Italy Braces For New Mafia War

Friends of Ours ^ | 10/18/10 | Friends of Ours

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In an unprecedented move Italian authorities last July busted more than 300 suspected mobsters from the 'Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia. The enforcement action did not sit well with the underworld which issued a series of ominous threats against government officials. In August the 'Ndrangheta detonated a bomb at the entrance to the apartment building of Salvatore Di Landro who is the top anti-mafia magistrate in Reggio Calabria, and earlier this month it left a bazooka outside the courthouse offices of chief prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone.

A Sicilian prosecutor announced last week that Italy's three dominant organized crime groups – Cosa Nostra, the Camorra and 'Ndrangheta – recently held a joint summit to assemble a hit list against its enemies in the government and the press which will ignite a full scale war reminiscent of the early 1990s when the so-called men of honor assassinated anti-Mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

The 'Ndrangheta may have even more reason going forward for getting nervous. Two reputed bosses recently have decided to spill their guts on the Calabrian Mafia: "High-ranking mobster Antonio Lo Giudice has begun talking to investigators in the past few days. His evidence comes just a month after another key 'Ndrangheta figure, Roberto Moio, began revealing the shadowy group's secrets." Moreover, even in the United States and Canada where the 'Ndrangheta allegedly quietly launders its dirty drug money from the European cocaine trade with seeming impunity, law enforcement finally may be ready to take action. Last September mob expert Jerry Capeci wrote that he hears "the feds are looking into several joint ventures between members of the Five Families and other organized crime groups, including . . . mobsters in the 'Ndrangheta, the so-called Honored Society with roots in the southern province of Calabria."

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