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Mafia victims' bodies resurface as river dries up - including skeleton in barrel

Lake Mead in Nevada is quickly receding due to an historic drought with the skeletal remains of a gunshot victim already exposed. It is believed the reservoir was used to dump mob hits

Daily Mirror

A Rugby Club Vs. the Mafia

In a struggling Sicilian neighborhood racked by crime and poverty, one team is offering hope. And learning the cost of crossing the mob.

Sports Illustrated

Jet2 launches direct flights from Leeds to breathtaking island with Europe's most active volcano

Mediterranean island is known for its breathtaking scenery and incredible food and history

Leeds Live

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The photographer who fought the Sicilian Mafia for five decades

When Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia passed away on April 13, 2022, the biggest shock among those of us who have written about her was that she didn’t die at the hands of the Mafia.

The Conversation

Letizia Battaglia: Photographer who documented Mafia carnage

Well aware she was putting her life on the line, Battaglia focused her lens on the bloody feuds between the various crime families in Sicily

The Independent UK

US prosecutors indict Mexican Mafia leadership in California

Federal prosecutors have announced a sweeping racketeering case against the leaders of the Mexican Mafia that controlled Latino street gangs in Orange County, California

The Independent UK

The Offer review – the making of The Godfather makes for hit-and-miss TV

The splashy inside Hollywood drama on the making of The Godfather is a patchy, overlong series that is best when it sticks to the script

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For decades a ruthless mafia has ruled in southern Italy. Now the state is fighting back

In the southern Italian province of Vibo Valencia, the mafia rules. Now a prosecutor the mafia wants dead is trying to free it from their grip.

ABC News

Letizia Battaglia, who shot life and death in Palermo, dies

Letizia Battaglia, an Italian photographer who documented the arrests of Mafia bosses and the bodies of their victims, has died in her native Sicilian city of Palermo

The Independent UK

Letizia Battaglia, pioneer photographer who defied the Mafia, dead at 87

Letizia Battaglia, a world-renowned photographer whose courageous work documenting the Mafia's stranglehold on her native Sicily was at once chilling and poignant, has died. She was 87.

Reuters

'Inside my real life as a Mafia princess - with guns, drug deals and shootouts'

Marisa Merico’s unbelievable story has been made into an explosive 10-part TV drama, with drug deals, shootouts and an astonishing twist

Daily Mirror

Beatle v mobster: the day John Lennon put paid to a shady record label boss

Lawyer’s book reveals the inside story of the musician’s 1976 court battle with Morris Levy, a mafia-affiliated music mogul

The Guardian - UK

7 charged in deaths of 2 fellow inmates at prison in Texas

Seven inmates have been charged with killing two fellow prisoners and wounding two others during a January attack at a federal prison in Texas that led to a nationwide lockdown of the federal prison system

The Independent UK

Coachella 2022: Swedish House Mafia and The Weeknd to replace Kanye West

Rapper pulled out days before festival is scheduled to kick off

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Where The Sopranos cast are now after Paul Herman's death - tragedy and pop star

After the tragic death of Paul Herman, who played Beansie in The Sopranos, here is a look at what happened to the rest of the star-studded cast of the incredible mobster series

The Guardian - UK

This thing of ours: why does The Godfather still ring true 50 years on?

From Succession to the real-life drama of the Tory government, the influence of Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia film is everywhere

The Hindu

‘Bheeshma Parvam’ movie review: Mammootty stars in slick but familiar mafia don story

Director Amal Neerad makes up for the lack of novelty in the story with style and some solid characters

Daily Mirror

How Mafia bosses almost scuppered The Godfather and then grew to love it

The Godfather first premiered in 1972 and was the highest grossing film of that year - it also cleaned up at the awards winning best picture and best adapted screenplay

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This Day In Market History: Largest Securities Fraud Bust In US History

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day in 2000, members of all five New York City Mafia crime families were indicted for allegedly participating in a securities fraud scheme.

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