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Police captured one of Sicily's top Mafia fugitives on Sunday, dealing a stiff blow to the island's Cosa Nostra crime syndicate, Italian officials said.
Seriously? You’d do that? You’d totally provide your personal information to yet another third-party application in trade for “free” coins to use in that virtual sharecrop you’ve got going over on Facebook? Do you really want a pig that bad?
A would-be hit man has renounced the Mafia in a New York courtroom, surprising the federal judge who was sentencing him.
One by one, members of a South Florida crew of the New York-based Bonanno crime family stood before a federal judge Wednesday to plead guilty to racketeering charges, including one enforcer who said it was impossible to escape the Mafia life.
An alleged Mafia associate was arrested on racketeering charges while on his honeymoon in Honolulu.
Here's another of the Mafia's trademark offers-you-can't-refuse: pay or be eaten by a crocodile.
Italian authorities have dispatched a robot submarine with a video camera to a shipwreck off the Calabrian coast to see if if it's carrying radioactive waste dumped by the mob in a lucrative disposal racket.
Italian authorities on Wednesday seized about euro200 million ($284 million) in assets and businesses owned by a crime syndicate, including the Cafe de Paris of "La Dolce Vita" movie fame.
Venezuela deported a convicted European drug trafficker dubbed the "Mafia's foreign minister" to Italy on Tuesday, where he has been wanted on drug smuggling charges since 2001.
Authorities arrested one of Italy's most dangerous Mafia fugitives as he left his apartment in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, Italian police said Sunday.
Italian police said Tuesday they had arrested 13 people suspected of helping a top Mafia fugitive hide, communicate with other mobsters and conduct his business.
Italian police issued 61 arrest warrants Wednesday against purported members of the Naples-based Camorra mob for allegedly running drug and extortion rings in the southern Italian city.
Italian authorities took into custody on Saturday a top boss from the Gambino Mafia clan who was deported from the United States after spending more than two decades in jail for drug trafficking.
An FBI agent posing as a crooked businessman with ties to shady bankers was key to the indictment announced Thursday of 11 people on charges they ran a South Florida racket for New York's Bonanno organized crime family.
Police say they arrested a fugitive crime boss who they found holed up in a secret room of his brother's house in the southern Italian region of Calabria.
While businesses around the world are hunkering down for survival, the Italian mob is living a golden moment.
Even before all the debris from Italy's latest devastating earthquake is cleaned up, investigators fear that organized crime is poised to profit from contracts worth billions of dollars to rebuild schools, hospitals, courthouses and homes.
A mob captain who helped run the crumbling Gambino crime family when John Gotti was sent to prison has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Organized crime syndicates have already moved into the central Italian region devastated by a quake this month and are looking to profit from the reconstruction of the area, the head of parliament's anti-Mafia commission said.
Widows, children and grandchildren of many of those slain by Italy's various mafias are rallying in Naples to protest organized crime.
Two former New York police detectives convicted of moonlighting as contract killers in eight mob hits were sentenced Friday to life in prison after telling a judge they were innocent.
Italian police on Tuesday arrested mobsters, businessmen and local politicians who allegedly used corrupt practices and bribes to gain control of a project to build wind farms in Sicily.
Accountant Stephen Corso was in deep trouble. His clients, including longtime friends, told federal authorities in 2002 that he had stolen more than $5 million.
An alleged Mafia boss who was caught on wiretaps purportedly discussing Cosa Nostra's new hierarchy hanged himself in a Sicilian jail hours after his arrest, police said Wednesday. State radio said he used his belt.
A captain of the Gambino crime family's South Florida operations, who prosecutors say has been linked to an infamous hit that led to John Gotti's rise to power, was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in federal prison in a major real estate fraud case.
Emisija Ane Jelinić zabranjena na internetu ( Croatia TV forbids report on Croat mafia)Because of serious accusations of top Croatian government politicians with mafia governmental oriented Croatian Television ( HTV) forbids this report even on the internet, and penalises the reporter Ana Jelinić.
FBI Lets Barred Tycoon Visit U.S. " ... Aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska met with FBI agents in August and earlier this month as part of a continuing criminal probe, according to two administration officials. The focus of that probe couldn't be learned.
Dramatic moment Mafia boss was gunned down outside Naples bar in broad daylight * WARNING: The story contains graphic images This is the chilling moment a Mafia boss is gunned down by a hitman outside a bar. Mario Bacio Terracino is first felled by a gunshot to the arm.
Alwayswriteagain: The Dog It Was, That...If I use a phrase like 'fraternal lodge' or 'freemasonry', many readers will react badly. They will think immediately of weird rites; exclusive, male orientated social networking – and absolute secrecy.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Gunmen target Mexico rehab centreMexican drug gangs kill people, at a rehab clinic.
