A New York jury on Wednesday convicted a former detective of lying to authorities in an effort to protect the mafia family ...

Hector Rosario was among nine people charged; prosecutors say the other defendants had colorful nicknames like "Joe Fish" and "Sal the Shoemaker." ...

He lied to protect the Bonanno crime family. He lied to protect himself,” federal prosecutors said during closing arguments.

Hector Rosario, a Nassau County police officer, convicted of lying to the FBI about his ties to organized crime.

They said Rosario waged war on the Genovese mob on behalf of his alleged Bonanno family handlers after a deal for the two ...

A former police detective in New York has been found guilty of lying to the FBI in order to protect a Mafia family’s illegal gambling operations.

A former New York detective who moonlighted by working ... Hector Rosario, 51, a former detective for the Nassau County police on Long Island, was also acquitted of obstruction of justice, the ...

At The Times and elsewhere, he wrote about wrongful convictions, fake methadone clinics and the five powerful Mafia families ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A former police detective was convicted Wednesday of lying to the FBI in order to protect a Mafia family's illegal gambling operations in the New York City suburbs. NEW YORK ...