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By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Police in Italy last week arrested over 40 people connected to the Nigerian Mafia in Italy and charged them with Mafia association, human trafficking, drug trafficking and distribution, and running a prostitution…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

The career of 84-year-old Lucchese Mafia family acting boss Matthew Madonna (photo above, middle) has officially come to an end. On Monday, he was sentenced to life in prison following his conviction for the 2013 murder of…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

It was a gangland hit like something out of an episode of television series Sons of Anarchy. In the middle of the day, in broad daylight, on a street in the Bronx, New York, two gunmen dressed in black, armed with…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

A global investigation involving Interpol and law enforcement agencies in multiple countries this week resulted in the arrests of six wanted fugitives with strong ties to the Calabrian Mafia in Albania, Argentina and Costa…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is the most powerful drug syndicate in Mexico and remains fiercely loyal to its fugitive leader…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Hamilton mob boss Pasquale “Pat” Musitano knew this would be the ending. Shot to death in a parking lot. It happened last Friday around 1 p.m. in Burlington, Ontario. Musitano was 52 years old. His body was covered with a…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Love is a battlefield, a popular song once told us, but to literally turn it into one is a bit extreme. Especially when one of the heartbroken parties involved turns to the Mafia for help in beating up his ex-wife’s…

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

"It’s a matter of fate on which he has no influence." - Paul Tillich, The Future of…

By Milko for Gangsters Inc.

Crime boss Amir Faten Mekky is part of the new generation of gangsters. Young, ultra-violent, and operating around the world. Mekky went from armed robberies and murder in Sweden to drug trafficking and money laundering in…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Genovese Mafia family soldier Frank Giovinco was sentenced to 4 years in prison on Monday for extortion conspiracy and participating in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with the Genovese mob’s control of two local…

By Joe Francis for Gangsters Inc.

The history of Korean organized crime is mostly unknown to the public outside of Korea. Everyone knows about Lucky Luciano and Pablo Escobar and men from their part of the world, but no one knows about men like Kim…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Every Mafia family has its go-to guy when it comes to violent acts. For New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family one of those men was Anthony Capo, a soldier with a hair-trigger temper who relished hurting people and…

By Robert Sberna for Gangsters Inc.

The death of Joe “Loose” Iacobacci in April has spurred…

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

It was a trip into the countryside

Off to see some people.

Business to attend, lunch, in a township clinging high on the top of Sicani Mountain, with views to the south across the endless hills and valleys to the Strait of Sicily, and…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Adel El Zabayar, a former member of the Venezuelan National Assembly, was charged in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday with narco-terrorism, cocaine trafficking, and related weapons offenses involving the use and possession…

By Niko Vorobyov for Gangsters Inc.

It’s quarantine so we’re all stuck at home looking to kill time. Hollywood seems to have a monopoly on the gangster genre, from the wiseguy epics of Coppola and Scorsese to the hood movies like Menace II Society, but what of the…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Italian police launched Operation Mala Civitas to investigate around 500 people with convictions for Mafia crimes and check whether or not they collected welfare cheques. On Wednesday, investigators of the Guardia…

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

“It is no longer clear what is happening in this city. We are moving targets, and we don’t know who will kill us.” - Mimo La Monica. Officer in Italian State Police. 1989.

He hasn’t had a…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

An alleged high-ranking member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was extradited from Uruguay to the United States on…

By Robert Sberna for Gangsters Inc.

By many accounts, Joe “Loose” Iacobacci forged a model career in the Mafia. The Cleveland-born Iacobacci rose…