Mafia Ways

ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi paid the Mafia £300,000-a-year protection money, a court was told yesterday.

London, May 19 : Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi paid his mafia godfathers 300,000 pounds a year in protection money, a mobster super grass told a court yesterday.

One is the powerful daughter of the Italian Prime Minister who runs his publishing empire; the other is the country's best-selling author, and not for the first time a simmering feud between the two...

NEWARK, N.J. - A recent federal sweep netted more than 120 defendants, among them several dockworkers and longshoremen union officials. The FBI called it one of the largest Mafia takedowns in history.

London, Feb 8 : Mafia gangsters claim to possess compromising photos of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at wild 'bunga bunga' sex parties, a leading Italian photographer has claimed.

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Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SpA , controlled by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ’s Fininvest SpA won’t publish the next book by Roberto Saviano , author of the bestseller “Gomorrah”...