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...bosses turned to Berlusconi's Forza Italia party to do the Mafia's bidding. The Sicilian-born Dell'Utri, the witness said, was the go-to man on a range of legislative efforts to ease pressure on mobsters in exchange for electoral support. Giuffrè said that current top Mob boss Bernardo Provenzano told him that they "were in good hands" with Dell'Utri, who was a "serious and trustworthy person" and was close to Berlusconi. If true, the allegations might explain the Berlusconi coalition's clean sweep of Sicily's 61 Parliament seats in the 2001 elections...
...since 1990. The 41-year-old's scorecard has made him the country's deadliest cop ahead of two other inspectors, Praful Bhosle, 46, and Vijay Salaskar, 45, who have clocked scores of 82 and 40, respectively. All three are from Bombay's ?lite Criminal Intelligence Unit, which, as Mob crime spiraled out of control in the early 1990s, was tasked with taking down the bad guys, guns blazing if necessary. Few mobsters went quietly: police shot 71 in "encounters" in 1997, 83 in 1999 and 97 in 2001. In all, since records of shoot-outs began in 1982, police...
...Resolving the conflict could save lives. Ten years ago, Hindu fundamentalists destroyed the mosque to build a new temple. In the violence that followed, at least 2,000 people were killed. The death toll spiked again last year when a Muslim mob torched a train carrying Hindu volunteers working on the temple's reconstruction, setting off a new round of reprisal attacks. Still, a judicial decision won't satisfy everyone. Hindu fundamen-talists say no court has jurisdiction over matters of faith. As long as ownership remains a religious issue, not a legal one, the holy war will rage...
Spitzer's case against Wall Street is as gutsy as his earlier pursuit of Mob interests in New York City. Everyone knew that organized crime controlled the trucking business in the city's garment center, but no one could figure out how to crack it or how to make the case. At the time Spitzer was the 33-year-old chief of the labor-racketeering unit at the Manhattan district attorney's office. A few attempts to wire undercover agents had failed, in part because the target--the notorious Gambino family--was wary of such tricks. So Spitzer came...
...object that the successful domestic witness protection program does not always work with enthusiastically willing informers—Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, the infamous right-hand man of mafioso John Gotti, did not turn himself in to the FBI in a contrite moment. But mob informers, at least, have some credible punishment over their heads—gargantuan jail sentences. By contrast, Iraqi scientists have little to fear from anyone until they defect...