The Ten Commandments of the Sicilian Mafia

The Ten Commandments

of the

Sicilian Mafia:

A Tongue in Cheek Look at a Document

Recovered by Caribinari During the

Arrest of a Mafia Boss

In 2007, Salvatore Lo Piccolo and his son, Sandro, were captured by Sicilian police. The senior Lo Piccolo was the presumed replacement of Bernardo Provenzano as Mafia leader, since Provenzano had been captured after years [...]

The Mob & America: 1932-1946 by Sonny Girard

Lately there has been a lot of focus on Italy’s government and its links to the Mafia, Camorra, ‘Ndrangheta, and, to a lesser extent, Sacre Corona Unita, the Pugliese organized crime group. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of having dealt with the Mafia, as well as his close associate, Senator Marcello Dell’Utri. [...]

Italian Mob’s Profits Soar in Lousy Economy

Italy’s Mafia cleaned up to the tune of $109 billion in profits last year thanks to a well-honed knack for wringing money out of desperate people in a recession.
Italian crime syndicates raised profits by almost 8 percent in 2009 over the previous year by taking advantage of Italy’s distressed economy, according to a new report [...]

Berlusconi vows to beat Mafia pathology

Reggion Calabria, Italy – Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday announced a new drive to rid Italy of the “terrible pathology” of organised crime.
“The mafia – the ‘Ndrangheta and the other organisations, are a terrible pathology for our country,” Berlusconi said as he unveiled a 10-point campaign against organised crime.
He announced the plan after convening [...]

Italy’s African Heroes

Naples, Italy
By ROBERTO SAVIANO
WHEN I was a teenager here, kids used to shoot dogs in the head. It was a way of gaining confidence with a gun, of venting your rage on another living creature. Now it seems human beings are used for target practice.
This month, rioting by African immigrants broke out in Rosarno, in [...]

The Mafia

The Mafia or ‘Cosa Nostra’ (translated meaning ‘our thing’) originated in Palermo, Sicily mid 19th century after the unification of Italy. It was originally formed to protect the commoners from the police, government organisations, and criminals. Because of this, they were regarded as heroes, protecting their own people. There was (and still is) one strict [...]

Mafia spreads tentacles in UK

ONDON: The tentacles of the mafia are spreading to the UK, as British cities become key locations in the mob’s vital money-laundering operations, according to Italy’s leading expert in organised crime, Francesco Forgione.
Last week Britain’s Gambling Commission suspended the licence of Paradise Bet Ltd, a company based in the west London suburb of Hounslow that [...]

The British connection: Italian mafia finds UK good for doing business

ondon firms act as fronts for drug-dealing and money-laundering and provide hideouts for fugitive gunmen, says anti-mafia investigator
The tentacles of the mafia are spreading to the UK, as British cities become key locations in the mob’s vital money-laundering operations, according to Italy’s leading expert in organised crime, Francesco Forgione.
Last week Britain’s Gambling Commission suspended the [...]

Rome gets “Super Mafia”

ITALY’S four main Mafia organisations are believed to have put aside their deadly differences to form a new and dangerous ”fifth mafia” in Rome.
The impoverished south has been the traditional power base for the four big crime syndicates – Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, the Camorra from Campania, the ‘Ndragheta of Calabria and the Sacra Corona Unita [...]

Alleged Camorra Associate Sentenced In NJ

The letter extols Giovanni DeMaio’s “love and understanding,” his efforts to raise money for a young girl with cancer, his propensity for treating others “as he treats his own children.”
The gushing note was one of more than 90 written on behalf of DeMaio, a reputed organized crime associate facing sentencing for possessing a trove of [...]

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