A community portal about Cosa Nostra with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Sicilian Mafia or, simply, Mafia, or even more correctly Cosa Nostra is a criminal secret society of men which first developed in the...
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A community portal about Cosa Nostra with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Sicilian Mafia or, simply, Mafia, or even more correctly Cosa Nostra is a criminal secret society of men which first developed in the mid- 19th century in Sicily. An offshoot emerged on the East Coast of the United States during the late 19th century following waves of Sicilian emigration. Though it originally referred only to the Sicilian Mafia, the term mafia is today used to indicate an organized crime association.
Italian police have arrested a man believed to the boss of the Sicilian Mafia, Salvatore Lo Piccolo, but the long war between the Italian state and the Mafia is far from over. With his son Sandro - who was also arrested - 65-year-old Lo Piccolo has been a major power-broker in Sicily despite having been on the run for nearly 25 years. Nicknamed The Baron, he is believed by magistrates to have taken over from Bernardo Provenzano, who was the undisputed head of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra from... Read Full Story
As every schoolboy knows, la Cosa Nostra means ‘ our thing' in Italian and refers to the Mafia’s name for itself. It’s also the name Frank Keating, a former Oklahoma Governor, applied to the Catholic Church, based on his experiences of heading a so-called investigation into child abuse in the US. "To act like La Cosa Nostra and hide and suppress, I think, is very unhealthy," he declaimed, when he realized that he was heading a cover-up, not an investigation. And for this he got turfed out by... Read Full Story
As an alleged mafia hitman, Charles Carneglia excelled at making people vanish. Now he and the rest of New York's once mighty Cosa Nostra could be the ones disappearing. Carneglia, 62, is on trial for five murders and other crimes, including kidnapping, allegedly committed as a soldier for the Gambinos -- one of the five historic mafia families based in the New York area. Appearing in court in a pea green sweater and grey slacks, the white-bearded, bespectacled Carneglia hardly resembled the... Read Full Story
Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested last year and is in jail while the investigation continues. Anti-Mafia authorities say assets including supermarket outlets, land and cars, were seized Tuesday in Sicily.Italian authorities have seized assets worth euro700 million ($885 million) from a supermarket chain owner suspected of letting the Mafia use his businesses to launder money.Prosecutors told reporters in Palermo that Grigoli's name was found on notes discovered after the 2006 arrest of the... Read Full Story
A 33-count indictment was unsealed this morning in Brooklyn federal court charging members and associates of the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (the Bonanno family) variously with racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, assault in-aid-of racketeering, conspiracy to commit assault in-aid-of racketeering, threatening to commit a crime of violence in-aid-of racketeering, use and possession of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, bank fraud, illegal gambling, extortion... Read Full Story
It’s here! It’s 2am CST, and the Secret Style sale has finally started… I know a lot of people have been patiently waiting to spring on these pieces as soon as they were available, so definitely get a move on!
Here are my favorites (this will be a long list…):
Dolman Sleeve Dress $60
Silk Dress with Leather Belt $78
Pleated Dress with Waist Strap (Navy) $74
Ready for my ALL TIME FAVORITE Cosa Nosta piece?
Pleated Dress w/ Leather Belt (Black) $89
It’s also available in... Read Full Story
CARMEN S. DINUNZIO, aka Cheeseman, age 51, of Boston, MA, was sentenced September 24, 2009 in federal court to six years in federal prison in connection with a joint federal and state plea agreement.
DINUNZIO was sentenced today after he previously pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiring to bribe a state official in connection with a proposed sale of materials to a project related to the Central Artery Tunnel Project, otherwise known as the “Big Dig,” and for providing a $10,000... Read Full Story
This is a free web based Massive Multiplayer Online Game, based on the Real Mafia Life so called "La Cosa Nostra". You wanna be a real Mafia Don like Al Capone, John Gotti and have all the little mafiosos "Kiss Your Ring ... or Die", then you are at the right place! This game is completely browser based , you don't need to download anything or install anything! Screenshot Enter the The Mafia Boss World, where you will become a boss of a crime gang. You have the choice to collect money from... Read Full Story
Italian police have arrested 94 suspected Mafia gangsters who they claimed were on the brink of creating a command structure under a new godfather to relaunch Cosa Nostra as a power in the land.In a huge pre-dawn operation, more than 1,000 officers swooped on dozens of addresses in Palermo and around Sicily. Masked officers climbed gates and tore down walls as helicopters hovered, pouncing on known mafiosi, many with long prison terms behind them. Since the 2006 arrest of the top mobster... Read Full Story
Italian police on Thursday seized millions of counterfeit dollars, an arsenal of weapons and a fake police uniform from a top Cosa Nostra family. They said the operation indicated the clan was gearing up for a war for control of organised crime in the Sicilian capital.Two sawn-off shotguns, a pump-action shotgun, a .357 magnum revolver and thousands of rounds of ammunition were found stashed inside walls in two Palermo homes. The ten million of fake dollar bills are believed to have been... Read Full Story
