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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Mafia stories: 49 news summaries

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Nigerian Gangsters Wage Turf War on Mob in Southern Italy

Turf battles erupt as newcomers seek foothold in lawless southern Italy

Jan 7, 09 9:13 AM CST
(Newser) - African immigrants are being caught in the crossfire as Nigerian gangsters battle the Italian mob for control of southern Italy's drug and prostitution rackets, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Camorra once treated African criminals as useful subordinates, but vicious turf wars have erupted as the newcomers seek a bigger... More »

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organized crime • Italy • Naples • Mafia • gangsters • Camorra

Alleged Mafioso Gets Nipped, Tucked, Busted

Italian cops nab
vain fugitive after he undergoes liposuction

Nov 7, 08 3:08 PM CST
(Newser) - If Domenico Magnoli had been in better shape, he might still be a free man today. Italian police nabbed the 27-year-old alleged Mafia member yesterday as he was coming out of anesthesia after having liposuction, ANSA reports. Magnoli had been on the lam for over a year, dodging French drug-trafficking... More »

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Italy • Mafia • liposuction • 'Ndrangheta • Domenico Magnoli

Actors in Mafia Movie Arrested for Mob Ties

Italian Oscar contender sees 3 cast members accused of crimes

Oct 13, 08 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bernardino Terracciano is the latest actor in the Naples mafia exposé Gomorrah to be arrested by Italian police, the Telegraph reports. One of several locals cast by director Matteo Garrone to give the film a touch of realism, Terracciano is suspected of extorting protection money as part of the Casalesi... More »

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Italy • Cannes Film Festival • Mafia • arrest • actor • Camorra • Gomorrah

Under Italy's Mob, Toxic
Trash Heaps Growing

Intimidation rife as garbage threatens public health

Aug 30, 08 3:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Heaps of garbage tower in southern Italy’s legal and illegal dumps, and may even be contributing to cancer and birth defects in the area—but the mafia’s grip on disposal makes it near impossible to fix the problem, the Los Angeles Times reports. “For years the waste... More »

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pollution • Italy • landfill • garbage • Mafia • intimidation • toxins

 PI: Mob Took Down Spitzer

a PI suspects sex scandal was Gambino paypack

Aug 28, 08 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new epilogue to the best-selling book King of the Club suggests that Eliot Spitzer’s political and personal downfall was payback by the mafia, the New York Post reports. "I think it's the Gambinos," a private eye tells CNBC's Charles Gasparino in his book’s paperback edition.... More »

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prostitution • conspiracy • Eliot Spitzer • Mafia • Gambino crime family • Ashley Dupre

Feds Pinch
Gotti Jr. in Murder Case

Fla. conspiracy rap
ties son of mob boss to killings in '80s and '90s

Aug 5, 08 2:19 PM CDT
(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... More »

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murder • Mafia • arrest • John Gotti

 Cybercrime Getting Organized 

Hackers, identity thieves working more like mafia; profits increasing

Jul 16, 08 5:20 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

'Super' Mafia Witness Gunned Down in Naples

Slain informant was helping cops bust garbage gangs

Jun 3, 08 2:18 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Sicilian Mafia Rebuilding US Family Ties

NY mob busts expose stronger links between Italians and Yanks

Feb 28, 08 8:40 AM CST
(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,"... More »

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

Alito Whacks Sopranos' Themes

Italian-Americans' real story overshadowed, complains justice

Feb 14, 08 11:19 AM CST
(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... More »

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Samuel Alito • New Jersey • The Sopranos • stereotypes • Mafia • Rutgers University • US Supreme Court • Italian Americans

Huge Mob Bust Bags Dozens in NY, Sicily

Entire Gambino family leadership among more than 60 indicted

Feb 7, 08 11:42 AM CST
(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,... More »

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organized crime • mob • Mafia • Gambino crime family • Genovese crime family • Bonanno crime family • John D%u2019Amico • Domenico Cefalu • Joseph Corozzo • Jackie the Nose

Disease Imperils
Mozzarella From Italy

Bacteria infects 30% of water buffalo
herd responsible for famous cheese

Jan 17, 08 7:34 PM CST
(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... More »

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Italy • Mafia • mozzarella • water buffalo • Campania • brucellosis

Italian Syndicate Quietly Rules Europe's Cocaine Trade

US market tumbles as mobsters flourish

Dec 27, 07 4:44 PM CST
(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... More »

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

Suspected Mob Gambling Ring Smashed

NJ cops bust dozens
in major blow to
Lucchese crime family

Dec 19, 07 3:56 AM CST
(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... More »

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

Collective Funk Settles on Italy

EU's unhappiest people disillusioned with nation's future

Dec 13, 07 8:52 PM CST
(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... More »

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Italy • Mafia • Leonardo da Vinci • Beppe Grillo • Caesars • Medicis • Frederico Fellini

Vegas to Build Mob Museum

Attraction will display history of crooks who helped build the city

Dec 11, 07 11:03 AM CST
(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.... More »

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

Sicilian Mafia's 'Boss of Bosses' Gets Pinched

On the lam since 1983, 'the Baron' goes quietly during Palermo summit

Nov 5, 07 11:30 AM CST
(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,... More »

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Italy • mob • Mafia • Sicily • Salvatore Lo Piccolo • Sandro Lo Piccolo

Leaky Case Against Ex-FBI Agent Collapses

Charges of aiding Mob hits dropped after witness changes tune

Nov 1, 07 5:23 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Reporter Tapes Kill Mob Hit Trial

Charges against renegade ex-FBI agent collapse

Nov 1, 07 3:55 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Court Hears
of Mafia Help
on FBI Probe

'Mississippi Burning' case cracked with aid from notorious hit man

Oct 30, 07 10:15 AM CDT
(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... More »

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FBI • Mafia • R. Lindley DeVecchio • Linda Schiro • Gregory Scarpa

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