From the double investigation that overwhelms the main basketball championship in the world, the shadow of the Italian mafia resurfaces. Less violence, more business and unprecedented criminal alliances: this is how the American “La Cosa Nostra” returns to dictate the rules of the game
In New York the five families have once again made themselves heard. Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno, Lucchese and Colombo: after decades of apparent silence, the surnames that marked the rise of the Italian mafia in America re-emerge from the fold of an investigation that mixes the glamor of the NBA with the criminal world of gambling. The Justice Department revealed a multimillion-dollar business involving rigged betting and rigged poker tables run by four of these families.
