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Search results for "Sicilian Mafia" ...
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Return of the Godfathers
The Mafia is the topic as Leo Sisti tells the story of the relationship between the Sicilian and U.S. branches of Cosa Nostra. Following a war won by the "Corleonesi" side, the business relationship between the two had come to a halt. Two Inzerillos brothers (Francisco and Rosario), lost a power struggle and were forced to leave their native Sicily in the early 1980s, "exiled" to the U.S. Almost 20 years later, they returned to Sicily to avenge their murdered family members, attempt to regain power and try to resume the old business relationship with the American mob.
Tags: Mafia; Cosa Nostra; Corleonesi; Sicily; Palermo; Inzernillos
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Tobacco Companies Linked to Criminal Organizations in Lucrative Cigarette Smuggling
This nine-part investigative report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a project of the Center for Public Integrity, reveals "how Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds and British American Tobacco became enmeshed with organized crime worldwide as they fought to expand markets and increase profits through cigarette smuggling." While corporate officials were pleading ignorance in explaining how one-third of the world's exported cigarettes end up on the black market they were in fact working closely with companies and officials directly connected to organized crime in the United States, Canada, Italy, China, Taiwan and other countries, the investigation reports.
Tags: Sicilian Mafia; Latin America; Cocaine barons; crime; smoking; smokers; business; government; tax evasions; Third World countries; money laundering; financial crimes; customs; witness protection; transit trade; exports; imports; racketeering
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No title (id: 7445)
ABC News discovers the Sicilian Mafia using Caracas, Venezuela, as a safe-haven and a base of operations for its worldwide heroin network; finds the Cuntrera-Caruana mafia family enjoys protection from Venezuelan officials, who have ignored arrest warrants and extradition requests from Italy and the United States, April 26, 1990.
Tags: TAPE; NY Potter Isham
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No title (id: 7044)
Penthouse chronicles the Sicilian Mafia's renewed presence in the international heroin trade despite the FBI's claim that the group's drug connection has been dismantled; evidence shows that in fact its involvement in the heroin trade has expanded dramatically, 1989.
Tags: Mattelson FBI DEA
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No title (id: 5588)
Business Week looks at the case developed by international authorities against a family in the Sicilian Mafia; the Cuntrera-Caruana clan allegedly supplies heroin to the United States, April 18, 1988.
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No title (id: 4099)
Manhattan, Inc. reports that mob yuppies from Sicily are fighting weakened New York organized-crime families for soaring drug profits; finds young Sicilian crime groups more willing to break traditional Mafia rules and to deal drugs, August 1988.
Tags: Duffy OC NY drugs
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No title (id: 40)
Newsday finds Mafia smuggles Sicilians into the United States, December 1970.
Tags: mafia; mob; organized crime; sicilians; united states; smuggling