Matteo Messina Denaro, the convicted mastermind of some of the Cosa Nostra mafia's most heinous slayings, died in Sept. 2023, several months after being captured as Italy's No. 1 fugitive and ...

Mafia bosses have been secretly moaning about the "miserable" quality of recruits leaving them "on our knees" -- while dreaming it could be more like "The Godfather." ...

Matteo Messina Denaro, who is thought to have ordered dozens of Mafia-related murders for the Cosa Nostra crime group, died at the San Salvatore hospital in L’Aquila, central Italy, where he had ...

The death Friday of Salvatore "Toto" Riina, the long-time "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, puts the spotlight back on Cosa Nostra, which waged a bloody campaign in the 1980s and 1990s of ...

'Super mafia' fears as 'leading figures from Italy's three most powerful mobs' - 'Ndrangheta, Camorra and Cosa Nostra - are 'seen sharing a meal of wine and pasta together' ...

“Cosa Nostra,” the mafia syndicate based in and around Palermo, terrorized Italy in the 1980s and 1990s, but has since been overtaken as Europe’s most powerful mob by the Calabrian ...

Now, with the last big mafia boss captured, an expert has claimed this could finally spell the end for the Cosa Nostra as we know it. Speaking to The Sun Online, John Dickie, Professor of Italian ...

In 2006, police arrested Cosa Nostra boss Bernardo Provenzano, who police named as the "Capo di Capi," or chief of chiefs, after a 43-year manhunt. Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro during ...

Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro dubbed the 'last godfather' of the Cosa Nostra who spent 30 years on the run for 'murdering 50 including boy dissolved in acid' dies of cancer aged 61 - eight ...

Denaro, 60, was considered one of the head bosses of the infamous mafia Cosa Nostra, which has been around since the 19th century and has inspired other mafias, including those in the United States.

The Sicilian Mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is an organized criminal network that has shaped the history and development of Sicily. Giovanni Falcone’s fight against mafia crime sparked a strong ...

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