Mafia

Caucasian mafia head Yanis Yushayev killed in shooting at Caesarea gas station

Video footage of the incident showed Yushayev leaving a restaurant at the gas station before the suspected killer approached him from behind and shot him at close range in the head.

Yanis Yushayev
Sigfrido Ranucci.

Bomb explodes outside home of top Italian investigative journalist

  Police officers work near the scene where several people were injured after a series of loud bangs that indicated gunfire, according to police, at Vaksala Square in Uppsala, Sweden, April 29, 2025.

How Swedish gangs are grooming young girls to make explosives, maim enemy groups

 Carabinieri members stand guard outside 'La Maddalena' hospital, where Italy's most wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested, in Palermo, Italy, January 16, 2023

Italy's mafia abandoning rivalries to join forces, report says


Jake Tapper’s ‘The Devil May Dance’ partners Hollywood, Mafia and politics

Set in the early 1960s, it sends the Marders on an undercover mission that sounds groovy and glamorous: Hang out with Frank Sinatra and his famous Rat Pack in Los Angeles to find out just how tight the singer’s ties to the Mafia are.

CNN’S JAKE TAPPER with president Barack Obama at a town hall meeting in Fort Lee, Virginia, 2016.

Tattooed Italian mobster nabbed in Caribbean thanks to his cooking videos

Biart made a fatal mistake. He and his wife posted on YouTube several videos of Biart cooking Italian dishes. Although they were careful not to show his face, police recognized him from the tattoos.

Illustrative Photo: Ahmed Hergal, founder of Italian restaurant L'antica Pizzeria DaPietro, adds ingredients to his 999 DT (360 USD) pizza, covered with luxury foods and edible gold leaf, in Tunis, Tunisia, March 6, 2021.

Netanyahu meets with Arab-Israeli authorities to discuss lowering crime

"I want special forces, task forces," Netanyahu suggested, after indicating that the crime wave would likely spread to Jewish localities soon.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a Clalit healthcare center in the Arab town Tira.

25 years after 'Casino': a primer on some of Hollywood's Jewish gangsters

The film's protagonist is based on Frank Rosenthal, a real Jewish gambling expert from Chicago who had ties to the Chicago Outfit and eventually headed to Vegas to run casinos for them.

Robert De Niro as Ace Rothstein in a scene from the 1995 film "Casino."

New documentary seeks to find New York Jewish gangster's buried treasure

Infamous bootlegger Dutch Schultz reportedly hid around $8 million somewhere in upstate New York, but it has continued to elude treasure hunters for 85 years.

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Mobster storms Palestinian town to get back beloved horse

'Nissim would make sure that they would go in and get the horse out. This is a horse that he raised like a baby.'

Palestinian teenagers ride their horses during sunset in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat

As mafia delivers essentials in Italy, cartels distribute food in Mexico

Last week, reports first circulated of several Mexican cartels deploying members to dole out aid packages to help cash-strapped residents ride out the coronavirus pandemic.

An employee of the clothing brand "El Chapo 701," owned by Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman, daughter of the convicted drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, hands out a box with food, face masks and hand sanitizers to an elderly woman as part of a campaign to help cash-strapped elderly people during th

Coronavirus: Mafia delivers food, essentials to Italy's worst-affected

Italy has the second most reported deaths at 19,468, behind the United States, with Spain in third with 16,353.

People are seen on their balconies as a priest leads an Easter Sunday Mass on the roof of the Santissima Trinita a Villa Chigi parish church during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Rome