americans probably don't know about.
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In 1955, Nack wrote, a mobster offered Marciano a considerable amount of money to throw a fight, but he refused.
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Like a two-bit mobster, he had also threatened to cut funding for NATO unless member countries paid protection money.
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Ten years on, it remains a fascinating shooter, mixing mobster clichés with monstrous magic and, of course, that voice over.
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The daughter of a notorious mobster, Berman would "go to almost any length to protect" Durst, he told the jury.
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When Tony took his daughter on a college tour [and brutally killed a former mobster turned snitch along the way].
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He played the Boston mobster Whitey Bulger in "Black Mass" (2015) and the titular undercover agent in "Donnie Brasco" (1997).
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"So, Trump fancies himself a Don, but the only mobster Trump is even remotely close to is Fredo," Colbert said.
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INVISIBLE: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster, by Stephen L. Carter.
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Comey wrote that Trump sought loyalty "like Sammy the Bull's Cosa Nostra induction ceremony," a reference to a notorious mobster.
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Brecht always intended his satire about the ruthless ascension of a Chicago mobster to be performed on an American stage.
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Everything gets cranking when Humpty's daughter Carolina (Juno Temple) shows up, having fled her mobster husband for her father's home.
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JOHN TRAVOLTA DANCES ON 'GMA' AMID DISMAL 'GOTTI' REVIEWS The movie stars Travolta as the notorious New York mobster John Gotti.
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De Niro got the panel together after a back-to-back screening of Part 1 & 2 of the classic mobster movies.
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Frank had an imposing, old-school mobster way about him that even his advanced years -- he was 80 -- did not betray.
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And the dumbass owner, who I found out later was a mobster and was on The Sopranos—how funny is that?
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Larry Nassar has a new home ... a high-security federal penitentiary in Florida that's home to notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger.
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He used credit cards, but the old man wouldn't leave the house without a wad of $100 bills befitting a mobster.
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Boxing was his favorite racket and the greedy Thai mobster was behind some right free-for-alls back in the day.
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When "The Sopranos" began in 1999, the premise was that a mobster sought personal betterment in the context of talk therapy.
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A minor entry in the mobster movie catalog, "The Brooklyn Banker" at least wears its influences on its black polyester sleeve.
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It's a bit like when prohibition-era mobster Al Capone got arrested for tax evasion instead of for all those murders.
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Berman, the daughter of a notorious mobster, would "go to almost any length to protect" Durst, the prosecutor told the jury.
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He was the son of a locked-up mobster, an absent father who had given him little more than a name.
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INVISIBLE The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster By Stephen L. Carter Illustrated.
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In its decision, the appeals court ordered that the initial 40-year sentence of the mobster, Gregory Scarpa Jr., be reinstated.
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On Wednesday, Cohen compared Trump to a mobster in alleging he was seeking to intimidate him before his testimony to Congress.
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October 12th Netflix description: Noumouké, 15, must decide which of his brothers' footsteps he'll follow: law student Soulaymaan or mobster Demba.
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Ms. LuPone, meanwhile, worked at a "wannabe mobster" hangout run by a man who imported cages for dancing girls in nightclubs.
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In a follow-up Twitter post two hours later, Trump compared Manafort's treatment by federal authorities with notorious mobster Al Capone.
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Is this the Judge that put Paul Manafort in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, something that not even mobster Al Capone had to endure?
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It was also unusual in previous eras for a single gunman, rather than a team, to execute a high-ranking mobster.
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A spokeswoman for the FloraHolland cooperative, where Crupi had his office, said the cooperative was never aware he was a suspected mobster.
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"If you want to talk about Rory Shayne as being an Irish mobster, it's a bit of a fucking stretch," he says.
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The top of the river in this case — we're riding with this metaphor, y'all, get on board — is Rudy Pipilo, the mobster.
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Consuelos, 47, joined the CW's take on the Archie comics in season 2 as mobster Hiram, the scheming father of Veronica Lodge.
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Robert De Niro will be towering over Al Pacino in their upcoming mobster film The Irishman thanks to a little movie magic.
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It seems completely unsurprising that a mobster nicknamed "Porky" would be back in jail because he couldn't resist stopping at a bakery.
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Michael Cohen on Wednesday compared President Trump to a mobster, claiming he was seeking to intimidate him before he testified before Congress.
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In recent decades he was in the middle of many of the Justice Department's biggest mobster, political corruption, espionage and terrorism investigations.
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That Chechen mobster, based in Los Angeles, hires Barry after discovering that his wife is cheating on him with her personal trainer.
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David Chase's concept for "The Sopranos" — "a mobster in therapy, having problems with his mother" — scans like a "Seinfeld" pitch, she writes.
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When Cohn needed a large loan in a hurry it was Johnny who put him together with East Coast mobster [Abner Zwillman].
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Early in the picture, Charlie, an entry-level mobster played by Harvey Keitel, talks about going to confession in the old cathedral.
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He was raised by his mother, Irene Maggio, he said, since his father, an Aquarius, was an aspiring mobster who died young.
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After he retired from the FBI, Connolly tipped off Bulger about a coming indictment, sending the mobster on the run in 1995.
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Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss play mobster housewives who take care of business after their husbands go to the slammer.
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His theatrical breakthrough came in 1985, as a mobster in "Orphans" at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater, where he remained a longtime ensemble member.
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The four-minute scene shows a mobster, Frank Pentangeli, lying to a Senate committee that was investigating organized crime as Corleone watched.
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Vincent Pastore, the actor behind Tony's friend and fellow mobster Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, was there hawking his line of pasta sauce.
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In this role, he met a reputed mobster who owned a company called U.S. Bridge of New York, according to federal investigators.
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Mitchell repeats, and appears to believe, allegations that the F.B.I. essentially deputized a mobster to shake down a frightened Klansman for information.
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O'Dowd stars as Miles Daly, a former mobster who moved with his family to Hollywood to get involved in the film industry.
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He also toplined the hit 1997 mobster drama miniseries "The Last Don," based on a book by "The Godfather" author Mario Puzo.
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McGonagle was the leader of a gang that was a rival to reputed Irish mobster boss James "Whitey" Bulger's Winter Hill Gang.
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In that interview, the president of the United States sounded just like a mobster trying to extort protection payments from a shopkeeper.
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Lawyers for Salemme and Weadick sought to discredit the government&aposs star witness, another mobster who says he walked in on the killing.
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"A Calabrian mobster considering turning state's evidence has to come to terms with betraying maybe 200 of his relatives," Gratteri told the Guardian.
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"Is this the Judge that put Paul Manafort in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, something that not even mobster Al Capone had to endure?" he wrote.
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She also happens to be in pursuit of a fugitive, Jackie Saltino, a mobster who might have stolen $450,000 from an Indian casino.
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Consuelos, 47, joined the CW's soapy take on the Archie comics in season 2 as mobster Hiram, the scheming father of Veronica Lodge.
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As the real-life mobster Russell Bufalino in Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman," he carries himself with a quiet self-assurance, a critic writes.
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It's completely wrong for a label trying to rebrand itself as modern, but under the financial thumb of the mobster Galasso, Richie agrees.
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In July, a court denied a request by Riina's family to transfer the convicted mobster to house arrest because of his ailing health.
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McGregor was cast as Batman villain Roman Sionis, aka Black Mask, a mobster who has a penchant for masks and wearing white suits.
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Kavanagh's father, Gerard, was a feared Irish mobster himself and also fell victim to bloody, bullet-ridden killing in Spain back in 2014.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Wednesday downplayed the allegations facing his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, by invoking notorious mobster Al Capone.
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What did an actor who has brilliantly portrayed mobsters make of a president who was doing a two-bit imitation of a mobster?
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In February 2010, an F.B.I. agent testified Tuesday, an undercover officer posing as a Russian mobster met Mr. Rodriguez in a Manhattan hotel.
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She now stars on "Generations: The Legacy," South Africa's second-most popular soap opera, or soapie, playing a nurse married to a mobster.
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Over last week's U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, the company began streaming its hit mobster movie "The Irishman," which JPMorgan said could boost its shares.
