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BOSTON – Organized crime in New England has been reorganized and it’s a major development for anybody living in and around Boston.

After a long reign, the Providence-based boss of the New England Mafia is out, replaced by a veteran gangster here in Boston.

 Peter Limone is a first-rate heavyweight wiseguy.  Peter is well respected and well connected to major players like him  His supporting cast of second-rate soldiers are another story.They  will wind up bringing him down..
Anthony “The Animal” Fiato

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Alphonse “Allie Boy” Persico

What are they going to do, bust his kneecaps?

A Long Island debt-collection law firm is suing the imprisoned boss of the Colombo crime family, Alphonse “Allie Boy” Persico, demanding more than $34,000 in unpaid credit card bills, court records show.

I’d reconsider how badly they want that money,” quipped one veteran lawyer familiar with the Colombo family history.

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Police cordon off the site of the crime scene in Yokohama on Friday.

updated 11:03 a.m. ET, Fri., Nov . 6, 2009

TOKYO – A gunman wounded three men near Tokyo on Friday before hiding in a building and apparently killing himself — a rare shooting spree that police said was gang-related

Police identified the gunman as Kenji Hayashi, a 62-year-old member of the third-largest gangster group in Japan

Video gambling

The state regulator charged with legalizing video gambling in up to 15,000 bars, restaurants, clubs and truck stops statewide says it is “an almost impossible job” to keep the mob out and protect citizens from the social ills of such pervasive gambling