Mafia News

Don / Boss
Interchangeable terminology for the leader of a family. All major decisions are made by the boss and money made by the family ultimately flows to him. Continue Reading »

Impact of event remains vivid for former prosecutor, reporter

Five decades ago this week, a police raid sent Mafia bosses, their underbosses and capos running through the woods of Apalachin — and into American history and popular culture.

Carlo “Don Carlo” Gambino - N.Y. Gambino Family Boss (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Some of the most famous names in the Mafia — Carlo Gambino, Michael Genovese, Russell Bufalino (later crime boss of northeastern Pennsylvania), Joseph Profaci (the model for Don Corleone of “The Godfather” fame) — were in town Nov. 14, 1957, ostensibly for a steak roast at the Tioga County estate of ailing local mobster and Endicott soda distributor Joseph Barbara. Continue Reading »

This week, prosecutors in Italy celebrated a key moment in their struggle against the Sicilian mafia, also known as Cosa Nostra: By arresting Salvatore Lo Piccolo, who was set to be the next “boss of bosses,” they effectively decapitated the group. Continue Reading »

To an outsider, Sweden would seem an unlikely place to find rising gang crime. But the problem has snowballed since the nineties, leaving police clamouring for better tools to deal with the problem. Daniel Boman reports.

Sweden is not a country usually associated with mafia-style gang crimes. But over the last decade a new breed of organized crime has sunk its claws into Sweden, leaving the authorities several steps behind. Continue Reading »

ROME: Thou shalt be faithful to the Mafia.

Italian police said Thursday they have found a list of “10 Commandments” for mobsters in a house near Palermo, where a top Mafia boss was arrested this week. Continue Reading »

THE father of the US millionairess pictured kissing Sir Paul McCartney was once accused of having Mafia ties. Continue Reading »

ROME: The Cosa Nostra’s notorious “Cupola,” or ruling commission of mob bosses, doesn’t exist anymore, Italy’s No. 1 anti-Mafia official said Tuesday in assessing the latest arrest of a top Mafioso.

“The ‘Cupola’ doesn’t exist any more. It has been demolished,” national anti-Mafia prosecutor Piero Grasso told reporters in Rome. Continue Reading »

Italian police secured another notable success in their fight against organised crime on Monday, arresting Salvatore Lo Piccolo, the man alleged to be the new “boss of bosses” of the Sicilian Mafia. Continue Reading »