With 'Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be,' Palermo-born satirist Franco Maresco has made a sequel of sorts to his 2014 mockumentary 'Belluscone.' By Boyd van Hoeij In 2014, Sicilian satirist Franco ...

While the ‘Ndrangheta mafia crime family of southern Italy recently made headlines for allegedly becoming more tolerant of its gay members, recent reports say that one of the family’s out gay hitmen ...

The films of director Franco Maresco (“Belluscone: A Sicilian Story”) are an acquired taste, rarely developed by non-Italian palates, and “The Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be” is a prime example.

Rocco Morabito, a notorious member of the Ndrangheta, or Calabrian Mafia, has been one of Italy’s most-wanted fugitives since 1994. Morabito was arrested in 2017 in Uruguay after more than 20 years on ...

SAN ANTONIO – A man accused of holding a prominent leadership position in the Texas Mexican Mafia was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a massive extortion conspiracy, according to the U.S.

New York’s Gambino crime family and its cronies in the Italian Mafia got slammed during a series of coordinated, international police raids that were triggered by a trans-Atlantic WhatsApp message.

Nicola Gratteri — a 61-year-old anti-mafia investigator in Calabria, Italy (the toe of Italy’s “boot”) — has revealed that the ‘Ndrangheta family, the richest crime family in Southern Italy, has ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X WEST HAZLETON – The Don is dead, but he still holds sway over Northeast Pennsylvania. Regional Mafia boss Russell ...