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A Pequannock man who battled allegations of mob ties when he served as president of Teamsters Local 560 in the 1980s was arrested Thursday in an alleged plot to extort more than $200,000 from a Hawthorne landscaper by using the threat of Mafia muscle.

I have a new commentary posted at Reason Online looking at how Sen. Dodd's new Agency for Financial Stability would be the financial equivalent for the FBI seeking to take down La Cosa Nostra: Perhaps Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd thinks of himself as a modern day John Sherman.

Home : Top Stories : Who's been torching cafes in Montreal? Who's been torching cafes in Montreal? The Canadian Press Date: Friday Nov.

Naples, Italy - Italian police arrested on Thursday the suspected gunman whose shooting of an alleged mobster in Naples was controversially distributed on video last month, news reports said.

It's been 4 months since a group of men, dressed as ninjas, burst into the home of Byrd and Melanie Billings and shot them to death.

Policemen in southern Italy say they have caught the hitman who cold bloodedly gunned down a Mafia boss in broad daylight outside a bar.

Quebec's auditor general lambasted the province's handling of the construction industry Wednesday, fuelling a scandal that has already prompted numerous demands for a public inquiry.

FILE: John Gotti Jr. exits Manhattan federal court IN 2006 after his third trial ended in a mistrial in New York.

A Russian lawyer representing the embattled Hermitage Capital investment fund has died in a Moscow prison after complaining for weeks that he was denied adequate medical treatment.

Police concluded their investigation into the Oct. 16 shooting of Garland Taylor on Tuesday serving a pair of murder warrants on men previously arrested and already in custody on organized crime allegations.

Comment about "Sicilian Mafia arrest gives Italy's mob leadership problems" Phone Name Comment 0 Sicilian Mafia arrest gives Italy's mob leadership problems Philip Pullella, Reuters Masked Italian police officers accompany captured fugitive Domenico Raccuglia to a police station in Palermo.

A prominent laser eye surgeon who operates at an Edmonton clinic was the target of a murder-for-hire plot commissioned by his business partner and former brother-in-law, court documents allege.

Ali Shaygan ponders how to put his life back together as New Age music filters from the stereo.

Italian police say they have arrested two more suspected mafia bosses, a day after seizing their brother in a raid near the southern city of Naples.

Domenico Raccuglia is considered one of the most prominent members of the Cosa Nostra.

Nicolo Rizzuto, once considered the mafia godfather of Canada, is led away by police.

Today is the day that Tom Petters' attorneys have been waiting for. Larry Reynolds, a Los Angeles business associate who has pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy in what the government contends was a $3.5 billion Ponzi scheme run by Petters, began testifying this morning in a federal court room in St.

The New York racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti, son of the late mafia boss, so far suggests a man who knows his own mind.

Set during the great depression of the 1930s, Public Enemies tells the story of bank robber John Dillinger.

Not even the Iranian threat, the spread of poverty in Israel or the growing violence are as frightening to Shas leaders as what they consider the real danger threatening the existence of the State of Israel - the Gentiles.