May 17 2007
On Thursday lunchtime, Enrico Mariotti is expecting to receive his final visitor at the house where he has lived for the past seven years.
When the police officer knocks on his door, the grandfather-of-four plans to invite him in and offer him a cup of coffee before accepting a lift to Gatwick. Continue Reading »
May 17 2007
MIAMI The self acknowledged head of the Genovese crime family has been sentenced to 14 years in prison on federal racketeering charges.
73-year old Renaldi “Ray” Ruggiero was also ordered to serve two years of supervised release, pay a 25-thousand-dollar fine and forfeit 10-thousand dollars previously seized by the government. Continue Reading »
May 17 2007
A £5.5 billion transport project in Italy that includes a railway to ferry tourists to the top of Vesuvius has become mired in controversy amid warnings of an imminent volcanic eruption and a mafia war at the foot of the mountain.
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May 17 2007
(Sofia) “The news about the murder of Alexander Tasev surprised me to some extent because I hadn’t heard the people acquainted with crime mentioning him as a possible target”, Emanuil Yordanov, former Interior Minister, MP in the 38th National Assembly from the list of the Union of Democratic Forces /UDF/ from Kyustendil, said in an interview with FOCUS News Agency. Continue Reading »
May 13 2007
Carmine Carini’s cousins were assassins. Prosecutors and Mafia defectors have credited them with numerous killings. One time they were ordered to kill a federal prosecutor but instead they killed his father, an administrative judge who handled parking tickets. They were killed for their blunder. Continue Reading »
May 13 2007
NEW YORK — At age 89, John “Sonny” Franzese still enjoys sitting for a bite with his friends. The problem, according to federal authorities, is when the octogenarian mobster inevitably puts his criminal interests on the menu. Continue Reading »
