There were no flower cars outside the funeral of 103-year-old John ‘Sonny’ Franzese—but gospel music, funny stories, and eulogies from his loving grandkids made it much grander.
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Harry Dunn lawyers call for High Court to publish US secret immunity papers
Family of teenager who died after collision with car driven by Anne Sacoolas hope documents will bolster case for extradition
Brother of Palermo Mafia boss killed
Agostino Alessandro Migliore, 45, shot dead
(ANSA) – Palermo, February 28 – The 45-year-old brother of a local Mafia boss was shot dead in the early hours of Friday in Belmonte Mezzagno, an agricultural area near Palermo, which has registered a recent surge in violence, investigative sources said.
Agostino Alessanfro Migliore, 45, brother of Giovanni, who was recently arrested and is believed to be the chief aid of Mafia boss Filippo Bisconti, was killed while he was driving his car in the town at 5 AM.
Bisconti since December 2018 has been collaborating with investigators.
Two murders and an attempted murder have been recently registered in the area, investigative sources said.
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China has censored the Archive of Our Own, one of the internet’s largest fanfiction websites
China has taken the beloved Hugo-winning site offline amid stringent new internet laws.
The Archive of Our Own (AO3), the Hugo-winning fanfiction website, is the latest casualty of Chinese censorship, amid a continued crackdown in the country on queer content, sexually explicit content, and websites based abroad.
Reports surfaced on February 29 that AO3 was no longer accessible through the national Chinese web, and the site appears to be blocked from view within the country, according to Comparitech, a service that allows users to check whether China has blocked a website. In a tweet confirming the ban, the Organization for Transformative Works, the non-profit group that runs AO3, seemed surprised. It’s unclear whether the OTW was contacted by Chinese authorities before the site was blocked. (Vox has reached out to the OTW for comment.)
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Under siege from the SEC, actor Steven Seagal finds he’s not above the law
The actor failed to tell followers he was being paid to hawk cryptocurrency, regulators say
Seagal, 67, did not tell his millions of social media followers that Bitcoiin2Gen had promised him $250,000 in cash and $750,000 worth of its tokens before promoting its initial coin offering on Twitter and Facebook, according to the SEC. Under the settlement, Seagal agreed to pay the SEC more than $330,000 in penalties and interest, including $157,000 that Bitcoiin2Gen had already paid him.