Mafia News

Palermo – Thirty-nine leaders and members of the mafia organization under Salvatore Lo Piccolo were arrested over the night in a police operation in Palermo. Continue Reading »

Hauling trash and organized crime.

The Italian government called in the army on Tuesday to clean up the mounting piles of waste in the city of Naples. Residents blame the authorities for not doing more to stop the Camorra, the region’s Mafia group, which controls garbage collection and has caused the city’s constant waste problem for more than a decade. Organized crime appears to have a hand in trash collection all over the world, from Naples to Tony Soprano’s northern New Jersey. Why are gangsters always hauling garbage? Continue Reading »

The head of the Sicilian Mafia, Bernardo Provenzano, has been put under tighter security amid suspicion that he is directing the mob from his cell. Continue Reading »

“We have to be prepared for the possibility [of Russian mafia involvement] but we have no proof.” Interview: Larry Scott WTA Tour chief

Organised crime – including the Russian mafia – could be involved in fixing matches, the head of women’s tennis has told BBC Sport. Continue Reading »

Vincent Angelo Meli, a reputed member of the Detroit Mafia, was remembered by his son Wednesday as a “great family man” and loving father.

Vincent Meli died of bone cancer Monday at St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren. He was 87. Continue Reading »

A Sicilian court has ordered mafia boss of bosses Salvatore Riina and another mafioso to pay 3.3 million euros ($A5.54 million) to the family of a top anti-Mafia judge killed in a car bomb attack, the family lawyer said on Saturday. Continue Reading »