A reputed Bonanno crime family wiseguy was busted yesterday for collecting a cut of bogus insurance claims filed by crooked doctors and lawyers in Queens, authorities said. Joseph Fratta had an office ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y — A 42-year-old man faces an attempted murder charge in connection with a brutal stabbing in his Arden Heights neighborhood, authorities said. Joseph Fratta was arrested in the ...

The alleged manager of a mob-connected car-insurance fraud ring will have to cough up an additional $350,000 bail to stay out of prison after prosecutors accused him of trying to fly the coop by ...

Mary Gipp spent most of her time on the stand crying. In 1994, her boyfriend was Joseph Prystash, a man already convicted of capital murder and sent to death row for his involvement in the murder of ...

Over the last few weeks, old wounds were reopened and details of the young woman's death reiterated in the recent retrial of her killer, Howard Paul Guidry, who was once again sentenced to die on ...

Peter Joseph Fratta, 78, of Dunkirk died Dec. 30, 2011, at his home. He was born July 11, 1933. He was a member of Our Lady of Sorrows in West River. He enlisted in the Army during the Korean War but ...

Fifteen years ago, /*Fratta*/'s estranged wife, Farah, was fatally shot in her Atascocita home. Two hit men were later arrested and accused the then-Missouri City policeman of hiring them to kill her.

Jurors reached a guilty verdict Friday afternoon in the retrial of Robert Fratta, a former Missouri City public safety officer accused of hiring hit men to kill his estranged wife, Farah, at her ...