Around 200 people were sentenced to a total of more than 2,200 years behind bars following one of the most important mafia “maxi trials” in Italian history. More than 300 defendants were accused of being linked to the ‘Ndrangheta, one of the world’s most powerful crime groups, in a trial […]
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A new month means a new PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup. November’s titles of Mafia II: Definitive Edition, Dragon Ball: The Breakers and Aliens Fireteam Elite will be available to PlayStation Plus members on Tuesday, November 7 until Monday December 4. Additionally, we recently launched Sony Pictures Core on PS5 […]
There are fears Italy’s three most powerful mafia groups may have formed a formidable alliance after images emerge of leading figures sharing a meal together. Senior members from the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate based in the peninsular region of Calabria, the Camorra of Naples and Cosa Nostra, which is based in Sicily, were allegedly […]
An Irish dancer says he worries he may have only won a major competition because he was an unwitting victim in the cheating and sex bribes scandal that shocked the world of Irish dancing in 2022. TikTok and dance star Owen Luebbers, who grew up in Philadelphia, became one of […]
This is the final resting place of Mafia godfather Matteo Messina Denaro – a gangster who gruesomely boasted how he had ‘filled a cemetery’ with his victims. Ruthless Denaro, 61, died earlier this week from colon cancer and he spent 30 years on the run before finally being arrested in […]
Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, dubbed the “Last Godfather” by many in the Italian press, has died. The 61-year-old, who had been arrested in January after spending three decades on the run, died shortly before 2am on September 25 at the San Salvatore de L’Aquila hospital in the central […]
CNN — A Mafia boss who spent nearly three decades evading law enforcement before he was arrested in January has died while receiving medical treatment, according to Italian media reports. Matteo Messina Denaro, who is thought to have ordered dozens of Mafia-related murders for the Cosa Nostra crime group, died […]
The “PayPal Mafia” that ousted Elon Musk as CEO of the peer-to-peer payments site also helped save his rocket-launching company SpaceX as it teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, according to a new book. In 2000, Musk was removed from his position as chief executive of PayPal in a “coup” […]