Mafia Articles and News
“Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.”-Alan Keyes, former US assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs While researching, I’ve discovered some intriguing parallels between the mafia and…...
Metropolis Years ago, if you drove by the industrial park located in College Point, Queens, a big square structure would come into view. A disco named Metropolis, one large enough to accommodate 1,000 clubgoers, many of whom were affluent New Yorkers. The reason, supposedly, why people from outside of New…...
During the 1980s, just north of New York City, a rapist was preying on women in Westchester County. In the early morning of October 31, 1982, two teenage girls were victims of robbery, and were sexually assaulted. According to the victims, the crime transpired while walking home from a party…...
“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member”- Groucho Marx Social clubs are known to be places where one can find camaraderie, enjoy good food, and have plenty of laughs. I vividly recall my childhood in Ozone Park and Howard Beach, Queens. Due to a…...
“Just ’cause we lit the fuse, doesn’t mean we can control the explosion” – Irving, Mr. Robot The residents of Gioia Tauro are very familiar with its port and the ‘ndrangheta who controls it. Ninety-seven percent of the cocaine entering Italy, according to the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA), enters through…...
In March 2020, the Central Operations Service in Catanzaro, Calabria received some interesting reports from the FBI in New York. Specifically, they inquired about Teodoro Matozzo from Satriano, a small town in Catanzaro. Apparently, Matozzo was operating in New York and had links to the Gambino and Colombo families. Equally…...
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”- Ansel Adams What makes a photograph stand out from the rest? For me, it involves catching an unexpected person or moment and capturing it. I’m not a photographer by any means, but I do own a camera and…...
Last week, during a hearing before the Appeal Court of Assizes, pentito (collaborator of justice), Girolamo Bruzzese offered intriguing insight into political connections to the’ndrangheta. Equally important, he detailed a gathering of mafia leaders, in or about 1978-1979. Present at the meeting were the politician, Bettino Craxi, and the previous…...
“The earth is a small place for fugitives”-Kyrgyz Proverb On November 15, 2022, the carabinieri placed Bruno Carbone under arrest at the Ciampino airport in Rome. To begin with, since 2003, Carbone made Europol’s most-wanted list for his fugitive status. At that time, he received a 20-year sentence, in absentia,…...
Merriam-Webster defines the word mafia as: a secret society of Sicily or Italy, a similarly criminal organization in the U.S. a group of people of similar interests or backgrounds prominent in a particular field or enterprise: Clique The mafia dates to the middle of the nineteenth century. Initially, the term…...
