http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1143884045209190.xml&coll=2Saturday, April 01, 2006
John Caniglia and Joe Guillen
Angelo A. "Big Ange" Lonardo, the Cleveland mob boss who became a turncoat and helped bring down a generation of Mafia bosses across the country, died Friday.
He was 95.
For years, Lonardo ran one of the country's toughest Mafia strongholds in Northeast Ohio. The Mafia here doled out violence in bitter turf wars over gambling and drugs, making millions of dollars. His success as a mob boss is eclipsed only by his work as a snitch, becoming the nation's highest-ranking crime boss to testify against his fellow mob leaders.
"Angelo Lonardo was such a significant character, not only in Cleveland but nationally," said author Rick Porrello, who chronicled Lonardo's life in the book "The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia."...
Eight mobsters admit to racketeering charges
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/114389823976420.xml&coll=2Saturday, April 01, 2006
Larry Neumeister
Associated Press
New York - Eight members and associates of the Gambino organized crime family, including an acting underboss, have pleaded guilty to racketeering charges, authorities said Friday.
The eight were among 11 people charged with racketeering in a prosecution aimed at taking down current and future leaders of a crime family more than a century old.
In all, more than 30 people were arrested on various charges.
The arrests stemmed from a probe in which an undercover FBI agent infiltrated the mob during a three-year period with an act so convincing he was considered for membership, authorities said...
William T'Kindt, local FBI agent, investigated mob figure Licavoli
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1143797764250490.xml&coll=2Friday, March 31, 2006
Wally Guenther
Shaker Heights- William T'Kindt, 56, who died March 11, built a reputation as a tenacious FBI investigator for his work involving organized crime, public corruption and governmental fraud.
T'Kindt died in University Hospitals of complications from acute myeloid leukemia. He was diagnosed with the disease in August 2005.
One of his first assignments after joining the FBI's Cleveland office in 1980 involved investigating reputed Cleveland mob boss James "Jack White" Licavoli.
Licavoli and five others were convicted in 1982 of federal racketeering charges in connection with the 1977 car-bomb slaying of Daniel Greene. Licavoli died in prison in 1985 at age 80...
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