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NEW YORK — Reputed Bonanno mobster Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole for the 2001 hit on a mob associate shot while walking his dog in the Bronx. Continue Reading »

Mafia king on the straight and narrow.mp3

Hill can now revisit old stomping grounds without fear of retribution

GoodFellas was the definitive mafia film - and it is the story of one man, Henry Hill, one of the only survivors of a ruthless gang of robbers and killers.

Hill walked the streets of New York as a king - an associate of the Lucchese crime family. He stole big, he spent big and took vast quantities of drugs.

Then he got caught and spent 30 years in the witness protection programme, telling the police all they needed to know to put his mafia bosses behind bars. Continue Reading »

The great Mafia mozzarella scandal.mp3

Runs in the family: Salvatore Lo Piccolo, who is believed to be the Sicilian Mafia’s ‘boss of bosses’, was arrested with his son Alessandro in Palermo last November. Agriculture Minister Paolo De Castro, inset, tucks into some buffalo mozzarella

The innocent Italian housewife could be funding the Mafia with the staples of her shopping basket — olive oil, Parma ham and mozarella cheese. The worn-out worker who treats himself to a beer after a hard week may be drinking a product brewed by the Mob. Continue Reading »

Mr Veltroni compared Mr Berlusconi to Achille Lauro, a famously corrupt mayor of Naples in the 1950s

Silvio Berlusconi’s alleged links to the Mafia have become a key issue in the Italian election battle after his main opponent launched an unprecedented attack on the Mob. Continue Reading »

ROME — Italian authorities said Friday they were deploying more police in southern Italy in an effort to stem violence after the suspected Mafia slayings of three people in less than a week. Continue Reading »

NEW YORK — A “brilliant” defense attorney representing his reputed gangster father in a high-profile mob prosecution must quit the case because of a professional conflict, not his alleged mob ties, a federal judge says.

U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein heaped praise on Joseph Corozzo Jr. despite a scathing government motion labeling Corozzo “house counsel” for the Gambino organized crime family. Instead, the judge on Thursday disqualified the lawyer after ruling that he had a conflict of interest because he once represented a cooperating witness in the ongoing racketeering case against the Gambinos. Continue Reading »

An anti-racketeering food market from Palermo, Italy is set to launch a national tour. The market only sells goods made by merchants who don’t pay the pizzo, the mafia’s tax for protection. Continue Reading »

Police fear a Mafia war is about to break out after a mobster was gunned down in a revenge hit yesterday. Continue Reading »

Nicolo Rizzuto is taken into police custody in Nov. 2006 in Montreal. He appeared before Superior Court Justice James Brunton on Tuesday through a video linkup.

MONTREAL — Six men alleged to be leaders among the Montreal Mafia will go to trial on several charges related to Project Colisee, a major police investigation into organized crime.

All six, including Nicolo Rizzuto, the octogenarian father of reputed mob boss Vito Rizzuto, appeared before Superior Court Justice James Brunton on Tuesday through a video linkup between the Montreal courthouse and the Bordeaux and Montreal detention centres. Continue Reading »

Catania — Paramilitary police on Tuesday arrested 15 people suspected of belonging to a local Mafia clan operating in the northeastern Sicilian city of Catania and surrounding area. Continue Reading »