The NBA faces a potential crisis as a gambling scandal reveals links to "La Cosa Nostra," the Italian-American Mafia. Investigators are exploring connections to illegal betting schemes and poker games ...

If you were following along with the press conference on the FBI sports gambling probe that led to the arrests of Chauncey Billups, current NBA player Terry Rozier and others, you may have heard the ...

During a press conference, authorities said that Billups has been charged in an indictment alleging a scheme to rig underground poker games. These were backed by La Cosa Nostra crime families. In ...

No, The Abandons is not based on a true story. However, Sutter was inspired by the origins of La Cosa Nostra, also known as ...

Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, and former NBA player Damon Jones are among 34 people indicted in a federal probe into an illegal gambling ring tied to ...

Noted Italian criminologist Picozzi presents a stunning visual history of the Mafia from its Sicilian origins to its American incarnation. However, this is neither a celebration of the Mafia as ...

Nobody will listen. Nobody will believe. You know what I mean? This Cosa Nostra, it’s like a second government. It’s too big. —Joe Valachi AT the beginning of the decade, even J. Edgar Hoover denied ...

A bullet near the spine his souvenir from battling mobsters, an Ohio prosecutor toured this Sicilian town long synonymous with the Mafia and found what he wanted: lessons on how to root out organized ...

Scores of people suspected of being affiliated with the resurgent mob were arrested Tuesday during overnight raids in Palermo and the surrounding area. By Elisabetta Povoledo The defendants have ...

In June 1988, the Reagan administration launched the most important US labour case of the past half-century. The government alleged the Italian-American mafia – La Cosa Nostra – had effectively taken ...