The Italian Mafia operates through a strict hierarchy where loyalty, money, and silence determine how far someone can rise.

Wives and children offered new identities to try to stop gangsters recruiting down the generations ...

The Italian government can now offer children and wives of mafia bosses a way out of the family business.

Millions of Italian immigrants settled in the US, including in New York's notoriously crowded Lower East Side. Bettmann Archive Sicily at the end of the 19 th century: The estates of wealthy ...

Italy’s mafia reportedly provided stimulus for some struggling small businesses in the country and there is concern that these establishments will become beholden to these mobsters going forward. The ...

Italy’s most wanted Mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, has died of cancer, authorities announced on Monday, eight months after his dramatic arrest after being on the run for three decades. Italian ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the end of 1923’s latest episode, Sal Maceo offers to gift Spencer a car if he helps him deliver liquor to his establishments ...

An Italian fugitive and convicted murderer suspected of belonging to the 'Ndrangheta syndicate, one of Italy's most powerful organized crime groups, was busted this week after more than 16 years on ...

Sigfrido Ranucci had just returned home at the time of the explosion, and his daughter had walked by a half-hour before, his employer said.

March 30 (UPI) --Detectives tracked down and arrested a 53-year-old Italian mafia fugitive living in the Dominican Republic after recognizing his distinctive tattoos on a YouTube cooking channel last ...

Luigi Lo Cascio stars as an anti-mafia prosecutor who vows revenge after being imprisoned on false accusations of collusion with the mob. By Gianmaria Tammaro If there’s one thing the world doesn’t ...