Sep 30 2008
CASERTA — Police made nearly 30 new arrests in the Naples area Tuesday as part of a crackdown on the Camorra mafia following the killings of an Italian businessman and six African immigrants. Continue Reading »
Sep 30 2008
TAMPA, Fla. — The ghosts of Tampa’s old-time wiseguys awakened this summer when Mafia scion John “Junior” Gotti came to town in handcuffs, accused of pulling the strings in a bunch of classic mobster crimes. Continue Reading »
Sep 30 2008
ROME — Police carried out dozens of arrests in the Naples area Tuesday as part of a crackdown on the Camorra mafia following the killings of an Italian businessman and six African immigrants.
“The war against the Camorra will continue until it is won,” said Interior Minister Roberto Maroni as he announced the arrests at a televised news conference, referring to the local mafia in the southern port city. Continue Reading »
Sep 30 2008
Over one hundred suspected members of the powerful Neapolitan Casalesi clan were arrested Tuesday in a major crackdown by Italian security forces. Three of the arrested are accused of murdering six West African immigrants earlier this month.
Three suspected killers accused of murdering six West African immigrants in Castelvolturno, near Naples, earlier this month, have been arrested this morning in a large security operation against one of the most powerful clans of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. Continue Reading »
Sep 29 2008
Rome — A university course to teach ’secret agents’ how to fight the Mafia is to begin on Saturday in the southern Italian region of Calabria, a Mafia stronghold.
A group of 35 agents will be trained by the University of Calabria and Cosenza on how to fight the Mafia known as ‘Ndrangheta, reported the Italian weekly, Gente. Continue Reading »
Sep 29 2008
Caserta — Anti-Mafia police on Monday seized assets worth around 10 billion euros, including property, belonging to the boss of a local Mafia clan allegedly linked to murders in the Province of Caserta, north of Naples. Continue Reading »
Sep 28 2008
According to daily La Repubblica, Mafia Capos and picciottis (soldiers) were regularly allocated at least 100 VIP tickets to sit at the Stadio Renzo Barbera.
Pentiti - those who were formerly part of the “family” and have now repented - have disclosed all the details behind this established system. Continue Reading »
Sep 25 2008
Frank J. Valenti, Rochester’s notorious mob boss who oversaw local organized crime during its heyday of gambling parlors, prostitution and extortion, died Saturday at age 97.
While atop Rochester’s organized crime mob hierarchy in the 1960s and ’70s, Mr. Valenti was so infamous that the Democrat and Chronicle ran a regular update on his doings under the heading, “Spotlight on Rochester’s Gambling Czar.” Continue Reading »
Sep 25 2008
An Italian minister has said the Camorra mafia in the south of the country has “declared a civil war”.
Roberto Maroni, who has despatched 900 security personnel to the Naples area, described the murders of an Italian and six Africans in shooting last week as an “act of terrorism”.
“The Camorra has declared a civil war on the state, which must respond firmly and regain control of the region,” he said in televised remarks to the Italian senate. Continue Reading »
Sep 25 2008
An audacious scheme to revitalise a depressed Sicilian town by selling its dilapidated, earthquake-damaged houses for one euro each has attracted more than 2,000 eager applicants.
The musician Peter Gabriel and US Vogue editor Anna Wintour are among the hundreds of people who have reportedly expressed an interest in snapping up a bargain in the craggy hilltop town of Salemi. Continue Reading »
