And at least the Mafia has lost its aura of invincibility among ordinary Sicilians.
As a US attorney he has taken on terrorists, the Mafia and Chicago's City Hall.
Perhaps to avoid the shame, many Venetians favour the theory that the Mafia did it.
Another is to finance the mafia's own business expansion plans in Russia and, increasingly, abroad.
She was campaigning as she died, in Italy, for the right to speak out against the Mafia.
To be fair, the Mafia would get the same treatment if they could legitimize their protection rackets.
Babette, a young journalist, has investigated the Mafia only to see her lover, a Roman lawyer, hideously murdered.
Police in Sicily have recently dealt a string of devastating blows to the Mafia, called the Cosa Nostra.
By intrigue or muscle, the Mafia often tries to get back into firms that are taken from it.
Just as they had once accepted the abuses of fascism, they were lax in dealing with the Mafia.
His hero is a middle-aged policeman, Salvo Montalbano, an understated old hand who gets under the Mafia's skin.
But on the ground in Russia you hear that the Mafia is no longer a threat to most businesses.
In Palermo much has changed since the worst days of the Mafia wars.
Yet the biggest challenge now for Mr Berlusconi does not concern conflicts of interest, court cases or the Mafia.
"It's a bit like the Mafia talking quietly to threaten you, " O'Donnell said.
Politicians did not anticipate the extent of unintended consequences, as the illegal commodity only encouraged bootlegging, speakeasies and the mafia.
In 1932, Al Capone, the Mafia boss who became America's "Public Enemy Number One, " began his prison sentence for tax evasion.
The report by the university in Milan takes aim at what it says is a tendency to exaggerate the mafia's wealth.
When he was in the Mafia, Ferrante clearly thought it was fine to deal with devils to make a business point.
And what better sign of progress in the war on the Mafia than the fearless administrators now in charge of them?
Investigators allege that Vito Nicastri was a front man for the Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, investing illegal earnings in his business empire.
The mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, who is a university teacher of philosophy by profession, is not impressed by the Mafia theory.
The three had been under investigation for aiding and abetting the Mafia, and were among ten people whose arrest the prosecutor had requested.
But Marcello Cozzi, vice-president of Libera, a main anti-mafia organisation in Italy, says the mafia does not do business that is easily quantified.
Mr Arlacchi, who made his name fighting the Mafia in Italy, wants to eliminate the cultivation of coca and opium poppies by 2008.
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Not far from Corleone, in the rolling hills of western Sicily, there is a farming co-operative set up on land confiscated from the Mafia.
They sold the second Turner painting to Liebrucks and ran away from the mafia with the money, first to Cuba and then to Brazil.
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He had not realised, it seems, that the pension fund of the Teamsters' union, which had financed his purchase, was controlled by the Mafia.
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