Scott Burnstein is a journalist at The Oakland Press. He focuses on crime and justice, with a particular emphasis on juvenile justice issues. Scott's work has been featured in The Oakland Press, RoyalOakTribune.com, The Gangster Report, and School Band & Orchestra Magazine.
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Scott Burnstein's coverage is heavily focused on high school sports, particularly basketball, with a mix of crime-related content. Given this emphasis, he would likely be more receptive to pitches related to local high school basketball news and rankings within Oakland County.
Additionally, considering the inclusion of crime-related topics in his articles, Scott may show interest in stories related to local crime or mob history specific to Michigan or Pontiac. However, these pitches should align with the nature of his previous work and offer unique insights into relevant criminal activities or histories.
Given the local geographic focus evident in Scott's article titles and themes covered (sports), he would probably respond well to story ideas that revolve around the developments and events within Oakland County specifically tied to high school sports.
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By: Scott Burnstein
December 21, 2025 -- United States District Court Judge LeShann DeArcy Hall is throwing out the homicide conviction of former aspiring rapper and reputed New York drug-world figure Karl (Little D) Jordan for the first-degree murder of revolutionary hip-hop music disc jockey Jason (Jam Master Jay) Mizell in 2002 over a Black Mafia Family dope-deal-gone-wrong
By: Scott Burnstein
December 23, 2025 -- Prior to getting locked up almost four years ago, Canadian Hells Angels Motorcycle Club drug boss Damion (Polar Bear) Ryan got a patch from the Haney chapter in the Northeastern Vancouver suburb of Maple Ridge. Last week, GR broke the news of Ryan's initial entry into the Hells Angels through Ontario's
By: Scott Burnstein
December 29, 2025 -- In a letter to the White House dated Christmas Eve 2025, criminal-defense lawyer David Schoen wrote to President Donald Trump on behalf of infirmed 90-year old former New York mafia don Vittorio (Little Vic) Orena, seeking sentence commutations for Orena and his co-defendant, former Colombo mob soldier Michael Sessa, because of
By: Scott Burnstein
December 30, 2025 -- Attempting to dissuade Bonanno mob boss Michael (Mikey Nose) Mancuso from bringing back exiled former acting boss Joseph (Joe C) Cammarano, Jr. off the shelf, rumors are being circulated by Cammarano, Jr.'s rivals that don't want him back in the mix that "Joe C" and his brother-in-law, money-making Bonanno mob capo
By: Scott Burnstein
December 31, 2025 -- Notoriously-volatile and heavily-respected New York mafia figure Vito Guzzo, Jr. is no longer with the Colombo mob and will be a gangland free agent once again in 2026, per sources in Queens. Guzzo got out of federal prison back in April after three decades in the can for a racketeering and
By: Scott Burnstein
December 31, 2025 — According to federal-court testimony, Colombo mob soldier Tommy Ocera was killed three and a half decades ago for skimming $50,000 off the top of loan sharking profits and not sharing from garbage-collection rackets he was operating. Rumors of his involvement in the murder of a young Gambino mob associate with relatives
By: Scott Burnstein
January 6, 2026 -- More than three decades removed from his start as a player on the NYC mafia scene as an ascending star in the Colombo crime family, Dominick (Black Dom) Dionisio, is quickly climbing the ladder of influence in the Genovese mob of the 2020s, GR sources on both sides of the law
By: Scott Burnstein
January 7, 2026 -- Lucchese crime family enforcer and convicted murderer Michael (Baldy Mike) Spinelli has finally come home from the feds for good. The 72-year-old button man checked into a NYC halfway house last week after briefly doing his prison time on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of 2020 where
By: Scott Burnstein
April 6, 2026 -- He negotiated for his son's life with his own two older brothers. It was finally arranged for the troubled Canadian mafia progeny to leave the country and go represent the Hamilton (ON) mob in Central America, sparing him the indignity of getting whacked by his uncles. According to GR sources on
By: Scott Burnstein
June 23, 2026 -- The Detroit mafia is in the midst of restructuring, multiple sources on both sides of the law allege in recent conversations with GR about the state of mob affairs in the Motor City. At some point in the past year, Jack (Jackie the Kid) Giacalone stepped down as boss of the
