An Italian mafia boss known as the “last godfather” of the Cosa Nostra has died. Matteo Messina Denaro was one of the country’s most wanted men and spent more than 30 years on the run until his ...

What happened to never going against the family? Leaders within the Cosa Nostra, Sicily’s mafia, have reportedly complained that mob recruits aren’t what they used to be, as nearly 150 people ...

Italian authorities have seized assets and companies valued at more than €200 million (£173 million) as part of to the financial empire of the late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro. Messina Denaro, a ...

Two indictments detailed schemes involving sports betting and rigged poker games, prosecutors said. The link was current and former N.B.A. players and coaches. By David Waldstein Scores of people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bagheria is a byword for some of the Mafia's most spectacular and heinous crimes. While the organized crime group's influence is ...

Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run. Denaro, the 60 year old head of the Sicilian mafia the Cosa Nostra, who once claimed “I ...

ROME (AP) — Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia's most heinous slayings, died on Monday in a hospital prison ward, several months after being captured as ...

Arrest deals blow to Cosa Nostra's identity Messina Denaro played role in bomb attacks during the early 1990s Messina Denaro was Italy's most wanted mafia boss 'It is the end of a myth,' says ...