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Charles Carneglia, Mafia Assassin For John Gotti, Gets Life In Prison For 4 NYC Murders

AP | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Mob Killings, John Gotti, Mob, Gambino Crime Family, Organized Crime, Crime, Mafia, Charles Carneglia, New York News

NEW YORK — An aging hit man once used as an enforcer by mob boss John Gotti has been sentenced to life in prison for four cold-blooded killings....

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Italian Mafia 'Sunk Toxic Waste'

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Calabrian Coast, Italy, Mafia, Mafia Ship, Mafia Sunk Toxic Waste, Cunsky, Cunsky Ship, Home News

Italian authorities have begun investigating a shipwreck allegedly containing toxic waste off the Calabrian coast, after claims it was deliberately su...

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Robot Hunts Toxic Waste Dumped By Mafia Off Italian Coast

AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Mafia Toxic Waste, Mafia, Italy, Robot Submarine, Robots, Green News

ROME — Italian authorities have dispatched a robot submarine with a video camera to a shipwreck off the Calabrian coast to see if if it's carryi...

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Mafia Accused Of Creating Berlusconi Sex Scandal

Times London | Josephine McKenna | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Mafia, Italy Mafia, Silvio Berlusconi, World News

A key coalition partner in Silvio Berlusconi's Government said yesterday he believed that the Mafia had orchestrated the sex scandal engulfing the Pri...

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Mafia Looking For Cut Of Stimulus Pie

New York Times | WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Corruption, New York, Economic Stimulus Package, Mob, Organized Crime, Five Familes, Fbi, Mafia, Economic Stimulus, New Jersey, New York News

Everybody is looking for stimulus money. From bridge builders to food stamp recipients, from roofers to subway riders, from teachers to housing proje...

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Godmothers Rise Among Naples Mafia

AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

Read More: Crime, Mob, Mafia Godmothers, Godmothers, Naples, Criminals, Mafia, Italy, World News

NAPLES, Italy — They go by such nicknames as "Fat Cat" and "Tomboy." Their simmering power struggles once drove them into the streets, guns blaz...

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John "Junior" Gotti Will Not Face Death Penalty If Convicted

AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York

Read More: Gotti Death Penalty, Gotti Trial, Junior Gotti, No Gotti Death Penalty, John Gotti, John Junior Gotti, Mob, Gambino Crime Family, Mafia, New York Mafia, New York News

NEW YORK (AP) -- The federal government has decided not to seek the death penalty if John "Junior" Gotti is convicted. Gotti goes on trial Sept. 14 i...

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"Corruption Shtick" in the Garden State

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mafia, Bernard Madoff, Rabbis, New Jersey Corruption, Satire, Racketeering, Politics News
Eric Dezenhall

Philip Roth called it right when he said, "We now live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist lies helpless before what he knows he will read in tomorrow morning's newspaper."

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Mafia-Tied Cafe From 'La Dolce Vita' Seized By Italian Police

AP | MARTA FALCONI | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Mafia, Sicilian Mafia, Mafia Arrests, Cafe De Paris, La Dolce Vita, World News

ROME — Italian authorities on Wednesday seized about euro200 million ($284 million) in assets and businesses owned by a crime syndicate, includi...

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Salvatore Miceli, "Mafia's Foreign Minister", Extradited From Venezuela To Italy

AP | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Venezuela, Mafia, Sicilian Mafia, Salvatore Miceli, Salvatore Miceli Extradited, Salvatore Miceli Deported, World News

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela deported a convicted European drug trafficker dubbed the "Mafia's foreign minister" to Italy on Tuesday, where he...

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Giacomo Ieni: 'Sad' Mafia Boss Freed From Italian Prison Because He's Depressed

BBC | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Carlo Vizzini, Sad Mafia Boss, Giacomo Ieni, Mob, Foreign Affairs, Sad Mafia Boss Freed, Italy, Mafia, Mobster, Advocacy, Sicilian Mafia, World News

An Italian senator has demanded the government intervene after a convicted Mafia boss was freed from jail because he was suffering from depression....

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Cigarette Smuggling Gang Indicted, Europe's Biggest Operation In Years

The Montenegro Connection | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Smuggling, Montenegro, Cigarettes, Tobacco Smuggling, Foreign Affairs, Cigarette Smuggling, Italy, Mafia, Europe, Advocacy, World News

"My little cat ... I'm going crazy without you .... You have repeatedly betrayed me, I think .... Little cat, when are you coming? ... I love you, lit...

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Italy's Mafia Thrives In Global Financial Meltdown

AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 05.26.2009 | World

Read More: Mafia, Global Meltdown, Italy Mafia, Italy, World News

NAPLES, Italy — While businesses around the world are hunkering down for survival, the Italian mob is living a golden moment. Italy's various o...

