| Brought up in a household of Mafiosi, living on the tough streets of Los Angeles, I was no fool about the violence other people do to each other. |
| Callers range from the imperious to the crawling, from the famous to the social climbers, from nabobs to Mafiosi. |
| The climactic scene in which the local Mafiosi close in on the inspector is bone chilling and unforgettable. |
| Italian police have arrested 51 mafiosi accused of a running a crime empire from the coastal city of Ostia, just outside Rome. |
| Watching these distinguished gentlemen operate, we feel certain that the old stereotypes of Italian-American men as Mafiosi, brutes, sexual predators, or idiots are behind us. |
| Today, however, many senior Mafiosi in Italy and America have turned the state's evidence against the organisation. |
