The rule was never to say the word aloud. However, the film In the Name of the Law breaks that silence within the first three minutes: a baron utters the word “mafia” right after a murder. It was the ...

ROME – Experts are trying to crack the code that the recently captured Cosa Nostra boss used for communicating with mobsters and other accomplices across Sicily, Italy’s top mob fighter said Wednesday ...

Italian authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a top boss of the 'Ndrangheta mafia after almost five years on the run. He had been featured on the police's list of most dangerous criminals.

When top Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano was captured in April after 40 years on the run, his hideaway in the Sicilian hills turned up none of the extravagance of Cosa Nostra’s cinematic lore. No ...

SHORTLY AFTER nine o’clock on a Monday night, Giovanni Brusca, his brother, their wives and children had abruptly to abandon their roast-chicken dinner. Armed, masked police burst into their rented ...

The first time I saw The Godfather's Don Corleone, it wasn't in a movie theater. It was on Saturday Night Live. John Belushi did an amazing impression of Marlon Brando as Corleone, and he was playing ...