Mar 10 2008
MONTREAL - Cheese maker Saputo Inc. has filed defamation suits against three Canadian media groups over allegations that former CEO Lino Saputo had links to money-laundering scheme run by the Italian Mafia. Continue Reading »
Mar 09 2008
Real-life tragedies stand out in an anthology of Italian writing on the Mob
Mafia and Outlaw Stories - from Italian Life and Literature - translated and edited by Robin Pickering-Iazzi - University of Toronto Press, 180 pages, $24.95
In this absorbing collection of tales about the Mafia in Sicily, most taken from Italian fiction but a significant few from the personal experiences of real people, “life” emerges as the winner over “literature.” Measured in drama and in acts of remarkable bravery, the stories told in their own words by a handful of Sicilian women who dared to resist the Mafia are far more compelling and tragic than anything dreamed up by the novelists and short story writers. Continue Reading »
Mar 08 2008
Shoppers in Sicily have the chance to take on the Mafia after the first racket-free supermarket opened yesterday on the island long dominated by the mob.
Its owner, Fabio Messina, is taking a brave stand against the organisation by stacking his shelves with products only from firms which - like his own - have refused to pay pizzo, the local term for protection money. Continue Reading »
Mar 06 2008
A leading policeman in Italy’s anti-Mafia unit has said he will hand back his bravery medals after being accused of extortion and trafficking in stolen art. Continue Reading »
Mar 05 2008
Italian police have seized more than $220m of property and goods from the Calabrian mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta. Continue Reading »
Mar 03 2008
NAPLES - Art students in Naples have produced a map locating recent murders by the Camorra to underscore the local Mafia’s deadly presence in the southern Italian city, one of the organisers said Friday. Continue Reading »
Mar 03 2008
Palermo - Three individuals responsible for aiding and abetting Salvatore and Sandro Lo Piccolo, the mafia bosses captured on 5 November, have been arrested by the Palermo flying squad. Continue Reading »
Mar 01 2008
Wanted for murder, Charles Carneglia, Joseph Corozzo, Francesco Cali (about to sit) and ‘Capo’ Domenico Cefalu were rounded up as part of a major Mafia bust on Feb. 7.
The Old World mob is moving to New York. The Sicilian Mafia is trying to re-establish long-dormant ties to mobsters in the United States and New York, according to a report by the Italian anti-Mafia commission. Continue Reading »
