Word: mafioso
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...billions of dollars of European Union aid money destined for southern Italy), engineers, computer programmers, bankers and financial managers - these are the new faces in the trenches of organized crime. Chain-smoking in his cluttered Palermo office, top anti-Mafia prosecutor Antonio Ingroia explains the pattern. A die-hard mafioso contacts a "mafioso businessman," who is the conduit to a "legitimate" businessman, who provides the ultimate cover to launder money through real enterprises all the way up to the stock market. The network stretches from Palermo to Milan to Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. "It's a chain," Ingroia says...
...basketball player concentrating in philosophy who sleeps with his professor and takes acid cooked up by a chemistry-major pal. His cheerleader girlfriend, the daughter of a mafioso, who convinces him to throw a game. His ultimate downfall into a vicious world of drugs, sex and gambling...
...shopkeeper, but left after the 1967 war to study medicine in England. Not yet 18, he changed his mind - to his parents' displeasure - and headed for Barcelona. Survival and paying for his medical studies meant all sorts of jobs: distributing leaflets, playing semi-pro soccer, being a mafioso extra in a film about boxing. "One Christmas I was employed as one of the Three Kings, the black one," laughs Jamal over a coffee in the Ateneo, Barcelona's leading cultural forum. Jamal is now 50 and married to a Catalan. He has three children, a lucrative practice as a dermatologist...
...straight. While Bill Clinton ran the nation for eight years, his half brother, Roger, lived in Bill's shadow. Now Roger is sweating under the hot lights as questions pile up about whether he had a role in an outrageous array of slippery and ill-fated schemes ranging from Mafioso pardons to Chinese scooter imports to Venezuelan coal mines. Though he always seemed to be the slacker Clinton, Roger now appears to have been a very busy man after...
...same, many Koreans remain enthralled by their wiseguys. The myth of the noble mafioso may be badly frayed in most countries but Korea's gangsters?or "fists," as they are called?are still folk heroes. (The term comes from a traditional preference for fist fights?not until the 1970s did Korean gangsters move up to sashimi knives, and guns are still rare.) Fists are the subject of best-selling books, and most of last year's hit movies were gangster flicks. In real life, most mobsters make their living from extortion, prostitution and gambling. But films about the underworld...