| 单词 | mafia |
| 例句 | Aside from the crooked matches, they said, sumo was rife with drug use and sexcapades, bribes and tax evasion, and close ties to the yakuza, the Japanese mafia. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Not really, but I always liked to pretend the business was a front for the Persian mafia. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Sometimes criminals—robbers, brigands, freebooters, highwaymen, hooligans, thugs, bandits, pirates, gangsters, outlaws—organize or join together in gangs or bands or mafias. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Or maybe...maybe they’re escaped rodeo clowns. And the rodeo clown mafia is out to get them.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He is tattooed with TJ, a symbol of the Mexican mafia; a teardrop, signifying a dead gang friend; and a spiderweb, tucked next to his right eye. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Maybe his notebook contained a list of his mafia jobs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z In one thematic string we have terms like criminals, criminal warfare, crime, fun, profit, gangs, mafias, thugs, mercenaries, troublemakers, preys on the weak, executioners, violence, desertion, flight, whim, opportunity, and run. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Though I can hypnotize the mafia and raise the dead at will, I seem incapable of erasing the circles beneath my eyes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The mafia giant ran towards the Parthenon and stumbled inside, flattening several Earthborn under his feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Miles had been taking fewer and fewer of his mafia hit man jobs, and it was clear that he didn’t have enough occupying his mind. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It sounded like something from a mafia movie. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Her father, a contractor who emigrated from Ireland, was nicknamed "the godfather" because of his strong relationships with local officials and the city's Irish construction "mafia." Kimberly Guilfoyle was once half of a liberal power couple. Now she’s basically a Trump. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z In the penultimate sketch, Burr plays an Italian mafia don recently returned from prison. Saturday Night Live: Jim Carrey, Mike Pence and a very pesky fly 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z One of the reasons that the Sicilian mafia is organised as it is, is that somebody is always ready to step into their boss’s shoes. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z One must assume that the seasoned "Fargo" viewer is conversant in the mafia movie subgenre, and that makes Hawley's choice to ground the action within that framework a chancy proposition. In "Fargo," comedian Chris Rock gets dramatic as a mob boss whose weapon of choice is the monologue 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z From “The Godfather” to “The Sopranos,” the mafia has loomed large in the popular imagination, thanks to characters of startling intensity — ferocious yet filled with ambivalence and subtlety. Review | Naomi Krupitsky’s ‘The Family’ is a Mafia tale with a unique perspective 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Ms Dawisha’s book describes the fusion between the secret police, the mafia and the oligarchs with tentacles that stretch into almost every aspect of life in Russia and beyond. Band of brothers 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z It will be a shame when the sisters are inducted into the think-pink mafia of the Disney Princesses, where they will have to hang out with drips such as Cinderella. Frozen-mania: how Elsa, Anna and Olaf conquered the world 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z The Irishman begins with Robert De Niro’s veteran mafia hitman rambling from a wheelchair in an old people’s home – the last, befuddled survivor of a forgotten era. Martin Scorsese: is the director becoming more radical with age? 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z He has done liver transplants for numerous special dignitaries, including several men linked with the Japanese mafia. Illness is big business 2013-02-20T20:29:00Z And the notion of a mafia dealing in animal hormones, what about that? The Carpetbagger: A Crime Tragedy, not a Crime Drama 2012-02-16T14:11:26Z The mafia is very good at busting out businesses. ‘The Deuce’ Jumps Ahead to the ’80s and Sees the Future 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z He thinks it's better to be a mafia hard man than a tenured academic. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z In later privatisations the same privileged groups, in effect a mafia, gained far more lucrative personal control of the spoils. Burning down their house 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Piecing things back together, she was unenthused when her agent told her about a new TV mafia drama, and the offer of a role as mob wife Carmella Soprano. Lorraine Bracco on Goodfellas, therapy, and almost turning down The Sopranos 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z But events thousands of miles away — directly connected to his long-ago conflict with the mafia — are unfolding, and some unknown but powerful person has decided that Michael must be eliminated. Review | ‘Eddie’s Boy,’ by Thomas Perry, continues the saga of a retired hit man who can’t escape his past 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z I was traveling in the area of the ranchitos and the mafia now. Paul Theroux’s Mexican Journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The Polish mafia’s plan to expand into Sweden involves supplying drugs to Swedish prisons, euphemistically referred to as “the closed market” in this story. Books of The Times: Stoking the Fire Larsson Ignited 2011-01-05T23:00:14Z There are Soviet agents and Trotskyist agitators, a cross-dressing jazz singer, an Armenian mafia boss and a rich industrialist in cahoots with a group of army officers. Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Gritty Drama ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z A Neapolitan singer who sang the praises of the mafia and featured real mobsters in a video is being investigated by Naples magistrates for inciting criminal activity. Naples singer Nello Liberti investigated for glorifying the mafia 2012-02-08T17:29:31Z The long process leading up to Italian unification – il Risorgimento – is really the key explanation of the emergence of the mafias. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z But this part of Greenwich Village is very neighborly and the locals, who include the widow of a mafia don and a former opera star, were always bringing them home-cooked meals. In the Best New Crime, Lethal Lasagna, Honor Killings and Nanny Cams 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Women is a great piece of journalism and another one of those rare books on the mafia written by an outsider that commands respect in Italy. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z The mafia is a criminal organisation and always has been. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z The mafia was fighting a war and my father was acting under orders. Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano: my dad, the mafia underboss 2013-02-15T21:00:06Z Strictly speaking, Gravano is not a mob wife; her ex-husband did time for his involvement in an Ecstasy drug ring and was never a member of the mafia. Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano: my dad, the mafia underboss 2013-02-15T21:00:06Z Sheeran is a “house painter,” which is mafia slang for killer — as in, the blood he spatters in a shooting “paints” a house red. Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman": De Niro, Pacino and Pesci shine in this intimate gangster epic 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Everybody today who is involved in fighting the mafia now works according to the Falcone method. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Rather than referring to the Italian mafia, would it be more accurate to talk about Italian mafias, given that there are a number of criminal organisations operating in the country? Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z I also see in the press notes that you say that “Bullhead” “relates to the hormone mafia like ‘Hamlet’ relates to the Danish royal family.” The Carpetbagger: A Crime Tragedy, not a Crime Drama 2012-02-16T14:11:26Z “Most mafia stories are told from the perspective of the mobsters,” Fear City’s director, Sam Hobkinson, told the Guardian. Fear City: Netflix docuseries recounts a time when the mob ruled New York 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z But that’s basically how the entire discipline of paleontology worked until a few decades ago, and anyway there’s no actual evidence that the academic mafia called in some kind of hit. “Dinosaur 13”: Why Fox News would have had a field day with T.rex 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The bottom line is that she was a mafia wife and she knew the score. Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano: my dad, the mafia underboss 2013-02-15T21:00:06Z Caught off guard by his editor when asked to investigate, Enzo invents a mafia feud — and the story becomes so big that he’s forced to sustain the hoax. ‘Fallout,’ by Sadie Jones, and More 2014-04-23T22:15:31Z But The Irishman is also a political picture which shows – as mafia films traditionally do not – that gangsters do not exist in a miraculous vacuum, but are a function or dysfunction of bad politics. Why The Irishman should win the best picture Oscar 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Twenty years later, and the mafia comedy as a form has all but died out in a world shaped by Tony Soprano. The Sopranos at 20: how the hit show changed the gangster genre 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z On it, he raps with the impunity of a mafia don. Jay-Z and the Politics of Rapping in Middle Age 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z That was my way of saying this is not a movie about the hormone mafia. The Carpetbagger: A Crime Tragedy, not a Crime Drama 2012-02-16T14:11:26Z Link to video: Behind the Candelabra: watch a world exclusive trailer Thorson says an east coast mafia don gave him assurances that he needn't worry about Nash. Scott Thorson: the lover Liberace remade in his own image 2013-05-25T23:04:01Z The Southern Foodways Alliance is sometimes jokingly referred to as the Southern food mafia, and Mr. Edge its boss. A Powerful, and Provocative, Voice for Southern Food 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z “You rented a house for the summer and it was a totally different environment,” said Mr. Howard, the broker, who describes it as the era of the velvet mafia. Is the Party Over on Fire Island? 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z His incompetent guides, all mafia, happen to be ruthless, fish-killing caviar harvesters. Bob Shacochis travels the world in 'Kingdoms in the Air,' but doesn't always enjoy it 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Also watch Episode 7, in which Christopher finds himself torn between his dreams of being a filmmaker and his commitment to becoming a mafia bigwig. ‘The Sopranos’ 20th Anniversary: Here’s Your Complete Guide to Rewatching It 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z So he certainly didn’t subscribe to the theory that the mafia was hard-wired into the Sicilian psyche and couldn’t be separated out and defeated. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z The Camorra – Italy's oldest mafia organisation, dating back to Spanish rule in Naples – watched and seized the time. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z It might be the mafia, it might be some lesser bunch of drug and gun lords, but these art heists always seem to be the work of organised criminals. Art heists: more Tony Soprano than George Clooney 2013-03-20T16:09:56Z The authorities described the man, Alejandro Jiménez González, a Costa Rican, as involved in the “leadership and direction of an organized mafia” engaged in money laundering and other criminal activities throughout Central America. ArtsBeat: Prime Suspect Arrested in the Killing of Argentine Folk Singer 2012-03-13T18:27:35Z In an essay for the Today programme David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, reflects on why actors are drawn to the mafia don. AUDIO: Why do actors love mafia dons? 2011-08-03T08:51:38Z One of the biggest theories on why Presley may have faked his death is because he had to in order to escape the mafia. Why Do Some People Think Elvis Is Still Alive? 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z When the Bastille was stormed there were only seven prisoners in it.In a similar way, the Stonewall was an unhygienic, exploitative mafia bar tightly guarded by mafia henchmen. How Stonewall felt – to someone who was there | Edmund White 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z In the world of “The Sopranos,” there’s family, and then there’s “family” — those hard-won, deep-seated mob ties that make spiritual relations of every member of the Italian American mafia. A ‘Sopranos’ Family Tree 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z When I first visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, I was living in Providence, reputed to be a mafia stronghold. Art heists: more Tony Soprano than George Clooney 2013-03-20T16:09:56Z Those works were retrieved from the home of a mafia boss in Italy in 2016. Images of a Stolen Van Gogh Give Experts Hope It Can Be Recovered 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z He plays cracked saints and tragic monsters: the broken maths prodigy in Revolutionary Road, the remorseless mafia killer in The Iceman. Michael Shannon: ‘Actors are just models nowadays. Going to the Oscars is like going to the prom’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The point is this: films don’t create the mafia, but films about the mafia may explain or decode the organisation for its members; they interpret the life for those who live it. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Jonathan Miller had just staged an extraordinary version of Verdi's Rigoletto at the London Coliseum, transplanting the action to the mafia world of Lower Manhattan. How we made: Cameron Mackintosh and Herbert Kretzmer on Les Misérables 2013-02-18T20:59:02Z Things changed permanently when a conflict with a mafia boss escalated into an all-out war. Review | ‘Eddie’s Boy,’ by Thomas Perry, continues the saga of a retired hit man who can’t escape his past 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z You'd have thought that a member of the mafia choosing to testify against other organised crime members would be a good thing for society. Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano: my dad, the mafia underboss 2013-02-15T21:00:06Z They then assembled the prosecution case in the most important mafia trial of all time – the Maxi trial in Palermo – which ran from 1986 to 1987. