Mafia News

In the fall of 2010, news surfaced that Leonardo DiCaprio was going to star in and produce Legacy of Secrecy , an adaptation of Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann's non-fiction book of the same name.

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.

This week the boss of one of southern Italy's most powerful mafia dynasties sensationally handed himself in to police after three years on the run - and now faces 16 years in jail.

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.

The decimation of the Rosarno Clan of the Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia by Italian authorities continued with the surrender of acting boss Giuseppe Pesce. After being on the run for the last three years Pesce accompanied by lawyers turned himself in to authorities telling his defense lawyers “Enough, Im tired of running” asking them to take him in. Read More ...

A famous East Coast mafia hitman during the deadliest mob wars of the 1960's became the first member of the witness protection program when he moved to the Bay Area.