In 1986, Italian authorities built a fortified bunker inside a Palermo prison to hold the largest mafia trial in history. Among the 471 defendants rattling their cages was the entire leadership of the ...

What happened to never going against the family? Leaders within the Cosa Nostra, Sicily’s mafia, have reportedly complained that mob recruits aren’t what they used to be, as nearly 150 people ...

Sicilian authorities say items depicting Marlon Brando in The Godfather make light of the bloody feuds carried out by the Sicilian mafia - Nick Squires It has long been synonymous with the murderous ...

Mafia bosses have been secretly moaning about the “miserable” quality of recruits leaving them “on our knees” — while dreaming it could be more like “The Godfather.” “The caliber these days is low, a ...

France’s Les Films du Losange is taking international sales outside Italy on “Sicilian Letters” (“Iddu”), the hotly anticipated drama about Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro – who was dubbed “the ...

The president of the Vatican Court, Giuseppe Pignatone, is under investigation by the Italian judiciary for allegedly collaborating with the Mafia in the early 1990s. Pignatone, 75, is known for his ...

On February 10, 1986, a huge trial, a maxiprocesso, took place in Palermo, Sicily. The defendants were escorted to the courtroom, which was built like a ­concrete bunker, via underground tunnels and ...

ROME (Reuters) - A Sicilian priest gunned down by the Mafia twenty years ago outside his home in Palermo was beatified in a seafront ceremony on Saturday attended by an estimated 100,000 people from ...

Mafia: The Old Country doesn't have Italian voice acting, but 2K's now revealed the reason behind what initially looked to be a rather perplexing omission - Hangar 13's elected to go for Sicilian ...

2K Games’ consistently sporadic Mafia series will return in 2025. Mafia: The Old Country is set in Sicily in the 1900s and will explore the origins of organized crime. Developer Hangar 13 announced ...

PALERMO, Sicily, Jan 18 (Reuters) - An Italian court jailed Sicily's governor for five years on Friday for helping people who turned out to be linked to the Mafia and divulging confidential ...