May 08 2008
Police on Thursday detained two convicted Mafia members in the Sicilian city of Palermo who had been on the run for several months.
Convicted Mafia members Gaetano Nostro, 39, and Raimondo Messina, 36, went to ground several months after they were released from detention on a technicality. Continue Reading »
May 08 2008
Cheeseman seeks a larger bathroom
Reputed New England Mafia underboss Carmen “The Cheeseman” DiNunzio. Photo by Stuart Cahill
Boston’s once legendary La Cosa Nostra - which for years struck fear in Hub hearts as its hit men painted the town red with blood - sank to a sorry new low yesterday with the Mob’s 400-pound reputed underboss’ pathetic plea for a jail cell with a super-sized toilet.
That bizarre request came to light yesterday amid a hearing in federal court on alleged New England Mafia underboss Carmen “The Cheeseman” DiNunzio. Continue Reading »
May 07 2008
Heavily guarded Roberto Saviano is known as the Salman Rushdie of Italy
Heavily guarded Italian mob author Roberto Saviano, 28, poses for a photograph at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 in Toronto. Nathan Denette/National Post
TORONTO -Roberto Saviano, the embattled Italian author of a sensational expose of the calamitous world of the Camorra, the Mafia of Naples, stares with darkly brooding eyes but flashes a mischievous smile when asked what Canada means to the mobsters in his neighbourhood. Continue Reading »
May 05 2008
BEIJING — Chinese police have cracked 874 mafia-style crimes and removed 9,662 criminal gangs since a campaign aimed at eradicating the country’s serious gang crimes launched in 2006, according to government figures released here on Monday. Continue Reading »
May 05 2008
Avellino — Italian paramilitary police on Monday arrested 20 people as part of a major probe of Mafia activity in the province of Avellino in the southern Campania region. Continue Reading »
May 02 2008
Men Charged With Conspiracy Related To Central Artery Project
BOSTON — The U.S. Attorney’s office said Friday it has indicted three men in connection with a Big Dig bribery sting. Continue Reading »
May 02 2008
Danuta Olewnik-Cieplinska, sister of a man abducted by a mafia in 2001, now seeks to help victims of their crimes and help the helpless to fight for their rights, writes Wprost. Continue Reading »
May 02 2008
NAPLES – Unidentified gunmen shot dead the father of an ex mafia boss who has been helping authorities crack down on his former partners, police said on Friday.
Umberto Bidgonetti, 69, was killed in a hail of bullets early on Friday as he headed to work at a factory in the town of Castel Volturno north of Naples, police said. Continue Reading »
May 02 2008
In many countries, a tradition has developed of the media allowing new governments and new ministers a “honeymoon” period of grace. With newly-appointed Interior Minister Mihail Mikov, the mutual gaze between minister and media may prove to be more harsh than rosy, given his extraordinary statement that there is no mafia in Bulgaria. Continue Reading »
May 01 2008
A HOLIDAY in the sun turned into a nightmare for the woman dubbed the `Mafia Godmother.’
Ann Hathaway, 45, from Middleton, near Rochdale, was arrested in a restaurant in Benidorm and led away in handcuffs. Continue Reading »
