Written by Nicholas Pileggi, author of “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family,” the book that inspired the mafia and ... power-hungry and in search of being the “boss of bosses” of the mafia ...

He played a hand in more than 100 deaths and is even said to be the Mafia's deadliest ever hitman - now, he's free to walk the streets. Italy has erupted in fury this week after mob boss Giovanni ...

His grandson, Frank Monastra, has written a book, Brancato: Mafia Street Boss, about Brancato's mafia tenure and will talk about it 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2, at Mentor Public Library's Main Branch.

Italian authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a top boss of the 'Ndrangheta mafia after almost five years on the run. He had been featured on the police's list of most dangerous criminals.

A Mafia boss used an archaic secret code to pass messages down to his lieutenants, Italian police said. Fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro used a coded message system that uses farming terms ...

His silence hewed to the examples of Riina and of the Sicilian Mafia's other top boss, Bernardo Provenzano, who was captured in a farmhouse in Corleone, Sicily, in 2006, after 37 years in hiding ...

Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in 1975 after his friendship with a mafia boss soured FBI agents have searched a plot of land in the US state of New Jersey after a deathbed confession renewed hope of ...