Mafia arrests: Italian police swoop on dozens of mobsters from women-run drug...
Italian police have swooped on a Mafia clan in Sicily, arresting dozens in an international operation to dismember a powerful crime group run by women. More than 500 officers took part...
View ArticleAnti-mafia prosecutor urges Italians to inform on mobsters
An anti-mafia prosecutor has called on Italians to denounce mobsters after police arrested 26 people Thursday in a drug sting that revealed the grip southern crime groups have on the country's rich...
View ArticleMobster turned pastor preaches to former yakuza in Japan
By Will Ripley, CNN• Tatsuya Shindo became a gangster at the age of 17• Like many other young men, he was lured by the intoxicating illusion of an easy life of crime• With...
View ArticleJapan begins probe against Yakuza, banks
"My boss was killed. People were killed in power struggles. People's legs were shot. A guy who was doing drugs with me died of intoxication. Suicides happened. Sudden deaths. I've seen many deaths,"...
View ArticleJapan's mafia are being squeezed by the steepest economic downturn in decades.
"They're going to have to find a way to use these people. And they're going to have to find a way to remove this stigma of being an ex-yakuza," Adelstein says. "These guys, when they leave, they are...
View ArticleTop yakuza group shrank 40% after last year’s split: NPA
The Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest yakuza group, had about 6,000 members at the end of 2015, down 40 percent from a year ago, the National Police Agency said in a report Thursday.The Kobe...
View ArticleCicero’s top cop in smiling Facebook pic with two felons
It is department policy that Cicero Police officers are not to associate with convicted felons. It is also rude to snub an old friend who asks to take a picture with you, says Police Supt. Jerry Chlada...
View ArticleLorenzo Giordano, linked to Rizzuto clan, gunned down in Laval
JESSE FEITH, MONTREAL GAZETTEKnown Montreal Mafia member Lorenzo Giordano had been in prison for two years, serving a 15-year sentence, when he was transferred to a different prison in 2011 to ensure...
View ArticleGotti grandson called to testify in car arson case
By Daniel McDonald -The grandson of late Gambino mob boss John Gotti has been slapped with a subpoena to testify before a federal grand jury in Brooklyn, the Daily News has learned.Prosecutors want to...
View ArticleProsecution details bust of Staten Island man with alleged mob ties
By Mira Wassef | mwassef@siadvance.comMANHATTAN, N.Y.—An alleged Staten Island mobster was living like a gangster when cops busted into his home and found him stocked with sex pills, drugs, wads of...
View ArticleLawyers seek to bar unflattering evidence in Lightbody case
Filings made by Charles Lightbody’s attorneys offer a behind-the-scenes look at the legal maneuvering on points large and small that typically occurs in advance of a complex trial.By Milton J. Valencia...
View ArticleCourt rejects Whitey Bulger’s bid for new trial
DENISE LAVOIEBOSTON - Former mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, convicted of participating in 11 murders during the 1970s and ’80s, will not get a new trial, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.A...
View ArticlePolice on high alert as violence escalates between rival yakuza gangs
KYODOIt’s like a mob movie.Cars and trucks are crashing into the buildings of the nation’s largest yakuza crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, and its splinter group the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, putting...
View ArticleFive Yakuza Members Arrested on Suspicion of Drug Smuggling - Reports
© AP Photo/ ASSOCIATED PRESSASIA & PACIFICFive members of Japan’s Yakuza criminal network have been arrested for allegedly smuggling 220 pounds of drugs valued in the black market at around $63...
View ArticleThe Third Largest Japanese Mafia Organization is Born
Tokyo, Feb 27 (Prensa Latina) A division of the mafia group Yamaguchi-gumi became the country''s third largest criminal organization, the NHK network informs today.It is...
View ArticleThe Birmingham boxing champion and the Irish gangster's son
BY MIKE LOCKLEYMatthew Macklin smiles for camera with Daniel Kinahan, whose dad is allegedly at centre of Dublin gangland family feudBIRMINGHAM’S top fighter Matthew Macklin smiles for the camera as he...
View ArticleGangster who ordered brutal murder of Gary Hutch arrives in Spain for crime...
BY GARRETH MACNAMEECriminal spotted in south of Spain this week for meeting with associateswho sparked Ireland’s murderous gangland feud has been spotted in Spain in recent days, we can reveal.The...
View ArticleChilling threat issued that 'gang war won't end until Kinahan is dead'
Ken FoyThe gang war between the Christy Kinahan cartel and the Hutch mob will not end until Daniel Kinahan is shot dead.The grim warning was made this week by a major criminal who is believed to be one...
View ArticleItalian mobsters make as much money trafficking narcotics in Italy as Fiat...
ReutersSteve Scherer, ReutersThe Fiat logo is pictured at a car dealership at Motor Village in Los Angeles, California October 13, 2014. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Thomson ReutersThe Fiat logo is pictured...
View ArticleSwiss swoop on fifteen alleged Italian mobsters
Swiss authorities have arrested 15 people suspected of belonging to the powerful Italian 'Ndrangheta crime organisation and are holding them pending extradition, the government said on Tuesday."Accused...
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