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  • August 2008

    • Feds Pinch Gotti Jr. in Murder Case

      New York Daily News  |  Aug 5, 08 2:19 PM CDT

      Feds Pinch Gotti Jr. in Murder Case

      (Newser) - John Gotti Jr. was arrested today on murder conspiracy charges related to three decades-old killings, the New York Daily News reports. A lawyer dismissed the indictment brought in Florida against the son of the late Mafia boss. "I tend to think they don't have a lot of faith in this case," he says of federal prosecutors bringing charges that also include racketeering and trafficking. More »

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      murder  • arrest  • Mafia  • John Gotti

  • July 2008

    • Cybercrime Getting Organized

      Ars Technica  |  Jul 16, 08 5:20 PM CDT

      Cybercrime Getting Organized

      (Newser) - There’s serious money to be made in cybercrime, and its perpetrators are beginning to reflect that fact, Ars Technica reports. Lone hackers have been replaced with hierarchical organizations that divide the criminal risks inherent in stealing and reselling (usually financial) information. The cybercrime "firms" are growing steadily as they generate more revenue, internet security firm Finjan notes in its quarterly report. More »

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      credit card  • Mafia  • organized crime  • cybercrime  • hacker  • hacking  • savings account

  • June 2008

    • 'Super' Mafia Witness Gunned Down in Naples

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 3, 08 2:18 AM CDT

      'Super' Mafia Witness Gunned Down in Naples

      (Newser) - The boss of a garbage disposal firm with Mafia links who had turned informant was gunned down in a bar near Naples yesterday, the Guardian reports. The murdered man had been helping police target gangs that control waste disposal in the city, currently gripped by a garbage crisis. He had been due to testify this week against an accused gangster who's a member of Italy's ruling party. More »

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      Italy  • Mafia  • Silvio Berlusconi  • organized crime  • garbage  • Naples  • witness

  • February 2008

    • Sicilian Mafia Rebuilding US Family Ties

      BBC  |  Feb 28, 08 8:40 AM CST

      Sicilian Mafia Rebuilding US Family Ties

      (Newser) - The Sicilian Mafia is sending people to the US to revitalize old family ties with its American cousins that faded in the '80s, according to a new report by the Italian government. The FBI nabbed more than 80 New York mobsters in a recent swoop code-named "Old Bridge,"  reports the BBC, referring to the transatlantic the mob link. More »

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      FBI  • Mafia  • organized crime  • Gambino crime family  • Sicily  • Cosa Nostra

    • Alito Whacks Sopranos' Themes

      Associated Press  |  Feb 14, 08 11:19 AM CST

      Alito Whacks Sopranos' Themes

      (Newser) - US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito isn't going to fuhgeddabout all the negative stereotypes concerning Italian-Americans spread by shows like The Sopranos. "You have a trifecta—gangsters, Italian-Americans, New Jersey—wedded in the popular American imagination" and overshadowing the true stories, the New Jersey native complained yesterday to an audience at Rutgers University. More »

    • Huge Mob Bust Bags Dozens in NY, Sicily

      New York Times  |  Feb 7, 08 11:42 AM CST

      Huge Mob Bust Bags Dozens in NY, Sicily

      (Newser) - Authorities in New York and Sicily unleashed a massive mob takedown today, indicting more than 60 suspects, including the entire Gambino family leadership, the New York Times reports; 52 have already been arrested, including underboss Domenico Cefalu and consigliere Joseph Corozzo. “I can't think of a larger single-day roundup,” a source told the New York Post. “It dismantles the infrastructure of the family.” More »

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      Mafia  • organized crime  • mob  • Gambino crime family

  • January 2008

    • Disease Imperils Mozzarella From Italy

      BBC  |  Jan 17, 08 7:34 PM CST

      Disease Imperils Mozzarella From Italy

      (Newser) - A bacterial disease sweeping through the water buffalo whose milk is used to make mozzarella is threatening production of Italy's famous cheese, the BBC reports. As many as 30% of the buffalo in Campania, near Naples, are infected with brucellosis, which leads to reduced milk production and infertility. Italy's government plans to destroy 32,000 buffalo in the next two months. More »

