Mafia News

The CIA worked with two of America’s top Mafia mobsters in a botched attempt to assassinate the Cuban President Fidel Castro with poisoned pills, according to previously classified documents released by the spy agency yesterday. Continue Reading »

SAN DIEGO — Four people pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom in San Diego Monday to participating in racketeering acts aimed at furthering the reach of the Mexican Mafia, a prison gang also known as “La Eme.” Continue Reading »

CHICAGO: The family problems facing alleged Chicago loan shark Frank Calabrese Sr. make Tony Soprano’s seem mild.

Calabrese and four other men are on trial in a Chicago mob case prosecutors have dubbed “Family Secrets.” The government’s key witnesses: Calabrese’s son, Frank Jr., and his brother, Nicholas. Continue Reading »

ROME - Police on Saturday arrested nine suspected Mafia bosses, who authorities feared were plotting to kill small-time thieves poaching on their territory in Sicily, local media reported. Continue Reading »

One of the two so-called “mafia cops” sent a letter from his jail cell Friday claiming his innocence.

Former NYPD Detective Louis Eppolito sent a two-page letter to The Associated Press from a federal jail in Brooklyn. Continue Reading »

CHICAGO: The brother of reputed mob boss James Marcello pleaded guilty to racketeering and other charges Thursday and admitted he paid a witness $4,000 (€3,000) a month to keep silent about unsolved underworld murders. Continue Reading »

One of Sicily’s top Mafia leaders was killed Wednesday in Palermo, raising fears in Italy of a new mob war. Continue Reading »

Mafia syndicates fixed the results of this year’s carnival parade in Rio de Janiero, an investigation by Brazilian police has found. Continue Reading »

NEW YORK –A pair of mob shootings in three days, one of them reminiscent of a hit on last week’s episode of “The Sopranos,” prompted speculation of a nascent Mafia war in New York City.

Not likely, according to mob experts who say “The Life” - as mobsters refer to their criminal pursuits - rarely imitates art these days. In an era of dwindling Mafia initiates and multiplying federal informants, gangsters are more dangerous to each other by sitting on the witness stand than by “going to the mattresses” as in “The Godfather.” Continue Reading »

Brazilian police have formally accused a brother of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of influence peddling after a nationwide crackdown on illegal gambling, money laundering and police corruption. Continue Reading »