Aug 31 2007
Game MAFIA 2 HD trailer (official)
2K Games has released the HD trailer of its upcoming video game Mafia II. Continue Reading »
Archive for August, 2007
Aug 30 2007
Mafia boss gets court hearing
Contends ambush by US prosecutors
A federal judge agreed yesterday to a hearing on an assertion by former New England Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme that prosecutors unfairly interrogated him without his lawyer after he agreed to cooperate, then used his words to indict him on new charges. Continue Reading »
Aug 30 2007
More than 30 mafia suspects arrested over Germany killings
Achille Marmo, brother of Marco Marmo, who was killed in Germany on Aug. 15, leaves the Police headquarters escorted by two officers in Reggio Calabria, Southern Italy
Italian police on Thursday rounded up dozens of members of a notorious crime family, whose internal feuding was blamed for the slaying of six Italian men in Germany two weeks ago.
More than 30 people have been arrested, including three suspects who were found hiding in a bunker, said the head of the operation, Colonel Antonio Fiano of the paramilitary Carabinieri. Continue Reading »
Aug 30 2007
Italy Cracks Down on Mafia Clans
ROME – Scores of suspects were being arrested in a crackdown on organized crime clans whose feud is believed to have led to the shooting deaths of six Italians in Germany this month, Italian police said Thursday.
Police said they were carrying out as many as 40 arrest warrants, mostly in San Luca, the tiny Calabrian town where the two rival clans of the ‘ndrangheta, the Calabrian version of the Sicilian Mafia, are based. Continue Reading »
Aug 29 2007
Ring exchange may represent Mafia rebirth
PALERMO, Italy, – Authorities in Italy are concerned that a recent wedding ring exchange by two convicted crime bosses could represent a resurgence of the Mafia in Italy. Continue Reading »
Aug 29 2007
Reformed Mafia boss, author to speak at WFU
Michael Franzese, the highest-ranking Mafia official ever to quit the crime organization and live to tell about it, will present a lecture titled “Blood Covenant” at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 in Pugh Auditorium in Wake Forest University’s Benson University Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Franzese speaks regularly about the dangers of gambling to players, coaches and staffs of professional and collegiate sports teams and delivers his anti-crime message at corporate meetings, universities and on television and radio. Continue Reading »
