Mafia Hit cemetery flower sellers

Protection money of 250 euros a month in Naples

ANSA) – Naples, June 10 – The Naples Mafia forced cemetery flower sellers to pay protection money, police said Wednesday.

Each flower seller was expected to pay a ‘pizzo’ of 250 euros a month, police said after arresting 32 people from a Camorra clan operating in the seaside town of Portici near Naples

City-centre shops had to pay out between 500 and 2,000 euros a month while lowly street vendors were hit by a pizzo of 30-40 euros a week

Extra protection fees were demanded at Christmas, Easter and the mid-August Ferragosto holiday.

The owners of a historic seafood restaurant were forced to flee Portici for northern Italy after a string of arson attacks sparked by their refusal to pay out, police said.

Extra protection fees were demanded at Christmas, Easter and the mid-August Ferragosto holiday.

The owners of a historic seafood restaurant were forced to flee Portici for northern Italy after a string of arson attacks sparked by their refusal to pay out, police said.  thanks  ansa

Junior Gotti, sick in jail cell misses day in court for racketeering case

Junior Gotti

Junior could have used his mama Monday.

Mob scion John A. (Junior) Gotti remained holed up in a cell at a Brooklyn federal lockup, unable to make a scheduled court appearance because he wasn’t feeling well.

At a May hearing, his mother, Victoria, screamed, “Why don’t you just kill him now!” when Manhattan Federal Judge Kevin Castel turned down Gotti’s request for public money to pay for a second lawyer on his defense team

Gotti’s lawyers say he still hasn’t received treatment for kidney stones that cropped up last summer when he was arrested on racketeering conspiracy charges.

Gotti, 45, is accused of conspiring in three gangland murders and trafficking in cocaine in the 1980s and 1990s.

Castel set a Friday deadline for a written report detailing Gotti’s medical condition. Lawyer Charles Carnesi said Gotti received medication when his kidney stones were infected but could need surgery.

Gotti’s fourth racketeering trial in the last five years is slated to begin Sept. 14

thanks  Thomas Zambito