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      Italy  • Mafia  • mozzarella  • Campania

  • December 2007

    • Italian Syndicate Quietly Rules Europe's Cocaine Trade

      Los Angeles Times  |  Dec 27, 07 4:44 PM CST

      Italian Syndicate Quietly Rules Europe's Cocaine Trade

      (Newser) - Europe is gaining a foothold in the world’s cocaine trade, elbowing out the US as the largest market thanks to the bravado of one Italian crime syndicate. The ‘Ndrangheta mafia, based in the hills of southern Italy, has won prominence by dealing directly with Colombian kingpins and shunning the spotlight, the LA Times reports. The syndicate of 155 families has assets totaling $50 billion. More »

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      Germany  • United States  • Italy  • Colombia  • Europe  • cocaine  • Mafia  • drug trafficking  • Cosa Nostra

    • Suspected Mob Gambling Ring Smashed

      Star-Ledger  |  Dec 19, 07 3:56 AM CST

      Suspected Mob Gambling Ring Smashed

      (Newser) - New Jersey officials have nabbed a cadre of suspected mob bosses to bust up a sophisticated $2.2 billion gambling ring, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. Others among more than two dozen arrested included a prison officer and a Bloods gangster, said to be part of an "alarming alliance" between the Mafia and Bloods that smuggled drugs and phones to inmates in a Jersey prison. More »

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      crime  • prison  • New Jersey  • gambling  • Mafia  • organized crime

    • Collective Funk Settles on Italy

      New York Times  |  Dec 13, 07 8:52 PM CST

      Collective Funk Settles on Italy

      (Newser) - Italy is in a bad mood, and people from Venice to Naples are worried the current “malessere”—or “malaise—will never lift. On the heels of a Cambridge poll showing Italians to be the unhappiest folks in Europe, Ian Fisher of the New York Times finds a nation whose low-tech charms are wearing thin and whose inhabitants are weary of political corruption, organized crime, and economic doldrums. More »

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      Italy  • Mafia  • Leonardo da Vinci  • Caesars

    • Vegas to Build Mob Museum

      Associated Press  |  Dec 11, 07 11:03 AM CST

      Vegas to Build Mob Museum

      (Newser) - Las Vegas will create a museum showcasing the Mob's role in turning a tiny desert settlement into America's gambling mecca. The $50 million project is slated to be completed in 2010. "Let's be brutally honest, warts and all. This is more than legend. It's fact," said the mayor. "This is something that differentiates us from other cities." More »

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      FBI  • Las Vegas  • Nevada  • Mafia  • organized crime  • mob  • museums

  • November 2007

    • Sicilian Mafia's 'Boss of Bosses' Gets Pinched

      Reuters  |  Nov 5, 07 11:30 AM CST

      Sicilian Mafia's 'Boss of Bosses' Gets Pinched

      (Newser) - Italian police today nabbed the alleged head of the Sicilian underworld, his son—who kept repeating "I love you, Dad"—and two other mob bosses, Reuters reports. The arrests, which marked the second time in less than 2 years that the Cosa Nostra's top dog has been busted, "severed an important drug link between America and Palermo," that city's mayor told Bloomberg. More »

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      Italy  • Mafia  • mob  • Sicily

    • Leaky Case Against Ex-FBI Agent Collapses

      New York Times  |  Nov 1, 07 5:23 PM CDT

      Leaky Case Against Ex-FBI Agent Collapses

      (Newser) - Retired FBI supervisor Roy Lindley DeVecchio left a Brooklyn court today exonerated of helping with Mafia murders after prosecutors dropped all charges in light of new evidence discrediting their main witness. Linda Schiro, a mobster's mistress, could face perjury charges, the New York Times reports, after her testimony in court contradicted statements she made to a Village Voice writer. More »

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      murder  • FBI  • Mafia  • Linda Schiro  • Roy Lindley DeVecchio

