Marcello Dell'Utri, who set up Mr Berlusconi's first party, Forza Italia, is appealing against a nine-year jail sentence for Mafia ties.Yet Mr Spatuzza's account is hearsay, based on what he claims to have been told by a more senior mafioso.
In a 137-page affidavit the bureau alleged, among other things, that he offered to connect an FBI agent masquerading as a New Jersey mafioso with gun-running insurgents from the Philippines.In this section Is college worth it?
Even the word "wrestler" in Bulgarian is synonymous with "mafioso".
In 1993, Salvatore ("Toto") Riina, a mafioso on whose cheek Mr Andreotti was accused of planting a ritual kiss, was sentenced to life in prison, after murdering it is reckoned at least 78 people.Yet Cosa Nostra's influence is still enormous, and may be growing again.
Yet here too Ms George finds heroes: the "flushers" who don crotch-high waders and do battle with everything that is dropped down drains or stuffed down manholes, from cotton-buds (the perfect size to block filters) to congealed fat from restaurants; from mobile phones to the occasional dead Mafioso.
Among her photographs though unfortunately not included in the show are those of Giulio Andreotti, seven-times Italy's prime minister, in the company of noted mafioso (whom Mr Andreotti would later say he had never met).
Its leader was Salvo Lima, the son of a mafioso, who, if not himself a member of Cosa Nostra, was in contact with several clans.
One 38-hectare site, valued at C$31m $27mm), was sold for C$4.4m to a developer who not long before had been photographed by police with Nicolo Rizzuto, an octogenarian mobster and father of Canada's top mafioso.
Britain's Post Office has just chosen Consignia, which sounds vaguely mafioso.
WHEN two brothers adopt the surname Gotti in honour of a New York mafioso, run a record company called Murder Inc. and name their recording studio "The Crackhouse", you might think them drawn to the criminal world.
And in some places, such as the former Soviet Union, and parts of the Arab world, the forces of corruption are gaining rather than giving ground.It is hard to imagine a Russian mafioso quaking in his shoes at Transparency International's attention.
