Mob Trial Casts Seagal As Witness
Sat Jan 18, 2:32 PM ET
By TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - Action-film hero Steven Seagal (news) is taking a beating in Brooklyn.
AP Photo
He's been labeled a liar by lawyers and mocked by alleged mobsters. And so far, in public, he's not fighting back.
It's all part of Seagal's latest role as a reluctant star witness in a Mafia trial that opened last week in Brooklyn federal court.
"You'll find out that the...
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The latest up-to-date news regarding Steven Seagal. Here you will find his latest movie information, where abouts in the world he is and other important news.
Please note UK Steven Seagal fans can order The Foreigner DVD from www.movietyme.com
It's now in stock! I ordered mine on Thursday. Delivery is approximately 7 days, so i should have it a good time before the 'official' US release! :D
This is the region 1 release so please make sure you have a multi region DVD player.
Craig
Opening arguments begin in Gotti family case
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors kicked off a wide-ranging case Tuesday against seven alleged mobsters -- three of them relatives of the late convicted crime boss John Gotti -- accusing them of rigging contracts, shaking down businesses and controlling unions on the city's waterfronts.
On trial are Peter Gotti, reputed head of the Gambino crime family and John Gotti's older brother, their younger brother Richard...
This weeks People Magazine
Maybe some of you already know this but in this weeks People Magazine there is a picture of Steven Seagal in Japan. It is at the beginning of the magazine. Thought I would let you know in case you hadn't seen it.
one more lawsuit, from Germany this time!
Sorry if this is old news. I caught this article online this morning, after seeing a link from Matt Drudge's page. Not sure you you guys had seen it, although it was filed back in December.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/stseagal1.html
-Charles
Well,besides all that maffia crap, that has become so popular, is there anything else fresh from Steven,huh?What's that he's up to right now?
By Anthony M. DeStefano
STAFF WRITER
December 23, 2002
Say what you want about reputed Gambino crime family captain Anthony Ciccone, but the balding 69-year-old mobster at least holds spouses in high esteem.
"All our wives are good kids, they're not like us, thank God," Ciccone, who is known as Sonny, told some reputed mob associates at a Staten Island restaurant bugged by investigators.
But those sweet words appear to be the nicest thing Ciccone said during hours of secretly...
Jan. 28
New releases on video today include Steven Seagal in the action drama “The Foreigner”; Dana Carvey in the comedy “Master of Disguise”; and Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley in the comedy “Serving Sara.”
http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=54246
JUSTICE FOR JULES
By Richard Johnson
JULES Nasso has won another round in his legal battle against former partner Steven Seagal (news), who tried to get Nasso's breach-of-contract suit against him thrown out of court. Staten Island Supreme Court Judge Joseph Maltese ruled for Nasso while taking a swipe at Nasso's lawyer, Robert Hantman. "Although not the most artfully drawn and understandable pleadings ever read by this court, they do make out a meritorious claim if all the...
Dish Caught on Tape
Feds make mob shakedown case
By Anthony M. DeStefano
STAFF WRITER
December 23, 2002
Say what you want about reputed Gambino crime family captain Anthony Ciccone, but the balding 69-year-old mobster at least holds spouses in high esteem.
"All our wives are good kids, they're not like us, thank God," Ciccone, who is known as Sonny, told some reputed mob associates at a Staten Island restaurant bugged by investigators.
But those sweet words appear to be...
December 20, 2002
MOVIES
On the edges of influence in Hollywood
Yes, he's under federal indictment, but what really steams Jules Nasso is the suggestion that he's not a player.
By Paul Lieberman, Times Staff Writer
Julius R. Nasso has been waiting six months for this trip down Wilshire Boulevard and he is determined to make it in style, with a diamond pin as the top button of his white shirt and a limo decorated with twinkle lights. And an entourage, of course.
Here's...
Shouldn't this become the official SS Board since the other one is dead?
- Locked
[Tue November 26, 2002 08:45PM]
Steven Seagal has just closed deals to star in a remake of the 1975 thriller "The Yakuza," and as a former Vietnam veteran in "The Rescue." Seagal will be paid $4 million for each film, reports Variety.
"The Yakuza" was originally scripted by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne and directed by Sydney Pollack. It starred Robert Mitchum and merged Japanese lore with the saga of gangsters kidnapping the daughter of an L.A. shipping magnate.
In "The...
"Half Past Dead" Review
By Kam Williams
TBWT Contributor
Article Dated 11/19/2002
Even though it has stood unpopulated for decades, abandoned Alcatraz Island apparently still has a certain mystique about it. For years, it served as a maximum security penal institution for California's most dangerous cons. But today, high-tech dungeons like Pelican Bay, Soledad and San Quentin do an infinitely more efficient job of incarcerating and crushing any anti-social inclinations out of...
Sunday, November 24, 2002
By CARRI KARUHN
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES -- A man known as the private detective to the stars was charged with illegally possessing firearms after FBI agents searched his office in connection with an investigation prompted by reports of extortion threats against actor Steven Seagal.
Anthony Pellicano, 59, was jailed without bail, pending an arraignment Wednesday in federal court, FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley said Friday.
The illegal firearms...
Just one of the claims made in a sensational lawsuit.
(Nov. 25, 2002) *A Los Angeles Times reporter, Anita Busch, was investigating claims that Hollywood action hero Steven Seagal was being extorted by a Mafia associate.
While doing her investigation, Busch was intimidated by Alexander Proctor and so she brought a lawsuit against him.
Now, Proctor claims that Seagal is the one who ordered the threats against the reporter.
"He wanted to make it look like the Italians were putting...