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Especially, as Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, both supporting actors in "The Irishman," could split the vote among fans of Scorsese's mobster film.
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But The Irishman — a mobster epic that evolves into something quite different by the end — feels like more than just another Scorsese movie.
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But Salteau is actually a mobster linked to a casino theft, and a Native American journalist, Kat, is in pursuit of the story.
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Newspapers across the country ran front-page stories about the conversions of Hamblen, Olympic runner Louis Zamperini and former mobster J. Arthur Vaus.
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And that East Coast–y mobster-ish guy would never be elected mayor of Los Angeles (you'll see what I mean when you watch).
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But Coppola liked him as a mobster, and he won the role of Tessio in the 21996 original and returned for the 303 sequel.
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Havana, Cuba (CNN)For Meyer Lansky, a mobster and casino impresario known for his business savvy, Cuba was the worst bet of his life.
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Alas, things didn't work out too well between Leslie and Jim: Leslie eventually weds Mario Calvi (James Carpinello), the son of mobster Carmine Falcone.
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Mr. Eppolito came under suspicion in April 1984 when the authorities raided the New Jersey home of Rosario Gambino, a mobster and heroin trafficker.
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In 1952, mobster Frank Costello was convicted of contempt of Congress for failing to appear as a witness when he said he had laryngitis.
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Mementos of Whitey Bulger's gruesome career as a Boston mobster went up for auction, five years after he was convicted of 11 murder charges.
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Image 2 of 2 ROME – Pope Francis is urging residents of a mobster-plagued Rome suburb to be courageous and side with the law.
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Mr. Trump also tweeted about his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, suggesting that he was being treated worse than the notorious mobster Al Capone.
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In 22015, Phyllis McGuire's idealized image was shattered by a grand jury appearance that exposed her longtime affair with a Chicago mobster, Sam Giancana.
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If you need proof of the New York Mafia's precipitous decline, consider the trajectory of Thomas Gioeli, the reputed mobster known as Tommy Shots.
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From there, the business deal turned into a scene from a mobster movie, complete with a muscle man in a dark outfit and sunglasses.
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"When pursuing a corrupt politician, mobster or murderer on strong FBI evidence, if he 'vehemently denied it,' we just dropped it usually," Bharara tweeted.
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Trump attacked that judge, Amy Berman Jackson, suggesting that she had treated former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort worse than notorious mobster Al Capone.
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As for Cali, officials say the 53-year-old mobster was shot to death in a hit in front of his Staten Island home.
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Earlier this week, Chinese state media accused the United States of a "mobster mentality" as it moved to implement additional tariffs on Chinese goods.
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Law enforcement officials sold off hundreds of items seized when federal agents captured the fugitive mobster in an apartment in Santa Monica, California, in 2011.
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Mobster Mickey Cohen waits to explain his plush income to the Senate crime committee as they begin their investigation of local crime patterns on Nov.
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The movie, which was directed by Entourage's Kevin Connolly, charts the rise and fall of mobster John Gotti (played by John Travolta) over three decades.
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Clearly he was bad, because he was a racketeer, an extortionist (though "rent collector" was the term he preferred), an arms trafficker and a mobster.
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At the end of season 2 of Riverdale, Archie finally realizes that mustache-twirling mobster Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos) really is a very bad man.
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The body of the 65-year-old mobster rode in a horse-drawn carriage through Rome to the church where his funeral service was held.
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In Riverdale proper, our teens were battling mobster schemes of "biblical" proportions and the tough "Should we move in together?" conversation (the answer is yes!).
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Years later when I was working Vegas with [casino owner and known mobster] Bugsy Siegel, I cooked for that generation, I guess I knew then.
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The short film, which plays with the themes and vernacular of classic detective and mobster films, does not shy away from a well-executed pun.
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" John Dillinger, the Depression-era mobster who narrates "You Owe Me," informs us that his favorite automobile is "a sweet black Ford V-8 sedan.
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A mobster who helped kill him finally told the police: all right, I'm dying of cancer, I might as well tell you where he's buried.
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The police say they intercepted a Sicilian mobster while he was discussing a plot with his sons to kill Mr. Borrometi with a car bomb.
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" Paul Manafort and judges "Is this the Judge that put Paul Manafort in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, something that not even mobster Al Capone had to endure?
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Quinn says villains, including Zsasz (Chris Messina), a serial killer, and mobster Black Mask (Ewan McGregor) are after her since breaking ties with the Joker.
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My original idea was to work with "The Sopranos" cast and have President Clinton talk to Dr. Jennifer Melfi, the mobster psychiatrist, about his isolation.
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So far, the company has provided no viewership data for the euphorically reviewed mobster drama, which stars Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
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The 1990 mobster film starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci is so brilliantly executed -- pardon the pun -- that I can't look away.
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So if it's a full-of-himself, pretentious, vicious mobster who's suffering violence, it's more likely to be funny than if it's an innocent bystander.
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"Coming soon to the @thecwriverdale" Consuelos joined the CW's take on the Archie comics in season 2 as mobster Hiram, the scheming father of Veronica Lodge.
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The authorities managed to finally take him down not for any of his violent crimes as the most famous mobster in America, but for tax evasion.
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The show's secret weapon, however, is Anthony Carrigan as NoHo Hank, a doe-eyed Chechen mobster who is literally the nicest freaking guy on the planet.
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He told the AV Club that he scored the role of Detective Vin Makazian in the mobster show after meeting star James Gandolfini in a gym.
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Of course, this being the telenovela-adjacent Jane the Virgin, their wedding-night sex was interrupted by a mobster in disguise shooting Michael in the chest.
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In Chazz Palminteri's adaptation of his film, with songs by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, a boy falls under the swaggering sway of a local mobster.
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Friends and family members of infamous Irish mobster James "Whitey" Bulger attended his funeral in Boston on Thursday following his slaying in federal prison last week.
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"He represents the rebellious lawbreaker that secretly resides in all of us," Louis Ferrante, a former mobster and host of Inside the Gangsters' Code, tells VICE.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's second most wanted mobster Ernesto Fazzalari was arrested on Sunday after almost two decades on the run, apprehended by the paramilitary Carabinieri police.
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Gordone's 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of a black bartender in a Greenwich Village bar who attempts to outwit a white mobster syndicate.
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Let's start at the beginning when the title character, based on the real-life New York mobster who died in 2002, stands before the East River.
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Pesci alone was worth the price of admission as his portrayal of mobster Tommy DeSimone is a master class in how to play a ruthless killer.
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In another tweet Tuesday night, Trump went after Jackson, suggesting that she had treated former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort worse than notorious mobster Al Capone.
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What became known as "the Durham memos" revealed that the government's key witness lied when he accused the four men of killing a low-level mobster.
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In the mob flick, Travolta stars as the notorious New York mobster John Gotti and his real-life wife, Kelly Preston, stars as Gotti&aposs wife, Victoria.
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Bulger's rise to power and eventual flight were chronicled in the book "Black Mass," which was adapted into a 2015 film starring Johnny Depp as the mobster.
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Soon after, Exner was again spending time with Sinatra, attending his show in Miami Beach and mingling with the singer's mobster friends, Joe Fischetti and Sam Giancana.
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He once maintained an Irish accent so well and for so long that his cellmate in an Indiana jail was convinced that he was an Irish mobster.
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First, patriarch Mark Consuelos entered the fray in season 2 as the often whispered about Hiram Lodge, father of Veronica (Camila Mendes), alleged businessman, and definite mobster.
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It was Kritikos who first connected Young with Martini and suggested she direct the movie, about a reformed mobster, which has largely shot around Queen's Astoria neighborhood.
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On Monday, a former FBI agent pleaded guilty to lying on the witness stand during notorious New England mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's federal racketeering trial, PEOPLE confirms.
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Zancocchio is a co-owner of Bella Mama Rose, a family-style Italian eatery that he operates with another mobster, Frank Camuso of the Gambino crime family.
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He made references to "Frank Pentangeli" - a character in the film "The Godfather Part II" who recants his testimony to Congress about a mobster amid witness intimidation.
