Oct 17 2008
Mafia to be ‘erased from the country’ says Berlusconi
Rome — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said the Mafia would be ‘erased’ from the country, amid reports of several Mafia-linked arrests in Italy on Friday. Continue Reading »
Archive for October, 2008
Oct 17 2008
Ailing Mafia boss walks free
Crown took easy way out, crime writer says
MONTREAL – Nicolo Rizzuto sat through his sentencing hearing yesterday with the patient look of a man who knew he would be sleeping in his own bed for the first time in nearly two years.
The 84-year-old Mafia boss leaned forward in his chair in the prisoner’s dock of the Montreal courthouse and stared at his hands as Quebec Court Judge Jean-Pierre Bonin accepted a carefully arranged plea deal that was months in the making. Continue Reading »
Oct 17 2008
Salman Rushdie: Gomorrah author in greater danger than I was under fatwah
Salman Rushdie: I am very disappointed to hear that Random House has cancelled another author’s novel Photo: GEOFF PUGH
Salman Rushdie has said that an Italian journalist who is under an alleged death threat from the country’s feared Neapolitan mafia is in even greater danger than he was under Iran’s fatwah.
The British author said the Naples-based Camorra Mafia has a much further reach than the mullahs of Tehran who called for his assassination. Continue Reading »
Oct 16 2008
Italian police catch mafia boss in bunker
Rome – Italian police arrested Thursday the boss of a mafia family which, with another criminal clan, is involved in a long-standing, bloody feud, including the so-called 2007 “Duisburg Massacre” in Germany, officials said.
The 46-year-old Antonio Pelle was captured in what police described as a specially-built underground bunker hideout on a farm near the southern town of Locri in the Calabria region. Continue Reading »
Oct 16 2008
‘Casino’ Gambling Legend Dies
Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, the legendary Las Vegas gaming tycoon whose life inspired the Martin Scorsese film Casino, has died aged 79.
Officials in Florida said he died from a heart attack in his Miami Beach home.
Rosenthal, who had close links to the Chicago mafia and who once survived a car bombing, ran the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda and Marina casinos in Las Vegas through the 1970s and into the mid-1980s. Continue Reading »
Oct 16 2008
Mob Muscles Its Way Into Politics in Bulgaria
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Politics is played to the death in Bulgaria, where the lives of politicians can be as cheap as spent bullets and murky business groups wage a murderous struggle for their cut of everything from real estate deals to millions in European aid. Continue Reading »
