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HISTORICAL FACTS: 5 - The Untold Story

What John Gotti’s Gambino crime family looks like now in New York

The days of the Five Families ruling New York and sharp-suited John Gotti mingling with the stars appear to be long gone. But the RICO indictment and arrest of 10 accused Gambino mob members suggests the mafia world is still operating in the shadows. Rachel Sharp reports

The Independent UK

John Gotti’s Gambino crime family ruled New York for decades. Here’s what it looks like now

The Independent UK

Seventeen men arrested in Sicily and US in joint anti-mafia operation

Arrests come after two-year investigation targeting members of New York’s Gambino family and some Sicilian associates

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Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia review – a barely believable tale of corruption and betrayal

This documentary’s examination of the singer, the president and organised crime is exhilaratingly grubby. The twisting, steadily intensifying story is a corker

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: the juicy details about John F Kennedy, Frank Sinatra and the mafia

A documentary shows the secrets of Kennedy and Sinatra’s friendship. Plus: French thriller Dark Hearts. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Newcastle film festival 'a little portal' to Italian summer

From comedy to Mafia thrillers, this year's festival has it all.

Newcastle Herald

I Asked A Former Mafia Boss About How Accurate The Sopranos Is & Turns Out It’s Pretty Legit

At one point, Michael Franzese was one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the mob. He’s somehow still alive and sharing his story.

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Notorious Italian Mafia boss who boasted his victims could ‘fill a cemetery’ is buried at private funeral

Matteo Messina Denaro died in custody this week after 30 years on the run

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A Mafia boss on the run for decades dies in hospital months after his capture

Matteo Messina Denaro died on Monday in a hospital prison ward several months after being captured following decades on the run, Italian state radio said.

WEKU

On the run for decades, convicted Mafia boss Messina Denaro dies in hospital months after capture

Italian state radio says that Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, has died in a hospital prison ward, months after being captured

The Independent UK

Notorious Sicilian mafia boss dubbed ‘last godfather’ dies in custody after 30 years on run

Matteo Denaro believed to have ordered dozens of murders and was even accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old

The Independent UK

RICO is often used to target the mob and cartels − but Trump and his associates aren't the first outside those worlds to face charges

It might seem odd to some that former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, many of whom are lawyers and served as senior government officials, were charged with racketeering regarding their alleged attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.

The Conversation

It's time to rethink Rudy Giuliani and his claim to discover RICO

Giuliani has long claimed that he dreamed up the idea of using the federal RICO law to target mafia families when he was a federal prosecutor.

WEKU

Rudy Giuliani is furious about being charged with same mob law he claims he pioneered

Mr Giuliani famously used the RICO statute to try to take down the New York City mafia in the 1980s

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What is Georgia’s RICO law? Why a law created to prosecute the Mafia is being leveled against Trump

A sprawling case targets a ‘criminal enterprise’ under Trump and 18 others to overturn 2020 election results

The Independent UK

What is Georgia’s RICO law? Why a law created to prosecute the Mafia is being leveled against Trump

A sprawling case targets a ‘criminal enterprise’ under Trump and 18 others to overturn 2020 election results

The National (Scotland)

Shops warned to stop mafia-themed Scotch whisky orders

SHOPS have been asked by regulators to stop placing orders for a mafia-themed Scotch whisky ...

Los Angeles Times

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.

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Salon

"Mafia boss" Trump attacks Smith family

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

Manchester Evening News

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

The Conversation

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:

Tribune News Service

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.”

Irish Mirror

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."

Dublin Live

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

Fortune

‘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.

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