Mafia boss caught after 20 years on run
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Italian prosecutors claim victory against syndicate blamed for 2007 execution of six rivals in German town of Duisburg
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Two Italian mobsters, a bodyguard, a  financier and his girlfriend were acquitted on Wednesday of the  1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, found hanging from a London  bridge and known as &quot;God&#39;s banker&quot; for his Vatican links.
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A close political ally of Premier Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of ties with the Sicilian Mafia on Saturday and sentenced to nine years in prison in a fresh embarrassment to Italy's conservative government.
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In the Mafia's slang they are scorned as the "scappati" Â the "runaways" Â a crime clan that sought refuge in the United States more than 20 years ago after being nearly wiped out in one of Sicily's bloodiest mob wars.
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Police and federal agents found remains of two people believed to be former Mafia captains after expanding excavation work at a Queens lot reportedly used by a New York crime family, authorities said.
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent convicted of taking a $20,000 bribe was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in federal prison.
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Former Philadelphia mobster Ralph Natale, the nation's first reigning Mafia boss to turn government informant, was sentenced to 13 years in prison Friday for drug dealing, racketeering and bribery.
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ROME - Italy's anti-Mafia investigators have long battled money laundering. Now they're cracking down on jailed mobsters' dirty laundry.
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PALERMO, Italy  - An Italian court found a close  political ally and business associate of Prime Minister Silvio  Berlusconi guilty of colluding with the Mafia, and sentenced  him on Saturday to nine years in prison.
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Authorities discovered part of a human skeleton in a vacant lot believed for years to be a graveyard for people ordered killed by the late mob boss John Gotti and other gangsters.
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BERLIN: An alleged lieutenant of Carlos the Jackal, legendary international terrorist mastermind through two decades, was acquitted yesterday of murder and bomb attacks in France more than 20 years ago.
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Police in the Italian region of Sicily seize 46 people suspected of helping a fugitive mafia boss.
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ROME  - A close political ally of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of ties with the Sicilian Mafia on Saturday and sentenced to nine years in prison in a fresh embarrassment to Italy's right-wing government.
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The acting boss of the Columbo crime family pleaded guilty in a mistaken mob hit on a 78-year-old judge whose son, a former prosecutor, was the intended target.
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More than 80 reputed mobsters in jail or on the run after major transatlantic strike against mafia
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Italian police arrested 45 people Tuesday in an anti-Mafia crackdown in Sicily, including top mobsters who had allegedly been in contact with Bernardo Provenzano, the reputed No. 1 boss apprehended earlier this year.
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By KRISTIN M. HALL NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A convicted murderer who escaped from a Michigan psychiatric facility in 1976 was back behind bars Thursday after living most of his 30 years on the run as an otherwise law-abiding family man in Tennessee, authorities said.