WEB BUZZ MAFIA

  An old Italian Mafia Don is dying and he called his grandson to his bed and said, " Grandson I wanta you to listen to me. I wanta you to take mya 45 automatic pistol , so you will always remember me." Grandson replied, "But grandpa I really don't like  guns , how about you leaving me your Rolex watch  instead." The old man replied: "You lisina to me, some day you goina run da bussiness , you goina have a beautiful wife , lotsa money , a biga home and maybe a couple of bambino, some day you goina come home and maybe finda you wife in bed with another man . Whata you gonna do then? Pointa to you watch and say, " Times Up "?

ITALY’S financial capital is nothing like Reggio Calabria. Yet when Reggio’s city council was dissolved early last month, Milanese prosecutors promptly arrested Lombardy’s head of housing, Domenico Zambetti, on accusations of aiding subsidiaries of the ’Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia. The police had already arrested 37 ’Ndrangheta suspects in Lombardy. In the number of confiscations of firms and properties in 2010 and 2011, Lombardy lags behind only the southern regions, which are far better known for the mafia . “The mafia has always been here. What we’re now seeing is evolution, with organised crime increasingly acquiring legitimate businesses,” says Claudio Gittardi, one of 12 prosecutors in Milan’s anti-mafia team. Alberto Barcella, chairman of Confindustria Lombardia, the local business association, says members do not always know what they are up against. “ Mafiosi work subtly. They wear jackets and ties, don’t carry shotguns,” he says. Nando d...