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235 frozen dormice, a delicacy served to high-ranking mafia gangsters at banquets, discovered in drugs raid

Police raided a cannabis farm in Calabria, southern Italy, and found 235 frozen dormice, a favored …

Bethany Dawson   


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Investors bought about $1.1 billion in private bonds backed by Italy's most powerful Mafia over 4 years

From 2015 to 2019, pension funds, hedge funds, family offices, and a private Italian bank all purch…

Shalini Nagarajan   


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When the suspected mafia boss, known as the 'godmother,' was arrested at Rome airport, she 'didn't bat an eyelash,' says report

Maria Licciardi, a reputed mafia boss of the Camorra crime syndicate in Naples, was arrested in Rom…

Alia Shoaib   


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An Italian town has banned the sale of Mafia-themed souvenirs

The city of Agrigento has banned the sale of Mafia-themed souvenirs at gift stores.

Nora Redmond   


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Italian Authorities Pulled Off The Largest Seizure Of Mafia-Linked Assets In History Last Night

Details of Messina Denaro's alleged assassination plan against Palermo prosecutor Nino Di Matteo we…

Linette Lopez   


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Mafia wars of heart

Of late, a new story involving Mumbai’s famed underworld don Abu Salem has popped up. A 25 year old…

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Melanie Lynskey and 'The Last of Us' cocreator Craig Mazin bonded over 'crazy' Mafia games: 'I knew I could trust him to be meticulous'

Melanie Lynskey said she "knew that I liked working with him from our Mafia games" when discussing …

Eammon Jacobs   


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The Russian Gangster Assassinated By A Sniper Was A Very Big Deal

Usoyan, born in Georgia, was an old school Russian gangster — a member of the "vory v zakone" priso…

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Millennial mobsters are becoming the Mafia's downfall

The latest Mafia bust is an economic microcosm: Older generations cling to power, and blame millenn…

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Mafia War Brewing As Second Russian Mob Boss Falls In Drive-By Shooting

As if all this were not enough, there are factional, ethnic and above all generational tensions. Us…

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The release of an infamous Sicilian mafia killer dubbed 'the people slayer' sparks an outcry in Italy

Sicilian hitman Giovanni Brusca is believed to have murdered over 100 people, including an 11-year-…

Jacob Sarkisian   


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Video captures the moment a mafia boss escaped from prison in a getaway using bed sheets knotted together for a makeshift rope

At the time of his escape, Marco Raduano, the head of the Sacra Corona Unita mafia, was serving a 1…

Isobel van Hagen   


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An Italian politician who spent 27 years in total anonymity to hide from the mafia has revealed her face for the first time

Immediately after Nicolò's death, Aiello went to see a magistrate in the Sicilian capital of P…

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Sicily's 'last godfather' said he followed 'an old Jewish saying' to avoid capture for 30 years, report says

Matteo Messina Denaro, a mafia boss, hid in plain sight in a Sicilian town while on the run for 30 …

Rebecca Rommen   


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Italian police: The head of the Sicilian Mafia used 'sheep code' to communicate

Denaro is the most wanted fugitive of the Cosa Nostra and has been convicted in abstentia for diffe…

Barbara Tasch   


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REPORT: Leaked Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton's 'Mafia'

The emails come from a private listserv they participated in with their friends and other campaign …

Colin Campbell   


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Sicilian mafia boss arrested after 30 years on the run — the last of Italy's most-wanted crime lords

Matteo Messina Denaro, a brutal boss of Sicily's Cosa Nostra, was arrested on Monday. He'd been a f…

Joshua Zitser   


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Sniper Takes Out Russian Mafia Boss In Suspected Contract Killing

Aslan Usoyan, known by his nickname of "Grandpa Hassan", was killed by a shot from a sniper's rifle…

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New Zealand's stock exchange was shut down on 2 straight days after a cyberattack likely launched by a 'mafia type' group

"These are quite sophisticated gangs and thinking along the lines of mafia type people is about rig…

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A suspected Italian gangster was caught after police recognized him in his YouTube cooking videos

Marc Feren Claude Biart, 53, disappeared in 2014 when a warrant was issued for his arrest in connec…

Ashley Collman