Apr 22 2007
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 »
Apr 20 2007
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 »
Apr 15 2007
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 »
Apr 05 2007
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 »
Apr 05 2007
PALERMO, Italy (UPI) — Italian officials say an anti-Mafia sweep Wednesday netted a top Sicilian politician.
Bartolo Pellegrino, former deputy chief of Sicily’s regional government and the leader of the New Sicily political movement, was arrested on charges of Mafia association, corruption and extortion, the Italian news service ANSA said. Continue Reading »
Apr 04 2007
Rome (AKI) – Italy’s parliamentary anti-Mafia committee has approved a code of conduct ahead of next month’s local elections, urging parties not to field candidates who face trial on charges of links to the Mafia, extortion, usury and money laundering. On 13-14 May in Sicily and on 27-28 May in the rest of the country, almost 12,000 voters will elect eight provincial councils and about one thousand municipal councils in Italy – a country where at least 163 local councils have been dissolved since 1991 on charges of links to the Mafia. Continue Reading »
