Mafia News

(AGI) – Palermo – Eight persons have been arrested overnight in a police anti-mafia operation carried out in Palermo. Continue Reading »

(The Associated Press) HAVANA: The man who was the gangster Meyer Lansky’s driver and bodyguard during the Mafia’s heyday before the Cuban Revolution died here in February, but only a few people noticed. His passing was a curious footnote in a Communist country whose brief history as a gambling magnet for vacationing Americans is all but forgotten. Continue Reading »

(AFP) ROME – Notorious Sicilian Mafia bosses Bernardo Provenzano and Toto Riina have gone back on trial from their prison cells for four gangland murders in 1969, the ANSA news agency reported. Continue Reading »

Crimes, weapon trafficking, corruption, drug and human trafficking still exist in Bulgaria after its NATO accession in 2004 and European Union accession in 2007.

Romania’s Evenimentul Zilei commented on the situation in Romania and Bulgaria after their EU accession. Continue Reading »

THE Manchester wife of a Mafia boss jailed in Italy for murder, drugs trafficking and extortion has said she ‘loves him to death’.

Ann Hathaway (pictured), 44, from Middleton, said it was ‘love at first sight’ when she met Antonio ‘Uncle Tony’ Rinzivillo while working as a dancer in 1979. They have two daughters but he was jailed for 30 years in 2001. Continue Reading »

CBC News – Vito Rizzuto, considered the godfather of the Mafia in Montreal, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for his role in the murders of three alleged gang leaders.

Rizzuto, the man the RCMP call the “godfather” of Montreal, was arrested in Montreal three years ago and extradited to the U.S. last August. Continue Reading »