A community portal about Mafia 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...
[more]
A community portal about Mafia 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.
To most foreigners the mafia is synonymous with Sicily's Cosa Nostra but Italian investigative journalist Roberto Saviano lifted the lid on its Neapolitan counterpart the Camorra.
There was a time when women dreamed of Prince Charming, a lovely home and beautiful babies. Well they still dream of having these things, but add to them wealth, position and power and you have The Cashmere Mafia, four women who have it all. This ...
"It's a bunch of f***in' back-stabbin' cowards. That's what I found out, just a bunch of f***in' lowlife cowards." - "Michael," former mob member living in the Witness Protection Program Review By: Nate Meyers ...
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's centre-right prime minister, yesterday defended his government's controversial decision to deploy 500 soldiers in the Naples region in what his interior minister has called a "civil war" with the Mafia. "The state will ...
... a stronghold of the Camorra criminal organisation to the north of Naples, once Giorgio Napolitano, the president, had signed the government decree. ...
The Italian-American Cosa Nostra criminal organisation, comprising of a number of largely autonomous 'family' groupings in various locations across the United States, dominated organised crime for much of the ...
The Italian Mafia is a major player in Namibia's diamond mining industry, says a top investigative journalist. His investigations apparently show that one of Italy's most powerful organised crime syndicates, also known as the Cosa Nostra, may be ...
The prosecution Friday withdrew all charges against extradited mafia don Abu Salem in the case relating to the murder of Ajit Dewani, the former secretary of Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala.
A man claiming he is marked for death by a half a dozen people, including two San Manuel tribal members and two high-ranking members of the Mexican Mafia, is suing them for $50 million.
By Lavern de Vries Organised crime syndicates, including Mafia organisations, are believed to have moved their financial operations to South Africa, says award-winning journalist John Grobler.
Police carried out dozens of arrests in the Naples area, as part of a crackdown on the Camorra mafia following the killings of an Italian businessman and six African immigrants.