All news on the topic: The Mafia

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Hunt for 18th-century masterpiece stolen by mobsters solved half a century later
The artwork has now been returned to Dr Francis Wood, 96, of New Jersey, the son of the painting’s original owner, Dr Earl Wood, who bought it during the 1930s, the FBI said
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Rishi Sunak makes Godfather quip as he pokes fun of Tory 'five families' boss
Backbench MPs have been accused of "pretending to be the mafia" after the "five families" group threatened to derail Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill
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Mobster has no regrets about posing for topless photo that put him behind bars
Mafia elderly statesman Ralph DiMatteo surrendered himself to the authorities shortly after his son posted a picture of him half naked in a swimming pool. Here’s what he had to say about the picture…
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'Dad's unbelievable death bed confession he was fugitive from FBI for 52 years'
Ashley Randele, 38, was watching NCIS with her father, diagnosed with terminal lung cancer when he made some shocking claims that she assumed to be an extended practical joke
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Italy could finally see end of Mafia after 207 mobsters jailed for 2,200 years
A landmark mafia trial in Italy this week saw dozens of informants betray the criminal group as hundreds were arrested and sentenced to 2,200 years in prison
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Real-life Goodfella's mobster busted in £5m plane heist dies at 86
Real-life Goodfellas mobster Vincent 'Vinny' Asaro, a captain in the Bonanno crime family, has died at the age of 86, three years after being released from prison early due to ill health and Covid fears
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Cops seal off 'Devil's tomb' where evil mafia boss who killed 50 laid to rest
Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro - the mastermind behind at least 50 murders - died on Monday in hospital and his burial was held at the a cemetery at Castelvetrano, near Palermo
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Evil Mafia godfather called Diabolik dies after three decades on the run
A notorious mob boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, who eluded arrest for almost 30 years died while receiving medical treatment. Reports say he was suffering from colon cancer
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Italy's 'last Godfather' who spent 30 years on the run dies months after arrest
Matteo Messina Denaro was the notorious Cosa Nostra's longest-hiding fugitive and was dubbed "the last Godfather" after he was on the run for over three decades
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Italy's 'last Godfather' who spent 30 years on the run left in irreversible coma
Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who has been convicted for his involvement in dozens of murders, is in an irreversible coma and doctors will tonight suspend his nutrition
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Russia's bloodiest godfather behind 60 murders jailed, but fathers 22 kids first
Aslan 'Dzhako' Gagiev oversaw a ruthless Moscow mafia operation dubbed 'The Family' that was founded in 2004 and whose members enjoyed torturing their victims to death
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Woman 'killed by mafia and fed to pigs' after her body was runover by tractor
Italy's anti-mafia police force carried out sweeping raids against the 'Ndrangheta in Vibo, in southern Italy's Calabria region, arresting 81 mobsters and finding evidence of the murder of local businesswoman Maria Chindamo
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'Britain is run by criminal bullies doing illegal things badly'
Those in charge are now officially criminals, bullies, and incompetents, says Fleet Street Fox. The Mafia would never have sold the water or wasted money on Rwanda
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The brave wives and daughters who spoke out to bring down ruthless Italian mafia
Nothing could stop what was one of most powerful criminal organisations in the world, no one would dare touch them - or so they believed
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Wife of fearsome 'Grim Reaper' mafia boss seduced teen hitman with wine and M&Ms
Larry Mazza, who is a former mafia hitman, opened up this week about how he first came to meet Gregory Scarpa, also known as the Grim Reaper, whose wife he seduced
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Mafia boss escapes high-security jail by climbing down bed sheets from cell
Marco Raduano was said to be a model prisoner in jail and was given a job in the library on an upper floor - likely giving him the chance to look out of the window and study the schedules of guards
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Top mafia hitman arrested after 16 years on the run posing as a pizza maker
Edgardo Greco was wanted in Italy to serve a life sentence for the murders of two brothers which were "part of a 'mafia war'… that marked the early 1990s" in Italy
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Mafia boss' ex-girlfriend quizzed by police 'for helping him on the run'
Maria Mesi was jailed in the 1990s for sheltering Matteo Messina Denaro at her flat in Bagheria, Sicily. Letters found by police showed her love for the Mafia boss. She is now under investigation
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Man arrested for letting undercover Mafia boss 'use his identity to buy clothes'
Matteo Messina Denaro used a false identity document with Andrea Bonafede's name to get access to health services and stay under the radar before he was arrested at a clinic in Palermo, Sicily
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Secret bunkers with Viagra found after 30-years-on-run mafia boss arrested
Police have discovered a secret bunker behind a sliding floor at the back of a wardrobe in a Sicilian mafia boss' apartment after he was arrested following 30 years on the run
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Brother of boy, 12, dissolved in acid by Mafia boss speaks out after his capture
Nicola Di Matteo's brother Giuseppe, 12, was kidnapped and killed in 1993 under the orders of Matteo Messina Denaro in an attempt to blackmail his father into not giving evidence against the mafia
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Mafia boss' lair filled with designer clothes and perfumes as he's finally found
Matteo Messina Denaro, the last 'godfather' of Cosa Nostra, was arrested yesterday in Palermo, Sicily, after 30 years on the run. At the home where he spent his final months, officers found perfumes and designer clothes
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Life of Mafia boss who boasted he killed so many he 'filled cemetery by himself'
Messina Denaro was captured at a clinic in Palermo, Italy, where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical condition, the head of the police force's special operations squad confirmed
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Wanted Mafia boss accused of dozens of murders arrested after 30 years on run
The Sicilian Cosa Nostra Mafia's don Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested today in Palermo, Sicily, while being prepared to "undergo treatment", according to the Ros Carabinieri