Caporegime, Capodecina or Capo is a Mafia related term used to represent a high ranking member of a Mafia crime family. A Caporegime is the head of a group of soldiers. He directly reports to the Don or to the UnderBoss. He has an influential social status in the organization. Caporegime acts as an intermediary [...]
November 14th, 2010 | Misc | No Comments »
The fall of the Soviet Union in Russia, accompanying with it economic downturn, massive hunger, poverty and loss of jobs, forced thousands of Russians into criminality. With the fall of the Union came the rise of the Russian Mafia, which in this decade catapulted itself into the limelight. Parenthetically, we recall that the 1990s brought [...]
November 7th, 2010 | 1990 Mafia | Comments Off