Fear City: interesting story, lifeless presentation
“This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that’s great....
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Game wardens highlight the dangers linked to their jobs
Game wardens on Tuesday highlighted the dangers they face carrying out their job, which pits them against the mafia underworld. “Problems have been around for...
Italian, U.S. police make arrests as Mafia clan looks to regroup
Italian and U.S. police have launched a coordinated crackdown on a Sicilian Mafia family that was seeking to rebuild its power base after years of...
In historic ruling, court says Italian state negotiated with mafia
An Italian court convicted former high-ranking state officials and mob bosses on Friday for holding secret negotiations in the early 1990s following a devastating wave...
Mafia boss and mass murderer Riina dies in jail (Update)
Salvatore ‘Toto’ Riina, the Sicilian Mafia’s most powerful boss of the 20th century who was convicted for ordering dozens of murders, died of natural causes...
Laiki’s Pavlou says Rosprombank implicated with bribery in Cyprus (updated)
(Adds comment by police spokesman in seventh paragraph) By Stelios Orphanides The special administrator of Cyprus Popular Bank Chris Pavlou said that its Russian unit...
Laiki administrator says mafia ran bank’s Russian unit
By Stelios Orphanides Organised crime gangs in Russia controlled Rosprombank, the loss-making Russian unit of defunct Cyprus Popular Bank, and on at least two occasions,...
Notorious Italian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano dies
Italian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, one of the most notorious crime figures of his time, has died in a Milan hospital at the age of...
Dead animals and bullets: Italy seeks to crack down on mafia threats
Italy’s Senate passed a bill on Wednesday aimed at cracking down on mafia threats against local administrators that often involve arson attacks, dead animals and...
Unrepentant mobster interviewed on state TV sparks outrage in Italy
By Steve Scherer A convicted mobster whose father was the bloodiest of all Sicilian mafia bosses has sparked outrage in Italy by giving an interview...
Italy nabs two fugitive mafia bosses in bunker full of guns
Italian police arrested two fugitive mobsters on Friday in a bunker built on a steep slope and surrounded by dense brush where they were hiding...
An awesome bit of sophistry
By Johan van den Kerkhof THE debate on mainstream American media on Islam, ISIS et cetera has totally gone off the rails. When Bill Maher,...
A mafia mentality
By Hermes Solomon ANY MENTION of the mafia brings to mind the island of Sicily. But Cyprus is not dissimilar in size or AD history....