People hold a ''peace'' banner during a demonstration to mark the national day of remembrance of the victims of organised crime in Naples, Italy. Thousands of people took part in the demonstration ...

Growing up as the son of an Italian immigrant in the 1990s, the word “mafia” has been in my lexicon for as long as I remember. It was unavoidable in that era. Media at the time was filled with images ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities said Friday they captured an alleged leader of the Italian ’ndrangheta mafia in Latin America who is accused of overseeing cocaine shipments and managing ...

When thousands of Italian immigrants arrived in America in the early 1900s, they brought more than culture - they brought the foundations of a criminal empire. What began as secret societies from ...

Organized crime in America is fairly fixed in its geographical associations, not counting the Corleones of Long Island. Chicago has The Outfit. New England the Patriarcas. New York the fabled Five ...

Roughly seventy years ago, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover famously declared, “There is no organized crime in America.” Hoover’s stubborn denial of the existence of the mafia continued despite ample ...