Mafia News

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman gives a toast during a news conference at the Orleans Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

The Wall Street Journal 's Michael Rothfeld reports authorities are considering charging SAC Capital as a criminal enterprise through the Racketeer Influenced and Organized Corruption Act act.

Robert DeNiro is in talks to take on the part of infamous New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello in the upcoming movie “Legacy of Secrecy“. The movie will focus on information about the FBI informant who obtained the JFK assassination confession of godfather Carlos Marcello, which the Bureau kept secret for twenty years. Read More ...

The suspended Bulgarian police 's anti- organized crime unit head, Stanimir Florov , has been stripped from his rights to access classified information .

It is no secret that political parties have a symbiotic relationship with criminals and gangsters.

MICHAEL DEMOCKER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Archbishop Gregory Aymond and Mayor Mitch Landrieu, at left, watch as the casket of Briana Allen, the 5-year-old girl who was killed by stray gunfire at a birthday party last week, is carried from New Star Baptist Church in Central City after her funeral on Tuesday, June 5, 2012.

Bulgaria's former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is pictured here speaking in his first public appearance since the vote on Thursday, vowing to ask the constitutional court to cancel the election results.

A Solano County Superior Court jury on Thursday began deliberating the case of a Vallejo man accused of killing an innocent bystander in 2007 in what authorities believe was a gang-related shooting.

Mob boss Vito Rizzuto and his lieutenant-turned-rival Raynald Desjardins might not testify at Quebec's corruption inquiry after all.

A spate of recent arrests suggests the Italian mafia may be making a comeback in Colombia, where the fractured criminal landscape makes it easier for them to exert control over the drug trade.