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April 27th, 2007 by Mr Turner
Top Mafia Family Head' caught in Italy
Provenzano had been on the run for more than half his life
The man considered to be the head of the Sicilian Mafia, Bernardo Provenzano, has been arrested after more than four decades on the run.
Police believe he took over command of the Mafia after the 1993 arrest of ex-boss Salvatore "Toto" Riina. Provenzano's capture is an important victory for law and order in Sicily, where the police still fight Mafia crime on a daily basis, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome. Crimes he has been convicted of include the killings in 1992 of top anti-Mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi expressed his delight over the arrest to Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu, a statement from the presidential palace said. "His capture is an exceptionally important success because it makes it possible to hand over to justice the present head of Cosa Nostra [the Sicilian Mafia] and put an end to a flight that has lasted too long," Sicilian judges said in a joint statement.
Legendary figure
Provenzano, nicknamed U Tratturi (The Tractor), has been on the run for more than half his life. Police say he was arrested at a farmhouse near Corleone, where he was born and where his wife and children live. Corleone was made famous in the Hollywood film about the Mafia, The Godfather, and gave its name to the fictional family in the trilogy. Mafia informers said Provenzano moved between farmhouses in the region every two or three nights to evade capture. Italy's anti-mafia prosecutor Piero Grasso said police tracked him down by following a package of clean laundry delivered to his hideout. Detectives found tracing him difficult, as the last photo they had was nearly 50 years old. But they had a breakthrough when they discovered he had received treatment for prostate problems under an assumed name at a clinic in southern France.
Assassin
Mr Grasso, who has recently led the hunt for the fugitive, said Provenzano had a network of businessmen, technical experts, and politicians whom he could call on for help.
Police said Provenzano was wearing a blue jacket and jeans and put up no resistance when he was arrested. He was also silent during his capture, speaking only to confirm his identity, authorities said. Onlookers shouted "Assassin" and "Bastard" when he was later brought to police headquarters in the Sicilian capital, Palermo. Provenzano's disguises and daring are legendary, our correspondent says. He devised a personal protection system to escape arrest and never communicated with his friends except by written notes carried by trusted lieutenants, our correspondent says. Many times, police announced they were on the point of tracking him down, but he always appeared to escape at the last moment.
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Feb. 17th, 2007 by Mr .Turner
NEW YORK — Two highly decorated former detectives were convicted Thursday of moonlighting as hitmen for the mob in one of the most sensational cases of police corruption in New York history.
Louis Eppolito, 57, and Steven Caracappa, 64, could get life in prison for their roles in eight murders committed between 1986 and 1990 while they were simultaneously on the payroll of both the NYPD and Luchese crime family underboss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso.
Federal prosecutor Daniel Wenner described the case as "the bloodiest, most violent betrayal of the badge this city has ever seen."
Prosecutors said the two men carried out two hits themselves — after pulling the victims over in traffic stops — and delivered up some of the other victims to the Mafia to be killed.
Neither defendant showed any emotion during the 10 minutes it took the jury forewoman to reply "proven" 70 times to the racketeering acts they were accused of. The verdict was reached after two days of deliberations.
The defendants' $5 million bail was revoked and they were led off to jail to await sentencing May 22. The men's lawyers said they will appeal.
"It's an appearance of justice, but it's not justice," said Bruce Cutler, who once represented John Gotti and put on a thundering defense for Eppolito, claiming the government's mob witnesses were lying to save their necks. Read More
While there may be thousands of mafia groups in Russia only a handful are large enough to maintain a serious threat.
The biggest gangs are the Dolgopruadnanskaya and the Solntsevskaya.
The latter, named after the Moscow suburb of Solntsevo from which it hails, has around 5,000 members.
Its leader is believed to be Sergei Mikhailov, known as Mikhas, who is being held by the authorities in Switzerland.
The Solntsevskaya specialises in drugs and gun smuggling but is not averse to extortion and the American hotelier Paul Tatum, who was shot dead in 1995, claimed they had threatened his life only a few weeks before. ( Read More )
No More Federal Money to Jail Border Agents, Congressman Says
CNSNews.com | January 26, 2007
Members of Congress who have called on the administration to change course on the controversial jailing of two U.S. Border Patrol agents for shooting a suspected Mexican drug smuggler are trying a new approach. Now lawmakers want to exert the only explicit power they have in a criminal justice case - money.
Several members of the House are drafting legislation to cut off funding specifically for the incarceration of border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, sentenced to 11 and 12 years respectively.....(Read More)
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