Italy’s most wanted mafia boss arrested in San Pedro Alcantara

CIRO FIGARO, listed as one of Italy’s most wanted and dangerous men, was arrested last week in San Pedro Alcantara. He did not resist arrest, and at the same time, the son of another mafia boss who allegedly owed him money, Ciro Russo, who he was holding in San Pedro Alcantara against his will, was [...]

Mafia boss to be freed from prison

Paolo Renda, one of six men who acted as leaders in the Montreal Mafia while the organization was under investigation in Project Colisée, is expected to be released from a penitentiary next week.
The 70-year-old brother-in-law of Vito Rizzuto will soon reach his statutory release date on the two-year sentence he received in October 2008. Renda’s [...]

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 [...]

Experts doubt all out gang war in Montreal

MONTREAL – Experts doubt an all-out war between the Mob and street gangs is in the offing despite the brazen slaying of the eldest son of a jailed Montreal Mafia boss.
Speculation is rife that street gangs are linked to the Dec. 28 killing of Nicolo Rizzuto Jr., son of Vito Rizzuto, the reputed head of [...]

Hundreds attend wake for slain son of reputed Montreal mafia boss

MONTREAL — Under a light snowfall, a steady stream of luxury cars and SUVs filled the parking lot of a funeral home in north-end Montreal Friday night as people came to pay their respects to the late Nick Rizzuto Jr.
Nearly all of the 30 or so people approached by a reporter refused to comment.
“I can’t [...]

Rizzuto funeral on Saturday

Funeral services for the eldest son of Montreal’s reputed Mafia boss will be held Saturday at a historic church in the city’s Little Italy district.
Nick Rizzuto Jr., 42, was gunned down on a busy street in Montreal’s western Notre-Dame-de-Grace district on Monday.
Nick Rizzuto Jr. was shot dead in broad daylight on Monday.Nick Rizzuto Jr. was [...]

Reputed Mafia Boss may attend slain sons funeral

At Nick Rizzuto’s wedding in 1995, RCMP and Laval police officers were so shutter-happy the guests might have taken them for official wedding photographers.
Now that the reputed Canadian Godfather’s eldest son is about to be buried, all eyes — and lenses — will be focused on his funeral.
Gunned down Monday outside a real-estate developer’s [...]

Vincent Basciano Trial Update

Lawyers for Vincent Basciano have asked the court to permit him increased visits at the Brooklyn MDC. In a letter to Judge Nicholas Garaufis, Basciano’s lawyers are asking that he be allowed a visit with the mother of his youngest son Anthony every other week and that his family be allowed visits on alternate weeks.
As [...]

Scarcella Mob label to stick

A man who ordered a hit on a Mafia mobster has lost a bid to have stripped away a prison label describing him as the boss of a crime family.
Peter Scarcella, 59, is serving nine years for a botched hit in April 2004 that left Toronto mom Louise Russo paralyzed from gunshots at California Sandwiches [...]

New Suit against Bulgarian Mafia Boss Involves His Family

A brand new suit has been filed against sentenced Bulgarian crime boss Dimitar Zhelyazkov, aka Mityo Ochite, and members of his family.
The new suit is for large-scale money laundering against Zhelyazkov, his mother Stanka, his uncle Ivan, and the woman that he has been living out of wedlock Antigona.
The charges say that [...]

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