Mafia News

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 »

The final episode of the Mafia TV drama airs tonight. But fans needn’t mourn – the real-life trials of New York’s Gambino crime family are proving just as darkly entertaining. None more so than the case of ‘Skinny Dom’ Pizzonia…

The genius of the television series The Sopranos, which will air its last episode ever in the United States tonight, was the mix it achieved between the comic and the morally repugnant. Tony Soprano, as the emotional head of a New Jersey mob clan, was at once devilish and devilishy sympathetic. We caught ourselves smiling at his frailties even as fresh blood seeped across our screens. Continue Reading »

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15000 students against the Mafia in memory of judges Falcone and Borsellino: in the next generation, Italy sees a genuine hope for the fight against organised crime. Continue Reading »