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Kos-Read was thrilled until he read the script and noticed another part for a foreign actor — a bigger and better role as a mobster named Frank.
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Jon Hansen has fled Oslo for this desolate land above the Arctic Circle, trying to escape the wrath of his boss, a mobster known as the Fisherman.
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The South Boston mobster, 89, died a day after he was transferred there from another facility -- the victim of the kind of brutality he once handed out.
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The police initially suspected wrongdoing either by Ms. Berman's landlady, her manager or some crime figures in Las Vegas, where Ms. Berman's father had been a mobster.
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He was cast as the mobster Joe Bonanno in the TV movie "Honor Thy Father" and as a police officer turned thief in "Cops and Robbers" (21984).
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Ms. Berman, the daughter of Davie Berman, a mobster who was a partner in Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, became a journalist and a screenwriter.
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In 1999, Attorney General Janet Reno asked him to investigate the F.B.I.'s handling of James "Whitey" Bulger, a notorious mobster whom agents used as an informant.
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That would be the notorious late mobster Frank L. Marrapese Jr., also known as Bobo, whose use of violence as a tool of persuasion was — enthusiastic. Umm.
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In an earlier memoir, "Five-Finger Discount," Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.
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Servais borrows money from the mobster-pornographer he often works for to bankroll an eccentric theater production of "Richard III" that he wants Nadine to star in.
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John 'Sonny' Franzese, Sr., an Italian-American mobster who served as a Colombo crime family underboss and even had his finger in the movie biz ... is dead.
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"I'm very concerned about the president of the United States acting like a mobster," Davis said in a short phone interview Friday, just before an MSNBC appearance.
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I experienced Cohen's weak imitation of a mobster trying to silence a witness in 2015, as I was finishing a biography of Trump the businessman/TV star.
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Later, Mr. Durham and his accomplice, Henk Bieslijn, contacted an Italian mobster, Raffaele Imperiale, who at the time sold marijuana out of a "coffee shop" in Amsterdam.
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Convicted of first-degree murder in the death of another mobster, Mr. Scarfo was described in 280 as the first Mafia boss to be sentenced to death.
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In 1999, then-Attorney General Janet Reno dispatched him to Boston to lead a strike force aimed at sorting through FBI agents' convoluted relationship with mobster informants.
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Since there's no stopping this mobster, even when he's behind bars, maybe the Core Four finally decided to put a stop to him by straight-up killing him.
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The mobster and government informant's possessions have been in storage for the past five years after they were seized in 2011 from the couple's Santa Monica, California, apartment.
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It is unclear how the mobster died, but three sources told the Boston Globe that a fellow inmate with Mafia ties is being looked at in his death.
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"If you believe someone's dirty, and you get what would otherwise be a tip that you might not investigate against another person — well, it's a mobster," he says.
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Or the character who exists across various alternate universes and timelines as a frustrated alien bureaucrat, an old-timey mobster, or an omnipotent flying dog with a sword.
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In 1962, when infamous mobster Lucky Luciano died, a Florida reporter tracked down the cop who saved him after he was beaten and left for dead decades earlier.
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My mom wrote a book, and she did the show I Married A Mobster, so they knew I had a family history of being connected to the lifestyle.
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According to the New York Times, the 82-year-old mobster escaped punishment for a number of crimes he was allegedly involved in dating back to the 1960s.
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According to the Times, prosecutors said someone with access to a law enforcement database gave Asaro the driver's address after the mobster provided the car's license plate number.
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From the ruthless Russian gangsters in Eastern Promises to police-mobster friendships in Donnie Brasco, there's so much more worth watching in this genre beyond the Corleone family.
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At the time, Mogilevich—feared even by his fellow gangsters as "the most powerful mobster in the world"—was expanding his multibillion-dollar international criminal syndicate into America.
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Notorious mobster Al Capone and his family moved into this home on Chicago's South Side in the Park Manor neighborhood in 1923, according to the listing on Zillow.
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He seems far more committed to the Trump mobster style, and surely hopes that by doing what he can to help the President, he might get a pardon.
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He also weathered through the death of Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, who waskilled in a federal prisonin West Virginia in October, just after he was transferred there.
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After a string of poorly received movies, Depp rebounded last year with an acclaimed performance in the crime drama "Black Mass," about real-life mobster James "Whitey" Bulger.
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The homicidal Boston mobster Whitey Bulger, 89, was beaten to death on Tuesday--a day after he was transferred to a federal prison in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia.
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It also invited pieces on Todt Hill, the lavish and lush-green Staten Island neighborhood known for its long history of mob denizens, where the slain mobster lived.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons is considering the ouster of the warden of the prison where James (Whitey) Bulger, the famous mobster and informant, was murdered in October.
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Make a nod to one of the weirdest scenes in one of the worst sequels in a mobster franchise there has ever been with some hand-rolled gnocchi.
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At the convention, Donald Trump Jr. met with Aleksandr Torshin, an ally of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, reputed mobster and deputy governor of the Russian central bank.
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We had the idea of NoHo Hank and this friendly mobster, but he took it into this place that we would never expect and really ran with it.
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Set in 1920s New York City, Lords of New York centers around mobster Vince, who needs to get out of jail and take on the underground poker scene.
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His minor claim to fame was arresting the mobster Vinny Asaro, the suspected mastermind of the 22014 Lufthansa heist depicted in "Goodfellas," for using a forged driver's license.
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You could put him on a poster as the picture of the New Millennium mobster, which isn't a good thing for the future of the Mafia in this country.
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Since season 2 of CW's soapy take on the Archie comics, Riverdale fans have come to know Michael's father Mark as mobster Hiram, the scheming father of Veronica Lodge.
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Judith Exner Exner, who served as a conduit between JFK and mobster Sam Giancana, famously claimed that she had an abortion after she became pregnant with the President's child.
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But the mobster was killed because he was a snitch, Hager contends in his new book, Chicago Heights: Little Joe College, the Outfit, and the Fall of Sam Giancana.
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Mr. Trump called me a 'rat' for choosing to tell the truth — much like a mobster would do when one of his men decides to cooperate with the government.
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McGregor takes one of Batman's more obscure villains and turns him into a character we understand and fear as a psychotic mobster with an elegant flair for the arts.
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The family says Corbally's uncle enlisted the aid of Gerardo Catena, a New York mobster affiliated with gangsters Charlie "Lucky" Luciano and Meyer Lansky, to return the boy unharmed.
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Later in the clip, Damon's character murders someone in the street and is confronted by Oscar Issac as another mobster, who warns Damon that he could kill him easily.
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After her mobster boyfriend Vince tries to have her killed, Deloris finds herself in witness protection where she is asked to adopt the identity and persona of a nun.
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Meanwhile, the family business back in New York beckons, headed by his mobster brother (Corey Stoll), and Dorfman must balance idealism with the hard-headedness of the real world.
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Shortly after noon on Tuesday, reports emerged in The New York Times newsroom that the notorious Boston mobster James (Whitey) Bulger was dead in a West Virginia federal prison.
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" — SETH MEYERS "Trump's like a mobster who instead of throwing a body in the trunk, throws it in the passenger seat so he can use the car pool lane.
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He learned to speak a Sicilian dialect to play the young mobster Vito Corleone in "The Godfather: Part II," a role that earned him his first Oscar in 1975.
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Mr. Trump called me a "rat" for choosing to tell the truth -- much like a mobster would do when one of his men decides to cooperate with the government.
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Tapper tried to contradict Pierson's definition of "bringing a knife to a gun fight" by citing "The Untouchables," a 1987 mobster movie starring Sean Connery that uses the colloquialism.
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I've attempted to shed light on the mobster-like behavior of top-level beauty influencers and their management… and I've been accused of jealousy, called a liar and hater.
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Bob and Al star in Scorsese's new mobster flick, "The Irishman," in which they filmed a scene this week where they were strolling side by side in the Bronx.
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Tony Soprano slowly gives in to moral rot as he avoids doing anything that would better himself psychologically and emotionally (to say nothing of the fact that he's a mobster!).
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After 21 episodes of Zodiac-esque serial killers, one fake brother, and and loads of mobster shenanigans, Riverdale will air its finale "A Brave New World" on Wednesday, May 16.
