An imprisoned mob killer’s bid for DNA testing of guns and other evidence was shot down today by a Manhattan appeals court. Thomas “Tommy Karate” Pitera claimed in court papers that the proposed tests ...

A federal appellate court has chopped down a motion by a Mafia hitman known as Tommy Karate to compel DNA testing in connection to three cold-blooded killings. Thomas Pitera claimed DNA testing would ...

An aging Bonanno crime family hit man was denied compassionate release from prison by a Brooklyn federal judge, who said the murders he participated in were too “heinous” to allow him to go free.

An imprisoned mob killer’s bid for DNA testing of guns and other evidence was shot down yesterday by a Manhattan federal appeals panel. Thomas “Tommy Karate” Pitera, 57 — who is serving life in the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Today's archive page is from June 23, 1990. A sixth body had been discovered by law enforcement agents at a site in Chelsea believed to have been used by Bonanno crime family ...

Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, MINER*fn1 and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges. Affirmed. Defendant-appellant Thomas Pitera appeals from an Order entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern ...