(20 Jan 2011)
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STORYLINE:
Federal agents dealt another major blow to New York's five Mafia crime families by arresting more than 100 suspected mobsters throughout the US Northeast on charges including murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking.
The FBI said most of the arrests were made on Thursday morning. Many were in Brooklyn, but they also occurred throughout New York City and in New Jersey and New England.
The arrest was the result of multiple investigations - federal probes aided by mob turncoats have considerably reduced the families' ranks in recent years and have resulted in lengthy prison terms for several leaders.
On Friday, a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced John "Sonny" Franzese, 93, to eight years in prison for extorting Manhattan strip clubs and a pizzeria on Long Island.
Federal prosecutors had sought at least 12 years behind bars for the second in command of the Colombo crime family - in effect, a life term.
To bolster their argument, they had an FBI agent testify that Franzese bragged about killing 60 people over the years and once contemplated putting out a hit on his own son for becoming a government cooperator.
In October, Mafia turncoat Salvatore Vitale was sentenced to time served after federal prosecutors praised his total betrayal of his own crime syndicate - and after he apologised to the families of his victims.
Authorities said he had a hand in at least 11 murders, including that of a fellow gangster in the fallout from the infamous Donnie Brasco case.
The evidence provided after his arrest in 2003 helped severely weaken the once-fearsome Bonanno organised crime family, Assistant US Attorney Greg Andres said.
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