mafioso
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The agents turned to Joey “Socks” Lanza, the mafioso running Manhattan’s Fulton Fish Market, for information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Gandolfini felt uneasy about the idea of playing mafioso “Sammy the Bull” Gravano in the 1996 HBO movie “Gotti,” but he took the part anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
Messina Denaro, seized in January after three decades on the run, died on Monday of cancer in a hospital in central Italy, taking to the grave the secrets of his mafioso past.
From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2023
In the film, Tony’s mafioso future isn’t yet a foregone conclusion.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
Raymond looked more like a wizened Italian cobbler than an all-powerful mafioso.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2019
There’s a catch, a gimmick even, as De Niro stars opposite himself, playing both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, two notorious real-life Italian American mafiosi who have inspired many movies and documentaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
Far from the stately La Scala opera house, the Opera prison on Milan’s southern edge has over 1,400 inmates, including 101 mafiosi held under a strict regime of near-total isolation.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
The name Caravaggio has become a kind of touchstone for repentant mafiosi.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2018
The pope, Benedettini said, was trying to "isolate mafiosi within their own communities," sending a message that they should not in any way be looked up to as "men of honour".
From Reuters ● Jun. 21, 2014
When I heard this, his extremely courteous manner reminded me of the Robin Hood side of the Cristiani, and of the oriental hospitality of the mafiosi towards strangers.
From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones
“Saying that I defended mafiosos is dark legend. False. I defended people with problems,” he told the podcaster Luis Fernando Villa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Scorsese grew up in New York’s Little Italy as a Catholic altar boy and aspiring priest who was also fascinated by the mafiosos that loomed large in his community.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“The Many Saints of Newark,” though, rewinds “The Sopranos” to late ’60s, early ’70s Newark and a different generation of New Jersey mafiosos.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
Judge Gleeson is highly regarded among current and former prosecutors who described his sharp courtroom skills in putting mafiosos and other criminals in jail.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2020
“When Frank Sinatra was alive he’d be dining with a bunch of mafiosos every night, but you guys never brought him in for questioning.”
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
