Pier Luigi Vigna, the head of Italy's national anti-mafia office, believes that relative to men, women are willing to kill for politically motivated crimes, but not for business.
The acquittal of Giulio Andreotti, the former Prime Minister whose two trials on charges that he collaborated with the Mafia while in office dragged on for years, was one of the most visible blows to the credibility of pentiti.
"We're taking it seriously without blowing it out of proportion," said Maurizio De Lucia, a magistrate at the anti-Mafia prosecutor's office in Palermo.
The national anti-Mafia prosecutor's office said other confiscated properties included gas stations and parking lots near Naples train stations, allegedly used to launder Camorra syndicate revenue from drug trafficking, extortion and loan sharking.
Lari said that Saguto was running "an anti-Mafia mafia" out of her office at the Palace of Justice.
Before the mafia shot up his office in a remote village on the western coast of Sicily, Gaspare Giacalone, 48, had been a respected manager at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development in the City of London, managing investments worth billions.
His fourth film as director, writer, and actor, Johnny Stecchino (1991), a Mafia farce, set box-office records in Italy.
Tuesday's testimony by President Napolitano is said to have established that there was no actual negotiation between his office and the mafia.
Also cites possible Mafia links with the back office & describes widespread drug (marijuana & heroin) ussage & interviews a plain clothesman who made many arrests in the Wall St. area for drug sales.
Satirical story about organized crime in the U.S. Writer points out that organized crime "takes in over forty billion dollars a year" & that this is quite a profitable sum, "especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies".
If the indictments are handed up, the charges will end the first phase of an inquiry by the Manhattan District Attorney's office that uncovered Mafia influence in the rigging of multimillion-dollar contracts for the painting of bridges, subways and public and private buildings.
