In 1986, Italian authorities built a fortified bunker inside a Palermo prison to hold the largest mafia trial in history. Among the 471 defendants rattling their cages was the entire leadership of the ...

What happened to never going against the family? Leaders within the Cosa Nostra, Sicily’s mafia, have reportedly complained that mob recruits aren’t what they used to be, as nearly 150 people ...

MILAN — 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 ...

A notorious Italian mafia boss has died while receiving medical treatment for cancer after being arrested early this year, according to media reports. Messina Denaro’s condition worsened in recent ...

The high stone walls of a prison in Nuoro, a remote city on the Italian island of Sardinia, once contained notorious mobsters ...

The president of the Vatican Court, Giuseppe Pignatone, is under investigation by the Italian judiciary for allegedly collaborating with the Mafia in the early 1990s. Pignatone, 75, is known for his ...

France’s Les Films du Losange is taking international sales outside Italy on “Sicilian Letters” (“Iddu”), the hotly anticipated drama about Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro – who was dubbed “the ...

2006-04-12 04:00:00 PDT Rome-- For more than 40 years he eluded arrest. He dispatched orders on little typewritten notes and shunned telephones that might pinpoint his location. His resume allegedly ...

On February 10, 1986, a huge trial, a maxiprocesso, took place in Palermo, Sicily. The defendants were escorted to the courtroom, which was built like a ­concrete bunker, via underground tunnels and ...

MILAN (AP) — 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 ...