Topic: Cosa Nostra
AFP Global Edition | 2009-03-02 08:00:19
<div><p>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.</p><p>Carneglia, 62, is on trial for five murders and other crimes, including kidnapping, allegedly committed as a soldier ...
AP News | 2009-02-17 16:07:12
<div id="subtitle">Italian police arrest 8 in Mafia plan to build, control wind farms in Sicily</div><div><p>Italian police on Tuesday arrested mobsters, businessmen and local politicians who allegedly used corrupt practices and bribes to gain control of a project to build wind farms in Sicily.</p> ...
AP News | 2008-12-17 17:27:05
<div id="subtitle">Italian police: Alleged Mafia boss hangs himself in Palermo jail after arrest</div><div><p>An alleged Mafia boss who was caught on wiretaps purportedly discussing Cosa Nostra's new hierarchy hanged himself in a Sicilian jail hours after his arrest, police said Wednesday. State radio said he used ...
AP News | 2008-12-17 13:39:19
A man identified as Gaetano Lo Presti, center, is escorted by Italian Carabinieri Paramilitary police shortly after his arrest in Palermo, Sicily, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. Lo Presti, the alleged Mafia boss of a Palermo neighborhood, hanged himself in jail ...