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z A Belgian farmer caught up in the so-called hormone mafia. Oscar Nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film Discuss Work 2012-02-20T22:38:12Z The book wasn't perfect: Kirkus Reviews found the combination of halcyon memories and frightening mafia tales awkward. The literary life (and death) of Susan Berman, alleged Robert Durst victim 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Today we often think of Prohibition as a deluded experiment, instinctively associating it with images of Al Capone, the mafia and the Valentine's Day Massacre. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z "He's an incredible hero because he exposes the lies of the war mafia people." Westwood supports Assange on London catwalk 2013-02-18T15:42:23Z But the Italian mafia’s love of all things Tony Montana doesn’t end at architecture: Naples bosses even enhance their tough guy image by keeping lions and tigers in cages. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z He stood by his unseasoned “Georgia mafia” too long and should have appointed a strong chief of staff from the start. Was Jimmy Carter the Most Underrated President in History? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The FBI was kept busy hunting Nazi spies, and the Navy received help from mafia bosses to secure the city's piers. 'Helluva Town': A helluva read about New York City during World War II 2010-04-21T23:46:00Z This Lucky Luciano isn't the feared founder of the New York mafia but an excitable young man still under the thumb of his more collected associate Arnold Rothstein. Empire state of mind 2011-01-20T07:57:00Z Vincent got his first big role in The Death Collector and went on to appear in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, making a name for himself as a skilled mafia movie actor over the years. 'Sopranos' and 'Goodfellas' Actor Frank Vincent Dies at 80 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that Falcone and Borsellino were murdered within weeks of that ruling – they had proved the mafia existed and the mafia reacted by killing them. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z SEE ALSO: Bill Maher: ‘Gay mafia’ will take your career down ‘if you cross them’ Bill Maher: Christian faith in God is the ‘purposeful suspension of critical thinking’ 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Apart from the mafia, another major Sicilian influence on the books is linguistic. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z Specifically, he wants to unburden himself of the darkest secrets of the Russian mafia's global dealings. 'Our Kind of Traitor': John le Carr?'s novel of the world's number-one money launderer 2010-10-13T23:08:00Z Now, though, other gangs have moved in and the mafia have almost been sanitised into the mythology of New York's sepia-tinted heritage. Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano: my dad, the mafia underboss 2013-02-15T21:00:06Z Everyone from an old woman with life savings to mafia bosses in their Lamborghinis is happy as long as the markets are marching up. Hong Kong director calls markets "casino" in new movie 2011-09-09T16:02:25Z I ran the mafia’s phone sex line in New York when I was 15. “I reject the word ‘hoax'”: Laura Albert opens up about creating JT LeRoy 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z At the time of writing, the smart money was on Black Souls, a turbulent mafia drama about three brothers from a Calabrian crime syndicate. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z “Even the mafia all over the world has justice,” Mr. Yahia said. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z After emigrating to Turin, he gets a job at Fiat only because the mafia controls the unions there too. Mariangela Melato 2013-01-14T18:07:52Z For this isn't the world of Tony and Co, steeped in mafia lore and saturated in quotes from The Godfather and Goodfellas. Empire state of mind 2011-01-20T07:57:00Z U.S. actor Shia LaBeouf plays Charlie in "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman", about a young man who travels to Romania and gets embroiled in a dangerous rivalry with a mafia drug cartel. Berlin film festival looks east, hot topics in frame 2013-02-04T15:13:05Z And then the head of the Kansas City mafia goes into the hospital for routine surgery and dies. Chris Rock returns to TV to star in “Fargo” season 4, will play head of a crime family 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z For a long time the Neapolitan Camorra was much more difficult to write about than the Sicilian mafia. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z A strong contender for laziest mob movie ever made, the Boston-set Italian mafia tale "By the Gun" proves that what was once thrillingly exotic and coolly dangerous about gangster films is now hopelessly monotonous. Mob movie 'By the Gun' misses its mark 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It was a bit like embarking on a vacation in Italy with the modern mafia book “Gomorrah.” What We're Reading: Summer Edition 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Rattled and bruised, Ik-hyun is told he will be prosecuted as a central figure in the Korean mafia. Nameless Gangster: The Korean Mob Film Scorsese Would Be Proud Of 2012-04-10T10:45:25Z Tony looks like many other mafia characters we may have come across, but he's seeing a shrink. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z It also repudiated any notions of mafia glamor. Lessons from the case against the Calabrian mafia: Organized crime is global, and flourishing 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Last week's number one, horror movie Insidious: Chapter 2, slipped to two, while Robert DeNiro's mafia comedy The Family was in third. Prisoners thrills US box office 2013-09-23T11:35:14Z Tellingly, loyal peasants relate how Guzmán chartered aircraft to take their children to the state capital for medical treatment, like a good old-school mafia don. Mexico: How arrest of the last don heralds ruthless new drugs era 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Thorson says an East Coast mafia don gave him assurances that he needn’t worry about Mr. Nash. Scott Thorson, The Boy Toy’s Story 2013-05-10T21:40:24Z Sniffing out indie design and threads among the Zara-Camper-Swarovski-Mont Blanc mafia, however, requires a refined nose. 36 Hours in Cannes, France 2013-04-18T20:53:11Z I know that one of the themes of your book Mafia Brotherhoods is how the mafia exploits women and family relationships. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z As I say in my book Mafia Brotherhoods, Italy doesn’t just have a mafia, it has a criminal ecosystem in which existing mafias evolve and new ones come into being. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Congress passed Rico in 1970 to target the mafia as organized “criminal enterprises”. Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z She’s the C.E.O. and lead tour guide of Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours, which escorts brave souls on a 90-minute expedition around Brooklyn to the sites of battlefields, ghostly visitations, mafia executions and extraterrestrial encounters. It’s Ghost Tour Season 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z But don’t you think that the reason no cracks appeared in the élites has to do with the nature of a mafia state, which makes everyone dependent on the don? Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The series was shot mainly in the Naples periphery and production involved long negotiations with local community activists but, the producers insist, no dealings with the local mafia. Gritty Naples mafia series aims to join international TV boom 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z It was a short step to a job as assistant to the director Miguel Arteta, another member of Wesleyan’s movie mafia, on the film “Chuck & Buck,” starring and written by Mr. White. Sean Penn in Ruben Fleischer’s ‘Gangster Squad’ 2013-01-04T14:56:24Z Because of the extent of the damage, he sold off many costly possessions to avoid facing a confrontation with the mafia. Elliot Tiber, gay rights activist who helped make Woodstock possible, dies at 81 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z This is a very dense but absolutely brilliant attempt to use the insights of the Falcone-Borsellino investigations of the Buscetta confessions to shine a light back into history and ask: What is the mafia? Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z But more importantly than that, it aimed to establish a legal precedent for the existence of the Sicilian mafia. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z They’re harder to recognize, cloaked as they are in what for all appearances plays like a mafia drama. Review | There’s a little too much ‘Fargo’ in the new season of ‘Fargo,’ but the trip is still worth taking 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z As ruthless as the mafia minders who kneecap their victims with power drills is the MI6 spymaster Christopher Lawson, who regards all agents as dispensable. Audiobook review roundup 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z A pair of burly mafia goons sit at the bar, deep in Sopranos-style banter. Game on: The Darkness II 2012-02-09T20:59:02Z Walter T. Shaw, a filmmaker and former jewel thief for the mafia, started the group. Hollywood mobsters helping mom-and-pop theaters 2013-01-11T19:14:26Z The Sicilian mafia makes good copy – you’ve got the Godfather and the figure of the boss of bosses – and is easier to write about. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z The song, with a techno beat, was full of puns in Korean and contained the lines "I am a party mafia!" and the refrain, "I am a mother father gentleman". Korean rapper Psy releases single to follow "Gangnam" hit 2013-04-11T12:54:40Z At one point he describes the militias organized by the corrupt cops as “mafias,” and at times the movie suggests a cruder version of “The Godfather,” especially “Part 2.” | 'Elite Squad: The Enemy Within': ?Elite Squad: The Enemy Within,? From Brazil - Review 2011-11-10T23:40:07Z But the recent murder of a police officer investigating the “hormone mafia” makes him hesitant. Movie Review: ?Bullhead,? Directed by Michael R. Roskam 2012-02-16T23:52:20Z A few months later De Niro touched on the mafia comparisons again, calling Trump a “wannabe gangster” and “total loser” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Before this, the mafia covered itself up with Soviet ideology. Russia and Ukraine Have Long Been This Filmmaker’s Subject 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z It marked a strong opening for the film, in which Washington plays a former commando who finds himself in a battle with the Russian mafia. Washington's Equalizer tops chart 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Q&A: Café Tacvba lead singer on Mexico violence: 'We live between mafias' Where music meets art: Café Tacvba and Santa Cecilia join L.A. Phil to kick off PST LA/LA 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z “They used the same codes the mafia does,” Mason said. Circus of Books: behind a Netflix film about a mom-and-pop gay porn shop 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z She was only a teenager at the time and had to unlearn the mafia brainwashing that she had undergone since birth. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z It picks on an issue that is fascinating and historically very important – it’s about what the mafia does to women and the role that they have. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Last year alone, more than 140 journalists were threatened by them and there are still very high-level politicians being investigated for mafia links. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z The 1990 theft of Rembrandt's Storm On the Sea of Galilee is thought to have been the work of the mafia. Art heists: more Tony Soprano than George Clooney 2013-03-20T16:09:56Z At the point in history portrayed here, the "Limited" and the Fadda mafia are both outsiders to the mainstream economy left to cobble together their empires out of ill-gotten scraps. In "Fargo," comedian Chris Rock gets dramatic as a mob boss whose weapon of choice is the monologue 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Between a tautly edited nighttime showdown in a rail yard and a cathartic final confrontation between Santo and the mafia boss, there’s no shortage of high-octane brutality. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Hispanic gangs, the Chinese mafia and an Italian crime family are all the subjects of various and shifting feuds and alliances. Television: Postracial Vigilantes in a World in Peril 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z In his latest film, Denzel Washington takes on the Russian mafia in a reboot of 1980s TV series The Equalizer. Denzel Washington brings OCD element to The Equalizer 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In that way, "Saturday Night Live" has more in common with the mafia than any other TV show: No one ever really leaves. As 'SNL' season ends, signs of a coming shift 2012-05-16T15:26:12Z Stille puts the story of the Sicilian mafia in the context of postwar Italian politics, doesn’t he? Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Meanwhile, The Sopranos was about as easy to get out of, once you were in, as the mafia. Sky Atlantic and the box-set era 2011-01-31T22:00:01Z As he noted, his own mafia masterpiece, “Goodfellas,” directed by Martin Scorsese, would celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its première on September 19th. “The Godfather” at the Philharmonic 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s remarkably far-sighted, and one of the things that differentiates mafias from mere gangsters. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z “Goodfellas,” the Martin Scorsese mob movie released in 1990, opens with an iconic sequence: Mr. Bennett bellowing the opening lines “Rags to Riches,” as Ray Liotta’s character begins narrating his life in the mafia. ‘Conan,’ ‘Goodfellas’ and MTV: How Tony Bennett Revived His Career 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Dutton, no heart and all cattle, runs Yellowstone half like a business empire, half like a Big Sky mafia. Review: ‘Yellowstone’ Wrangles Daddy Issues on the Range 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z That's no act of filial piety; that was the surest sign that he was planning to go for the old man’s throat – as anyone who has seen a mafia film can attest. "Succession" ends its second season with a killer instinct 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z After the success of Gomorrah, Garrone was petitioned from many quarters to make another mafia film. