Italy, FBI raids crack down on Mafia in US, Sicily

The FBI arrested a reputed U.S. mobster Wednesday on charges he provided protection for a Sicilian counterpart mapping out criminal turf in Florida _ part of an international sweep aimed at further crippling the storied Gambino organized crime family and disrupting its ties to the Italian mob.
Wiretaps and surveillance revealed that suspected Gambino solider Gaetano [...]

Mobster’s Sicily villa handed to the media

The keys of the Sicilian villa where the notorious Mafia godfather Toto “the Beast” Riina spent his final months as a fugitive have been handed over to the local branch of the Italian journalists’ guild, several of whose members died under his bloody rein.
The gift is the latest from the national agency that confiscates mob [...]

The Ten Commandments of the Sicilian Mafia

The Ten Commandments

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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 [...]

Mafia investment ‘gave Silvio Berlusconi his big break’

The Mafia invested heavily in a 1970s housing project which gave Silvio Berlusconi his big break in business, an Italian court heard.
The allegation that Sicily’s Cosa Nostra helped finance the project was made in a Palermo court by Massimo Ciancimino, the son of a Mafia don who was close to the head of the Sicilian [...]

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 [...]

Tourist map shows how to avoid the Mafia

GERMAN tourists can now obtain a map of Sicily’s capital Palermo flagging the shops that refuse to pay extortion money to the Mafia.
“The Addiopizzo tourist map signals all the shops in Palermo that have pledged not to pay racketeering fees,” the German embassy in Rome said in a statement.
The Sicilian mafia, the Cosa Nostra, extorts [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mafia bosses refute turncoat’s testimony

Two Mafia bosses on Friday refuted testimony by a Cosa Nostra turncoat casting doubt on his allegations that Premier Silvio Berlusconi and a close aide were in cahoots with the Mafia.
Testifying at the appeals trial of Senator Marcello Dell’Utri, a long-time aide to Berlusconi, Filippo Graviano said he never told hitman [...]

Facebook users urge mafia boss to be informant

Users of the popular internet social networking site Facebook have urged Giovanni Nicchi, the Sicilian mafia fugitive boss captured at the weekend, to become an informant.
Since Nicchi was arrested in the southern city of Palermo Saturday, more than 5,000 people have registered on the Facebook page of the Palermo police department’s [...]

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