Mafia Ways

The former head of an organized crime family on Wednesday told jurors weighing whether to give his fellow mobster the death penalty that the capo wanted permission to kill the federal prosecutor responsible...

Two former Bonanno mobsters took the stand Tuesday to help prosecutors put the mafia family's former boss to death. Jurors listened intently as the mobsters described planned beatings and murders they...

A New York City mobster who is serving a life sentence for attempted murder could become the first mafia boss to face the death penalty after being convicted in a case accusing him of ordering a gangland...

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A former head of the Bonanno organized crime family testified at a murder trial Thursday that a crooked FBI agent tipped off the mob in the early 1980s that he and other gangsters were...

NEW YORK -- There was yet another wardrobe malfunction for a flashy mafia don as Federal Bureau of Prisons guards committed a fashion faux pas by turning away a delivery of neckties to Bonanno mob boss...

ONE of Sydney's criminal heavyweights for three decades, Stanley John ''Stan the Man'' Smith, described during his prime as a Mafia associate, a ''stand-over criminal and international shop thief'',...

The fatal shooting on Monday of Nick Rizzuto Jr. – son of reputed Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto – comes amid a power vacuum within the upper ranks of organized crime in the city, experts...