Some Italian mafia clans operate globally ... Women in the tight-knit Camorra family clans often play important roles as messengers and accountants, paying clan members, Prof Varese says.

"It's a very significant event and shows that the Italian-American Mafia is still active." Since 1931, five families have run New York's Italian-American Mafia: the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino ...

For more than half a century, the clan has been led by family matriarch Anna Mazza, the first woman ever to be convicted in connection with the Italian mafia. She became known as the "Black Widow ...

As an Italian immigrant who served in the Second ... Joe Barbaro having already created in-roads with the city's major mafia families. Vito is arrested after a crime spree to pay off his late ...

"Italian tourism is under attack ... In March, Italy expanded a controversial program to remove children from their mafia families to break the cycle of criminal behavior being passed down ...

Merico speaks to Insider about the methodology and history of the 'Ndrangheta and about her own experiences of growing up in a Mafia family. She is the author of "Mafia Princess," works as a ...

Author Mark Winegardner's book, The Godfather Returns, was released in 2004. It is the follow-up to The Godfather (1969) by Mario Puzo and The Sicilian (1984). Following Puzo's death, Winegardner was ...