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Mafia Seeks To Profit From Italy Quake Reconstruction: Official

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Natural Disasters, Giuseppe Pisanu, L'aguila Earthquake, Italy Quake, Italy Earthquake, Mafia, L'aguila, Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, Mafia Italy Earthquake, Foreign Affairs, Abruzzo, World News

ROME — Organized crime syndicates have already moved into the central Italian region devastated by a quake this month and are looking to profit ...

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Roberto Saviano: Mafia Out To Make A Killing From Italy Quake

The Independent | Peter Popham | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Foreign Affairs, Mafia, Mafia Arrests, Mafia Earthquake, Advocacy, Sicilian Mafia, Roberto Saviano Mafia, Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano, World News

Roberto Saviano, the best-selling author of Gomorrah, says the flood of aid money pouring into the earthquake-hit Abruzzo region risks making the area...

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Fox And Friends Uses Former Mobster To Liken Dems To Mafia

Media Matters | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media Matters, Mobsters, Fox News, Fox and Friends, Mafia, Democrats, Fox, Fox News Channel, Democrats Mafia, Politics News

During the March 26 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson hosted Michael Franzese, the former caporegime of...

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The Button-Down Mafia: How the Public Accounting Firms Run a Racket on Investors and Thrive While Their Clients Fail

Francine McKenna | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Fair Value, Going Concern, Bankruptcy, Ratings Agency, E&Y, Mafia, Accountant, Kpmg, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Securities Litigation, Bailout, Deloitte, Big 4, Audit, Financial Crisis, Class Action Lawsuit, Sec, Geithner, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Pcaob, Aig, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Francine McKenna

The Big 4 public accounting firms haven't yet been asked the hard questions by governments, legislators, or regulators.

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Hillary Clinton and the Drug Cartel Violence in Mexico

Aldo Civico | Posted 04.14.2009 | World

Read More: Mexico Drug War, Mexico Violence, Mexico Drug Cartels, Mafia, Hillary Clinton, Leoluca Orlando, Mexico Drug Violence, Palermo, Roy Godson, World News
Aldo Civico

What the Mexican citizens need are positive encounters with the state. This is the meaning of promoting a Culture of Lawfulness.

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Financial Crisis Goes Global, Slams into Europe

Danny Schechter | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: Organized Crime, Europe, Bear Stearns, Global Financial Crisis, Austria, Tim Geithner, Tony Soprano, Cosa Nostra, Mob, Mafia, Danube University, World News
Danny Schechter

People in the EU have politicized economic issues perhaps because of a more diverse media environment as well as the expectation that governments have a duty to protect their people.

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Mafia Wind Farm Operation Busted In Sicily

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 04.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Mafia, Sicily, Organized Crime, Green Technology, Wind Power, Green Energy, Green News

ROME — Italian police on Tuesday arrested mobsters, businessmen and local politicians who allegedly used corrupt practices and bribes to gain co...

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Facebook Makes Mafia Bosses Into Online Idols

Telegraph | Nick Squires in Rome | Posted 02.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Europe, Salvatore 'the Beast' Riina, Carlo Vizzini, Cosa Nostra, Facebook Mafia, Social Networking, Mafia Facebook, Salvatore Riina, Mafia, Facebook, Gangsters Facebook, Sicilian Mafia, Home News

Some of the country's most notorious mafiosi, jailed for crimes ranging from extortion to brutal murders, have become online idols with thousands of f...

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Is It Possible Madoff and Feeder Funds Will Not Be Sued by Big Fish?

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Yachts, Sec, karmabanque.com, Madoff, Pyramid Scheme, Mafia, Billionaires, Tax Evasion, Bush, Fraud, Hedge Funds, Fda, Financial Crisis, Fuld, Ubp, Zell, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Why would certain well-off clients and investors in the feeder funds (for example Switzerland's Union Bancaire Privee) not sue Madoff for his illegal ...

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License to Steal: 50 Billion Con Rocks Wall Street

Danny Schechter | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Steven Spielberg, Economy, Mafia, Bernard Madoff, Willie Sutton, Mary Schapiro, Reguators, Markopolos, Business News
Danny Schechter

One financial analyst said that some of his investors assumed he was doing something illegal--perhaps insider trading--which is why they wanted him to manage their money.

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Alleged Mafia Boss Hangs Himself In Sicily Jail

AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 01.17.2009 | World

Read More: Suicide, Italy, Mafia, Sicily, Europe, World News

ROME — An alleged Mafia boss who was caught on wiretaps purportedly discussing Cosa Nostra's new hierarchy hanged himself in a Sicilian jail hou...

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Don't Go to Italy: They'll Shoot You

Marta Mondelli | Posted 12.12.2008 | Style

Read More: European Union, Italy, Europe, Italians, Mafia, Stereotypes, Style News
Marta Mondelli

Sicily is one of the most beautiful places I've been in the world: great landscape, incredibly rich history and art, fantastic food, and... mafia. We all know that.

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