Taking Down The Outfit: An Interview With FBI Special Agent Elaine Smith
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to my favourite section on NCS, the interview section. However, before I begin I would like to give a…
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The Camorra: ‘The (Honourable) Society’
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, Naples was vying with Paris as Europe’s second-largest city. The Camorra, whose origins may date back to 15th century…
A Licence to Kill: From Italy to The USA
“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others who wrote what men do and not what they ought” Lord Bacon Between the years 1880 and…
From Russia With Drugs: An Interview With Niko Vorobyov
Niko was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, but following a temporary stay in Italy the family then moved to America. It was in America where…
I am Spartacus! – The Casalesi Clan & Maxi-Trials
Casal di Principe, a small town with a population of approx. 21,000 in the province of Caserta, which is located between Naples and Salerno, is…
A Canadian Affair: How The Rizzuto Crime Family was Born: Part Three
At 7.30 on an October morning, Friday the 5th, in 2012 the gates to America’s highest-security ‘supermax’ prison, ADX Florence in Colorado were opened. After…
A Canadian Affair: How The Rizzuto Crime Family was Born: Part Two
In part one of ‘A Canadian Affair: How The Rizzuto Crime Family was Born’ I provided a brief history of the organised crime landscape as…
A Canadian Affair: How The Rizzuto Crime Family was Born: Part One
In February 1954 in Cattolica Eraclea, a small town on the Island of Sicily, a family packed up the last of their belongings before embarking on a transatlantic trip aboard…