Dozens of alleged members of the US Gambino Mafia family have been arrested and charged with murders, drug running, robberies, extortion, and other crimes dating back to the 1970s.

ITALY’S justice minister has objected to a US court’s refusal to extradite a convicted Mafia drug trafficker on the grounds that a special prison regime he would face in Italy is equivalent to torture.

For the third time in the past 12 months, a judge declared a mistrial today in the racketeering trial of former mob boss John A Junior Gotti.

A $250,000 (€202,263) murder contract has been taken out on an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the New York Mafia, it was claimed today.

A decade ago, John Gotti bid farewell to his family and wiseguys to spend the rest of his life in jail.