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z Mr. Charters belonged to a coterie of blues historians who jokingly referred to each other as “the blues mafia.” Samuel Charters, influential blues historian and record producer, dies 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z It may seem bizarre, but Italy did not recognise the existence of the mafia until the Maxi trial. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z What you've also got to understand is that the mafia was a lifestyle to which everyone involved signed up. Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano: my dad, the mafia underboss 2013-02-15T21:00:06Z The unflinching crime world saga focuses on Lincoln Clay , a biracial orphan and Vietnam War vet, as he battles for control of the city's black mafia. At E3, game makers introduce more diverse heroes 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z Last month the court sentenced Dutt to five years in prison for illegal possession of weapons supplied by Muslim mafia bosses linked to the terror attack that killed 257 people in Mumbai. India actor Dutt wants time before prison term 2013-04-16T02:31:07Z It appeared to be something like mafia protection: Corona was briefly imprisoned for extortion and blackmail and emerged from jail a hideous, self-admiring celebrity. Film review: Videocracy 2010-06-23T21:20:00Z Some Like It Hot manages to deal with sex, cross-dressing, impotence and the mafia in what my colleague Xan Brooks called "a great, joyous yawp of a movie". Commission us: a library of kids' films 2010-10-11T13:50:00Z The latest is the Ted Cruz-loving song by Christian hip hoppers We Are Watchmen, who hail from the Chicago suburb Westchester, most notable until now as home for several important Chicago mafia members. Save us from Republicans who rap: “Remove this monster boot off the neck of our sovereign union” and … vote for Ted Cruz? 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z He is comfortable with the business of promotion: An affable speaker, he is familiar with the patois of fandom and is adept at generating buzz through the nerd mafia of like-minded collaborators. In ‘Redshirts,’ John Scalzi Gives Expendables a Life 2012-07-06T22:52:40Z He said Buscetta was like an interpreter who allowed him to finally speak and understand the language of the mafia. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Mr. Bennett also started playing himself in films and TV shows like “The Simpsons” and “Analyze This,” the 1999 mafia comedy film starring Robert De Niro. ‘Conan,’ ‘Goodfellas’ and MTV: How Tony Bennett Revived His Career 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z “It’s about an Australian who breaks out of jail and joins the Indian mafia,” said Mr. McFarland. Billy McFarland Is Out of Jail and Ready for His Next Move 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z It falls fully for that myth of the ancient culture of southern Italy which defends itself by forming this entity called the mafia. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z “I was known as the mother of the photographers’ mafia at the shows in Europe,” Ms. O’Hagan told Women’s Wear Daily when she retired. Helen O’Hagan, Fashion Executive Who Personified Saks, Dies at 89 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z For reasons I’ll withhold, he’s being trailed by two New York homicide detectives; Scorsese and Winter also can’t resist saddling him with sidebar mafia matters. ‘Vinyl’ is HBO’s HBO-iest show yet. That’s mostly a good thing. 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Sure, the mafia may have a stricter definition of masculinity than the rest of society. There’s a new macho sex boast 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z Someone with a thick mafia accent, who will say things like, “Youse guys need to listen up to dis ruling.…” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: My elderly dog could be a Supreme Court justice. Technically. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z "It's an international artefacts' mafia," he told reporters. Amid jihadi gains, priceless Iraqi artefacts hit black market 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The two Salvo cousins – who were probably both Men of Honour, as mafia initiates are known – ran the company that collected most of Sicily’s taxes and pocketed about 10% of the island’s tax revenue. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z It’s a bold move to make a woman in her late 40s the central character of a mafia show – but it’s now in its fifth season in Holland. 'It's better than The Sopranos': the foreign TV you'll be bingeing on this summer 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z We rejoin the regular, everyday mafia folk as they keep business as usual under the close eye of the law. TV highlights 10/08/201: Timothy Spall: Back At Sea 2011-08-09T22:00:01Z The mafia's cultural attention extends to newspapers and TV – they are not interested in fiction. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z Immediately I wanted to focus on this hormone mafia, which was a real crime organization — farmers and gangsters combined into one. Oscar Nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film Discuss Work 2012-02-20T22:38:12Z Within the system of overlapping male loyalties that mafia members and their affiliates subscribe to, murder is just standard practice – an easy way of clearing out those who make too much of a scene. Toxic avengers: what Scorsese and Tarantino's new films say about male violence 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z It takes Salander on an extended quest into her origins, with plotlines about religious fundamentalism and the long tentacles of the Russian mafia. Lisbeth Salander is back in ‘The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z The Irishman’s narrative revolves around Frank’s imperfect recollections of when he first became involved with the Italian mafia in his 40s through to his present day in a nursing home. Seen but not heard: why don't women speak in The Irishman? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Michael’s war with the mafia left him with a price on his head and a permanent target on his back. Review | ‘Eddie’s Boy,’ by Thomas Perry, continues the saga of a retired hit man who can’t escape his past 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z “Some Like it Hot” tells the story of two male musicians who witness a mafia murder and then, in an effort to disguise themselves, dress as women to join an all-female band. New Musical Version of ‘Some Like it Hot’ Is Headed for Broadway 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z He famously says that the mafia is a human creation and like all human creations it has a beginning and will have an end. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z The easiest way to define a mafia is as a freemasonry of criminals – it’s the freemasons for murderers – and that’s what the Cosa Nostra and ’Ndrangheta are. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Scorsese is an executive producer on the film, which stars 70-year-old De Niro as a mafia boss on the run with his family. De Niro plays mobster for laughs 2013-11-22T07:35:46Z As for the serious stuff: Montalbano’s right-hand man is kidnapped while working a case, alerting Montalbano to a smuggling operation and some scary mafia guys. Crime fiction from Sicily and Britain, and true tales of famous corpses 2013-03-07T20:45:06Z He also talks about how he launders his narcodollars – usually the mafia’s most tightly held secret. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z That doesn’t mean that the mafia is dead – far from it. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z "In the late 1980s, clans were starting to shoot at each other here, but the music beat off the creeping mafia presence as kids picked up instruments instead of guns." Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat 2011-08-27T23:07:14Z Related: Death, drugs and mafia law: can Juárez shed its murder capital tag? Mexican mayor calls for boycott of hit crime thriller Sicario 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Your books talk about myths and misconceptions of the mafia in Italy. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z The mafia’s men inside these authorities ensured that mafia businesses were awarded contracts for the construction and management of refugee reception centers. Lessons from the case against the Calabrian mafia: Organized crime is global, and flourishing 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z In fact, it did not formally recognise the existence of the Sicilian mafia until January 1992, when Italy’s Supreme Court issued a ruling approving the verdict of the Maxi trial. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z “That day was a really noisy day,” one of the lawyers on his defense team told me, describing the people who took him as “not police, just, like, mafia.” The Bizarre Trial of a Poet in Myanmar 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Yes, I have just finished his later book Beauty and the Inferno, which makes me feel guilty for touching anything Italian in my local supermarket lest it be tainted with the blood of mafia victims. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z The style of Berman's murder -- a single shot to the back of the head -- made it easy to speculate that it was a long-delayed mafia payback. The literary life (and death) of Susan Berman, alleged Robert Durst victim 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The mafia boss – who suffers from panic attacks, goes to a therapist, shoots, throttles, and bludgeons eight people to death with his own hands – was a huge character. In praise of... Tony Soprano 2013-06-20T23:47:55Z Normally this mafia ball-busting would be right up my street, but Frank’s endless visits to former associates have dulled quickly. True Detective season two, episode four recap – Down Will Come 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z To have gone to all the best schools, to have had every material comfort and to have got the vicarious respect of an entire community while her father was active in the mafia. Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano: my dad, the mafia underboss 2013-02-15T21:00:06Z But it promises to be frank about the other roles of the mafia in building Las Vegas, such as its skimming of casino takings to keep them from being taxed. Las Vegas mafia museums open new mob rivalry 2010-04-25T17:05:00Z It was in an effort to get that more brutally mundane version of mafia life on screen that Scorsese first called Pileggi, out of the blue. Nicholas Pileggi: the mob, Nora Epron's death and Vegas 2013-02-03T07:02:31Z Now Amelia is Rush's client, and she needs his protection from the Russian mafia and his help in finding Tony Guzman, Rush's friend and colleague who worked the elder Trask's security detail. Phoef Sutton's thriller, 'Crush,' takes a criminally entertaining cruise around L.A. 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh were unveiled, barely damaged, at an Amsterdam museum on Tuesday, 14 years after they were stolen in a mafia heist. Stolen Van Gogh paintings back in Amsterdam after 14 years 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z By no means has Tony rendered mafia fiction a monolith of reverent stupidity. The Sopranos at 20: how the hit show changed the gangster genre 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Maybe “Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, space monkey, mafia” is not the most poetic line that the Piano Man has ever penned. Even Billy Joel Mocked ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire.’ I Loved It. 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Season four of "Game of Thrones" kicked off on April 6 with an average of 6.6 million viewers, the largest HBO audience since the 2007 finale of mafia drama "The Sopranos." HBO backs tech comedy 'Silicon Valley' for second season 2014-04-21T20:31:44Z Meanwhile, there were many crummy characters — including the mafias of several nations — exploiting the ostentatious wealth displayed by visitors. In St. Tropez, the Rolling Stones made "Exile on Main St." — and turned rock stars into high society 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Lead character Jackie Estacado is a mafia don possessed by a demon, his condition taking the form of snake-like tendrils and an aversion to light, and he is capable of doing some extremely reprehensible things. The Darkness II ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:42Z In Naples, where I grew up, during the mafia war of 2004, the upcoming camorra members modelled themselves on gangsters from film and TV – The Matrix, The Crow, Pulp Fiction and, more recently, Breaking Bad. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z I see a man pretending to be tough, a wannabe mafia boss. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Aided by first–hand recollections from former mafia faces, we're taken through the rise to prominence of the five key New York families, and the uneasy alliances they forged. TV highlights 13/02/2013 2013-02-13T07:00:03Z When I go into a restaurant I like the mafia spot: at the back, facing the door, I never ever leave my back exposed. Rumer: 'Culture is mediocre because most interesting people are under a duvet' 2012-05-23T14:37:21Z The parties that had ruled Cold War Italy – the Communists and the Christian Democrats – folded and a new political reality emerged from the chaos of mafia bombs and corruption scandals. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Jennifer Lawrence has been missing from action for far too long; this is her ball-busting comeback, as a New York mafia mum who becomes an FBI informant. The most exciting movies of 2020 – crime films and thrillers 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z This week we got The Godsister, a mafia musical set in a Chicago malt shop. Rewind radio: Vanessa Feltz; Music Planet; Showstopper ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:21Z The Swedes appear in masks to the warmest welcome any mafia members have received in Vegas for years. Swedish House Mafia: 'We don't travel on jets every day' 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z That we have MPs and senators involved with the mafia. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z There's a veritable mafia of "Saturday Night Live" alumni involved with the 3D animated "Hotel Transylvania." 