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Lip got a small part in The Godfather after meeting Francis Ford Coppola on the job; he would go on to play a mobster in The Sopranos later in life.
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He also repeatedly urged Credico to "do a Frank Pentangeli" - a reference to a character in "The Godfather Part II" who recants his congressional testimony against a mobster amid intimidation.
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When Lee joined it, the comics industry was the disreputable bottom rung of pulp publishing, with many companies run as fly-by-night operations and mobster-run money laundering schemes.
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The story that unfolds over the course of six seasons — all focused on New Jersey mobster Tony Soprano — is one of the most compelling dramas you'll ever see on television.
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BOSTON — James (Whitey) Bulger, the former mobster convicted of participating in 11 murders during the 1970s and '80s, will not get a new trial, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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Her run-down rental was a far cry from her days as a "mafia princess" in Las Vegas, where her father, David Berman, was one of mobster Bugsy Siegel's partners.
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When news breaks, the first step for reporters and editors at The Times is to confirm reports, whether of the death of a mobster or the birth of Beyoncé's twins.
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Here, she plays the sort of woman who'll grab the slab of beef she's just reheated and chuck it at the head of a mobster who's three times her size.
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Notorious Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was killed by at least two inmates believed to be "affiliated with the mob," Federal Bureau of Prisons officials told the New York Times.
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It hides the identity of Harry Lime (pictured below), an elusive Viennese mobster, when he first appears in "The Third Man", swallowed by a shadowed doorway save for his shoes.
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"That may have been fine for a 65-year-old ex-mobster who entered the program ten years ago and never was on Facebook and couldn't care less," Demleitner says.
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Records show Bulger got in trouble at Coleman this year The Bureau of Prisons records obtained by CNN show the former South Boston mobster was less than a stellar prisoner.
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David Bogatin, a Russian mobster, and Jean-Claude Duvalier, the Haitian dictator known as Baby Doc, both owned units in Trump Tower, the president's flagship property on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.
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In it, he recalled a night when a mobster, angry that he had broken off an engagement to the thug's daughter, dangled him out of a New York hotel window.
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The geriatric mobster who was wheeled into the courtroom on the trial&aposs first day is a shell of his former self — much like the New England Mafia he once led.
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Chicago mobster Albert Tocco started calling Charles Hager "Little Joe College" because he was a thinker, a different animal from most guys working for The Outfit, who were far from Machiavellian.
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One name that caught my eye in the indictment was Philadelphia Mafia Don Joey Merlino, who tends to be romanticized as an old-school mobster like John Gotii or Lucky Luciano.
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Infamous New England mobster James "Whitey" Bulger wants the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse his 2013 racketeering convictions for his role in 11 murders in the 1970s and '80s, PEOPLE confirms.
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"I've attempted to shed light on the mobster-like behavior of top-level beauty influencers and their management… and I've been accused of jealousy, called a liar and hater," he wrote.
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The World Is Yours: NETFLIX FILM To escape his life of crime, a small-time mobster in Paris accepts one last job involving Spain, drugs, the Illuminati and his overbearing mother.
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Trump ramped up his rhetoric against Mueller's Russia probe during Manafort's trial, referring to the investigation as a "witch hunt" and saying Manafort was being treated worse than mobster Al Capone.
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"Mr. Trump called me a 'rat' for choosing to tell the truth, much like a mobster would do when one of his men decides to cooperate with the government," he continued.
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Set, as the title suggests, in the Bronx, the story is about a boy who witnesses a killing and is then torn between two potential mentors, his father and a mobster.
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An Italian-American actor (Michael Rispoli) fed up with being cast as a mobster decides to expand his repertory by staging Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" with some of his Staten Island buddies.
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Willow, an adorable 3-year-old girl, captivated Instagram this past Halloween when she dressed up as Galina "Red" Reznikov, the sharp-tongued Russian mobster on Orange is the New Black.
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He made perhaps his biggest mark on the film world starring in Martin Scorsese's 1995 mobster masterpiece Casino, where he played the loyal right-hand man to Robert DeNiro's casino owner.
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The killing of the aging mobster in prison has created an unusual mystery at the Hazelton penitentiary in West Virginia, where there were two assailants and a prison full of suspects.
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Stone had referenced the scene and the mobster character as he allegedly threatened a witness in the Russia investigation about what the witness, Randy Credico, might say about Stone to Congress.
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READ: Mobster implicated in 'Goodfellas' heist going to prison for road rage While the stolen treasures are considered priceless, it's tough to know the exact dollar value of the stolen materials.
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So are auteurs (and defenders of "cinema") like Martin Scorsese, who wanted to make the mobster epic The Irishman on his own terms and got permission to do so from Netflix.
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Mr. Trump, railing against his former confidant in the months since his defection from the orbit, at times sounded "like a mobster," Mr. Cohen said, in case anyone strained to follow.
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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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The spotlight returned to Ostia in last year when Roberto Spada, gym owner and brother of a convicted mobster, was filmed headbutting an investigative journalist ahead of the March 4 national elections.
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That caught the attention of then-US Attorney Rudy Giuliani, who dispatched a top assistant to dig into the case and see if Trump was participating in money laundering for the mobster.
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The travelers in question are Roy (Ben Foster), a dying hitman escaping his mobster boss, and Rocky (Elle Fanning), a 19-year-old sex worker who Roy rescues from a shoot-out.
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The president also seemed conflicted about whether the EU should be punishing American companies, briefly sounding territorial and defensive, like a mobster who doesn't like outside interlopers muscling in on his turf.
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The naysayers argue that the only thing he leads is an enormous propaganda machine, that he doesn't care about human rights, plus that he is a mobster with a nuclear detonation button.
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Victoria Gotti sure knows what it's like to have family members face legal problems, both as a daughter to late crime boss John Gotti and ex-wife to convicted mobster Carmine Agnello.
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Two other films released this year also earned the rare zero percent score: London Fields, a mystery thriller starring Amber Heard, and John Travolta's Gotti, a biopic about late mobster John Gotti.
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Government officials around the world view cryptocurrency as a threat to the global monetary system and a mechanism to funnel ill-gotten gains, such as mobster cash, narco-dollars, and terror funds.
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Earlier this month, Dershowitz told a radio-show host that Mueller had "kept four innocent people in prison for many years" to protect Boston mobster Whitey Bulger's identity as an FBI informant.
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Many workers say they have never had reliable health care and other benefits, yet 1243 union records show that the convicted mobster, James Bernardone, continues to receive "deferred compensation" from the union.
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The Trump smoke-and-mirrors routine hasn't in fact changed much from the tutorials one time mobster lawyer Roy Cohn gave him on the hard-boiled art of how to counter-punch.
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The internet makes neighbors of us all, and my conscience demanded I put some virtual real estate between myself and the befuddled, racist mobster seemingly determined to dismantle and loot the republic.
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She married and divorced three men — a mobster who beat her; the conductor Leopold Stokowski, who was 42 years older and preoccupied with his own career; and the film director Sidney Lumet.
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It's unsettling and cringe-worthy and will make your skin crawl, but it serves the purpose of showing you Sionis is a truly demented, sadistic killer in addition to a calculating mobster.
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"Oh yeah, Trump really sees himself as a tough guy mobster," The Late Show host Stephen Colbert quipped on Thursday night, jumping into his signature Trump impression for a perfect Godfather zinger.
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In Martin Scorsese&aposs mobster epic, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci were de-aged to play Frank Sheeran, Jimmy Hoffa, and Russell Bufalino during various times in their lives.
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Martin Scorsese's mobster epic "The Irishman" garnered 10 nominations, "Marriage Story" scored six, "The Two Popes" earned three and its first animated feature "Klaus" found itself on the best animated feature ballot.
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Thugs loyal to the notorious mobster Al Capone had descended on the town, unleashing a wave of beatings, shootings and kidnappings intended to swing the election in favor of Capone's preferred candidates.
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Martin Scorsese's mobster epic The Irishman, which reportedly cost Netflix a whopping $175 million to make, nabbed five nominations: screenplay, director, two supporting actors (Joe Pesci and Al Pacino), and best drama.
