RECENT NEWS View older news  |2012-05-11|   Bernardo Provenzano tries to commit suicide in his cel Last Wednsday night former Cosa Nostra boss Bernardo Provenzano tried to suffocate himself in his prison cel in Parma. A prisonguard noticed Provenzano lying on the ground with a plastic bag over his face. He is being held in a maximum-security prison and is under constant surveillance. His life is not in danger, but the guards don't have a clue on how he got hold of a plastic bag. Provenzano is also suffering from bad health. He has been diagnosed with cancer and also has Parkinson disease. (Source: www.iol.co.za, www.thesundaily.my)  |2012-03-19|   16 judges arrested after latest Camorra sweep Today police arrested 47 people in Southern Italy (Campania region) and Northern Italy (Lombardy region). They have also confiscated goods worth up to a billion euros including many accounts, buildings and vehicles. The police found out a network of false billing for money-laundering which later reached banks in Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Most of the men arrested are associated with the Fabbrocino clan, which is highly active in the city of Nola and the Vesuvius area around Naples. Amongst the arrested men are also as much as 16 judges who all work in the tax department. The arrest is an effort to dismantel the clan from it's members and associates. They are all accused of criminal association, several of them also face charges for money laundring and corruption. Leader of the clan, Mario Fabbrocino, has been jailed since 1997 and was a former rival of Rafaelle Cutolo, whom's son he had killed in 1990. (Source: www.deltaworld.org, newenglandorganizedcrime.com)  |2012-03-12|   Mob rat Nicky Skins commits suicide Mob prosecutors are currently scratching their heads since turncoat Nicholas "Nicky Skins" Stefanelli committed suicide. Police found Stefanelli dead on Februari 26 in a New Jersey hotel. The 69 year old mobster, who was a member of the Gambino family, had spent his 2 last years wearing a wire. However, it didn't stop him from committing crime. Just days before his suicide he murdered businessman Joseph Rossi Sr. who'm he blamed for the 2010 drug arrest which caused him to become an informant. Although their star witness is now gone, prosecutors will try to use his tape recordings in court. On trial will be Philadelphia boss Joseph Ligambi and former New England boss Luigi Manocchio. In the meanwhile police has also arrested one Jose Rivera, an associate of Stefanelli who is believed to have accompanied him in the Rossi murder. (Source: www.nydailynews.com, www.nbcnewyork.com)  |2012-03-07|   Camorra chief arrested in Spain Yesterday police arrested Giuseppe Polverino, boss of a Camorra clan near Naples, and his associate Raffaele Vallefuoco in the Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera. The 53 year old Polverino was on the run since 2006. He is charged with leading a large drugoperation, mainly hashes, between Spain and Italy. Last year in May police confiscated assets of the Polverino clan worth up to a billion euros and arrested 36 of his associates, including 2 partymembers of Silvio Berlusconi's PdL. (Source: www.agi.it)  |2012-02-10|   Fierce Mafia killer arrested in Belgium Gaetano Trainito, wanted for drug charges, weapon charges, 14 murders and 7 murder attempts, was arrested yesterday in Belgium. Trainito, nicknamed "The Glass Eye", was already nailed once back in 2001 and was sentenced to life 2 years later. However, in 2011 he was permitted to attend his mothers funeral where he took off and ran to Belgium, where his wife and son lived. Since then Italian police issued an international warrant against the 49 year old Trainito. Yesterday, whilst drinking a beer in a local bar, he was arrested by Belgian and Italian policemen. He will be transferred back to his prison cell in Padua in a short while, where he will stay until at least 2024. (Source: www.padovaoggi.it, it.paperblog.com)  |2012-01-29|   Police arrests Bonanno acting boss On counts of extortion, racketeering, conspiracy, drug dealing and others police arrested 5 Staten Island men. Vincent Badalamenti, the 53 year old acting boss of the Bonanno family, and captain Nicholas Santora, who was recently released after being jailed 15 years, were amongst the arrested men. Others were acting captain Vito Balsamo, soldier Anthony Calabrese and Gambino associate James LaForte. One of the charges dates back to 1999, when Badalamenti ordered a hostile takeover of a Brooklyn bar after it's owner failed to pay a debt. If convicted each can face up to 20 years. (Source: gothamist.com, www.upi.com)  |2012-01-19|   Retired policeman commits suicide after being exposed as a Mafia Mol Yesterday police discovered the dead body of 33 year old Ian Davidson in a hotel room in Laval, Quebec. Davidson was a retired member of the Montreal police who according to Radio Canada had tried to sell a stolen list of informants to the Mafia for a 6-figure sum, but without success. He was only one of 3 men who got access to that list. His plans didn't went unnoticed and Tuesday he was informed that his name and intentions were going to be made public. In October 2011 he was already arrested once at the airport on suspicion of stealing sensitive police information, but was released again not much later. Davidson allegedly took his own life out of fear of a lengthy prison sentence. (Source: www.cbc.ca, m.theglobeandmail.com)  |2012-01-05|   Moreno Gallo deported to Italy After many efforts to fight for his stay in Canada, 66 year old mobster Moreno Gallo lost his battle against deportation and was escorted back yesterday to his native Italy. Gallo had entered Canada in 1954 where he would remain for the next 57 years, until now. He is considered to be a head of the Montreal based Rizzuto clan. (Source: newenglandorganizedcrime.com) 2011  |2011-12-26|   Is Jimmy Hoffa buried in the foundations of GM headquarters? Has one of America's most mysterious disappearances been solved? According to Jimmy Hoffa's former driver, Marvin Elkind, it has. In a new book by Adrian Humphreys he claims that Hoffa's body was buried in the cement foundations of the General Motors Headquarters in Detroit, a building which was constructed around that time. Jimmy Hoffa was the boss of the largest union in America, the Teamsters, and was known for having close ties to the Mafia. It was no secret that the Mafia was behind his disappearance, but since he went missing in 1975 the police has been unable to pin a suspect to the crime. Elkind said that mobsters Anthony Giacalone and Tony Provenzano were the ones who had him killed. During a Teamsters conference in 1985, Elkind, Giacalone and a couple of others were walking towards the GM building when Giacalone nodded toward the tower’s base and said, "Say good morning to Jimmy Hoffa, boys". Both Giacalone and Provenzano are long gone since then, but it could be a final breakthrough in this illusive 40 year old crime. (Source: www.dailymail.co.uk, www.nypost.com)  |2011-12-21|   Six men arrested for the murder of Salvatore Montagna The Canadian police has arrested 6 men for the murder of former Bonanno leader Salvatore Montagna, who was killed nearly 4 weeks ago. The prime suspect in the case is 59 year old Raynald Desjardins, noted to be a close associate of jailed Montreal boss Vito Rizzuto. His arrest in the case feeds speculations that the Bonanno family indeed had a hand in the recent attacks against the Rizzuto family. (Source: montreal.ctv.ca, www.calgarysun.com)

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