Dec 31 2006
The sporting director of Sicilian Serie A side Palermo has received a Mafia-style warning after a run of poor results - a severed goat’s head in the post.
The gory gift, reminiscent of the horse’s head in the 1972 film The Godfather, arrived wrapped at the home of Rino Foschi on Christmas Eve. Continue Reading »
Dec 31 2006
A man linked to the Genovese crime family’s South Florida operations pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to racketeering conspiracy.
Charles Steinberg, 31, was charged in June with racketeering, robbery and loan sharking. Six other men were named in the indictment, including Renaldi Ruggiero, who prosecutors say ran South Florida operations for the Genovese syndicate. Continue Reading »
Dec 31 2006
Even by the theatrical standards of the Bulgarian underworld, the double shooting of suspected mafia rivals on the same day was pure Hollywood.
Dimitar Vuchev was driving with his wife in central Sofia when his Audi was riddled with bullets. Hours later, when Radoslav Velkov presented himself at a police station to answer questions about the morning’s events, a gunman was waiting to blast him in the head. Continue Reading »
Dec 30 2006
Two accused Montreal mafia members arrested during Operation Coliseum were granted bail Friday. Continue Reading »
Dec 30 2006
Today I’m publishing the 2007 Calendar with the heroes and martyrs of Italy instead of saints. Anyone can print it for free or send it to a friend. Obviously, it can’t be used for financial gain. It’s possible that among the many victims there are one or two who have not been cited.
Beppe Grillo
Dec 30 2006
“The Mafia is oppression, arrogance, greed, self-enrichment, power and hegemony above and against all others. It is not an abstract concept, or a state of mind, or a literary term… It is a criminal organization regulated by unwritten but iron and inexorable rules… The myth of a courageous and generous ‘man of honor’ must be destroyed, because a mafioso is just the opposite.”
Cesare Terranova, Italian Magistrate murdered in 1979
Dec 29 2006
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Carlo Gambino are long gone. Murder Inc. is out of business. Las Vegas has been so cleaned up it resembles Disneyland. And Havana? Forget about it since Castro took over.
But Albert “Chinky” Facchiano, at 96, is still standing. And like Michael Corleone in “The Godfather III,” he is still very much involved in the family business, according to the FBI. Continue Reading »
Dec 29 2006
A MODEL was held as she tried to smuggle cocaine worth £1million in her belly. Mercedes Brito, 24, was stopped as she stepped off a plane following a tip-off.
She was taken to a nearby hospital where a body scan showed 98 tiny packages of the drug weighing 1.2kg. Police said the haul would be worth almost £1million when diluted with other substances. Continue Reading »
Dec 29 2006
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said that his government has been ruling without corruption.
“In dealing with the mafia and corruption I caught every branch of the government, that means that I did not deal with them selectively, without any special rights”, Kostunica told Radio Television Serbia yesterday. Continue Reading »
Dec 29 2006
The crime stories of the most notorious Sicilian mafiosi of recent years are being rewritten this week in Milan as the result of the testimony of a new and, as yet, unidentified supergrass. Continue Reading »
