White Plains, NY
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Westchester Man Nabbed In Cold-Case La Cosa Nostra Mob Hit Westchester Man Nabbed In Cold-Case La Cosa Nostra Mob Hit Westchester Man Nabbed In Cold-Case La Cosa Nostra Mob Hit
Westchester Man Nabbed In Cold-Case La Cosa Nostra Mob Hit A member of the La Cosa Nostra organized crime family is facing murder charges in the cold-case fatal stabbing of a Westchester man, prosecutors announced. John Tortora Jr., known as "Johnny T," a member of the Genovese Crime Family, was arrested by FBI agents and Yonkers Police in connection with the 1997 death of 29-year-old Richard Ortiz in Yonkers. “The arrest of John Tortora should remind everyone that justice delayed is not justice denied," FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. said. "Whether a crime was allegedly committed decades ago or just days ago, the…

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by Joe Lombardi
Fairfield, CT
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Man Convicted Of Murder For Hire Plot Of Ex-Wife In CT Man Convicted Of Murder For Hire Plot Of Ex-Wife In CT Man Convicted Of Murder For Hire Plot Of Ex-Wife In CT
Man Convicted Of Murder For Hire Plot Of Ex-Wife In CT A convict in a Connecticut prison has been found guilty of attempting to hire an undercover federal agent to kill his ex-wife. Clinton resident James Godisken was found guilty by a jury of murder for hire following a nearly two-week trial. At the trial, it was determined that while he was incarcerated at the New Haven Correctional Center Godisken reached out to other inmates to track down a person who would be willing to kill his former wife. John Durham, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, said that between Sept. 10 and Sept. 14 in 2016, Godisken and an ATF special …

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by Zak Failla
Pound Ridge, NY
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Westchester Man Charged In Decades-Old Double Murder For Hire Westchester Man Charged In Decades-Old Double Murder For Hire Westchester Man Charged In Decades-Old Double Murder For Hire
Westchester Man Charged In Decades-Old Double Murder For Hire A 46-year-old man from Westchester was one of two suspects charged Friday in connection with a 20-year-old double murder for hire in the Bronx, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging Robert Acosta of Yonkers and Jose Diaz, also known as “Cano,” of the Bronx with the Dec. 22, 1997, mu…

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by Jon Craig