Sep 14 2007
With her dyed-brown long hair and tight designer jeans, Shoko Tendo looks like any other stylish young Japanese woman – until she removes her shirt to reveal the vivid tattoos covering her back and most of her body.
The elaborate dragons, phoenix and a medieval courtesan with one breast bared and a knife between her teeth are a symbol of Tendo’s childhood as the daughter of a “yakuza” gangster and her youth as a drug-using gang member. Continue Reading »
Sep 14 2007
A SALES war among a proliferation of rifle ranges in Bulgaria is attracting increasing numbers of Irish criminal gangs for target practice, as reported in yesterday’s Irish Examiner.
Six members of a notorious Limerick gang which travelled to the Bulgarian city of Varna were robbed of all their money when they were held at gun point by members of the Bulgarian mafia. Continue Reading »
Sep 14 2007
Antonio La Torre
THE Scottish wife of a Mafia mobster, alleged to be the godfather of one of Italy’s most feared crime syndicates, finally broke her years of silence yesterday to protest her husband’s innocence.
Gillian La Torre has been married for 25 years to Antonio La Torre, the Aberdeen restaurant owner who was dubbed “The Don on the Don” after he was first accused of having links with the Camorra, the Neapolitan equivalent of the Sicilian Mafia. Continue Reading »
Sep 13 2007
TORONTO (AFP) — Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg came close to the bloody underworld he depicts in his latest movie “Eastern Promises,” about the deadly Russian mafia.
The crime thriller with ripped-from-the-headlines details of the Russian mafia premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this week. Continue Reading »
Sep 13 2007
A lawyer for retired FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. urged a federal appeals court today to overturn his 2002 racketeering conviction because one of the government’s key witnesses, former New England Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, allegedly boasted to a fellow mobster that he lied on the stand. Continue Reading »
Sep 11 2007
‘Godmother’ may face payouts probe
A mafia moll whose husband ran a £42million crime empire is raking in benefits of more than £11,000 a year.
Brit Ann Hathaway, 45, is wed to Sicilian godfather Antonio Rinzivillo, who is serving life in an Italian jail for murder and drug trafficking. Continue Reading »