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When investigators found $45,000 in cash inside the Brooklyn apartment of a man they suspected might be linked to last week's killing of a reputed mobster, the man's grandmother offered an explanation.
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Vigoda, who was adept at drama and comedy with a hang-dog face, slouched posture and slow delivery, played mobster traitor Salvatore Tessio in "The Godfather" in 1972, his first credited movie role.
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The yesteryear Marvel "Kingpin" shared a likened DNA, uniting the Capone-mobster obsessions of the 60s—Bald head, white suit, cigar in hand—with the superhero exploits of both Spiderman and the Daredevil.
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Cali, who was known throughout his life as "Franky Boy," is the nephew-in-law of Sicilian mobster John Gambino and had close ties to the Sicilian Mafia family led by Salvatore Inzerillo.
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With his target cornered, Clay nooses the low-level mobster to a ferris wheel cart, sending the ride in motion, until the lifeless body hangs high above the park for all to see.
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It makes for some wonderfully gripping situations — the Bruce Wayne sequence ended with a conversation with mobster Carmine Falcone, and it was more tense than any of the fights that came before it.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A former Boston mobster pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that he lied to investigators about the 1993 killing of a former nightclub manager whose body was found earlier this year.
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A minor Nevada mobster (Chris O'Dowd) travels to Los Angeles on a collection assignment and is bitten by the movie bug in this new comedy, based in part on the Elmore Leonard novel.
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At first, he said he had been smoking marijuana in front of Mr. Cali's home before the shooting and he did not know Mr. Cali was a reputed mobster until the next morning.
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Tyron Woodley is going in on Conor McGregor -- saying his "larger than life mobster" image is a front ... and he's sick and tired of watching the guy act like a fake, tough guy.
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Richie successfully sold his share to the mobster who had been bankrolling Rondelay, that way getting the money he needed to start American Century, and asked if Lester could be released from his contract.
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He offered some context on the ideology of the modern mobster, the Joey Merlino–led Philly faction allegedly working with their New York counterparts, and how the game keeps changing—and staying the same.
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The crime drama starring Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth Moss and Tiffany Haddish as mobster wives who take Irish mafia matters into their own hands while their husbands sit behind bars released its first look Wednesday.
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"The dark dragon," of "fork-tongued" monstrosity, is the funniest metaphor yet for Hiram, a millionaire and mobster hell bent on killing the 16-year-old boy he already spent $30,000 framing for murder.
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When a Sicilian mobster known as the "boss of bosses" died in prison last month, a spokesman for the Italian conference of bishops said it would be "unthinkable" to give him a public funeral.
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In January, Michael, 19, signed on to play a younger version of Tony Soprano — the iconic mobster his late father James Gandolfini famously played in The Sopranos— in a prequel movie to the series.
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Lisa Castaldi's "Mio Amico Camorrista" is a particularly candid example: "My friend the mobster," she sings, "risks his life and his freedom / But for the people of the streets, there is no other law".
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New York (CNN)The late mobster John Gotti, the self-styled "Dapper Don," was a natty dresser known for his custom-tailored, double breasted suits, silk ties with matching pocket squares and handmade shoes.
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The movie looks at the life of mobster Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran (played by Robert De Niro), who before his death, claimed he killed the International Brotherhood of Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino).
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By the late 1990s, Microsoft executives were talking about getting a "vig" — a mobster term for a piece of the action — out of every transaction that happened on the new space called the internet.
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Now Pesci is back in his first major on-screen role in nearly a decade: As the real-life mobster Russell Bufalino in Scorsese's "The Irishman," Pesci carries himself with a quiet self-assurance.
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On July 28, 1976, "Handsome Johnny" Rosselli, a mobster who rose up through the ranks with Al Capone, had brunch with his sister in Miami before borrowing her car and driving to the marina.
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It was a volatile time for the young mobster, who had been groomed to take over the family, but was looking for a way out that didn't involve Witsec, the Federal Witness Protection Program.
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The companies see the Arturo Ui character — a mobster and populist demagogue in Prohibition-era Chicago — as strikingly similar to Mr. Trump and call their productions warnings against the prospect of a Trump presidency.
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Over the years that followed, while Trump was trying and failing to have his mobster associate Felix Sater secure a deal for a Trump Tower in Moscow, Shnaider poured funds into the Toronto skyscraper.
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She's not trained for the field as he is, but when her estranged father is implicated in the division's case against a Boston mobster, Brigid is pulled from her computer screens and into action.
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Kevin Pollak says Martin Scorsese's new mobster flick, "The Irishman," was as good as it gets for the genre -- but there was a little issue according to him ... the stars were too damn old.
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Netflix has a history of not publicizing many of its viewership metrics, but the company isn't shying away from saying how many of its subscribers watched "The Irishman," the Golden Globe-nominated mobster film.
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On camera and in fiction, the mobster has spent almost a century evolving into an array of familiar forms; a collection of touchstone characters as recognizable to us as those of Homer or Shakespeare.
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In a tweet last week, the president accused her of bias and of treating his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort worse than notorious mobster Al Capone when she ordered Manafort to jail pending trial.
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For example, when John Travolta's 753 mobster biopic Gotti generated a 0 percent rating, it meant that literally none of the 55 critics who appraised the film had any remotely warm feelings about it.
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The selling point of the VH1 reality show "Mob Wives" was its authenticity: a group of Staten Island women with mobster husbands and a tough-girl penchant for chardonnay, omertà and a hot temper.
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I'm told it began as a way to show the outside world that he's a real person -- an attempt to shake the picture of a mobster that the Trump Organization was trying to paint.
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Although "Matthew Calamari" sounds like the name of a mobster character in Michael Scott's Threat Level Midnight, he is in fact, a real person and has been a trusted associate of Trump since the 80s.
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That surface-level wise-guy mentality, even if Trump is unlikely to have ever been in a physical altercation of any consequence, does fit the in-real-life mobster mold—at least to a point.
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Chinese rule has been generally welcomed in Macau, which has seen economic growth soar and a period of stability - in contrast with the years preceding the handover when there were a series of mobster wars.
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Stephen A. Smith is an admitted fan of the daytime soap opera General Hospital and, dream of dreams, managed to get himself on the show in a scene with none other than Sonny the Mobster.
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This had its own complications, as the mobster maintained his secret piece of Cohn's studio for many years, until he died suddenly, tortured to death or by his own hand, depending whose story you believe.
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Last week, there was already some initial suspicion this wasn't a mob hit, as it was once said to be considered poor taste to whack a mobster in front of his home, near his family.
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A mobster named Fat Tony with the Genovese crime family owned the Stonewall; he had opened the bar two years before as a private club because he could not get a liquor license for it.
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Mr. Trump also compared the treatment of the notorious mobster Al Capone to the case of Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump's onetime campaign chairman, who is on trial as a result of the special counsel's investigation.
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He appeared as a bartender in the Paul Newman film "The Hustler" (1961) and played the mobster Big Jule in a 1965 production of the musical "Guys and Dolls" at the City Center in Manhattan.
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He played a deranged Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist in the 2011 movie "Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol," and a Russian mobster who battles a former hit man played by Keanu Reeves in "John Wick" (2014).
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" More recently this week, Trump targeted Judge Jackson before she sentenced Stone, asking if she was the judge who, "put Paul Manafort in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, something that not even mobster Al Capone had to endure?
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He started selling sex magazines and buying real estate in New York in the early 1960s and became partners with Robert DiBernardo, who, Mr. Basciano later said, he was surprised to learn was a mobster.
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Mr. Schiff's decision during a committee hearing to liken the president's remarks in the July 25 call to a mobster issuing a veiled threat drew the president's ire on Friday, as it had for weeks.
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He felt disrespected by the licensing hearings and the Securities and Exchange Commission, which showed him photographs of him getting off elevators with the mobster Meyer Lansky and asked if they were in business together.
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It was in 1969, she said, that Mr. Asaro and a partner, the Irish mobster Jimmy Burke, murdered Paul Katz, a truck driver who worked with them and who was thought to be an informant.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese state media on Thursday accused the United States of a "mobster mentality" in its move to implement additional tariffs on Chinese goods, and warned Beijing had all the necessary means to fight back.
