Mafia

Matt Gaetz offered several defenses of Rudy Giuliani visiting Ukraine this past week, saying that while it is "weird," Americans should give him "the benefit of the doubt" because of his role after 9/11.

The former senior official in the Obama and Clinton administrations said there "are no grown-ups" left in President Donald Trump's White House.

"I have met on occasion a few of those people. They happen to be very nice people. You just don't want to owe them money. Don't owe them money."

A now-viral Twitter thread gives a floor-by-floor historical breakdown of convicted criminals who either rented, owned or hid from law enforcement in Trump's "crime infested" New York City towers.

"Donald Trump has without doubt given an order to kill me and has told the government of Colombia and the Colombian mafia to kill me," the embattled South American leader said.

Trump has been wrapped in Mafia connections for decades. Here's how he learned to talk like a don.

Settimo Mineo represented old-style mob intimidation methods, such as sending severed lambs' heads to businessmen who refused to pay protection money.

Italian media suggest remains could be linked to organized crime, the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II or alleged sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to see a gangster movie...

Author Craig Unger spoke with Newsweek about the allegations in his new book, "House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia."

The journalist was working on a story linking officials close to Prime Minister Robert Fico to an Italian businessman with ties to the 'Ndrangheta syndicate.

"Mr. Trump had longtime associations with Italian organized crime figures," Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, testified.

The real-life strip club made world famous in HBO's fictional "The Sopranos" television series has been ordered to shut down because of its real-life mob ties. 

Is this a sign of the decline of organized crime?

Salvatore Gravano was a crime underboss-turned-informant whose testimony brought down mob chiefs including John Gotti, the Teflon Don.

He planned to ask a priest to smuggle a saw blade into the facility.

Rome is probing ties between criminal networks and the jihadi group over possible efforts to smuggle contraband oil.

Born and raised in Castel Volturno, photographer Giovanni Izzo focuses his work around the stories of deprivation, exploitation and criminality populating the streets he grew up in.

Crimes include revealing secrets, harassing a mobster's family and disobeying the boss.

The Vatican is stepping up its campaign against corruption, focusing its attention on the mafia.

The 86-year-old mobster was known as the "boss of all bosses" for his power and also as "the beast" for his ferocity.

A car bomb filled with half a ton of explosives killed Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three members of his escort in 1992, but his death still has ripples today.

A total of 68 people with affiliation to the powerful Ndrangheta syndicate were arrested.

The 'Godfather Part II' enjoys the reputation as one of cinema's best second acts, but it wasn't always considered a winner.

More than half of Russians consider United Russia a party of crooks and thieves.

Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged members of five La Cosa Nostra crime families for a sprawling criminal enterprise.

At least three people have been arrested as part of a larger investigation.

In the course of his 40 years of business deals, Trump has encountered a steady stream of mob-tainted offers that he apparently couldn't refuse.

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's party slams judge's comments about rampant graft in government.

Fiction has accustomed us to the idea of mafiosi as criminal animals, mostly uneducated. That's never been the case.