Mafia News

MONTREAL - Police allege 10 people arrested Thursday night are part of a drug trafficking network with ties to the Montreal Mafia. Continue Reading »

A hit television series described as Italy’s answer to The Sopranos has been ordered off the air by the country’s justice minister who claims it glamorises the Mafia.

Clemente Mastella said the final episode of The Boss of All the Bosses will not air this week. Continue Reading »

Businessmen in Sicily who have risked their lives by taking a stand against extortion rackets vowed to “fight to the end” yesterday after the Mafia hit back by attacking a key campaign headquarters and stealing documents. Continue Reading »

On Monday, November 26th, the Italian Justice Minister Clemente Mastella requested the withdrawal from television of a fictional work about the life of Mafia leader Toto Riina, considering that the directors made a hero of him. Continue Reading »

ROBERTO Saviano jokes that he has a mobster’s face, which, if true, has done nothing to endear him to the real criminals he writes about. They despise him, so much so that Saviano, 28, has been forced to live in hiding under state protection, a sort of Salman Rushdie in Italy’s still unresolved struggle against organised crime. Continue Reading »

ROME - The mafia was probably behind the infamous 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, who was found hanging from a London bridge and was known as “God’s banker” because of his Vatican links, an Italian court said on Wednesday. Continue Reading »

A national crime-fighting network billed as Israel’s FBI, video teleconferenced remand hearings, and an increase of 1,000 in the number of police officers hired - these are among the changes to Israel’s law enforcement scene expected to take off in 2008. Continue Reading »

NEW YORK - A former Nassau County judge was sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison for conspiring to launder more than $400,000 for members of the Genovese crime family. David Gross, 45, pleaded guilty in July and admitted he agreed to try to secretly move cash he believed was the result of a jewelry heist. What Gross did not know is that one of the men he was making the deal with was an undercover FBI agent. Continue Reading »

ROME: It’s said that the Mafia has a hold on Italy. Of late that’s been especially true of Thursday nights, when millions of television viewers have tuned in to watch the biographical rise-and-fall saga of Salvatore (Toto) Riina, the murderous mob boss who once commanded organized crime in Sicily. Continue Reading »

Vito Rizzuto, named as Canada’s most powerful Mafia boss, says he should already be eligible for release from his U.S. prison, where he is incarcerated for three gangland murders. Continue Reading »