Thursday, July 26, 2012
Italy politicians accused of making deals with mob - Los Angeles Local News, Weather, and Traffic
Italy politicians accused of making deals with mob - Los Angeles Local News, Weather, and Traffic
ROME (AP) - Italian news reports say prosecutors in Sicily are seeking to put a handful of ex-ministers, lawmakers and law enforcement officials on trial for allegedly making deals with the Mafia during a bloody spasm of attacks against the state in the early 1990s.
The ANSA news agency and Repubblica newspaper said prosecutors signed a request Tuesday for a judge to indict 12 people, including jailed Mafia bosses Salvatore "Toto" Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.
Riina headed the Cosa Nostra during the era of its all-out attack on the state, which culminated with back-to-back car bombings in 1992 that killed two leading anti-Mafia prosecutors.
Citing the indictment request, Repubblica said some of the accused ex-government officials negotiated with the mob or exerted pressure to lighten their prison sentences. They have denied wrongdoing.
Read more: http://www.myfoxla.com/story/19098907/italy-politicians-accused-of-making-deals-with-mob#ixzz21mIgtsKH
ROME (AP) - Italian news reports say prosecutors in Sicily are seeking to put a handful of ex-ministers, lawmakers and law enforcement officials on trial for allegedly making deals with the Mafia during a bloody spasm of attacks against the state in the early 1990s.
The ANSA news agency and Repubblica newspaper said prosecutors signed a request Tuesday for a judge to indict 12 people, including jailed Mafia bosses Salvatore "Toto" Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.
Riina headed the Cosa Nostra during the era of its all-out attack on the state, which culminated with back-to-back car bombings in 1992 that killed two leading anti-Mafia prosecutors.
Citing the indictment request, Repubblica said some of the accused ex-government officials negotiated with the mob or exerted pressure to lighten their prison sentences. They have denied wrongdoing.
Read more: http://www.myfoxla.com/story/19098907/italy-politicians-accused-of-making-deals-with-mob#ixzz21mIgtsKH
Monday, July 23, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Italy mozzarella magnate Mandara held over mafia links
BBC News
Italian police have arrested the head of one of Italy's biggest mozzarella makers on charges he had close ties to the mafia. Giuseppe Mandara - who once dubbed himself the "Armani of Mozzarella" - was arrested with three associates near Naples,
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18880321
Italian police have arrested the head of one of Italy's biggest mozzarella makers on charges he had close ties to the mafia. Giuseppe Mandara - who once dubbed himself the "Armani of Mozzarella" - was arrested with three associates near Naples,
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18880321
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Friends of Ours: Colombo - Typepad
Colombo-capo-turned-government-witness Anthony “Big Anthony” Russo alleges Theodore "Skinny Teddy" Persico Jr. ordered the 1993 hit
Colombo-capo-turned-government-witness Anthony “Big Anthony” Russo alleges Theodore "Skinny Teddy" Persico Jr. ordered the 1993 hit against rival Joey Scopo "while attending his own grandmother’s wake in a Brooklyn funeral home -- where he'd been taken in shackles by correction officers because he was doing a prison stint at the time
http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/colombo/
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Colombo-capo-turned-government-witness Anthony “Big Anthony” Russo alleges Theodore "Skinny Teddy" Persico Jr. ordered the 1993 hit against rival Joey Scopo "while attending his own grandmother’s wake in a Brooklyn funeral home -- where he'd been taken in shackles by correction officers because he was doing a prison stint at the time
http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/colombo/
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