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

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

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

He was interviewed by FBI agents in 2020 as they were investigating ... they faced their own criminal charges. The other mafia clans in New York are the Colombo, Gambino and Lucchese families.

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

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.

Prosecutors said Rosario was interviewed by FBI agents in 2020 as they investigated ... a lucrative racket and throwback to the Mafia’s heyday in New York. Prosecutors said the other defendants ...

BROOKLYN (CN) — Hector Rosario, a former Nassau County detective, was convicted Wednesday of lying to FBI agents to protect members of the Bonanno crime family and its illegal gambling parlors. Jurors ...

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. Hector ...