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He is the son of the late NYPD detective Joseph Coffey, who gained notoriety for taking the confession of the serial killer known as Son of Sam and arresting mobster John J. Gotti on multiple occasions.
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Kiryu, in particular, is a fantastic character, a hard-headed but big-hearted mobster who can beat up dozens of baddies by himself, yet won't hesitate to sacrifice everything he has for those close to him.
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Even if some post-Godfather mobster fictions give us compelling, layered, and powerful female characters—like Carmela Soprano of The Sopranos—their narratives ultimately come from the interiority of the male protagonists, who remain the focus.
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A mobster named Fat Tony with the Genovese crime family had bought the place two years earlier for a song — it had been a restaurant damaged in a fire — and reopened it as a gay bar.
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Frank Vincent, whose tough-guy looks brought him steady work as a character actor in film and television for four decades, including mobster roles on "The Sopranos" and in "Goodfellas," died on Wednesday in New Jersey.
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His attorneys admitted in their opening statements that their client was a mobster but repeatedly denied he had been an FBI informant, contending that he paid corrupt agents for tips but provided no information in return.
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David Steinberg is back, and he offers us a fresh theme that eluded me for a bit, but was very "gettable" as soon as I solved the first theme entry which, for me, was FLASH MOBSTER.
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Suspicion passed from her landlady, with whom she had been feuding, to her manager and even to geriatric gangsters from Las Vegas who might have known her mobster father back in the days of Bugsy Siegel.
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Miles (Chris O'Dowd), the central character in the likable new Epix take on "Get Shorty," is a minor Nevada mobster who, when a collection assignment takes him to Los Angeles, is bitten by the movie bug.
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Alfred Pennyworth is getting his own origin story on TV Butch started out as a henchman, a towering mook whose unwavering loyalty to mobster Fish Mooney gave what could have been a nameless bruiser an empathetic edge.
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He was also charged with murdering a man in 1969 who was thought to be an informant and burying the body at the home of mobster James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, but was acquitted of both crimes.
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The musical, about an Italian-American youth torn between loyalty to his hardworking father or to a local mobster, is based on a play that was adapted into a 1993 film directed by and starring De Niro.
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" The director acknowledged that the material represented a return to the milieu of mobster tales like "Goodfellas" and "Casino" that the two are well known for, "but I think and I hope from a different vantage point.
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In this case, prosecutors would have a much easier time explaining the case to a jury, said Patrick Cotter, a former prosecutor from the Eastern District of New York who helped bring down the mobster John Gotti.
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On the basis of the February interview he gave Vulture — he claimed that the mobster Sam Giancana killed John F. Kennedy and that Marlon Brando would have sex with a mailbox — he should make for lively company.
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"Is this the Judge that put Paul Manafort in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, something that not even mobster Al Capone had to endure?" he wrote on Twitter, providing a false version of her role as well as his treatment.
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"The same law that makes it a crime to offer a bribe also makes it a crime to ask for one," said Patrick Cotter, a former New York prosecutor who helped bring down the mobster John Gotti.
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What it's about: On the run from her murderous mobster boyfriend, Deloris (Whoopi Goldberg) must leave her life as a Vegas lounge singer behind and go into witness protection as a nun in a very strict convent.
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In a television appearance in March, Mr. Giuliani had attacked Mr. Davis for taking money from the oligarch, citing federal prosecutors' contention that he was tied to a top Russian mobster — a charge Mr. Firtash has denied.
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Slightly built at 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing about 103 pounds, he was usually accompanied by his favorite sidekick and bodyguard, Hugh McIntosh, a 6-foot-4 mobster with a frame like a tree trunk.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three men, including the late mobster John Gotti's grandson, admitted on Tuesday that they torched a car because its driver cut off a reputed Bonanno crime family associate in traffic in April 22002, prosecutors said.
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Dressed in a cowboy hat and a braided leather necktie complete with Texas star, he imagined himself as a skinny John Wayne, or, in a dark Panama and shades, as one of the mobster types in "Murder, Inc".
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In Slovakia, leading papers in the country joined forces to publish the unfinished story that Jan was working on when he was murdered, leading to the extradition to Italy of a suspected mobster associated with the notorious 'Ndrangheta.
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Each of them was an expert in criminal defense: One had represented a New York mobster; another had worked for one of Mr. Guzmán's major rivals; the third had handled the case of a notorious trafficker in Baltimore.
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So, in an act of passive aggressive self-isolation, load that up, and watch the three hours of mobster family drama (I think that's an apt description but I'm not sure as I still haven't seen the movie).
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The court determined that the law was too broad and violated free speech protections, ruling in favor of the plaintiff, Simon & Schuster, which had paid the convicted mobster Henry Hill to publish a book based on his life.
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And the way they pulled the season's storylines together reminded me of how a similarly seismic event tied together every event in the fourth season of an earlier series, one about a New Jersey mobster and his two families.
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People we've lost in 21997 A noted New York stage actor by the time Francis Ford Coppola came calling about "The Godfather," Vigoda had not read the book and wasn't thinking about mobster roles; he was Jewish, not Italian.
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The fab Niecy Nash—who underplayed so effectively on "Getting On"—is Desna, the busty, brassy owner of the salon, a bejewelled money launderer who is being exploited and underpaid by a bisexual mobster called Uncle Daddy (Dean Norris).
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November 27 "The Irishman" stars Robert De Niro as a contract killer looking back on his life and reconsidering his associations with a notorious mobster (played by Joe Pesci) and with the labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino).
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In 2005, an anonymous caller to a television talk show said the secret to her kidnap was buried along with Enrico "Renatino" De Pedis, a mobster who once led the feared Magliana gang which terrorized Rome in the 1980s.
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Barry is pulled in one direction by Monroe Fuches, a facile blowhard who books Barry's hits and works every angle to keep him killing, and by NoHo Hank, a timid, malaprop-prone Chechen mobster besotted with Barry's lethal skills.
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"The Irishman," which tells a story of a mobster played by De Niro who recounts his involvement in the disappearance of union leader Jimmy Hoffa, will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on September 27.
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"At home, a loving father and husband, but on the street, a hard-core guy who never had regrets, never would admit to any crime, never give anybody up, never violate his Mafia oaths — a mobster all the way."
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"Sammy the Bull" is still viewed as a mobster, and Cohen lacks the gravitas of John Dean, the former Nixon White House counsel who cooperated with prosecutors in the Watergate scandal and became the poster child of turncoat redemption.
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These spots conjure that nostalgia for the whole family: The irony that this former Prohibition-era speakeasy, brothel and mobster retreat has morphed into a fabulous family getaway is not lost on its owners, Tereasa Surratt and David Hernandez.
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"The two countries' trade conflict, which is merely push and shove at the moment, is likely to escalate into more than just a scuffle if the U.S. administration cannot marshal its mobster mentality," state newspaper China Daily said in an editorial.
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In trying to squeeze them all in, some of the characters are rendered two-dimensional—in one scene a mobster gives orders while being massaged in a hot tub by women in bikinis—and some of the outcomes are predictable.
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"The Whitey Bulger scandal was the biggest black eye in the history of the FBI," Mark Silverman, a former Boston mob associate, and the author of Rogue Mobster: The Untold Story of Mark Silverman and the Boston Mafia, told VICE.
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Jesse, having learned Tulip got married in the three years the two were broken up, strings up her mobster husband, Viktor, in a harness hanging from the ceiling, with the implication that he might just get around to killing the guy.
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Gyllenhaal will play a Times Square prostitute named "Candy" with an entrepreneurial streak, while Franco will take on the role of mobster twins Vincent and Frankie Martino (think Tom Hardy playing both Ronnie and Reggie Kray in 2015 gangster flick Legend).
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Entertainment Weekly announced earlier this month that Michael, who currently attends New York University, would be taking on the role of young Hiram Lodge — a perfect fit as the adult version of the scheming mobster is played by his father.
