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...
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...
Thanks to Mafia renegades, police last fall made 241 gang arrests in Sicily alone, in their biggest operation in eight years. Top bosses have fallen not only in Sicily but also among crime families in Calabria and the Naples region. Others have been extradited from abroad. Not only mobsters ...