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...times are no better for the Sopranos than for the rest of us. The Mob's economy is in a pinch, despite Tony's CEO-style fulminations that the Cosa Nostra is supposed to be "recession-proof since time immemorial!" New York City Mafia underboss Johnny Sack (Vincent Curatola) is undermining Tony with his own people, and the feds have planted a mole in the heart of the Soprano family. Tony is back in therapy, but so are his sister Janice (Aida Turturro) and daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler). Most perplexing for Tony, his marriage may be unraveling; Carmela...
...what became known as the Maxi-Trials in the mid-1980s, Sicilian prosecutors tried hundreds of Mafia suspects en masse for crimes ranging from murder to criminal association. The sweeping strategy hit Cosa Nostra in the trenches, marking a critical victory for such crusading magistrates as Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. It was also great theater. Crammed together into a custom-made, bunker-like courtroom, the accused seemed straight from a Hollywood casting call for Mob thugs: often unshaven, sweaty and in short-sleeved leisure shirts, the Mafia men pointed fingers and hollered threats from inside steel cages that ringed...
...Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. "It's a chain," Ingroia says. "In our opinion, they are guilty of crimes at all levels." The man thought to be responsible for smartening up the Mafia quit school at age 10. Bernardo Provenzano, now 69, became the capo dei capi of Cosa Nostra after his boyhood buddy from Corleone, Riina, was arrested in 1993 and subsequently sentenced for masterminding the Falcone and Borsellino assassinations. (Last week Italy's top appeals court annulled the convictions of 13 mafiosi who had also been found guilty of Falcone's murder and ordered retrials.) Investigators say that Provenzano...
...prosecuting team also has the Swiss-born Del Ponte, who is one tough lawyer. The Cosa Nostra mobsters whom Del Ponte, as Switzerland's attorney general, pursued on money-laundering charges tried to blow her up; the banker gnomes in Zurich whose secrecy she penetrated trembled before her. No matter what stunts Milosevic pulls, says Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch, "she is not going to be sidetracked or tripped...
...prosecuting team also has Del Ponte, who is one tough lawyer. The Cosa Nostra mobsters that Del Ponte, as Switzerland's attorney general, pursued on money-laundering charges tried to blow her up; the banker gnomes in Zurich whose secrecy she penetrated trembled before her. No matter what stunts Milosevic pulls, says Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch, "she is not going to be sidetracked or tripped...