Health Insurance companies rolling in money. Backed by terrorists of AmericaTerrorism is growing stronger by the day with the well paid party of no and well paid swing votes of Democrats voting no as well.
Two Bodies on Mafia Waste ShipThe more I read the news, the more I wonder what the F is wrong with people? From the story: "The man, who is under house arrest, has told his interrogators that the toxic waste came from Italian and European pharmaceutical companies and the mafia was paid between $2m and $20m to …
Italian police seize mafia boss' pet crocodileHere's another of the Mafia's trademark offers-you-can't-refuse: pay or be eaten by a crocodile. Italian police say they have seized a crocodile used by an alleged Naples mob boss to intimidate local businessmen from whom he demanded protection money.
Mafia boss's pet caiman seized by Italian policeNaples police investigate claims up-and-coming Camorra boss used reptile to extort money from businesses.
Italian police seize mafia boss' pet crocodileHere's another of the Mafia's trademark offers-you-can't-refuse: pay or be eaten by a crocodile. Italian police say they have seized a crocodile used by an alleged Naples mob boss to intimidate local businessmen from whom he demanded protection money.
'Mafia crocodile' seized in ItalyItalian police say they have seized a crocodile they believe was used by a suspected mafia boss to terrorise people into paying protection money.
Prosecutor: Gotti is 'vicious, violent' criminalThe fourth racketeering trial of John "Junior'' Gotti began Monday with the government portraying the mob heir as a maniacal killer and chronic criminal.
Sicilian women gang up to hurt the mafia. September 20, 2009A group of young women is standing up to the mafia in its Sicilian heartland by refusing to contribute towards the £130m a year it demands from businesses on the island in protection money.
Shipwreck may hold radioactive waste sunk by mafia off Italian coastItalian ministers and officials were today holding urgent consultations following the discovery of an unmarked wreck that prosecutors believe was used by the mafia to sink radioactive waste.
Congress.org - What Is In Health Care Bill 3200?Check out the urgent points in Obama Care that diminishes our freedom; punishes and fines Americans, doctors, and employers; provides health care for illegals, and mandates a national ID card and profiling of Americans and can even criminalize Americans for not following all of t …
Mafia 'sank nuclear waste ship'A shipwreck that could contain nuclear waste is being investigated by authorities in Italy amid claims that it was deliberately sunk by the mafia.
Stimulus Money: An Offer the Mafia Can't RefuseLaw enforcement officials believe that the Mafia (and other similar organized crime groups) is attempting to garner billions of federal "stimulus" dollars through contracts with state and local governments with bags of grant money to distribute.
Epitaph for a Mob Boss, Gennaro "Jerry" Angiulo Dead at 90WBUR-FM, the Boston Herald and Boston.com have all reported that infamous former Boston Mafia boss Gennaro "Jerry" Angiulo, who ruled organized crime in Boston with an iron fist as the underboss of late New England Mafia chieftain Raymond Patriarca, passed away this past Saturday …
Ex-con, 'flim-flam artist' says he witnessed Jimmy Hoffa's burial - MLive.comTed Lee Stall says he witnessed Jimmy Hoffa's burial at a farm in Hartland Township in 1975 and that the family of his one-time boss, Teamsters official Rolland McMaster, gave the FBI the gun used to kill Hoffa.
Is Italy's Berlusconi In Bed With The Mafia?If that document proves to be genuine, it would suggest that Berlusconi was a plausible Mafia interlocutor during that murderous season. It's a scenario so chilling that it has never been told, except in a novel.
Mafia games on hit listBEIJING - WHETHER it be religion, environmentalism or non-profit charities, the Chinese government has always been wary of any organised activity it cannot directly control. A new addition to the list: simulated organised crime.
De Niro analyzed GoodFella for roleWhile making the film, "Analyze This," Robert DeNiro consulted with the CarloGambino crime family soldier Anthony (Fat Andy) Ruggiano and the New York Daily News has obtained a never-before-seen photo to prove it!
Lawsuit claims Apple, Mafia sent threats via iPod | Apple - CNET NewsGregory McKenna, of Florissant, Mo., is suing Apple because he says two of the company's iPods contained illegal receivers that allowed the Mafia to send him threatening messages, according to court documents obtained by CNET...
Lawsuit claims Apple, Mafia sent threats via iPod Gregory McKenna, of Florissant, Mo., is suing Apple because he says two of the company's iPods contained illegal receivers that allowed the Mafia to send him threatening messages, according to court documents obtained by CNET.
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