Mafia Articles and News
A lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on. Terry Pratchett The phrase “word on the street”, allegedly dates back to the 1920s in New York City. In those days, insider-trading was legal and certain information regarding companies came from Wall Street. The frequently…...
The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Pittsburgh Charles “Chucky” Porter somehow bypassed the mafia’s edict where a proposed member’s parents both needed to be of Italian decent. Porter, who is only half Italian on his mother’s side, not only became…...
Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form. Hunter S.Thompson On March 16, 2019, the police in Brick Township, New Jersey took a 24-year-old man into custody for a crime committed three days prior. The suspect, Anthony Comello of Staten Island, had no known criminal history. The crime…...
The easiest clay to shape is an impressionable young mind. John Pennisi 1978 I remember pestering my mother about wanting to move in with my father. At the time, my nine year old mind believed the grass was greener on the other side. My parent’s marriage ended three years earlier,…...
You can’t reason with gang violence: you can’t talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it. Greg Boyle Canada’s Godfather From the mid-1970s until the early 1980s, Montreal endured a mafia war between Calabrian and Sicilian factions. Subsequently, the Rizzuto crime family emerged victorious and seized…...
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. Orson Wells Canarsie After arriving in the United States, the Sente family Americanized their name by changing it to Senter. They settled in Canarsie, Brooklyn, an area populated with fellow Italians. The Senter’s son, Anthony made fast friends with…...
And what is the greatest number? Number one. David Hume ‘Ndrangheta Italy’s Sicilian mafia has dominated the country’s underworld for decades. The ‘ndrangheta, which operates from Calabria’s southern region, managed to overshadow its notorious counterpart. Unlike the Sicilian mafia, blood relations are the glue that binds the organization together. Of…...
Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay Miyamato Musashi Maxi-Trial Following a three-year legal process that saw 416 members and associates of the ‘ndrangheta arrested in December 2019, over two hundred defendants were found guilty and given a combined sentence of 2,100 years. For Italian magistrates…...
Every story has an end. But in life, every ending is just a new beginning. Uptown Girls The death of Matteo Messina Denaro, who died while in prison last September, marked the end of an era. More specifically, one filled with public massacres, bombings, and the mafia’s war against the…...
In light of the recent events in the Middle East surrounding the Israeli/Palestine war, I decided to write about the mafia’s history with regard to Israel. Having stated that, this blog does not adopt a political stance about the current events. Those that are looked at with hesistant eyes. Are…...
