Word: bosse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after more than two decades as a fugitive. Convicted in absentia on multiple murder charges, Lo Piccolo was taken to an undisclosed prison on the Italian mainland, as was his son, also a convicted murderer. Their capture follows the April 2006 arrest of Bernardo Provenzano, the all-powerful Mafia boss, who evaded authorities for 43 years and is now also serving a life sentence for murder...
Giuseppe Lumia, a member of the Italian Parliament's Anti-Mafia Commission, calls the Mafia "a force in movement, in transition." He says remaining bosses may do their best to "absorb" the arrests and continue Provenzano's strategy of keeping the peace within the organization. But Lumia warns that some at the top may feel forced to "impose new leadership through violence." The boss with perhaps the best chance of extending his grip across Sicily - one way or the other - is Matteo Messina Denaro, 45, of the western coastal city of Trapani. Given the historical supremacy of Palermo, that would...
...rebuild those transatlantic ties, largely disrupted in the 1980s by U.S. investigations and local Sicilian turf wars. He had allowed members of a historic Mafia family, the Inzerillos, to return to Palermo in recent months from more than two decades of forced exile in the U.S. after former top boss Totò Riina tried to exterminate the entire clan. Piero Angeloni, head of Palermo's police detective unit, says Lo Piccolo's arrest is likely to stall Sicilian efforts to deepen links with the "Americani." But the contacts are sure to continue. "This relationship is essential - it always has been...
...operations in Libya. Although it has not disclosed the name of the consultancy or what laws Hydro might have broken, StatoilHydro said the payments came to light during the merger process. Reiten wasn't involved in Hydro's energy operations when those payments began in 2000--he was boss of the company's aluminum division at the time--but the potential conflict of interest during the investigation left him little choice but to resign as the combined company's first chairman. (He remains CEO of Hydro's aluminum and power businesses, which were not part of the merger...
...said it had contacted Okokrim, the Norwegian national authority that investigates economic crime, after an initial probe suggested Hydro had done more business with the consultancy than was previously thought. Packed into a room with reporters in Molde, a short drive and ferry trip from Nyhamna, StatoilHydro's new boss Lund scoffed at any talk that the revelations might disrupt the smooth integration of the two firms. "I'm the strongest guarantor for that," he said, shortly before heading to the Ormen Lange celebrations, "and that is my responsibility." As the head of Norway's new, next-generation energy firm...