Mafia News

2K Games has released the HD trailer of its upcoming video game Mafia II. Continue Reading »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

NEW YORK - In his most extensive comments since the ATP ordered an investigation into the extraordinary amount of money bet on his low-ranked opponent in a match in Poland, Nikolay Davydenko talked Monday about the difficulty of fighting off the intense press focus and chided reports that a Russian Mafia might be involved. Continue Reading »

Parents in Southern Italy Mourn Death of Their Children Gunned Down in Germany

Relatives react as the caskets of Marco and Francesco Pergola are carried outside the church after their funeral service in Siderno, on the eastern coast of Calabria, southern Italy, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007. Marco and his brother Francesco were killed last week in Germany in a mafia slaying that left four other Italians dead. (Pier Paolo Cito/AP Photo)

In the end, the parents had their way. They were granted permission to mourn their sons in public funerals and burials in their hometowns set in the rugged hills of Calabria in southern Italy. Continue Reading »

Carabinieri Italian paramilitary police officers patrol the area outside a church during the funeral service of Marco and his brother Francesco Pergola, in Siderno, on the eastern coast of Calabria, southern Italy, Thursday. The Pergola brothers were killed last week in Germany in a mafia slaying that left four other Italians dead. By Pier Paolo Cito, AP

SIDERNO, Italy - Paramilitary police stood guard outside a church Thursday during the funeral for two young brothers who were among six killed last week in an alleged ‘ndrangheta crime syndicate vendetta exported to Germany.

As a hot, scirocco breeze from Africa blew across the coastal town, wailing relatives threw themselves on the coffins of Francesco Pergola, 21, and Marco Pergola, 19. Leaving the church, mourners tossed red roses onto the square outside St. Mary of the Safe Port church. Continue Reading »

Massimo Giuseppe Chindamo

Learco Chindamo’s father, a Mafia gangster known as the Acid Man, is in a Spanish jail awaiting trial for murdering his ex-girlfriend.

Massimo Giuseppe Chindamo was arrested last year after the brutal stabbing of the Venezuelan woman in Gran Canaria. Continue Reading »