Jan 21 2009
‘Pact’ in capital with Cosa Nostra, ‘Ndrangheta
Rome — Italian police on Wednesday arrested 41 people as they broke up a Rome drug ring operated by Naples’ Camorra crime syndicate.
The gang brought in cocaine and cannabis from Spain and the Netherlands and supplied markets in Rome and Naples, recycling the profits in Roman property, officials said. Continue Reading »
Jan 20 2009
MONTREAL The city’s latest homicide victim had deep ties to the local Mafia, police sources say.
Sam Fasulo, 37, died Sunday after being shot several times while he was driving in a sports utility vehicle in Montreal North on Friday afternoon. Continue Reading »
Jan 20 2009
The Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Jacques Barrot is on an official visit to Bulgaria Tuesday, the Bulgarian information agencies report. Continue Reading »
Jan 19 2009
ROME — Your college roommate is on Facebook. So are your cousins and colleagues and friends. But guess who else may find Facebook a great way to stay in touch?
Some people in Sicily who know a few things about networking.
In recent weeks, the Italian authorities have begun investigating Facebook discussion groups devoted to convicted Mafiosi, concerned that some members might be more than fans. Continue Reading »
Jan 18 2009
BRUTAL turf wars could explode in the UK between Italy’s most feared Mafia gangs, police said yesterday.
And we can reveal that members of both the Camorra and Calabria Mafia are already living and operating here. Continue Reading »
Jan 17 2009
Denied Refugee Status
An American man claiming the Mafia and the CIA are conspiring to silence him — just as they killed his father and grandfather — was denied refugee protection in Canada because he could not prove the conspiracy in court.
The complicated tale of Michael Ellero, 44, of Phoenix, is told in some 700 pages of self-penned prose, a treatise he claims documents his work for the U. S. Department of Justice, payments by the Mafia to relatives of Hillary Clinton, and a nefarious campaign to destroy him after reporting office misdeeds to his boss — including the involvement of a lawyer in the death of a colleague. Continue Reading »