'Hotel Transylvania': a cute monster mash with 'SNL' vets in cast 2012-09-27T20:22:06Z Filmmakers looking for funds often turned to Mumbai's shadowy building and criminal mafia bosses, who pumped their undeclared earnings into the country's fast-growing movie industry. India court upholds actor Sanjay Dutt's conviction 2013-03-21T12:43:08Z A washed-up novelty singer refuses to do the bidding of his mafia overlords, with disastrous results, in Reed Farrel Coleman’s “Look at Me/Don’t Look at Me.” Partners in crime: Lawbreakers and music, in a new short-story collection 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The biggest crooks of all are the “oil- management mafia”, who divert at least 10% of oil production for private gain. No fantasy 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z All the gay leather and cowboy bars were run by the New Jersey mafia. The Last Living Bohemian in Chelsea Tells All 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Maybe the Bay Area is indeed filled with what a twitter response to the piece called the “crunchy mom mafia,” and maybe not. Motherlode Blog: The 'Pregnancy Police' Are Everywhere (Even in Your Head) 2012-04-11T15:25:03Z If you look at the mafia architecture of cities, all the ornamental 80s chandelier stuff, the music sounds like that. Ondatrópica's wild gig in a Bogotá squat 2012-07-04T16:47:22Z This place was Medium Rare, a good but odd restaurant that offers no choices, like a mafia don with a proposal and a gun. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: When the steaks are high, you act on your gut 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z "I really didn't care about the mafia or the drug cartels or any of that," says Escalante. The Heli director on why his film was too brutal – and honest – for Cannes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “One, because it’s the character that looks the most like me, and I like him. I love the idea of a Hutt type of mafia, a very complex coup. I just love the character.” An Obi-Wan-possessed Luke and the 'lost' Star Wars films you'll never see 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z He's invited the mafia to London to secure their investment when, without warning, one of his gang, charged with taking Harold's mother to church, is blown up in his car. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z Not that the temptation to play the mafia princess didn’t exist. Victoria Gotti Is Back in a Big Way on Your Teensy Screens 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z “It was like how the American mafia used to be influenced by ‘The Godfather’ movies. ‘Snabba Cash’ Depicts a Sweden Flowing with Money and Blood 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z By Monday, conspiracy theorist websites were portraying the decision to pull Vaxxed as an act of censorship perpetuated by the “vaccine mafia”. How the scientific community united against Tribeca's anti-vaccination film 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Caesar Must Die, a docudrama directed by brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, follows prisoners – some of whom are serving time for murder and mafia crimes – as they rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Cannes 2012: fomer mafia killer is a hit 2012-05-20T16:01:42Z The Saigon of the 1990s comes vividly alive in this swooning period drama by Leon Le, which collides the glamorous world of cai luong, or Vietnamese folk opera, with the grimy underworld of the mafia. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Whereas Berlusconi and Bush have come and gone as targets in the books, the mafia has, like the Vatican, been a constant background presence. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z Turns out he is evading a mafia family, whose diamonds he purloined in the robbery for which he went down. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-02-18T08:00:01Z They used mafialike tactics, and they would forcefully recruit child soldiers. M.I.A.?s Agitprop Pop 2010-05-26T04:15:00Z It followed the depressed mafia boss Tony Soprano balancing his ruthless illegal business with raising a family. ‘The Sopranos’ creators look back at a TV show that slayed 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z He is angered by what he sees as Hollywood's glamorisation and mythologising of the mafia – the books feature sarcastic asides about The Godfather – and aims to counter this with more realistic and critical depictions. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z Garcia is best known for his roles as a mafia boss in "The Godfather Part III" and a casino kingpin in the "Ocean's Eleven" franchise. Andy Garcia tapped as Bacchus for Mardi Gras 2011-02-15T19:10:23Z The planes kept blowing up and falling out of the sky – generally on their way from Rome, which I would have found suspicious, and maybe tried to pin on the mafia. A Great British Air Disaster; Beat the Ancestors – TV review 2013-02-25T07:00:18Z Guccione had also decided to build a casino in Atlantic City but, he later alleged, the FBI immediately began to investigate him on suspicion of mafia connections. Bob Guccione obituary 2010-10-21T17:51:00Z This year, a film based on an Indian operation to capture a fictional mafia don given asylum in Pakistan riled Pakistan's censor board. New blockbuster movie shows why Pakistan loves to hate India 2013-10-25T10:57:33Z It dramatises the darker side of Sinatra, a performer whose business interests were allegedly mixed up with the mafia for most of his career, and whose shadier connections were constantly monitored by the FBI. From a musician to a rock star 2011-08-23T14:55:40Z But he was also looking for a new style, something bolder than the “white shirt mafia,” he said. Windsor Custom at the Ainsworth 2011-12-14T23:34:36Z In the last phase of his career, when he was working in Rome, he set up the national coordinating structures for investigating and prosecuting mafia crime based on his methods. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z It’s a horrible story that just gives a sense of the extraordinary stakes involved in being a woman inside that mafia culture. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z He may have decided that he could do something different; to reveal some deeper truth about our times, as only a good mafia film can do. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Prey of the begging mafia ... street children in Karachi. Mice, Mullahs and the Begging Mafia; All Songs Considered – radio review 2013-06-07T06:00:08Z A helpful neighbor explains that “the mafia . . . pay two thousand dollars for one gall, grind up the gall salt and sell it to the Chinese for medicine.” Review | Deep in the heart of Virginia, it’s man vs. bear 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The mafia is not interested in the novels. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z “The Emanuels are Jewish mafia. It’s not that Jews are bad. It’s just that they are the head of the Jewish mafia in the United States.” How Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, got Donald Trump’s ear 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z And we, the civil class, form part of those mafias. Café Tacvba lead singer on Mexico violence: 'We live between mafias' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z I'd been trying to find work as a director for two years, but was unable to penetrate the university mafia still dominating British theatre. RIP Lanford Wilson: the man who saved me as a playwright 2011-03-31T10:44:51Z This is a very specific mafia form of behaviour to do with the politics of the organisations and with finding ways to project their power and wealth down through the generations. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z To this day, when I picture Big Brother, I imagine a Bollywood-style mafia don, moustachioed and resplendent in burnt orange robes and chunky gold rings shaped like hammers and sickles. Summer readings: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 2011-08-06T08:00:02Z But he will be best remembered as troubled gangster Soprano who struggled to juggle his family life and his career as a mafia boss over the show's six seasons. James Gandolfini dies aged 51 2013-06-20T00:24:35Z In the insults to the monarchy, he described the former king as “a mafia mobster, pillaging the Spanish kingdom.” EXPLAINER: Why Spaniards are rioting over rapper’s jailing 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z The reaction from the financial mafia has been appropriately apoplectic. Six reasons we may have another bank crisis 2012-08-20T17:53:00Z And in this one as well: the hormone mafia is completely serving the whole tragedy. The Carpetbagger: A Crime Tragedy, not a Crime Drama 2012-02-16T14:11:26Z Mr. Thomazeau’s noir novels take inspiration from the city’s perpetual state of transition and the dark undercurrents — a powerful mafia, municipal corruption, crooked cops and petty thieves — that have given the city a less-than-stellar reputation. Two French Cities, Neither of Them Paris. Which One to Love? 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z She played Tony Soprano’s daughter Meadow in “The Sopranos,” an HBO television drama that followed the fortunes of a New Jersey mafia family. 'Sopranos' TV star's ex-husband found guilty in pump-and-dump case 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z In 1918 New Orleans, a new style of music takes hold as the Spanish flu, the mafia and a serial killer ravage the city. New in Paperback: ‘King Zeno,’ ‘The Monk of Mokha’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z But this last trial of an ageing mafia soldier did seem like one final glowing ember from a flaming era of organised crime that has already died down. Goodfellas may have gone but the gangster films remain 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The history we see is how Irish organized crime usurped the underworld from the Jewish mob, and then how the Italian mafia supplanted that structure. "Fargo" season 4 has spun a complex, compelling American fable of race and crime 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z “He runs his administration in a way which prizes loyalty above all else, as if he’s kind of a mafia don,” he said. 'They refused to act': inside a chilling documentary on Trump's bungled Covid-19 response 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z He used Bulger’s information to take down the Italian mafia, and make his career. Black Mass: the glamorization of Whitey Bulger muddles an already murky story 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z In that way, “Saturday Night Live” has more in common with the mafia than any other TV show: No one ever really leaves. As ?SNL? season ends, signs of a coming shift 2012-05-16T04:30:00Z Each has previously been the subject of big biographies, but in this account they are interviewed along with scores of PayPal personnel — sometimes known as “the PayPal mafia” for their ruthless insularity. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z A bar in Mexicali’s Chinatown claims to be connected to an underground tunnel network that was apparently subject to a shared-use agreement between Capone and the Chinese mafia to shuttle booze under the border. In Tijuana, searching for Al Capone 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z “He was the mafia,” shout the youthful demonstrators in the street, thus laying out the movie’s particular logic. ‘Illustrious Corpses’: A Mafia Thriller Heavy With Metaphors 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z In addition to their own excesses, the three end up battling the Russian mafia and enduring an FBI investigation, while Harris tries to maintain his front of a normal family man. "Middle" man Luke Wilson makes hard work look easy 2010-08-16T03:53:00Z Sunset Park is Brooklyn and in the greater scheme of things it might as well be Siberia, not to mention the home base of the Russian mafia. A Debate Over the Home of New York’s Fashion Industry 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Talk among the actors turned to Rao’s, the East Harlem Italian restaurant and former mafia canteen, where reservations are harder to come by than a don’s forgiveness. ‘The Irishman’ Opens the New York Film Festival 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z As Jack Nicholson says in Martin Scorsese's The Departed: "They just will not stop having the mafia in Providence." Art heists: more Tony Soprano than George Clooney 2013-03-20T16:09:56Z Godfather II showed the immigrant origins of the mafia and also their attempts to grow more respectable by inching their tentacles into the US political establishment. Greatest Oscar winners ever: who is the best director of all time? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The 70's mafia epic bested a powerful contender—Lord of the Rings: Return of the King—for this year's top spot. The Readers Have Spoken: The Godfather Wins TIME's BEST Best Picture Competition 2012-02-24T17:10:48Z Before he entered the record business, Averne “ran errands for the local mafia guys,” he said, worked in diaper service and family photo sales, and had his own successful home improvement business. How the Record Man Harvey Averne Helped Take Latin Music Worldwide 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z There are relatively few books on the mafia by outsiders – if one can really call Stille an outsider – that become classics in Italy, and this is one of them. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z If he wants to expand his repertoire into mafia tactics, he'd better hope that Vanessa sticks around: I hear she does a nice line in horse carcasses. EastEnders: pass the sick bags, Ian Beale's pulled 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z He plays Don Antonio, a mafia boss who at 75 is haunted by the memory of the person he killed when he was a teenager. Ian McKellen: 'My ambition is to get better as an actor' 2011-08-24T19:59:01Z Will Ferrell will star in a third version, The Match Maker, focused more on Riggs and speculation that he threw the match at the request of the mafia to pay off gambling debts. 3 Different Movies About Billie Jean King Are in the Works 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The mafia and the people who were the money people behind New York, they’re not really good at employee relations. ‘The Deuce’ Jumps Ahead to the ’80s and Sees the Future 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z He’s advanced the time to just after World War II, so there are cigarettes and mafia allusions and a Vespa. One Work of Dance, Theater and More to Experience This Weekend 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z He began running errands for Paul Vario, a capo, or underboss, for the Luccheses, one of the New York mafia's "five families". Henry Hill obituary 2012-06-13T17:54:00Z “Illustrious Corpses” is based on the novel, “Equal Danger,” by Leonardo Sciascia, a Sicilian author who wrote often about the mafia, ultimately as metaphor. ‘Illustrious Corpses’: A Mafia Thriller Heavy With Metaphors 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Here, though, interviewed along with scores of PayPal personnel — sometimes known as “the PayPal mafia” for their ruthless insularity — they are just two moneyed young men trying to lasso the moon, and often missing. Ambitions and Emotions Run Hot in ‘The Founders,’ a History of PayPal 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z “We like say that we are so poor that even the mafia isn’t interested in us,” she said, wryly. An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The law has been used to target the mafia for organized criminal behavior. Six women file class-action lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and 'complicit producers' 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z You’ve got guys who look like Chinese mafia with their young girlfriends. Charles Phan’s Tastes of Vietnam 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Sons Of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter continues to turn his attention to the backgrounds of America's most notorious criminal collectives with this potted history of the Italian mafia. TV highlights 13/02/2013 2013-02-13T07:00:03Z Brushes with the mafia, the US colour bar and the Cuban revolution lead to personal tragedies. Chico & Rita ? review 2010-11-21T00:07:00Z After the reality set in that only Versailles mafia oligarchs could afford Brooklyn real estate, my husband and I began to browse north for our dream weekend escape cabin. Betty Gilpin: The First Time I Bought a Crumbling 1834 Farmhouse 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Not only is it very badly written, but it also gets the mafia wrong in one crucial respect – it thinks it is about family and not about organisation. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Historically the mafias have developed very specific forms to suit their business activities. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z “When he said ‘flip houses,’ I thought, Is this some mafia thing? The New Kid Who Loves Old Houses 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z An exposé of the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, it sold over 10m copies. On the cocaine trail 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z It's Wilde's love that dare not speak its name translated into a conspiratorial cross between the mafia's omerta and the US military's "don't ask, don't tell". Behind the Candelabra – review 2013-06-08T23:07:01Z At one point my head was whipped back and forth like a mafia stoolie being slapped silly by his don. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A few (end of) life hacks for the young geezers 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Visiting a man whose son was killed in a regional drug war, Pope Francis on Saturday declared that members of the mafia “are excommunicated” from the Catholic Church. Pope Francis: Mobsters are excommunicated from Catholic Church 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z The demand is being primed not by the underground mafia, not by the underworld gang, but by the legitimate doctor, overprescribing for all kinds of things that probably don't need it. Sam Quinones outlines the path of addiction from painkiller to heroin 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z “Farmers, shepherds, they are not people that the mafia is interested in. They are simple, but incredibly generous.” An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z While the mafia old guard might hide a body in the concrete of a flyover, the new organisations make their brutality as public as possible. Mexico: How arrest of the last don heralds ruthless new drugs era 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z In the film Congo demonstrates how he preferred to strangle his victims with wire, taking inspiration from a mafia movie. No Indonesia return, says director 2014-02-18T11:48:36Z Perhaps the idea of a mafia "soldier" put the idea into the heads of casting directors, or perhaps something in his mighty frame filled out a military uniform rather well. James Gandolfini's film career: much more than just another wiseguy 2013-06-20T17:00:00Z This time Skarsgard portrays a man who works clearing snow but gets caught up with the drug mafia. From Tokyo to Texas, Berlin festival films dissect family life 2014-01-16T15:52:45Z In The Trip to Italy, though, his jealousy is sparked when Rob is offered a part in a Michael Mann mob film as a mafia accountant. Coogan and Brydon reunite for Italian job 2014-01-22T09:43:48Z Yes, in fact, these criminal gangs that took power in 1917 and that hold power today, there’s no difference between them and any other mafia. Russia and Ukraine Have Long Been This Filmmaker’s Subject 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z In the film, directed by Matteo Garrone, known for Naples mafia movie “Gomorrah”, the burglars shut the chihuahua in a freezer to stop it yapping. Brave Chihuahua from Italian crime movie wins Palm Dog 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Immediately I knew that I wanted to focus on this hormone mafia, which was a real, existing crime organization in my country. The Carpetbagger: A Crime Tragedy, not a Crime Drama 2012-02-16T14:11:26Z So when she asks if he met any real mafia making The Godfather and he replies, "Of course I did", she doesn't follow up. An Evening With Al Pacino – review 2013-06-03T00:08:35Z Police had a finger on the pulse of the Stonewall Inn and many other gay bars because the mafia ran and funded most of them. Stonewall is in our blood: How the new film’s white gay hero is the latest effort to erase trans activists of color 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z What’s more, I digest pizza poorly, I eat very little spaghetti, I don’t speak in a loud voice, I don’t gesticulate, I hate all mafias, I don’t exclaim “Mamma mia!” Elena Ferrante: ‘Yes, I’m Italian – but I’m not loud, I don’t gesticulate and I’m not good with pizza’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z This older, end-of-the-line gangster, Gandolfini says, completes an arc for him of mafia men, a kind of epilogue of the "last, most pathetic one in the end." In bite-sized roles, Gandolfini ubiquitous again 2012-12-24T16:26:08Z The mafia is active in parts of New England, too. Art heists: more Tony Soprano than George Clooney 2013-03-20T16:09:56Z But they didn't, so it was then on to the main business of double-cross and triple-cross with the New York and Chicago mafias that I suspect will become the main staple of future episodes. TV review: Boardwalk Empire, A Farmer's Life for Me 2011-02-02T07:00:05Z I missed my mom's perfect tree and her Burning Man of gift packaging and even the Santa mafia, with their beady eyes and wooden teeth and distinct fashionable ensembles. Embracing my family's quirky holiday traditions from far away 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z That explains a lot about his attraction to the mafia. The peak of Sinatra’s power: “Every Sinatra performance was acting. His greatest performance was as himself” 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z They wanted their children to have a different life, away from the blood and killing of the mafia; and they had all been accused of having an affair. Lessons from the case against the Calabrian mafia: Organized crime is global, and flourishing 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z The crime video game focuses on character Lincoln Clay's revenge against the Italian mafia in 1968 in the city of New Bordeaux, a fictional recreation of New Orleans. Ice Cube creates original song for 'Mafia III' video game 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Beyond time travel, the mafia shootouts, the sex — all of it now hangs on the unstable emotions of an adolescent. Looper Debrief: Come for the Time Travel, Stay for the Creepy (Brilliant) Devil Boy 2012-10-01T12:00:36Z They don't make up a slander that you're having an affair, or taking money from the mafia. Amexica: on the frontline of the Mexican drugs trade 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Inspired by "The Godfather" movies and the film "Some Like it Hot," Miller turned the Duke into a mafia boss and Rigoletto into a waiter at a mob hangout. Sin City Duke: Met moves `Rigoletto' to Las Vegas 2013-01-23T18:25:11Z "Someone online said, 'Who do they think they are, the Swedish house mafia?'" explains manager Amy Thomson. Swedish House Mafia: 'We don't travel on jets every day' 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z For Francesco Calderoni, a mafia expert who teaches at Sacred Heart University in Milan, a major flaw of the show is that “while they base everything on judicial sources, they don’t include judicial action.” ‘Gomorrah’ Is Back, as Bloody (and Gripping) as Ever 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z “The mafia killed him,” one orator later announces at the judge’s funeral. ‘Illustrious Corpses’: A Mafia Thriller Heavy With Metaphors 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z "Today crime fiction depicting Italy has the task of escaping the stereotypes of good food and beauty on the one hand but also the old-fashioned mafia cliches on the other hand," said De Cataldo. Italian authors' invasion is set to conquer the crime fiction lists 2011-01-09T00:06:39Z In Italian mafia parlance, there are two different concepts – of a penitente, and of a pentito – the former begs forgiveness, the latter squeals on his former comrades in exchange for leniency in sentencing. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z They didn’t possess his blend of peacockish flamboyance and vicious invective; the sense that he has plucked his personal style from a low-rent mafia flick. Ageing bulls: have Robert De Niro’s roles inspired Donald Trump? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Instead, the real twist revealed by the documents was the ongoing and close relationship between the New York based mafia, and its progenitor in Sicily - where six of the suspects were detained. International mafia bust shows US-Italy crime links still strong 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Police said the Italian suspects were charged with mafia association and other related crimes, while those arrested in the U.S. were charged with criminal association, extortion, arson, conspiracy and bid rigging. Seventeen arrested in joint Italo-U.S. raid against Sicilian mafia 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z It was “a different memoir” at first, Chin explained, “focused on my middle-school years being a kid. It was just crazy stories about my grandmother and my grandfather who ran the Chinese mafia.” How a Chinese restaurant in Detroit taught a queer L.A. writer everything he knows 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z Secret meetings, whispered threats -- the price-fixing case against tuna companies sounds like a mafia story. Column: Google's dominance affects us all. Why is its trial being held in secret? 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z A subplot in the trial concerned a Corsican mafia connection. Rédoine Faïd: France's jailbreak king guilty of helicopter escape 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z "How is it different from any other mafia indictment you've ever seen? All you have to do is change the names," Mr Richman said. International mafia bust shows US-Italy crime links still strong 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z We have sort of a Greek mafia, you know, in town. Over a Greek dish, John Stamos reflects on how his parents, grief and sobriety shaped his memoir 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z In one recorded conversation, Pratt explained that he had cozied up to Trump and his allies because they were “like the mafia,” adding, “You want to be a customer, not a competitor.” Trump’s chatter with Aussie billionaire could create "additional Espionage Act charges" 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Jason Fagone: …and this is the rise of the mafia of, of the mob. This Code Breaking Quaker Poet Hunted Nazis 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z As foreign drug mafias have joined forces with local prison and street gangs they have transformed entire swaths of the country, extorting businesses, recruiting young people, infiltrating the government and killing those who investigate them. Six Accused of Murdering Ecuadorean Presidential Candidate Are Found Dead 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Their names could have been ripped from the kind of Hollywood mafia script that once dominated US cinema. International mafia bust shows US-Italy crime links still strong 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z It could not accept what he called a "grey zone" with Karabakh's own armed security forces, which he likened to the mafia, on Azerbaijani territory, he said. Insight: In taking Karabakh, Azerbaijan's president avenged his father 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Citing anonymous sources, El Universal reported that Costa Rican security officials contacted local "mafia networks" linked to Mexico's notorious Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels to ask them to cut the violence. Costa Rica launches probe into report government talked with gangs 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z One insider had previously described the trust in an interview as "a bit like the mafia". University Hospitals Birmingham: Half of staff felt bullied 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z “This is not going to stop until they put a stop to the mafia in Necocli.” Wave of migrants that halted trains in Mexico started with migrant smuggling industry in Darien Gap 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z However, as the initial excitement waned, experts observed that the latest round-up - which snared 16 alleged mafia members - was unlikely to have a major effect on criminal operations. International mafia bust shows US-Italy crime links still strong 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Many prosecutions have relied on high-level associates — think mafia underboss Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano or, in Trump’s case, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows — turning on their former bosses. Column: What Trump's assistant told investigators about classified records — and why it's so damning 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z He’s also negotiating with the most powerful of Colombia’s mutating armed groups – from leftist guerrillas to smaller trafficking mafias – in an effort to get them to demobilize simultaneously. Colombia’s president has a plan for ‘total peace.’ But militias aren’t putting down their guns yet 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z He’s also negotiating with the most powerful of Colombia’s armed groups – from leftist guerrillas to smaller trafficking mafias – in an effort to get them to demobilize simultaneously. President Gustavo Petro’s plan for ‘total peace’ in Colombia: Takeaways from AP’s report 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z "The government has issued strict orders against unauthorised money changers and other mafias." Pakistan's military helps stifle currency black market to stabilise rupee 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z In such a climate, some observers questioned whether the latest arrests would be seen as a serious blow to the mafia. International mafia bust shows US-Italy crime links still strong 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z And as the president-elect said Friday, there are still four months before he takes office “during which these political mafias will try to consummate the coup d’etat.” Guatemala’s electoral authority blocks the suspension of President-elect Arévalo’s political party 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s clear Fuqua has been watching his Italian mafia movies, and he revels in the visual drama offered by the setting and subgenre. ‘The Equalizer 3’ review: Denzel returns for even more carnage 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Under President Alejandro Giammattei, Guatemala has edged ever closer to becoming a mafia state, and the powerful vested interests that profit from the way things are will fight Arévalo tooth and nail. Opinion: Guatemala chose a new pro-reform president. Can he stem corruption and migration? 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z “It’s not a state, it’s not Russia. It’s just one sprawling mafia, one tentacle of which is colliding with others,” said Dmitry Oreshkin, a professor at Free University in Riga, Latvia. Prigozhin’s purported demise seems intended to send a clear message to potential Kremlin foes 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z The indictments also outline an obsession with respect among some mafia members. International mafia bust shows US-Italy crime links still strong 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z “It’s all lies. I can’t even fix my faucet,” she said, calling the country’s rulers “mafias.” Four years into crisis, Lebanon’s leaders hope tourism boom will help bypass reforms in IMF bailout 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Indeed they rival those levied against the New York mafia figures Rudy Giuliani once prosecuted while with the Department of Justice. Folks, the wait was worth it: Donald Trump is going to prison 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z But indictments under the law, passed in the 1970s to help take down organised crime groups like the mafia, are complex and resource intensive, experts say. Trump's court time in Fulton County will be quick. Others die waiting 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z In the early 1980s, Mr Giuliani famously used the Rico Act to aggressively target the "Five Families" of New York City's Italian-American mafia. Rudy Giuliani jailed mobsters with a charge he now faces 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z The killing was the highest-profile New York mafia murder in decades and fuelled false speculation of an assassination by a rival family. International mafia bust shows US-Italy crime links still strong 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Gálvez, 60, who holds progressive views although she represents a conservative party, shot to fame in recent months after the president began talking about her, saying she represented the “mafia of power.” 'I have enough ovaries to apply the law.' As gender enters a presidential race, will it matter? 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z To that end, Trump's lawyers could claim that he was charged for political reasons by Willis, an elected Democrat, and argue that her use of a racketeering law originally aimed at mafia bosses is excessive. Analysis: Georgia criminal charges: Trump's chances and challenges 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z U.S. lawmakers passed the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in 1970 to battle organized crime, notably the mafia. Explainer: Trump charged under law used to prosecute mafia bosses 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z "Ecuador is living its bloodiest moment. We owe this to the total abandonment of an inept government and a state taken over by mafias," Gonzalez said. Organizer for Ecuador ex-President Correa's party killed -party leaders 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Italian prosecutors said the response was "a clear reference to the fact that a bloody mafia war would have certainly erupted had the killer been from another mafia clan". International mafia bust shows US-Italy crime links still strong 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z He added he will not negotiate with "any mafia." Party of assassinated candidate in Ecuador taps a new replacement 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z His government blames bloodshed on the streets and in prisons on criminal infighting to control drug trafficking routes used by Mexican cartels, the Albanian mafia and others. Ecuador in shock after presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio assassinated 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z The mafia in the U.S. has largely been dismantled, and RICO's application has been broadened to many other types of organized criminal activity. Explainer: Trump charged under law used to prosecute mafia bosses 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z As well as being a sculptor, Nick Reynolds is also a member of British band Alabama 3, whose song Woke Up This Morning was used over the opening credits of TV mafia drama The Sopranos. Great Train Robbery: Bruce Reynolds' son on 60th anniversary 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z While the arrests may not cause serious challenges to the mafia, the indictments do indicate that FBI attention has again returned to organised crime, says former US Justice Department prosecutor Joseph Moreno. International mafia bust shows US-Italy crime links still strong 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Its particular focus was whether the mafia were involved. Blood, cocaine and questions - the death of 'the Pirate' 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z In January, this year, an Italian mafia boss who was on the run for decades was arrested after a Google Maps sighting. Italian fugitive caught in Corfu thanks to photo celebrating football win 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Referring to the fictional television mafia boss Tony Soprano, Mr. Buell added, “Tony Soprano can’t invoke the First Amendment for telling his crew he wants someone whacked.” Trump Election Charges Set Up Clash of Lies Versus Free Speech 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z We put away a number of mafia bosses that we didn't have a lot of direct evidence against. Former Trump prosecutor on his latest indictment: "Trump has no way to escape at this point" 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s difficult to say what cut the cartels themselves take, though most migrants who sneak across the border pay what agents call a “mafia fee,” or tax for using their routes to cross. Smuggling cartels still raking in cash despite lower border numbers 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z When it came to Pantani's failed blood test at the 1999 Giro, a well-known criminal claimed his mafia contacts had foreseen the race's dramatic finale. Blood, cocaine and questions - the death of 'the Pirate' 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The so-called PayPal mafia that would go on to dominate the tech world were then constrained by serving customers and the bottom line. Column: Elon Musk has replaced Twitter with X — and an actual business with science fiction 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z California authorities have also used geofence warrants to investigate a Mexican mafia killing and other crimes. Effort to curb police use of Google data stalls as California lawmakers struggle to shield abortion seekers 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z The finding comes after Italy's largest agricultural trade group, Coldiretti, condemned the Cosa Nostra product for associating itself with the Sicilian mafia. Shops asked to halt mafia-themed Scotch whisky orders 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z He said that those in power were a "mafia that is ready to kill the entire nation... in order to keep its power, money and weapons". Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi jailed over anti-government protests 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z But a government commission looking into mafia activities was less sure. Blood, cocaine and questions - the death of 'the Pirate' 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Local mafia again exercise lazy control from the doorways of this vast housing estate south of Paris; their guns on show, their faces hidden. France riots: Can Paris prevent tensions igniting again? 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z The mafia fee can range anywhere from a couple hundred dollars to $2,000 per person, according to The Washington Times’ database of smuggling cases. DHS opens wider door for illegal immigrants to schedule their arrivals 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z For example, in a Tuesday morning post on his Truth Social disinformation social media website, Trump raged against special counsel Jack Smith, threatening his family like some type of mafia boss: Why Donald Trump can't simply keep quite — even when facing prison 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Suspects, including politicians from the 'Ndrangheta home region of Calabria, face charges including mafia association, murder, extortion, fraud, rigging of public contracts, bribery and vote buying, police said in a statement. More than 30 arrested in latest Italy raid against 'Ndrangheta mafia 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z At a news conference outside the Capitol held by state Republicans to celebrate Grenell, the former Trump administration official lambasted Democratic policies and what he called “the gay left mafia.” Democrats walk off California Senate floor after Republicans honor Richard Grenell for Pride Month 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z The cartels also usually take a flat “mafia fee” of about $1,000 for allowing the use of their smuggling routes. Public backs GOP calls for U.S. military to attack Mexican cartels 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z "To me, it's a bit like a mafia," said Sam Zirah, an online content creator who founded the YouTube and Twitch show AJA, commenting on pop culture, social media and reality TV. Influencers in firing line as France tackles scams 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Another 10 proceedings ended with a preliminary judge deciding to drop the case without going to trial, including one where he was investigated for alleged connections to the mafia. Silvio Berlusconi's many court battles, one sole conviction 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The only thing standing in his way on many issues is the Supreme Court, which López Obrador has relentlessly attacked as part of an antidemocratic “mafia of power” that rules in favor of the rich. One party has governed Mexico's biggest state for a century. It looks as if that is about to change 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z I once heard the lead singer of a punk band declare, in English, on stage, that the Communist Party is the mafia. Beijing's comedy crackdown is hitting its music scene 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z I said, “Best-case scenario, it’s a hit movie and I get kidnapped by the Russian mafia.” The story behind the true-life train robbery that got Bert Kreischer his first film close-up in 'The Machine' 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Kuciak had investigated relations between politicians and business, including the Italian mafia. Outcry after Slovak court clears businessman in journalist's murder 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z It revealed the presence of notorious 'Ndrangheta mobsters from Italy in Slovakia and alleged business links between a mafia member and two senior government advisers. Marian Kocner: Businessman cleared of ordering murders that rocked Slovakia 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z Calabria is home to the 'Ndrangheta, which has supplanted Sicily's Cosa Nostra as Italy's most powerful mafia organisation and plays a central role in the drugs trade. Italian police find $880 million of cocaine stashed in banana crates 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Italian police have arrested a further 61 suspected members of Italy's most powerful mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, in a series of raids across seven regions. Italian mafia: Police arrest 61 suspected 'Ndrangheta in widespread raids 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z The 'Ndrangheta, which has its roots in Calabria, has surpassed Cosa Nostra as the most powerful mafia group in the country, and operates in more than 40 countries around the world. Italy's 'Ndrangheta targeted in police raids across Europe 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z By contrast, Hansen said, he is proposing to create an environmentally sustainable sanctuary that would generate jobs for the local Indigenous communities and diminish the influence of the “mafias” that are destroying the area. What was behind the protest against an archaeologist at last week's L.A. Times Book Festival 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z He has built his campaign on a pledge to root out the “mafia” that he said controlled Paraguay. Paraguay Picks a New President: What You Need to Know 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Although many communities were not fans of these “timber mafias,” they often had no choice but to rely on the jobs and income that illegal logging offered. A Rare Glimpse into Afghanistan’s Spectacular, Vanishing Forests 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Prosecutors brought the defendants to trial on suspicion they began talks with the mafia in 1992 after judge Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards were assassinated by a bomb placed under a motorway in 1992. Italy's top court upholds acquittals in case alleging pact between mafia and state officials 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Police across Europe have arrested more than 100 people in a crackdown on Italy's most powerful mafia group. Italy's 'Ndrangheta targeted in police raids across Europe 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z The alleged boss of one of Italy's biggest mafia syndicates has been arrested by police at a cathedral in the northern city of Genoa. 