It was the new Mafia commerce in arms, drugs and above all people which concerned the delegates who were meeting in Palermo to sign the UN's first treaty on organised crime, which coincided with the opening of the new centre in Corleone.
One such mammasantissima (ie, a very big shot), Bernardo Provenzano, who is still at large, is said to have told friends that this New Mafia must eschew bombs and shootings, and go back to backroom-deals with new friends in political circles just as in the old days.
In 2000, White led the prosecution of more than 100 people including members of all five New York Mafia families accused of strong-arming brokers and manipulating prices of penny stocks.
The world business owners, celebrities, and athletes, dressed in black suits and armed with blackberries, vigorously engaged in discussion, forming a new social enterprise mafia.
Mr. RUDY GIULIANI (Republican, New York): If I didn't use intensive questioning, there'd be a lot of mafia guys running around New York right now and crime would be a lot higher in New York than it is.
But Mr Capasso says that in the end, when the agency was about to sell off a firm to a new owner, those members of staff believed to have mafia connections were forced to quit.
He was there ostensibly to meet with reputed Detroit Mafia street enforcer Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano, chief of a Teamsters local in New Jersey, who was later convicted in a murder case.
Now that he has been elected by popular vote, our government is very strong and can implement new policies to strengthen the investment environment and deal with environmental issues, corruption, crime, the local mafia.
We see the rise of the real-life Harlem gangster Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), who in 1968 went to Northern Thailand, purchased uncut heroin, shipped it to New York, and sold it on the streets at twice the strength and half the price of what the Mafia was selling.
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