Michele Navarra was a physician and member of Sicilian Mafia. He was born in January 5, 1905 in a middle class family. His father was a local school teacher and land surveyor. He completed his engineering and gets a degree of medicine from University of Palermo. He was a Captain of Italian army until 1942. [...]
Read moreThe Mafia is a criminal syndicate or association from Sicily, Italy. It was organized in the middle of nineteenth century. Every territory has a group and they called each group a family or clan. They obey their common code of conduct. From Sicily, The Mafia spreads out all over the world. There are many theories [...]
Read moreThe Garrotte The weapons used by the mafia ranged from short range weapons to long range ones. The short range weapons were discreet and deadly, while the long range ones were death inescapable. Melee weapons were used too and the infamous garrotte was used to deliver a slow but sure death by strangling the person [...]
Read moreBoss The head of the family is known as the boss or also popularly called, the don. He makes all the decisions and all the money in the ventures that the family is engaged in, eventually flows to him. The boss should be powerful enough so that the associates and those who under him pay [...]
Read moreAmong the best kept secrets of the mafia, the induction ceremony was one that has evaded the knowledge of the common man for decades. Finally in 1960s, the testimony offered by Joe Valachi brought out the real truth. The induction process marked the joining of the potential mobster in the family and then on the [...]
Read moreThe Beginning The mafia has its roots in Sicily. It was not a hierarchy, but a group of men together called themselves, “the mafia” and kept control over the land defending it from the foreigners. This was the scenario in the middle ages when Sicily was being dominated under the foreign rule. The mafia followed [...]
Read moreThe mafia today is filled with controversy and a lot of speculation. It has been said that the Mexican mafia is more powerful than the traditional Italian-American mafia. The mafia has in the past generated a lot of press coverage and scandals. The Italian- American mafia today seems to have disappeared. The mafia today is [...]
Read moreMafia groups have always maintained a structure to operate their activities and actions properly and widely. The structure is described below. It may differ, but as usual this structure is followed. Every group is built up of several gangs, which is known as families. The range of number of families can be from less than [...]
Read moreMaking money is the vital issue of the Mafia. Families use a multiplicity of their activities to achieve this. The most common and the simplest is extortion. The extortion is forcing the people to relinquish money by threatening in some way. Mafia “safety rackets” are this extortion method. They tell shop owner that he needs [...]
Read moreMafia has its roots in Sicily and it is nothing else than a symptom of the Sicilian political corrupted system. Mafia’s life is sustained by a mentality generally characterized by distrust and disputes. Many people claim that Mafia does not exist but the issue is that they actually are either dishonest or deceptive and ignorant. [...]
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