Mafia News

ROME: The Sicilian Mafia operates like a business, and while its leaders can be removed, it can regenerate itself like no legitimate organization in Italy, the interior minister said Saturday, according to news reports.

Giuliano Amato made the comments in Palermo, Sicily, on the sidelines of a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Mafia slaying of Pio La Torre, head of the Communist Party in Sicily. Continue Reading »

A federal jury in Detroit has acquitted the son of convicted Mafia boss Vito Giacalone of racketeering and extortion charges resulting from a government investigation into illegal sports gambling. Continue Reading »

Cleveland Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who is drafting legislation to ban civilian ownership of handguns, kept a pistol in his house after police learned of a Mafia plot to kill him during his tumultous stint as Cleveland’s mayor during the 1970s. Continue Reading »

THERMAL, Calif. (AP) — Thirteen reputed members of one of Southern California’s most feared gangs have been arrested in the Coachella Valley on narcotics and money laundering charges.

The raids detailed in court papers unsealed today followed a 10 month wiretap investigation of Jose Chavez Huerta, 42, of Thermal. He is alleged to have run a sophisticated methamphetamine and heroin trafficking business as shot caller for the area’s branch of the Mexican Mafia gang. Continue Reading »

Biography Presents Mafia Legends is an iffy grab bag of Biography profiles on three of organized crime’s most notorious gangsters: Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Bugsy Siegel. A bonus fourth disc, Mob Hitman comes from A&E’s American Justice series. Quickly edited, with a nice selection of archival footage and stills, these glossy but essentially superficial bios certainly move well enough, and hit the highlights of these infamous mobsters. But there’s a certain nagging sense of romanticism to two of the bios which makes this collection a questionable purchase. Continue Reading »

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While Turkey has stepped up its efforts against drug use and drug trafficking, prices in Europe have increased.

Dutch authorities have said the increases in prices are related to the large amount of drugs that were seized by Turkish authorities at the Kapikule custom gate.

Most drugs smuggled between West and East pass through Turkey, simply because of its geographic location on the route between south-east Asia and Europe. In recent years, Turkey has increased its operations. In the first four months of 2007 alone, customs officials seized 1.5 tons of drugs. Continue Reading »

Bernardo Provenzano, the so-called godfather of godfathers, has been moved from his top security jail after warders gave him a cake for his 74th birthday.

The Mafia supremo, who was arrested last year in an isolated farmhouse after more than 40 years on the run, was secretly moved after officials decided he and the guards had become “too friendly”. Continue Reading »

By his own admission, Michael DiLeonardo is known as Mikey Scars, a captain of the Gambino crime family, bookmaker, loan shark, murderer of three and a Mafia turncoat.

By the estimation of the government in court documents, Joseph R. Corozzo Jr. is house counsel to the Gambinos, scion of the family consigliere and himself a subject of two pending federal criminal investigations.

Though these men are not on trial, they have spent the last three days debating family business in Federal District Court in Brooklyn at the murder trial of a reputed Gambino family figure. Continue Reading »

A BRITISH housewife is the Mafia’s top murder target — because they fear she is about to spill the beans on their criminal empire.

Ann Hathaway, 44, has already offered to admit laundering cash and collecting protection money for her jailed Sicilian godfather husband Antonio Rinzivillo. Continue Reading »

Corleone, Italy - Officials in Sicily have lifted a decades-old ban on hoods being worn during Corleone’s tradition Good Friday procession.

The ban was introduced about 40 years ago to prevent local mobsters from concealing their identity and shooting at each other while attending the religious ceremony. Continue Reading »