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Sorry coming late to this Steve! As you know I am starting a blog, but won't necessary discuss actual cases in there, not directly with names/surnames I believe, it's not my role. Considering the murder of Latorre and considering the latest news about the fires, I am inclined to believe that surely ...

HI all thought you might want to know that I launched a new blog on my research fieldwork in Australia. This is part of my latest research in Australia and is an impact activity, meaning an activity that is meant to bring research to different audiences via different means of engagement. I am still ...

Phenomenal question indeed. I have never looked at Chicago (but that might change soon as I am planning a book on the Italian-American mafia in the East Coast..). The thing that stands out for me is the misspelling of the surname Archino which not only is not a frequent surname but it's not Calabri...

Lubrichi is a small district of Santa Cristina d'Aspromonte, my mum's birthplace! This is great info about Di Pietro. Lubrichi and Santa Cristina are very close indeed to Oppido, but again, the links you seek between these Di Pietro and the Madafferi brothers probably developed already in Melbourne...

Hi Anna. David Critchley here. I remember when you visited the John Jay College in Manhattan a few years ago. I have the huge luxury of being able to spend long years doing my own organized crime/Mafia research. I have copies of many of your pieces. I came across your discussion of the legal differ...

In Perth indeed one of the groups/locale is historical and recognised as such, another one is local, existing only because of Perth and how things are in Perth, independent, they do their own things. You can say they are a ndrina bastarda, but eventually they can't be really stopped. The surname sho...

I would assume it's the usual "seeking business opportunity" https://icalabresi.it/rubriche/new-york-ndrine-crescono-spalle-cosa-nostra/ - but their mafia status is highly debatable, Keeping this same line of thought, what are your thoughts on the Bovonta clan from Vibo, newly emerging in...

I would assume it's the usual "seeking business opportunity" https://icalabresi.it/rubriche/new-york-ndrine-crescono-spalle-cosa-nostra/ - but their mafia status is highly debatable, Keeping this same line of thought, what are your thoughts on the Bovonta clan from Vibo, newly emerging in...

I would assume it's the usual "seeking business opportunity" https://icalabresi.it/rubriche/new-york-ndrine-crescono-spalle-cosa-nostra/ - but their mafia status is highly debatable, Keeping this same line of thought, what are your thoughts on the Bonavonta clan from Vibo, newly emerging ...

Ciao Dottoressa! As others have already said, we are very glad to have you here on the BHF. I had posted recently in another thread about 1970s references to the Sidernese 'ndrangheta network having an apparent 'ndrina or locale in Chicago, as it did with other US cities, and a 1993 FBI report that...

I would assume it's the usual "seeking business opportunity" https://icalabresi.it/rubriche/new-york-ndrine-crescono-spalle-cosa-nostra/ - but their mafia status is highly debatable, When you say their status is debatable, do you mean, you don't believe they have recognition from Reggio? ...

I would assume it's the usual "seeking business opportunity" https://icalabresi.it/rubriche/new-york ... sa-nostra/ - but their mafia status is highly debatable,

Phenomenal question indeed. I have never looked at Chicago (but that might change soon as I am planning a book on the Italian-American mafia in the East Coast..). The thing that stands out for me is the misspelling of the surname Archino which not only is not a frequent surname but it's not Calabria...

Hello, ANNAESSE Glad you joined the forum and can share your expertise on the 'ndrangheta with us. At the beginning of the 80s it was reported by a CI that a 'ndrina (or Locale, it depends who you ask) was created in France near Antibes under the leadership of Paolo De Stefano & Domenico Libri....

don't know why it got like that, couldn't do the right quoting!