A Mafia Boss Breaks Silence on an Assassination
August 4, 2009 by The Boss · Leave a Comment
Each year, Italians take part in a midsummer ritual to honor the victims of the Mafia and speak out against the scourge of organized crime. From Palermo to Torino, politicians, church leaders and youth groups gather to mark the July 19, 1992, assassination of anti-Mob magistrate Paolo Borsellino, who was killed [...]
Mafia boss arrested while watching Mafia TV show
May 14, 2009 by The Boss · Leave a Comment
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) – Italian police burst into the room of a suspected Mafia mobster in Sicily and arrested him as he watched a television show about the arrest of a Mafia boss, investigators said on Friday.
Police said Michele Catalano was watching the concluding chapter late on Thursday of the TV mini-series [...]
Life sentences for two Sicilian mafiosi
April 29, 2009 by The Boss · Leave a Comment
Two Sicilian mafia bosses have been given new life sentences for a 1969 massacre.
Bernardo Provenzano and Salvatore ‘Toto’ Riina, who are already in jail, were convicted of involvement in a shootout in Palermo that left six people dead.
Provenzano, who is now 76, and Riina, 78, were part of a gang that dressed up [...]
