I think the son ran numbers and such when he was younger
Posted on 01/15/2021 12:08:17 PM PST by simpson96
HUNDREDS of alleged mobsters from Italy's most powerful mafia group will face justice in the country's biggest organised crime trial in decades.
The Uncle, The Wolf, Fatty, Big Nose and Blondie are among the 355 suspected mobsters and corrupt officials charged following a long inquiry into the influential 'Ndrangheta group.
There are so many of the accused mafia members and their accomplices involved in the trial that it took more than three hours to read out their names and the 438 indictments in a recent pre-trial hearing, reported news agency AFP.
But like the classic Godfather films, this trial revolves primarily around one group, the Mancuso family, which forms a powerful part of the extensive 'Ndrangheta mafia.
Based in southern Italy, they are said to be more ruthless and bloody than their counterparts in Sicily as membership is based on family blood ties and harder to break.
Members connected to the feared Mancuso organised crime family are said to have murdered a woman who refused to sell her land and then fed her to pigs.(snip)
More than 900 witnesses are expected to give evidence, with the charge sheet clocking up murder, drug trafficking, extortion and money laundering.
With more than 1,000 people involved in the proceedings, Italy has had to create a dedicated trial bunker in the southern region of Calabria, right at the heart of 'Ndrangheta territory.
The fortified courtroom,formerly a call centre in the town of Lamezia Terme,is expected to be home to the Rinascita-Scott trial for at least the next two years.
The Covid-secure court is ringed by armed police as the trial gets underway.
Yesterday a police helicopter buzzed the building while army units were also posted on the perimeter and everyone entering the building had to go through two sets of airport style metal detectors.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
The mafia here ran for office . . . and won.
Pelosi’s relatives.............in the Old Country.............................
No “Two Times”.
“I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers!”
Ping.
And no “Johnny Five Angels”
I wonder if dp had a nickname back in the day? Just kidding dp!
Mobsters dishing “justice” to other mobsters!
Sounds like either side of a congressional caucus.
What, is “The Leopard” extinct? I have ancestors from Sicily. They mostly fled around the time an earthquake leveled Messina...the quake promptly followed by a tsunami. My people largely stayed out of trouble until Prohibition. :)
"BLONDIE! You are a sonofa..... "
Maybe it’s just being a “NooYawker” but none of those nicknames is bizarre to me.
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