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Mexican Mafia member who ran LA county jail rackets is killed in prison

LOS ANGELES — Michael Torres, a Mexican Mafia member who oversaw gangs in the San Fernando Valley and controlled drug and extortion rackets in Los Angeles County jails, was stabbed to death in prison Thursday, authorities said.

Los Angeles Times

"Mafia boss" Trump attacks Smith family

Authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat says Trump's attacks "smell of desperation"

Salon

Dermot O'Leary makes 'punching' dig at James 'Arg' Argent as he discusses Italian girlfriend, 19, on This Morning

The former The Only Way is Essex star joined Dermot and co-host Holly Willoughby live in the studio when he was asked about his love life

Manchester Evening News

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The Good Mothers: Disney's groundbreaking drama tries to tell the stories of women in the mafia but important pieces of the puzzle are missing

The music accompanying the opening titles of the new Disney+ series The Good Mothers is a lullaby in the Calabrian dialect:

The Conversation

Former Luchese mob boss Little Vic Amuso, 88, serving life for ordering murders, begs for ‘compassionate release’ amid health issues

Vittorio “Little Vic” Amuso, the 88-year-old former boss of the Luchese crime family, says his health is falling apart in federal prison, and his lawyers describe him as a changed man “staring down his mortality.”

Tribune News Service

Jailed Italian mafia supergrass will help cops finally catch Daniel Kinahan - they used to be friends

EXCLUSIVE: “He will. He will give evidence to the Americans, to the Irish, to whoever else wants him – the British, I guess. The Spanish."

Irish Mirror

Italian Mafia supergrass will help snare Daniel Kinahan, crime expert says

Mafia expert Professor Anna Sergi said that Kinahan’s Italian Mafia pal Raffaele Imperiale will turn on him and give evidence against the cartel king

Dublin Live

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‘It’s not even good for money laundering’: ‘Black Swan’ author Nassim Taleb lashes out at Bitcoin and says it’s ‘transformed into a cult’

Nassim Taleb said crypto was less trustworthy than the Mafia.

Fortune

CBS’s Jim Nantz Reveals Heartwarming Gesture by Bills Mafia After Death of His Mom

The famous announcer expressed his gratitude for how the Buffalo fan base showed compassion to him last season.

Sports Illustrated

Meet 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

Daily Mirror

Renowned actor Forest Whitaker sets up his Peace and Development Initiative in poor Paris suburb

Renowned actor Forest Whitaker, who has portrayed a dictator, a Mafia hitman, a butler, has taken on what for some may be his most inspirational role

The Independent UK

Wife of 'Grim Reaper' mafia boss seduced teen with wine and M&Ms - then he became hitman

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

Daily Mirror

Frank Annunzio, who represented Chicago in Congress, was linked to the mob, his FBI file shows

Newly obtained records say sources told the FBI that the Machine Democrat, who died in 2001, “frequently associated with” top La Cosa Nostra figures and “is possibly an LCN member himself.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Movie review: 'Mafia Mamma' a daring, charming take on woman's midlife crisis

“Eat, Pray, Love” is so over — ladies, we’ve officially entered the “Threaten, Extort, Kill” era. This unusual new ethos of empowerment is the guiding theory behind Catherine Hardwicke’s crime comedy/feminist manifesto “Mafia Mamma,” starring Toni Collette as Kristin, a harried American mom and marketing exec who discovers her own…

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The Independent UK

Italy again tries to build a bridge to Sicily, seeks support

Italy’s infrastructure minister is seeking to rally international interest in Italy’s latest attempt to build a bridge linking Sicily to the Italian mainland

The New Daily

April movie guide: Nike’s Air, Toni Collette in Mafia Mamma, Crowe’s chilling exorcist biopic

How Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have endured a 40-year bromance as film about Michael Jordan and Nike set to premiere on April 5

WhatToWatch

The Good Mothers: release date, interviews, cast, plot, trailer and all we know about the crime drama

The Good Mothers reveals the shocking true story of a group of brave women who took down the Calabrian Mafia from the inside.

Reuters

Italy police seize drug haul decorated with Mafia mugshots

Italian police have discovered a haul of illegal drugs in packaging decorated with pictures of the faces of fearsome bosses from the Sicilian Mafia.

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Daily Mirror

Mafia boss escapes high-security jail by climbing down knotted 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

The Independent UK

Health ombudsman issues unprecedented warning over safety and culture at scandal-hit NHS trust

Exclusive: Health service ombudsman has never before taken action of this kind against a trust

Daily Mirror

Former girlfriend of Mafia boss quizzed by police 'for helping him' as love letters found

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

The Conversation

Modern mafia: Italy's organised crime machine has changed beyond recognition in 30 years

The arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro, one of Sicily’s most infamous mafia bosses, has reminded many Italians of the extreme violence he was associated with when operating as a leading figure of Cosa Nostra.

Reuters

Strong clan loyalty, locals, helped mafia boss Messina Denaro stay hidden

When Salvatore Catalano discovered that mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro had lived just a short walk from his house in the western Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazara, he felt sick.

Evening Standard

Mafia power vacuum: Matteo Messina Denaro and the ‘broken’ Cosa Nostra

The arrest of Denaro in Sicily has made headlines around the world — but how big a blow is it to the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia organisation? The experts say it is already well past its glory days...

The Independent UK

Italian police arrest man whose ID helped fugitive mobster

Italian police in Sicily say they have arrested the man whose identity was allegedly used by a convicted Mafia boss who was Italy's No. 1 fugitive for 30 years

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