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A Medley of Mafia Stories

A variety of articles, news stories, and opinion pieces about everything and anything related to the mob.

Sebastiano "Buster" Aloi was a very, very, well-respected mafioso of the first order who was instrumental in the formation of the Colombo Family and was a mentor to Sonny Franzese. In fact, Franzese was Buster's "eyes and ears" on the street.

In this twisted tale of mob mayhem, Bonnano mobster Joseph Genna found himself in the middle of a murder mystery after a labor union official named Edward Murtha was found shot to death in his Babylon, New York office. It seemed like a typical mob hit, but there were more twists and turns in this tale than a made-for-tv movie.