Topic: Cosa Nostra

Philly mob, once written off, has bounced back

0 . Just a few years back, federal authorities thought they had the Philadelphia-area mob sleeping with the fishes.. . But a federal grand jury ...

Authorities accuse 13 in Philadelphia of mob charges

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Federal authorities on Monday unveiled racketeering, gambling and loan shark charges against 13 alleged mob members, accusing them of crimes from threatening murder over unpaid debts to running illegal video machines in Philadelphia coffee shops.Among those named in the ...
If hunting Easter eggs is too tame, try this: Gangland games and a scavenger hunt, complete with bad boy reenactments.. . NYC Mob Tour has created...

Four charged in US mafia probe

Four alleged members of an Italian-American organized crime ring, including an alleged ex-boss, were charged with racketeering, extortion and other crimes in an indictment unsealed Tuesday, a prosecutor said.Alleged New England La Cosa Nostra boss Luigi Manocchio, 83, also known as ...

FBI pummels NY mafia in mass arrests

US law enforcement agentsarrested more than 100 alleged Cosa Nostra mobsters in raids around New York in the biggest such operation on record against the Italian-American mafia.More than 800 officers took part in the early morning roundup in New York City ...
In today's edition, we wonder if Canada is becoming too politically correct. And the FBI celebrates one of its biggest organized crime busts in...

Feds arrest over 100 in NY-NJ mob takedown

0 . Federal agents have arrested more than 100 suspected mobsters in multiple investigations of New York's organized crime families.. . The FBI ...

Symbology or How to Explain Symbols

Considered a rather archaic branch of learning in the last two centuries, symbology has regained some sort of prominence thanks to Robert Langston, the Harvard symbologist, who is the hero of Dan Brown's bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code ...
An associate of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during the years when he was a rising businessman acted as the Italian leader's "liaison" with the Cosa Nostra, a court ruling released on Friday said.Marcello Dell'Utri, an Italian senator who has ...
In real-life twist on Sopranos, some Italian mobsters work out existential angst in therapyThe mafia boss was having a dreadful time dealing with loss. But he wasn't struggling with the loss of lives, or even the loss of his freedom."Doc ...