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In the pilot, a new job takes Barry out to Los Angeles, where he is supposed to eradicate a personal trainer who has been sleeping with the wife of a Chechen mobster named Goran (a cartoonish performance from Glenn Fleshler).
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Gravano, who flipped on the New York City mobster John Gotti and helped put him away in 1992, notoriously ditched the witness protection program after less than a year, frustrated by the tedious restrictions on contacting his wife and children.
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That ex-mobster, 61-year-old Paul Weadick, and his 83-year-old ex-boss, Francis "Cadillac" Salemme, have been charged with killing Steven DiSarro, the owner of a mob-linked nightclub, because they thought he was talking to the FBI.
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A Massachusetts state trooper involved in the case testified that a reputed mobster named Robert DeLuca arrested in connection with DiSarro's death said Salemme had discussed the killing with him, asking him to prepare a place to hide the body.
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Meeting figures as diverse as the acclaimed novelist Norman Mailer (who the kingpin co-owned a horse farm with at one point) and the infamous mobster Whitey Bulger, Stratton often found himself simultaneously straddling both the criminal and literary worlds.
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A mile and a half away, the notorious mobster Eddie Thrascher was dealing with a problem customer at his bar who would get drunk and punch in the same section of wall night after night, by putting spikes behind the drywall.
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That means almost doubling the body count as John (Keanu Reeves, still superstoic and hyper-pliable) is once again yanked out of seclusion, this time to fulfill a debt to an Italian mobster by killing the mobster's sister (Claudia Gerini).
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Paintings were cut by flying glass, ancient statues were mutilated, and vast cracks opened in the museum walls overlooking the street where a Sicilian mobster had detonated a Fiat van loaded with more than 600 pounds of explosives at 1 a.m.
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Frank shoots plenty of people in the head, but he spends just as much time smoothing over little beefs, parsing the hidden meanings of a mobster confiding that he's "a little concerned" about another mobster's failure to fall in line.
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The show has been in reruns for three years, but one of its stars, Drita D'Avanzo, 43 — wife of reputed mobster Lee D'Avanzo, 50 — has managed to keep herself in the spotlight by engaging in fistfights and social media beefs.
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The postcard that Ellie (Jenna Ortega) sends Joe features a snapshot from the film "Key Largo," a 1948 noir film about a veteran who's come to comfort his friend's widow, who helps to operate a mobster-filled hotel in Florida.
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Francis Ford Coppola's mobster epic about the transfer and violent shifting of power within the fictional Corleone family likely needs no introduction; in addition to occupying a prominent place in American cinema, these three films are also frequently shown on television.
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After learning three months later that Credico had been subpoenaed to testify before the committee, Stone allegedly urged him to "do a 'Frank Pentangeli'" — a reference to the mobster in "The Godfather" — in order to avoid revealing that Stone had perjured himself.
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Though Maxine knew of Bougie's exploitation film-inspired porn comics long before she turned 18, they thankfully connected when she was legally allowed to buy them, at a screening of a Turkish Spider-Man reimagining in which Peter Parker is an evil mobster.
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The Netflix film slate features everything from low-budget family fare to higher-brow independent dramas such as last year's "Mudbound," which earned four Oscar nominations, and an expensive mobster tale due out next year starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
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He also denied being a mobster, telling The New York Times that he had been indicted in the gambling ring because FBI agents "misinterpreted his Russian slang" on their Trump Tower wiretaps, when he was merely placing $20,000 bets on soccer games.
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I've already given my opinion..." after he met with Putin at the G20 summit in July, Bharara tweeted in response: "When pursuing a corrupt politician, mobster or murderer on strong FBI evidence, if he 'vehemently denied it,' we just dropped it usually.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%Summary: In the comedy "Get Shorty," mobster Chili Palmer (John Travolta) travels to Los Angeles to collect a debt and he finds that the Hollywood industry doesn't differ too much from the world he knows in the mafia.
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Cipollini said there are no credible instances of a mafia murder victim being fitted with cement shoes around this time, but there is the story of Abe "Bo" Weinberg, a Jewish mobster in New York who worked closely with prohibition kingpin Dutch Schultz.
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The roughly 27,221-square-foot home in North Caldwell, N.J., where America's favorite fictional mobster scooped up his morning newspaper and swam with ducks, is being listed for sale by the owners, Patti and Victor Recchia, at a "starting price" of $3.4 million.
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It was radically co-opted at the beginning of the 1980s when Salvatore Riina, known as Totò, a ruthless mobster from the town of Corleone, muscled his way to the top of the Mafia and essentially ran the roost on his own.
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In addition to accusing him of collaboration with Gulenists, he has also been accused of acting as an agent for American and European interests, organizing the Gezi protests of 2013, having ties to a prominent mobster, assisting Kurdish activists, among other things.
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That shot, widely considered the jewel in the visual crown of "Goodfellas," follows the up-and-coming mobster Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta) as he and his date (Lorraine Bracco) arrive for an evening at the Copacabana, the storied New York nightclub.
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ROME (Reuters) - Sicilian police on Wednesday sought the arrest of nine people, including a suspected mobster, for running a Libyan fuel-smuggling ring in which at least 30 million euros ($35 million) of diesel was sold in gas stations in Italy and Europe.
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ROME/PALERMO (Reuters) - The death of Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore "Toto'" Riina on Friday does not mark the end of Cosa Nostra, but the crime group is unlikely to allow one man such power ever again, a top magistrate and former mobster said.
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National Briefing | New England The woman who spent 16 years on the run with the Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger pleaded guilty Wednesday to a criminal contempt charge for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating whether other people helped him as a fugitive.
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The Kitchen, which is based on the graphic novel from Ollie and Ming Doyle by the same name, tells the story of three women (Elisabeth Moss is also in the cast) who take matters into their own hands after the FBI arrests their mobster husbands.
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They included Ramzi Yousef, who plotted the 22001 bombing at the World Trade Center; Bonanno boss Joseph Massino; reputed former Gambino mobster John "Junior" Gotti and uncle Peter Gotti; the late Genovese crime boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante; and mafia turncoat "Sammy the Bull" Gravano.
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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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They included Ramzi Yousef, who plotted the 224 bombing at the World Trade Center; Bonanno boss Joseph Massino; reputed former Gambino mobster John "Junior" Gotti and uncle Peter Gotti; the late Genovese crime boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante; and mafia turncoat "Sammy the Bull" Gravano.
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But just as fascinating as the 92-year-old performer's impressive résumé is her slate of famous friends – she had a four decades-long friendship with Frank Sinatra and she is the last person alive who knew and was close to notorious mobster Al Capone.
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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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The sixth of Mel Gibson's seven kids with ex-wife Robyn Denise Moore and big brother to step siblings with Oksana Grigorieva and current girlfriend Rosalind Ross, Milo is tackling his first major big screen role as notorious mobster Al Capone in Gangster Land.
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To help build his first big Manhattan project, the Grand Hyatt New York on East 42nd Street, Trump had chosen a notorious demolition company secretly owned in part, according to the FBI, by a top Philadelphia mobster who doubled as crime lord of Atlantic City.
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It arrived amid a cycle of low-budget Hollywood movies revisiting the gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s; Don Siegel's "Baby Face Nelson" (203), Roger Corman's "I, Mobster" (1958) and Bud Boetticher's "The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond" (1960) are among the notable ones.
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People struggling to survive had to contend with the extreme wealth of a new class of predatory oligarchs buying luxury cars and building gargantuan mansions in a style dubbed "mobster baroque," as well as with the recent memory of comparative security under state socialism.
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Unproven theories over the decades have run the gamut from an attempt to secure the freedom of a gunman jailed for trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II, to a connection to the grave of Enrico De Pedis, a mobster buried in a Rome basilica.
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Incidents occur, as randomly assorted as the merchandise: a freak stabbing, a visit to a yakuza mobster with a suit of samurai armor to sell, the death of an Afghan hound, the appearance of a celadon bowl that may or may not be cursed.
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But it is a joy to watch Whoopi Goldberg turn a group of nuns (led by Maggie Smith as their mother superior) into a lively choir that saves a church and attracts national attention — including from the mobster Ms. Goldberg's character is trying to elude.
