A reformed crime boss who helped ... Franzese - The Real Goodfella. Michael said: "People with challenges in their life should realise there is always a way out. These young people ask ‘how ...

A young man when he went into ... was considered Sicily's Cosa Nostra top boss even while a fugitive. He was the last of three longtime fugitive top-level Mafia bosses who had for decades eluded ...

BOSTON (AP) — An 85-year-old former New England Mafia boss who was convicted ... also received a mandatory life sentence. Before being sentenced, Salemme stood up and said the "real story ...

As Italian authorities escorted Provenzano to jail, young people ... of two anti-mafia judges. In Sicily, this is a real-life blockbuster. "Bernardo Provenzano is the boss of bosses of Sicilian ...

Romano and other real-life ... wishing life could be more like “The Godfather,” Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 hit movie starring Marlon Brando as crime boss Don Corleone. Mafia bosses have ...

By Jason Horowitz and Gaia Pianigiani ROME — Even by mafia ... as a young killer with a talent for infiltrating local business and politics. Mr. Riina spent the rest of his life in prison ...

His arrest came 30 years and a day after the Jan. 15, 1993, capture of the Mafia's "boss of bosses,'' Salvatore ... Messina Denaro began serving multiple life sentences in a top-security prison ...

A top Italian Mafia boss who once bragged ... via REUTERS The captured billionaire boss was also convicted of killing a turncoat associate’s young son, who was strangled and dissolved in a ...

A former boss of the Dixie Mafia who ordered the murders of a circuit ... Nix, now 80, was already serving a life sentence in a Louisiana’s Angola State Penitentiary for the 1971 murder of ...

ROME >> Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted Mafia boss who ordered some of the ... His face looked wan and he stared straight ahead. A young man when he went into hiding ...

Rome — Italian authorities arrested Italy's most-wanted fugitive on Monday, taking mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro ... had been sentenced in absentia to life in prison for the 1992 murders ...