The police did not release the names of the politicians but said their arrests showed the ongoing links between the powerful mafia and elected officials. Police said the suspects engaged in mafia activities such as extortion, arms and drug trafficking, receiving stolen goods, usury and political-...
THE VICIOUS mafia war in Naples has spread to the city's historic Spanish quarter, where the Camorra clan boss Edoardo Bove was murdered in his fortified home on Wednesday night, hours after President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi warned of a mafia crisis in the south.Phillips, John...
But it's funny to remember back and realize how closely he must have been watching me, because right after they sent him up (Joe Bell showed me his picture in the paper. Blackhand. Mafia. All that mumbo jumbo: but they gave him five years) along came this telegram from a lawyer. It...
It was quite surprising that the word “mafia” was not coined but introduced into the public mind by the journalists of Louisiana. The media’s influence of on society and culture certainly has not been lessened throughout the years. I also was not aware that so many Italians, specifically...
The police did not release the names of the politicians but said their arrests showed the ongoing links between the powerful mafia and elected officials. Police said the suspects engaged in mafia activities such as extortion, arms and drug trafficking, receiving stolen goods, usury and political-...