Mafia News

PROVIDENCE — His father is a Mafia lawyer famous for representing a New England crime family so powerful that its late boss was once recorded phoning Rhode Island’s governor to adjust his son’s college schedule. Continue Reading »

He beat and stole as mob mole

Legendary FBI agent Joe Pistone is confessing for the first time that he broke the law during the years he spent undercover as mob wanna-be Donnie Brasco.

Warehouse burglaries. Beatings. Truck hijackings. And even a conspiracy to murder a Bonanno crime family capo. Continue Reading »

MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon pledged Monday to wage a permanent war against organized crime by coordinating more closely with local police and giving all law enforcement better training, equipment and intelligence work.

Calderon has largely relied on federal police and soldiers for a series of massive anti-crime sweeps in several Mexican states, but he has said future efforts will need to rely more on local police. Continue Reading »

While most of the focus of federal law enforcement today is on counterterrorism, federal police agencies still must contend with more traditional anti-crime operations including emerging organized crime gangs.

Criminal enterprises represent a near and long-term threat to our nation. Their activities are increasing in scope and magnitude as they network to expand operations worldwide. The geopolitical and technological changes of the last decade have allowed these enterprises to flourish globally, and their impact on the United States is expected to increase over the next five years. Continue Reading »

TIMISOARA, Romania: Four Romanians were arrested on suspicion of human trafficking, money laundering and electronics theft in European Union countries, police said Wednesday.

Authorities detained the four, two brothers and their wives, on Tuesday in the western city of Buzias, a few months after police began investigations, said Cornel Iures, spokesman for a local police brigade tasked with fighting organized crime. Continue Reading »

SKOPJE, Macedonia – Italian experts who deal with the Mafia will help train Macedonian police in fighting organized crime as part of a program funded by the European Union, officials said Wednesday.

Justice Minister Mihajlo Manevski said the two-year project will promote contacts with Italy’s Ministry of Justice and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, based in Sicily, as well as Italian police officers who deal with organized crime. Continue Reading »