As no one says anything, they're simply under these mafias' orders".
His father owned a cement factory, and Presti learned after his death in 1983 that he had been paying bribes to the Mafia in order to conduct business.
The 71-year-old baroness now faces the paradoxical prospect of being forced to sell the property she fought to preserve from the mafia in order to assuage the aggrieved honour of the magistrates who allegedly let her down in her hour of need.
While doing a bid at Duel Vocational Institution, some gangsters from Los Angeles decided to unify the gang members doing time, calling themselves La Eme (or the Mexican Mafia) in order to protect themselves from other inmates, who organized by race.
On Sept. 25, Kuniaki Nozoe, then the president of Fujitsu, says he was called into a windowless room on the 32nd floor of his company's sleek headquarters near Tokyo Bay. There, he says, he was accused by several members of Fujitsu's board of keeping company with "antisocial forces" — a euphemism here for the yakuza, or Japan's notorious mafia — and ordered to resign on the spot.
He has had to turn to Russian oligarchs and Mafia figures in order to fund many of his real estate ventures.
Mafia bosses issuing orders through a U-bend?
His office had built its murder case against the F.B.I. supervisor, Roy Lindley DeVecchio, on the testimony of Linda Schiro, a gangster's mistress, who testified that Mr. DeVecchio had ordered Mafia killings in the 1980s and early '90s.
The investors said traders would use such names as The Cartel, The Bandits' Club and The Mafia to swap confidential orders, and set prices through manipulative tactics with colorful names such as "front running", "banging the close" and "painting the screen".
Presumably, he meant not those who pulled the trigger but people high up in state organs, or in the mafia, who may have ordered them to do so.
A jailed former Mafia boss who once ordered a payback killing in the infamous "Donnie Brasco" case has become the highest-ranking member of the city's five Italian organised crime families to break their vow of silence and testify against one of their own.
