The last mafia godfather enjoyed an unusually strong loyalty Omerta’s law of silence also helped the president stay in hiding The last “godfather” Messina Denaro lived near his mother PALERMO, Italy (January 25) (Reuters) – When Salvatore Catalano discovered that Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was living a short distance from his home in Campobello … Read more
MEXICO CITY (January 21) (Reuters) – Just after sunset on Thursday, Feb. 10, two men in a white Dodge Ram pickup truck pulled up in front of Heber Lopez Vazquez’s small radio studio in southern Mexico. A man got inside and shot the 42-year-old journalist dead. Lopez’s brother told Reuters that Lopez’s 12-year-old son Oscar, … Read more
The Cosa Nostra boss was arrested after 30 years He was held in a private hospital in Palermo Convicted for his role in the murder of anti-mafia prosecutors PALERMO, Italy (January 16) (Reuters) – Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, was arrested by armed police at a private hospital in Sicily on Monday, … Read more