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Still, when reputed mobster Robert LiButti was a high-dollar gambler at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, the Trump Plaza worked very hard indeed to keep him happy, as Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News reported: And Trump's reputed mob contacts didn't stop there.
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Sullivan wore other hats as well: He was partners with a reputed Atlantic City mobster named Kenneth Shapiro, who controlled the local scrap market and who was in the process of selling Trump a large plot of land at top dollar on which to build his casino.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors argued on Thursday that an alleged Boston ex-mobster accused of the 1993 murder of a man whose body was found earlier this year should be jailed until trial because his alleged victim was targeted because he was a witness to a crime.
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Her writing — whether it was a 25 article for City magazine titled "In San Francisco, City of Sin, Why Can't I Get Laid?" or her 22000 memoir, "Easy Street," of growing up the daughter of a Jewish mobster in Las Vegas — brought her some measure of fame.
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EL: I think he was getting back to this point of Trump talking a bit like a mobster, and this was obviously an issue when Michael Cohen testified to Congress about his interactions with the president and the instruction or non instruction to lie to Congress.
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A New York federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a lower court judge had overstepped his authority by shaving 10 years off the sentence of a Brooklyn mobster who, while imprisoned, helped the government find a cache of explosives left over from the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Just 10 days before the film was set for domestic release under the studio's Lionsgate Premiere banner, EW can confirm that the project — about the life of ill-fated mobster John Gotti, head of the infamous Gambino family — has been sold back to production company Emmett/Furla/Oasis.
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Theories about her disappearance have run the gamut from an attempt to secure freedom for Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk jailed in 1981 for trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II, to a connection to the grave of Enrico De Pedis, a mobster buried in a Rome basilica.
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For example, if you witness, from your car, the police arresting a man who looks frighteningly like the actor who played the Corsican mobster in the 183 film "A Prophet," you might find yourself ducking because your husband is yelling that, at any second, an ambush could happen.
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For example, after disgraced FBI agent John Connolly tipped Bulger off to a racketeering indictment in 1994, the mobster fled and lived on the lam in Santa Monica for 15 years—before he was dragged to court at age 81 in 2011 and later convicted of 11 murders.
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It's in this atmosphere of unrest (some might call it chaos) that Nate is elevated to the role of "security consultant" and charged with keeping a lid on Adrian Barrett, an English mobster escorted into town by Nate's former lover, Zara Cope, in order to poach on local turf.
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For me, fond memories flooded back of nights transfixed by the televised images of the fictional Terranova coyly engaged in similar chit-chat over meals of bracciole and broccoli rabe with Sonny Steelgrave, "Wiseguys"'s fictional Atlantic City mobster brilliantly played by the late veteran actor Ray Sharkey.
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When he's not touring the world as part of the E Street Band, playing a mobster on TV or hosting his satellite radio show, Steven Van Zandt fronts this old-school rock 'n' roll group, which has existed in various incarnations on and off since the early 1980s.
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By the time it was over, Perry's Dylan had endured a drinking problem, cocaine and heroin abuse, financial hardship, a near-fatal car crash, his father's faked death, various romances and a marriage that ended when his wife was mistakenly killed by a hitman hired by her mobster father.
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That is a theme with deep resonance for Pacino, who plays Jimmy Hoffa, the unmanageable president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and for De Niro, who is a producer of the film and plays its title character, Frank Sheeran, a Teamsters official and mobster who claimed credit for Hoffa's murder.
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Luke Cage's first season and all of its various components — the blaxploitation genre it twists, the Western feel in its bones, the mobster flicks it idolizes — coalesce around one idea: the question of what it will take for a black hero to survive in a system that wishes he would disappear.
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With a three-part structure, it begins by following the quick-witted Qiao (Tao Zhao) and her mobster boyfriend Bin (Fan Liao) as they stake out their turf against rivals and upstarts in 2001 postindustrial Datong before expanding out into an epic narrative of how abstract forces shape individual lives.
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The President is watching proceedings carefully as Mueller appears to be moving closer to his inner circle on multiple fronts and has complained that Manafort has been treated like a mobster -- even as the White House has tried to open up some distance between Trump and his former campaign chairman.
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Pesci plays Ruby Dennis, a painfully uncool, wannabe Vegas singer who performs at the bowling alley he owns, and is simply trying to keep up his payments to a mobster (played by regular co-star and former comedy partner Frank Vincent) and care for his absentee sister's teenage son (Evan Handler).
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One theme of Scorsese's mobster movies has always been the male camaraderie, loyalty, and even love that comes along with being part of a "family" — that organized crime is attractive not just for profane reasons (the money, the sex, the swagger) but also for what we might call sacred ones.
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Herbert Sperling, a convicted drug dealer from Hell's Kitchen who was accused of ordering the execution of Vincent C. Papa, the fellow mobster who masterminded the brazen theft of 400 pounds of French Connection heroin and cocaine from a police vault, died on July 3 at a hospital near Ayer, Mass.
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Other people who committed crimes other than lying to Congress and have testified before the body include Frank Costello, the mafia boss, in 1951; Joseph Michael Valachi, a mobster, in 1963; and Frank Abagnale, the former con artist and subject of Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can," in 2017.
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"Sentencing Rayyan based solely on his gun possession -- without considering his terrorism plans -- would have left 'the same feeling of true-but-inadequate as the conclusion that Al Capone did not accurately report his income," the prosecutors wrote, referring to the fact that the murderous mobster was ultimately convicted of tax evasion.
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While it drives the plot, the restaurant is a garnish for the more prominent, and equally unconvincing, parts of the story: Dion's involvement with a gourmandising Polish mobster (Michael Gladis) and Tommy's attempt to break out of his funk, be a competent single father and relate to his own dad (John Doman).
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He described driving around without a license because when he was a kid the fine was only $25; accidentally taking weed over the border and getting tossed in jail; hanging out with car thieves and mobster sons; getting into huge brawls on the beach; skinny-dipping and flirting with housewives on job sites.
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Her existence so defies retrospective wisdom that when a heavily fictionalized version appeared briefly on the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" it prompted incredulous, mocking comments charging that the character — a black woman prosecutor, in large part responsible for the arrest and conviction of a Lucky Luciano-like mobster — was pure anachronistic fantasy.
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The notorious mobster was transferred to one of the most violent prisons in America last October and placed in general population, where he was beaten with a lock in a sock, and one or more inmates tried to gouge his eyes out with a shiv and also tried to cut off his tongue.
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" But what seems to have most provoked the president was Mr. Schiff's opening statement at a House Intelligence Committee hearing last week when he gave his own interpretation of Mr. Trump's July phone call with the Ukrainian president as a mobster issuing a veiled threat — and the president did not like it. "Rep.
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In the 1990s, Ludwig (Tarzan) Fainberg, a Russian mobster and Miami strip club owner; Juan Almeida, a Cuban luxury car dealer; and Nelson (Tony) Yester, an international drug trafficker, were accused of combining their skills to sell a Soviet submarine to a Colombian cartel to distribute cocaine in the former Soviet Union and North America.
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But the man, Anthony Comello, gave several conflicting accounts about what happened the night the reputed mobster, Francesco Cali, was fatally shot, and investigators have been unable to corroborate many of his statements or to establish a motive for the shooting, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an open investigation.
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This week, we include a look at the violent life and death of Whitey Bulger, the South Boston mobster; an investigation into how New York's shelter system houses 11,234 children (above); and a profile of Gayle King, the woman long known as Oprah's best friend and now as a star in her own right.
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His desperate quest to raise funds involves his wife (Idina Menzel), his girlfriend (Julia Fox), a ruthless mobster (Eric Bogosian), and the pro basketball player Kevin Garnett (playing himself); the script, co-written by Ronald Bronstein and the film's directors, the brothers Josh and Benny Safdie, daringly intertwines the drama with real-life sporting events.
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REUTERS - When Ashim Ahluwalia was asked to direct "Daddy", a film based on the life of one of Mumbai's most feared gangsters, he was clear about two things – it would not be a "clean-up job" and he would do it on his own terms and not the way Bollywood usually treats mobster films.
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