Mafia Articles and News
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…...
This past Wednesday, Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (financial police), detained 33 people for criminal association, drug trafficking, and money laundering. Among the arrested were Chinese nationals, camorra, and ‘ndrangheta members. This investigation began in 2020 by Rome’s prosecutor’s office in coordination with the District Anti-mafia Directorate. High fashion The Chinese…...
Reclamation is the process of regaining something previously possessed. In this instance, I’ll be discussing the Gambino family, currently under the control of the Sicilian faction. However, we must first revisit the past to speak of the present. Carlo Carlo Gambino was born in Palermo, Sicily August 24, 1902. His…...
The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. Sun Tzu Legal Enemies In life, enemies come in many different forms. For instance, some are legal foes, such as the FBI and the mafia, who stand on opposing sides of the law. Nonetheless, are they indeed enemies,…...
