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R. Lindley DeVecchio

A retired FBI agent will enter a Brooklyn courtroom Monday to face charges that long before he tooled around Sarasota on his motorcycle, and prior to running a homeowners association at a quiet gated community, he helped the mob commit murder.

Prosecutors in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office say the ex-agent, R. Lindley DeVecchio, leaked confidential information to a Mafia informant that led to four gangland killings from 1984 to 1992. In exchange, prosecutors allege, DeVecchio took cash and crime tips that bolstered his 33-year career with the bureau. Continue Reading »

Police hunting the killer of English teacher Lindsay Hawker are scouring Tokyo’s red-light district amid claims he is being hidden by the Japanese mafia. Continue Reading »

Ian Thomson reviews The Force of Destiny: a History of Italy since 1796 by Christopher Duggan

Christopher Duggan, a distinguished Italophile and professor of Italian history, describes the Mafia as a grotesque parody of Mediterranean family life. Cosa Nostra clans are known as cosche, after the Sicilian dialect term for artichoke leaves: the clans fit snugly inside each other, overlapping tightly. Continue Reading »

Mafia bosses normally try to avoid going anywhere near jail, but crime leaders near Naples have been discovered holding meetings in their local police station. Continue Reading »

NEW YORK – A Sullivan County deputy sheriff was arrested Friday on extortion charges for allegedly shaking down $3,500 from a man who he said was about to be killed by the Mafia, federal prosecutors say. Continue Reading »

Forty orders for the arrest for criminal association with the mafia are being carried out by the police of Florence. Continue Reading »