"It's quite unheard of in New York," Oxford University professor of criminology Federico Varese tells the BBC. "It's a very significant event and shows that the Italian-American Mafia is still ...

Pete DiGravio was known as the “mayor of Little Italy” but somebody wanted him dead. His 1968 murder is widely thought of as a mob hit, executed by a professional hit man. It happened on the 16th tee ...

His realisation that Verdi's story of anarchic Renaissance Italy could be transplanted to become a tale of New York's Mafia-run Little Italy in the 1950s, was a stroke of genius. The current ...

Among the Five Families that have run New York's Italian-American Mafia since 1931, the Gambino and Genovese groups have had the most success recruiting in Italy over the past 15 years ...