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After 20 years, hunt for fugitive Sicilian Mafia boss intensifies
ROME — Each day, Giacomo Di Giralomo makes a point of asking, "Where are you, Matteo?" on his talk radio show, which is broadcast across western Sicily. It's a question that the police are asking with greater urgency as they seek Matteo Messina...
Tags: Giorgio Armani S.P.A., Entertainment, Organized Crime, Mexico, Italy
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Lawyer Says Whitey Bulger A Scapegoat For Feds' Crimes
The Hartford CourantA trial that many feared would never take place opened in a packed federal courtroom Wednesday when a prosecutor gave a cold-blooded recitation of what he called decades of terror inflicted on the city by its most notorious crime boss, James "Whitey"...Tags: Whitey Bulger, Trials, Lawyers, Law Enforcement, Crime, Law and Justice
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Papa Francisco pide a la mafia que deje de arruinar vidas y se arrepienta
ReutersROMA, 26 mayo (Reuters) - El Papa Francisco criticó el domingo a las organizaciones mafiosas que explotan y esclavizan a seres humanos y pidió a los mafiosos que se arrepientan, unas palabras que recordaron una conmovedora súplica realizada por Juan...Tags: Organized Crime
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"Stop wrecking people's lives and repent", Pope tells mafia
ReutersROME, May 26 (Reuters) - Pope Francis spoke out against mafia organisations exploiting and enslaving people, calling on mafiosi on Sunday to repent in words that recalled an impassioned plea by Pope John Paul II 20 years ago. Speaking off the cuff...Tags: Francis I, Rome (Italy), The Pope, Prostitution, Robin Williams
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Thousands watch murdered anti-Mafia priest beatified in Sicily
Reuters* Father Puglisi shot by Mafia in 1993 * Considered a martyr by Catholic church * Beatification is step before sainthood ROME, May 25 (Reuters) - A Sicilian priest gunned down by the Mafia twenty years ago outside his home in Palermo was beatified in a...Tags: Christianity, Francis I, Organized Crime, Religion and Belief, Italy
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Hitman Drama 'Salvo' Wins Critics' Week Prize at Cannes
ReutersMay 23 (TheWrap.com) - "Salvo" has won the top prize in Cannes' International Critics' Week sidebar, a selection of seven films from first- and second-time directors. The story of a hitman for the Sicilian Mafia whose life changes after he spares the...Tags: Reviews, Canal+, Gaspar Noe, France
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Giulio Andreotti dies at 94; seven-time Italian prime minister
Giulio Andreotti, the seven-time Italian prime minister who dominated Italian politics after World War II, but was tainted by accusations of Mafia ties, died in Rome on Monday after suffering from respiratory problems. He was 94. A lawmaker who lived...Tags: National Government, Politics, Rome (Italy), Trials, Religion and Belief
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Italy's Berlusconi squares off against TV host
ROME -- In a highly anticipated and occasionally furious TV interview watched by nearly 9 million of his compatriots, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi acknowledged misleading voters about the cause of his country's financial crisis, but...
Tags: Entertainment, Television, Elections, Politics, Organized Crime
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Boardwalk Empire Season 3 finale recap: “Margate Sands”
Channel Guide MagazineTerence Winter wound the spring tight in Season 3 of Boardwalk Empire, each violent twist seeing a piece of Nucky Thompson’s East Coast criminal syndicate fall away and leaving the Atlantic City boss seemingly alone, friendless and on the lam from... -
Homeland Security Targets "Most Dangerous Gang in America"
pix11.com | @murphypixMS-13—a gang with roots in El Salvador and Los Angeles—was designated a “trans-national” criminal organization by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday. Consisting of more than 30,000...Tags: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Organized Crime, Queens (New York City), U.S. Department of the Treasury
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AMC and Anthony Bourdain say you’d better watch “Mob Week”
Channel Guide MagazineYeah, tough guy, I’m lookin’ at you. So you’ve seen Goodfellas more times than there are oranges in The Godfather. And you’ve seen The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II — judiciously skipping the oft-maligned Part III &#... -
Woman takes helm of San Diego FBI office
SAN DIEGO -- A woman who most recently headed the FBI's Intelligence Division in Los Angeles Monday assumed the job of special agent in charge of the bureau's San Diego field office. Daphne Hearn replaces Keith Slotter, who announced in March he would be...
Tags: Police Investigations, FBI
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