Mafia News

The jury considering racketeering charges against John "Junior" Gotti has taken a holiday break after 10 days of deliberations.

The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer and jailer expressed "excruciating remorse" on Wednesday for more than 14,000 people killed under his watch at a notorious prison during Cambodia's ultra-Maoist revolution of the 1970s.

The string of nine firebomb attacks on cafes, bars and restaurants in Montreal in the last four weeks is an indication of the power vacuum that exists among Montreal's organized crime factions following a wave of police crackdowns, according to an expert on mob crime.

A convicted Mafia boss who got out of jail by faking paralysis and anorexia has been arrested at a restaurant after more than two months on the run, police in Sicily said Tuesday.

A former police chief in Tonghua City, whom locals called the "mafia boss in uniform," was given a death sentence with a two-year reprieve in northeast China's Jilin Province on Tuesday.

The gangster whose loose lips helped sink the leadership of the Gambino Crime Family has died at a federal prison where he was serving a nearly--year stretch for racketeering.

LIHUE, Hawaii - Kauai police are confirming a link between an organized crime family and a man found dead just after getting out of prison.

Foxy Knoxy's lawyer brands request for life sentence and solitary confinement as 'Mafia-like' By Nick Pisa Last updated at 8:50 PM on 22nd November 2009 Praying for a not guilty verdict: Prosecutors have requested the jury convict Amanda Knox and that she be given a harsh sentence Murder suspect Amanda Knox's lawyer has called the request for her ...

A Pequannock man who battled allegations of mob ties when he served as president of Teamsters Local 560 in the 1980s was arrested Thursday in an alleged plot to extort more than $200,000 from a Hawthorne landscaper by using the threat of Mafia muscle.

I have a new commentary posted at Reason Online looking at how Sen. Dodd's new Agency for Financial Stability would be the financial equivalent for the FBI seeking to take down La Cosa Nostra: Perhaps Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd thinks of himself as a modern day John Sherman.

Home : Top Stories : Who's been torching cafes in Montreal? Who's been torching cafes in Montreal? The Canadian Press Date: Friday Nov.

Naples, Italy - Italian police arrested on Thursday the suspected gunman whose shooting of an alleged mobster in Naples was controversially distributed on video last month, news reports said.

It's been 4 months since a group of men, dressed as ninjas, burst into the home of Byrd and Melanie Billings and shot them to death.

Policemen in southern Italy say they have caught the hitman who cold bloodedly gunned down a Mafia boss in broad daylight outside a bar.

Quebec's auditor general lambasted the province's handling of the construction industry Wednesday, fuelling a scandal that has already prompted numerous demands for a public inquiry.

FILE: John Gotti Jr. exits Manhattan federal court IN 2006 after his third trial ended in a mistrial in New York.

A Russian lawyer representing the embattled Hermitage Capital investment fund has died in a Moscow prison after complaining for weeks that he was denied adequate medical treatment.

Police concluded their investigation into the Oct. 16 shooting of Garland Taylor on Tuesday serving a pair of murder warrants on men previously arrested and already in custody on organized crime allegations.

Comment about "Sicilian Mafia arrest gives Italy's mob leadership problems" Phone Name Comment 0 Sicilian Mafia arrest gives Italy's mob leadership problems Philip Pullella, Reuters Masked Italian police officers accompany captured fugitive Domenico Raccuglia to a police station in Palermo.

A prominent laser eye surgeon who operates at an Edmonton clinic was the target of a murder-for-hire plot commissioned by his business partner and former brother-in-law, court documents allege.