    • Reporter Tapes Kill Mob Hit Trial

      New York Times  |  Nov 1, 07 3:55 AM CDT

      Reporter Tapes Kill Mob Hit Trial

      (Newser) - The mob murder trial of a former FBI agent collapsed yesterday after lawyers listened to a journalist's taped interviews revealing that the key prosecution witness had lied, reports the New York Times . Prosecutors decided to drop the case against Roy DeVecchio after a conference room drama that could could have come straight from an episode of TV's "Law & Order." More »

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      murder  • FBI  • Mafia  • Linda Schiro  • Gregory Scarpa  • Roy Lindley DeVecchio

  • October 2007

    • Court Hears of Mafia Help on FBI Probe

      New York Post  |  Oct 30, 07 10:15 AM CDT

      Court Hears of Mafia Help on FBI Probe

      (Newser) - Jurors heard shocking testimony yesterday in the trial of an ex-FBI agent charged with helping a Mafia informant complete four hits. The onetime girlfriend of a hit man known as the "Grim Reaper" testified that Gregory Scarpa was on the FBI's payroll, traveled to Mississippi, and provided the bureau with information about the notorious "Mississippi Burning" murders. More »

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      FBI  • Mafia  • Linda Schiro  • Gregory Scarpa

    • Mob Nearly Iced Rudy in '80s

      New York Post  |  Oct 25, 07 1:52 PM CDT

      Mob Nearly Iced Rudy in '80s

      (Newser) - Rudy Giuliani could’ve slept with the fishes but for a 3-2 vote among New York’s five Mafia bosses not to put a contract on the then-federal prosecutor in the mid-'80s. Among the two younger hotheads who wanted to whack the GOP's current presidential frontrunner was none other than John Gotti, the Post reports. More »

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      Rudy Giuliani  • FBI  • assassination  • Mafia  • John Gotti

  • September 2007

    • Jury Convicts 5 in 'Family' Affair

      Chicago Tribune  |  Sep 10, 07 5:20 PM CDT

      Jury Convicts 5 in 'Family' Affair

      (Newser) - Chicago’s top mob boss was one of five men convicted today in a trial federal authorities dubbed “Operation Family Secrets” after one defendant's relatives offered unprecedented cooperation. Testimony from the son and brother of alleged hit man Frank Calabrese was key in convicting him, along with three Outfit cohorts and an ex-cop, the Chicago Tribune reports. More »

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      Chicago  • court  • law  • Mafia  • organized crime  • mob  • Family Secrets

  • August 2007

    • Germany Wakes Up to Mafia Problem

      Der Spiegel  |  Aug 20, 07 6:13 PM CDT

      Germany Wakes Up to Mafia Problem

      (Newser) - Germany is finding its mafia problem harder to ignore after the murder of six men outside an Italian restaurant in Duisburg last week. The killings were part of a feud between two warring mafia clans, both of which have established major footholds in Germany, Der Spiegel reports. Police are now trying to crack down after years of lax enforcement. More »

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      Germany  • Italy  • Mafia  • organized crime  • mob  • Duisburg

    • Seagal Is Back, and This Time It's Personal

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 17, 07 12:45 PM CDT

      Seagal Is Back, and This Time It's Personal

      (Newser) - Steven Seagal, the high-kicking, cartel-busting action star that dominated the "Under Siege" movies in the early 90s, is demanding an apology from the FBI for allegedly shattering his stardom, the LA Times reports. Seagal's career didn't prove that hard to kill—he has been headlining in low-rent straight-to-DVD films ever since rumors surfaced that he had threatened journalists and had mob ties. More »

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      celebrity  • movie  • FBI  • Mafia  • Anthony Pellicano  • private eye

    • 6 Dead in Mafia Hit in Germany

      Der Spiegel  |  Aug 15, 07 11:03 AM CDT

      6 Dead in Mafia Hit in Germany

      (Newser) - Police are calling the killing of six Italians early today in Duisburg, Germany, a probable Mafia hit job, Der Spiegel reports. Five bodies with gunshot wounds to the head were found outside an Italian restaurant, and a sixth man died en route to the hospital. The incident is one of the largest mass murders in Germany in years. More »

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      Germany  • Italy  • gun  • Mafia  • drug trafficking  • organized crime  • Duisburg

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