Mafia

TV star Gary Hollywood: ‘I’ve been betrayed by Ms Brown’s Mafia’

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To its millions of fans, Mrs Brown’s Boys is an unmissable treat. While some critics pan it as unfunny and an affront to good taste, the sitcom – which stars Brendan O’Carroll as foul-mouthed Irish matriarch Agnes Brown – is one of the BBC’s biggest success stories. Part of the appeal lies in the knowledge that … Read more

‘Boat mafia’ of traffickers sets up base in Brussels to smuggle migrants across the Channel 

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Ruthless traffickers have set up a base in Belgium to smuggle migrants across the Channel. The Daily Mail has established that organised crime networks calling themselves the ‘boat mafia’ have moved in to Brussels to profit from a huge rise in migrants.  Some 1,000 arrivals are using the city as an alternative staging post to … Read more

Sicilian Mafia could be dismantled with help from social network analysis

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Friendship is everything: Sicilian Mafia could be dismantled by using social network analysis to map syndicate members’ connections, study claims  Criminal networks like the Mafia are hard for law enforcement to disrupt Researchers from the UK and Italy studied data on a real-life Mafia syndicate They report a way to pick the members whose arrest would be … Read more

Cuban business owner decries BLM’s ‘mafia tactics’ after letter

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Cuban restaurant owner in Louisville decries BLM’s ‘mafia tactics’ after receiving a letter with a list of diversity demands that he was told to meet or risk social media shaming, a public boycott or having his storefront ‘f***** with’ Dozens of businesses in Louisville, Kentucky, received letters from BLM protesters on July 24  The protesters … Read more

The Sopranos and Goodfellas writers joining forces for new mafia drama series for Showtime

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The Sopranos and Goodfellas writers joining forces for new mafia drama series for Showtime By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 01:31 BST, 2 August 2020 | Updated: 01:31 BST, 2 August 2020 A couple of high-profile veteran writers in the mafia genre are set to dive back into the underworld of crime and mobsters. Showtime … Read more

Secret mistress of infamous Mafia kingpin Meyer Lansky speaks of her 12-year affair

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The secret lover of notorious mobster Meyer Lansky has revealed details of her 12-year affair with kingpin for the first time, describing him ‘gentle soul’ who could be ‘moved to tears by life’s injustices’ in spite of his infamous criminal exploits. Lansky was one of the wealthiest and most feared mobsters in America for more … Read more

Police freeze £1.6million from ‘complex web’ of 25 bank accounts linked to mafia cash

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Police freeze £1.6million from ‘complex web’ of 25 bank accounts linked to mafia cash after probe into Italian crime gang money laundering firms in London Met Police say dozens of front companies to launder money were founded in UK  Gangsters used a dead man’s identity and firms were set up by third parties  Shell companies were … Read more

‘Sammy the Bull’ Gravano who brought down John Gotti stars in MTV reality show Families Of The Mafia

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Notorious mobster Salvatore ‘Sammy The Bull’ Gravano has joined the ranks of reality TV stars. The former Gambino crime family underboss, who became a government witness and brought down the Teflon Don John Gotti, appears in MTV’s new series Families Of The Mafia that premieres Thursday night. In a teaser for the show shared via … Read more