'Ndrangheta mafia: Alleged crime family boss Pasquale Bonavota arrested in Italian cathedral 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z On this panel, as in their interview, they resemble a cool lit girl mafia. At Festival of Books, the cool lit girl mafia takes the stage 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z The Republican conference is divided by ideological caucuses known internally as "the five families," a reference to the warring mafia clans of "The Godfather" movies. U.S. House Republicans chart new strategy to pressure Biden, Democrats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z He had been wanted in connection to a murder case that was being investigated as part of a wider crackdown into a land mafia operating in Uttar Pradesh. Former Indian lawmaker slain live on TV while in police custody, state restricts gatherings 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z I’d choose ahead of time which cards were mafia and which cards were detective or whatever, and then I’d think of a person and pull the card for them. How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to playground connoisseur Melanie Lynskey 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z If Trump were a mafia boss, he would get his consiglieres to act on his behalf. How Trump may be coping with being caught 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “Why is it so black and white with the radical rainbow mafia?!” Caitlyn Jenner rips Nike over transgender sports-bra model Dylan Mulvaney: ‘This is an outrage’ 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Feuds between the Camorra, the region's mafia, were as bitter as ever, unemployment was huge and the Bank of Naples was facing bankruptcy. In Maradona's footsteps - city prepared to party with Napoli on brink 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z I heard some commentators say, "Even mafia bosses, when we go after them, don't expressly threaten the prosecutor's wife or the judge's daughter." Trump will be hit with more indictments "in pretty rapid succession": MSNBC's Glenn Kirschner 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Winslow’s new trilogy about New England mobsters, specifically Danny Ryan, an engaging Irish American dock worker who gets drawn into a mafia war, was inspired in part by the ancient Greeks. Novelist Don Winslow is out to save America from Donald Trump — and an existential crisis 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z A wrinkle adds Harris owing money to a Russian mafia adding to a bounty on his head. 4K Ultra HD movie reviews: ‘Training Day’ and ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z "From this moment, there is no ceasefire with the Gulf Clan. The security forces need to act immediately against the structures of this mafia organisation," he wrote. Gulf Clan: Colombia suspends ceasefire with drug cartel 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Maradona, despite his relationship with the Neapolitan mafia, brought "justice to the people" after struggles against the north that date back more than a century to the unification of Italy, says culture expert Francesco Carignani. In Maradona's footsteps - city prepared to party with Napoli on brink 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Joy Jeff, who is 48, was one of the few women on Italy's most-wanted list, police said in a statement, describing her as a prominent figure in the Nigerian mafia. Nigerian woman who ran prostitution ring extradited to Italy 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z She said “mafias” might be behind the phenomenon. Pregnant Russians are streaming into Argentina. Officials are suspicious. 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z She is alleged to have played a major role in her mafia family, acting as treasurer, with police saying she communicated with her brother using the code name "Fragolone", or "big strawberry". Matteo Messina Denaro: Coded note led to Italy mafia boss arrest 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Rosalia Messina Denaro, the sister of Italy's recently jailed top mafioso, was arrested on Friday on charges of associating with a mafia organisation, Italian police said. EU's top court to rule on Romania's refusal to accept transgender man's identity 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Rosalia Messina Denaro, the sister of Italy's recently jailed top mafioso, was arrested on Friday on charges of associating with a mafia organisation, Italian police said. Russia says it will move to stop further incursions after incident near Ukraine border 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z He and a colleague who worked for the national broadcaster RAI had broadcast a series of episodes about the mafia during which Mr. Costanzo burned a T-shirt that said “Mafia, Made in Italy.” Maurizio Costanzo, Who Transformed Italian Talk Shows, Dies at 84 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Celia Arena, justice minister for Santa Fe province, where Rosario is located, said the attack amounted to “terrorism” by a “mafia” group meant to intimidate the broader population. Gunmen threaten Lionel Messi, shoot up family-owned supermarket 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Imperiale is alleged to be a key figure in international drug trafficking and money laundering and to have a close relationship with the Camorra mafia centred around Naples. Italian police seize weapons haul from Van Gogh-loving mobster 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z But these sad, costly, cramped settlements, disconnected from transit and civic life, became permanent as the years passed; there were probes into contractors’ links with the mafia; and L’Aquila’s recovery stalled. Earthquakes Destroy. People Rebuild. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Criminal mafias — who operate loan sharking and protection rackets — are a plague. ‘Guns are everywhere’ in Israel, occupied territories as violence spikes 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z The 304-page volume weaves Pomerantz’s behind-the-scenes account of the spirited battle to charge Trump with anecdotes from his decades-long career as a mafia prosecutor and white-collar litigator, sometimes drawing parallels between the two. Ex-prosecutor’s new book details fight over indicting Trump 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z A convicted Italian mafia killer on the run since 2006 has been caught in France, having hidden in plain sight as a pizza chef for at least three years. Italian fugitive Edgardo Greco tracked down as pizza maker after 16 years 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The new restrictions, usually reserved for mafia bosses, include one monitored visit from family members and one telephone call a month. Alfredo Cospito: Hunger-striking Italian anarchist moved amid protests 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Central to the conspiracy theory about a gay mafia operating in the legal world was Tucker's list. Was Scottish legal scandal a smokescreen for child abuse? 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Administrations of both parties had assigned him to investigate potential official wrongdoing, like allegations of corrupt ties between mafia informants and F.B.I. agents, and the C.I.A.’s torture of terrorism detainees and destruction of evidence. Barr Pressed Durham to Find Flaws in the Russia Investigation. It Didn’t Go Well. 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z After events in the first episode send her on the run from a mafia boss and his enforcer — played by Benjamin Bratt — she sets off in her car to drive… away from trouble. Natasha Lyonne stars in ‘Poker Face,’ a Peacock howdunit 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z The 'Ndrangheta are now the most powerful mafia in Italy and their tentacles stretch across Europe and South America. Italian fugitive Edgardo Greco tracked down as pizza maker after 16 years 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z “Those who allow the mafia to take over the state only lead society to genocide,” Mr. Gustavo said on Twitter, clearly intended as a barb against Guatemala’s president. Guatemala Targets Colombia’s Defense Minister in Crackdown on Anticorruption Forces 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Since the arrest earlier this week of the accused Italian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, a picture of his time on the lam is starting to take shape. Your Friday Briefing 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z In recent months, Mr. Messina Denaro had lived in a residential building steps away from a local bar that was once frequented by associates arrested last year in a mafia investigation. A Secret Room and a Comfortable Life: A Mobster’s Years on the Run 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The statement from Belgian prosecutors notes that this is only the second time in Belgian legal history that the “pentiti law” — a reference to Italian laws allowing investigation into the mafia — has been used. A key suspect in E.U. ‘Qatargate’ corruption scandal cuts deal, will talk 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Greco, 63, was wanted for the murder of two brothers during a "mafia war" between two gangs in the early 1990s. Italian fugitive Edgardo Greco tracked down as pizza maker after 16 years 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z According to a statement from Belgium's federal prosecutor, the former MEP agreed to the plea bargain under a law modelled on an Italian provision for repentant mafia members or "pentiti" to turn state witness. Italian held in EU-Qatargate bribery probe agrees to tell all 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The arrest of Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro deals a powerful blow to the mythology of the Cosa Nostra, toppling a symbol of the group's resistance to police efforts to break up organised crime. Jailed Navalny vows to keep resisting the Kremlin as campaign to free him launches 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The house is believed to have been used continuously in recent weeks but investigators are still searching for other places where the mafia boss might have spent time. Perfumes and fancy clothes found in mafia boss Messina Denaro's hideout 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z "We have not won the war, we have not defeated the mafia but this battle was a key battle to win, and it is a heavy blow to organised crime," Prime Minister Meloni said. Years of cat-and-mouse end as top mafioso cornered in Italian clinic 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Messina Denaro, 60, was Italy's most wanted mafia boss and had been on the run for three decades. Arrest of 'last godfather' deals new blow to ailing Sicilian mafia 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z He is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia. Moment mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro is arrested 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Mastro said he had experienced being on a banned list himself when he cracked down on the mafia as a federal prosecutor. Lawyers Barred by Madison Square Garden Found a Way Back In 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z He is alleged to be a boss of Sicily's notorious Cosa Nostra mafia. Italy's most-wanted mafia boss arrested in Sicily 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Messina Denaro is alleged to be a boss of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra mafia and has been on the run since 1993. Italian police arrest most wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro - media 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Members began to meet more regularly through December and began to jokingly refer to it as the “meeting of the five families,” a reference to the mafia summit in the movie “The Godfather.” How Kevin McCarthy survived the GOP revolt to become House speaker 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s like telling a blackmail victim he was bound to obey the mafia’s rules. Perspective | The NCAA stole Reggie Bush’s Heisman Trophy. It’s time to give it back. 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z He got out in 1988 and joined the Patriarca crime family, the leading organization within the New England mafia, just as a generational transition was setting off a leadership struggle. Frank Salemme, One-Time Head of the New England Mafia, Dies at 89 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Philadelphia mafia underboss Steven Mazzone was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise. Underboss of Philadelphia mafia sentenced to 5 years for leading racketeering conspiracy 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Old mafia groups fragmented and reemerged under different names, adapting their tactics to stay a step ahead. They call him the Eagle: How the U.S. lost a key ally in Mexico as fentanyl took off More so than some interviewers who followed him, Cuomo challenged his subject’s assertions of a “Jewish underground media mafia” and other antisemitic tropes. Kanye West’s hate-spewing, career-tanking descent through the alt-media 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Justice Department's most aggressive to date targeting spoofing, charging the four defendants with violating the racketeering statute, a law enacted in 1970 to take down the mafia. Ex-JPMorgan, Credit Suisse trader convicted at U.S. spoofing trial 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z “The mafia has evolved into a street gang. I wouldn’t go back to any type of crime, let alone go back to the mafia.” Frank Salemme, One-Time Head of the New England Mafia, Dies at 89 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Embassy comparing the mustachioed strongman to mafia bosses in “The Godfather.” Fearing scandal, Air Force blocked generals’ foreign consulting deals “It does not mean that there was an amnesty. I am against the mafia and, in this sentence, there is the word ‘mafia.’ Landslide Tragedy Turns Italy’s Focus to Illegal Construction 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z One insider said the trust was "a bit like the mafia". Doctors raise safety fears at Birmingham hospitals 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Jones attempted to somewhat distinguish himself from Mr. West by saying “I think most Jews are great people,” before adding “but I agree there’s a Jewish mafia.” Kanye West says he ‘likes Hitler’ in interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z He also warned that Iranians were living "somewhere horrific" and "dealing with a mafia that is ready to kill the entire nation... in order to keep its power, money and weapons". Toomaj Salehi: Dissident Iranian rapper could face death penalty 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Moreover, Donald Trump has operated throughout his career like a mafia boss. Former Obama lawyer Ian Bassin: The coming indictment of Donald Trump will break his power 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z It's rare for women to have leadership roles in the male-dominated world of the mafia. Italy police arrest woman mafia boss, 48 others in raid outside Milan 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The challenge now is to protect this fragile recovery from the timber mafia, poachers and nature itself. Your Monday Briefing: Biden’s Asian Diplomacy 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z For the community foresters, that involves guarding their forests from the timber mafia, poachers and from nature itself. How Nepal Grew Back Its Forests 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Church Militant has castigated the Catholic hierarchy as an "international crime syndicate" or the "lavender mafia," and billed itself as the home of the "red-pilled laity." Political violence "must always be an option," says far-right Catholic outlet 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z He's using mafia prosecution strategies to try to flip lower level capos to turn on the boss. Former Obama lawyer Ian Bassin: The coming indictment of Donald Trump will break his power 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z In a separate operation, police arrested another 37 people linked to the Camorra mafia in a raid outside the city of Naples, following a three-year investigation into extortion and drug trafficking. Italy police arrest woman mafia boss, 48 others in raid outside Milan 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Petro said their shared border is controlled by “mafia” groups, and he pledged to rebuild relations with Venezuela to jointly tackle the heads of drug-trafficking organizations. Colombia’s new president meets with Maduro as Latin America moves left 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z The 'Ndrangheta mafia established itself in Argentina several years ago, the police statement said, operating in tandem with Albanian counterparts in Europe. Italian mafia kingpin captured in Argentina - police 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z “I posted a paragraph about how corrupt everything was, how you have to sign a contract to place well, how it’s like the mafia,” she said. Female bodybuilders describe widespread sexual exploitation Two FBI-ish guys show up looking for him frequently — so frequently that they might instead be from the mafia or some more mysterious outfit. Cormac McCarthy, 89, has a new novel — two, actually. And they're almost perfect 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Underscoring fears over the growing reach of organised crime, the Italian government on Tuesday dissolved the municipal council in the town of Anzio, just south of Rome, saying it had been infiltrated by the mafia. Italy police arrest woman mafia boss, 48 others in raid outside Milan 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z With senior figures at the school involved in abuse, other staff said the atmosphere was "like the mafia". Child sex abuse: The horrific findings of a seven-year injury 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z In an online hangout with friends back in China, she criticized the party as a “political zombie” and Mr. Xi as a “mafia ringleader.” ‘Moving Backward’: In Xi’s China, Some See an Era of Total Control 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z If it were a mafia, Skipper Dan would be in a hole in the Nevada desert by now. LOVERRO: Damning new report puts focus on Skipper Dan’s naughty list 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z He had already started seeing the ruling Chinese Communist Party as a "mafia, a crime syndicate disguised as a national government". China-Taiwan: Can a tech billionaire create a civilian fighting force? 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Somalia’s president, who has survived three al-Shabab attempts on his life, has described the group as “mafia shrouded with Islam.” ‘So many children dying’: Somalia drought brings famine near 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z “As long as there’s prohibition there will be mafia,” he said. In test of ties with U.S., Colombian leader proposes shift on drugs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z One yardstick is the mafia fee, or “piso” — literally, the tax — migrants pay to cartels to use their routes into the U.S. $20 billion payday: Biden’s border surge sends smuggling prices soaring 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z In his address, the minister mentioned the “drugs mafia.” Belgian justice minister under protection over kidnap plot 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z The billionaire is part of the “PayPal mafia,” a group of founders and early employees at the digital payments company, many of whom have gone on to even bigger successes in tech. Silicon Valley Slides Back Into ‘Bro’ Culture 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z But “The Godmother” reads like an overcorrection, and Nadeau — who clearly likes her subjects — still seems invested in the dichotomy between the capital “B” Bad mafia and capital “G” Good anti-mafia police and prosecutors. Review | In ‘The Godmother,’ mafia women are just as fearsome as the men 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Ochs demurred when Howell asked whether he held a senior Proud Boys leadership role as an “elder,” replying after consulting with his attorney, “This isn’t some concrete mafia group. … It’s just a term of respect.” Proud Boys who scrawled ‘Murder the Media’ at Capitol plead guilty 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The Times calculated the cartels’ mafia fee income by taking the total number of people arrested by the Border Patrol over the previous 12 months and adjusting for recidivists and gotaways who were never captured. $20 billion payday: Biden’s border surge sends smuggling prices soaring 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z As new PM Liz Truss's first cabinet takes shape, there are already people at Westminster making barbed comments about an "East Anglian mafia" running the country. Liz Truss: The East of England MPs taking a seat at cabinet 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Those in the group invest in or join each other’s companies and firms, keeping things, as the mafia says, in the family. Silicon Valley Slides Back Into ‘Bro’ Culture 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z The Italian state — which, Nadeau acknowledges, fails to support its struggling citizens — and the parallel state that encompasses the mafia don’t seem that separate. Review | In ‘The Godmother,’ mafia women are just as fearsome as the men 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Like a mafia boss, Donald Trump is trying to use use extortion, blackmail and other threats of violence to expand his power and escape responsibility for his crimes. After Mar-a-Lago: A panel of experts on the grave danger just ahead 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z "It does strike me as something like, you know, what you hear from the mafia. 'If you want your store to be secure, give us money,'" he added. Trump gives the FBI the Jan. 6 treatment 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Violence has ebbed somewhat in Juárez in the last decade, but Thursday’s events demonstrated the enduring power of criminal mafias — both sophisticated, trans-national cartels and lower-level street and prison gangs. Murders at the border and attacks in Jalisco and Guanajuato stun Mexico 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Other members of the PayPal mafia, including David Sacks and Joe Lonsdale, got subpoenas for their text messages with Mr. Musk about his Twitter deal, which is now tied up in court. Silicon Valley Slides Back Into ‘Bro’ Culture 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z The term “mafia” evokes specific images: men wearing nice suits and hats wielding guns. Review | In ‘The Godmother,’ mafia women are just as fearsome as the men 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Colombia's newly sworn-in president said the strategy had merely strengthened the power of mafia gangs and weakened Latin American states over decades. Colombia: New left-wing leader wants global drugs rethink 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Here’s a look at just some of those on Musk’s side, including much of the PayPal mafia, who were put on notice. The New Deciders on Corporate Taxes 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z He conducts himself like a mafia boss, using violence, intimidation, fraud and other antisocial behavior to get and keep power as a way to enriching himself and his inner circle. What "revelations"? Trump's Jan. 6 crimes should shock exactly no one 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Scientists who advance other potential Alzheimer’s causes, such as immune dysfunction or inflammation, complain they have been sidelined by the “amyloid mafia.” Potential fabrication in research images threatens key theory of Alzheimer’s disease 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Women, though, are never front and center in these depictions and, as journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau explains in her new book, “The Godmother,” they are rarely discussed by those who study the mafia. Review | In ‘The Godmother,’ mafia women are just as fearsome as the men 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “With his knowledge of the mafia, it’s his belief that if he stays out of their way … that he’ll be fine,” Sheppard said. California board OKs parole of ex-Mexican Mafia killer 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Were it not for the FBI and its investigations into money laundering by the Russian mafia, Firtash might not have been arrested at all. Review | Why Britain welcomes international bad guys — and their money 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Now, however, the images of a grinning Biden sitting with Mohammed bin Salman make our president look like a desperate supplicant forced to kiss the ring of a mafia boss. Opinion | Biden’s fist bump with MBS was a crass betrayal 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z They also accused the government of working with the “mafia” to violently suppress protests. Protesting bank depositors in China beaten by mob as police stand by 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z And yet, as Nadeau demonstrates, these women exist and act within the various crime syndicates that the Italian government considers to be mafias, including the “only one true Mafia … the Cosa Nostra in Sicily.” Review | In ‘The Godmother,’ mafia women are just as fearsome as the men 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Shortly after the incident, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez accused smuggling mafias of having organised the assault and thanked the Moroccan security forces for their help policing the border. EU agrees to improve migration cooperation with Morocco after Melilla tragedy 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z "It will almost be like a referendum pro or against the mafia," he said. Bulgaria's PP party likely to abandon coalition govt plans - PM 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The racketeering statute, a federal law enacted in 1970 to take down the mafia, is rarely used to prosecute corporate crime. Ex-JPMorgan traders face U.S. trial on racketeering charges 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The next year, Coppola tapped him to play Sonny Corleone, the eldest son of the mafia kingpin in “The Godfather.” James Caan, who played Sonny Corleone in ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 82 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Nadeau describes well the culture of normalized misogyny in Italy, as well as how “the mafia and the malavita, ‘dishonest lifestyle,’ it produces are just another facet of the culture.” Review | In ‘The Godmother,’ mafia women are just as fearsome as the men 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z You get the mafia boss on financial crimes and on fraud and RICO. Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell: What we still don't know about Jan. 6 and Trump's "full-blown coup" 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z In addition to drug trafficking, Morabito has been convicted in Italy of mafia association. Italy’s No. 2 most-wanted mobster is extradited from Brazil 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z The mafia boss spent decades on the run using a fake identity in South America. Rocco Morabito: Fugitive mobster handed over to Italy 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z “I insist, these are international mafia groups that are not only damaging the territorial integrity of Spain but also that of Morocco, which is a country suffering that irregular migration.” Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z While pressing to stop publication, she said that she knows people in the Russian mafia. As businesses flee Russia, a New York model returns to Moscow 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z In the original indictment, the Swiss attorney general’s office noted how top-level athletes in Bulgaria, after the fall of communism, “turned towards other sources of income, and numerous wrestlers received approaches from mafia clans.” Credit Suisse fined for facilitating cocaine cash laundering 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z He had been a U.S. attorney in New York famous for prosecuting mafia figures and later was a Republican mayor known for tackling crime with his “broken windows” theory of policing. Andrew Giuliani invokes famous dad in bid for NY governor 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z “If there is anyone responsible for everything that appears to have taken place at that border, it is the mafias that traffic in human beings,” Sánchez said. Groups in Spain and Morocco push for border deaths inquiry 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z While some police, the mayor and others in the region link the pair’s disappearances to the “fish mafia,” federal police have not ruled rule out other lines of investigation, such as narco trafficking. Police: Amazon fisherman confesses to killing missing pair 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z “The Russian mafia still exists,” she said “We will have to do some background check on you and your family for this kind of article.” As businesses flee Russia, a New York model returns to Moscow 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z But partly because of successive police crackdowns on the other groups, the 'Ndrangheta has now grown to become the most powerful mafia in Italy. British men in Greek court over cocaine smuggling 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z "There really are mafias embedded in, for example, public procurement," he says, because the public procurement system is so convoluted that "only the person who knows how the fine print works benefits." In Remote Ecuador, Pandemic Health Care Is Stretched Thin 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z |
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