Say Pocket Pokies runs a Christmas tournament with a $30k prize pool. Knowing when the leaderboard resets or how many spins ...

DeLeo, 82, who was released from prison last year under supervised release after serving more than a decade in Federal prison for crimes committed while he was street boss of the Colombo family, was ...

Mafia news site. “Believe nothing that you hear and only half that you see.” It looks like ex-Colombo associate John Pappa ...

In 1987, reputed Colombo boss Carmine Persico knew that, short of his lawyers one day cooking up a miracle, he would in all likelihood be spending the rest of his life in prison. He had been convicted ...

We can thank Michael "Mikey Nose" Mancuso for our starting point.... I don't think any other blog or news organization on the planet has ever gotten such direct insight from the man widely considered ...

Longtime Genovese family powerhouse Anthony (Tough Tony) Federici, who ran a landmark Queens-based Italian restaurant, died this morning of natural causes, sources tell Cosa Nostra News. While the ...

The Philadelphia crime family formally earned a slot on the humiliating list of Cosa Nostra borgatas to have one of their "secret" initiation ceremonies electronically recorded by law enforcement. Law ...

It is helpful to view the ‘Ndrangheta—the Italy-based organized crime organization with global reach—as an octopus, to borrow the metaphor used by turncoat Rocco Varacalli (see ‘Ndrangheta Governing ...

This is the most comprehensive, updated list you are likely to come across anywhere of the Italian American Mafia crime families, including their home bases and members' names and titles, from the ...

Well, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, and Guatemala—to name three places that Dominick Cicale, former Bonanno crime family capo, has visited on business during post-Cosa Nostra life over the past nine years. ...

The 'Ndrangheta is a secret society. Its organizational and operational rules and rites are based on this inherent characteristic. Therefore, it is no coincidence that there are various similarities ...

Bet you didn't know Sicily has two Mafias. There's Cosa Nostra, of course. And there's La Stidda (Sicilian for "the star"), a Sicilian-based Mafia group that's a direct rival to Cosa Nostra. All ...