Feb
29
2008

Police in Italy gave photos of some of those arrested in Old Bridge
Sicily’s Mafia is rebuilding its networks in the US, according to an Italian parliamentary report.
The report says Cosa Nostra has been sending people to the US to form alliances with families with which it had lost contact in the 1980s. Continue Reading »
Feb
29
2008
The 28-year-old son of the jailed ´boss of bosses´ Salvatore ´Toto´ Riina smiled as he left Sicily´s maximum security prison.
The release from prison of the most feared Sicilian Mafia boss’s son on a technicality has prompted withering criticism of Italy’s justice system, described by one top judge as the slowest in the European Union.
The 28-year-old son of the jailed “boss of bosses” Salvatore “Toto” Riina smiled as he left Sicily’s maximum security prison, sporting a pink jumper and white bodywarmer. Met by his mother, he was whisked off to his hometown Corleone in a black Mercedes. Continue Reading »