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...Riina, who'd led the bloody takeover of the Mafia by the Corleone faction in the early 1980s, had never made more than a passing (and indecipherable) allusion about the crime to the authorities since his arrest in Palermo a year after the Borsellino killing. His longtime partner in crime and successor as capo dei capi, Bernardo Provenzano, has also stayed mum since his capture near Corleone in 2006. Known as Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mob has long maintained power on the island (and beyond) with the help of omertà, a vow of silence and absolute refusal to cooperate...
...Rome, Florence and Milan. Some Mafia experts believe the Mob's decision to take its battle to the mainland was a response to the breakdown in longstanding attempts by certain government authorities to negotiate a truce with mob leaders. Indeed, after Riina's years on the lam, his arrest, in broad daylight in central Palermo, was itself a sign to many that someone had been playing a double game. (Read a TIME cover story on the Mafia...
...Aquino's arrest comes little more than a week after Jabrai J. Copney, 20, also of New York City, was arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court and pleaded not guilty to all five of the charges he faced in connection with Cosby's death. Copney, who turned himself in to police on May 21 and has since been held without bail, has been charged with all four of Aquino's crimes, as well as attempt to commit a crime. Welford said he could not comment at this time as to why Copney faces the additional charge...
Daniels, Stormy • campaign by for adulterer David Vitter's Senate seat suffers setback with arrest of for battering husband after becoming "upset because the way the laundry had been done...
Vereen, Rodell • arrest of in 2007 for buggering a horse is followed two years later by arrest of for videotaped buggering of the same horse...