May
26
2007
By Adrian Humphreys, National Post – New York • Close friends of Vito Rizzuto, the Montreal Mafia boss to be sentenced today for a gangland massacre 26 years ago, discussed the prospect of murdering the New York informant who was set to testify against him.
Two men who police say are well-placed members of the Rizzuto criminal organization – one based in Montreal and the other in Rome – spoke on the telephone many times over several months about the arrest of Rizzuto at his Montreal mansion in 2004, according to transcripts of calls secretly monitored by police. Continue Reading »
May
26
2007
Nigel Jones reviews The Mafia at War by Tim Newark – The two things that almost everyone once knew about Italy’s Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, were that he made Italian trains run on time, and that he, uniquely among Italian rulers, successfully, if temporarily, crushed the Sicilian Mafia. Never forgetting a slight, the Mob, so the legend goes, ate their revenge cold years later when they handed over their Sicilian heartland without a shot being fired, lock, stock, and non-smoking barrel to the invading Allies.
Not having investigated Italian railway timetables between 1922-43 I cannot report on the veracity of the first claim, but Tim Newark has exhaustively examined the second, and establishes beyond doubt that any notion that it was the Mob that won Sicily for the Allies is a myth. Continue Reading »
May
19
2007
A man wanted in Italy on suspicion of four murders connected to the Naples mafia has been arrested in the UK.
Police traced Gennaro Panzuto, 32, to a flat in Preston, Lancashire, after a search which lasted more than a year. Continue Reading »
May
19
2007
PRESTON, England, May 18 (UPI) — British authorities arrested a man they allege is a Mafia boss who traveled to England to avoid a clash between rival mob families in Italy.
The Telegraph reported Friday Italian detectives tracked Gennaro Panzuto to a home outside the Preston and surprised the alleged mobster and his neighbors earlier this week. Continue Reading »
May
17
2007
NEW YORK – U.S. and Italian government officials have begun working in tandem to fight the re-emergence of the Sicilian mafia in New York.
With major Sicilian mobsters recently being released from prison, the Italian government and the FBI have created “The Pantheon Project” as a means to limit the effect the organized crime members have in their native land and New York, The New York Post said Monday. Continue Reading »
May
17
2007
No drug dealer will be able to sleep peacefully any longer – said Anto Djapic, supporting Ruza Tomasic.
President of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) Anto Djapic sent a clear message on Tuesday that his party strongly backed member of parliament Ruza Tomasic regarding recent threats sent to her by the narcotics circle in Dalmatia. Continue Reading »
