What is "mafiosi"

Usage examples of "mafiosi".

In November 1957, Genovese summoned all America’s top mafiosi to a meeting at the estate of a businessman named Joe Barbara, at Apalachin, in New York State.

The Mafiosi would be alert and ready this time, and undoubtedly with some tricky defensive tactics of their own.

Valentina, God protect her, is thoroughly repulsed and disgusted by the evil brought to this earth by men like the Mafiosi, yet she would allow every indignity upon herself, even to the final indignity of death, before she would pick up a gun and exterminate the vermin.

If the Mafiosi remained in their vehicle, they would not be able to see between Bolan's car and the building, especially with Bolan's hood elevated.

Bolan saw the old man nod genially at the Mafiosi, then the gears ground and they lurched on through the intersection.

He would not have deliberately chosen such a far-out introduction to Capo Julian DiGeorge, couched as it was in such strong overtones of disrespect and humiliation: one does not win Capos and influence Mafiosi by trampling all over their sensitivities, was Bolan's own assessment of his bold faux pas, but the thing had been done, could not be undone, and perhaps it would turn out to be the best of all possible introductions.

And now that Italy at last belonged to the Italians, the mafiosi could forget political quarrels and concentrate on the business of extortion and intimidation.

Bonanno was part of the nine-member Commission - elected from America’s twenty-four leading Mafiosi - that governed Syndicate affairs.

Bonanno decided to strike first, and ordered the killing of four leading mafiosi, including Carlo Gambino.

But if these people are really mafiosi, isn't that a little dangerous?

It would be too obvious to the few mafiosi still loyal to her father and the Gambione name.

The mob preferred isolated and inconspicuous sites for such landings, and the Tucson mafiosi would never have considered erecting fences and buildings to advertise their purpose.

He had managed to eliminate known mafiosi and their hangers-on by scanning his mental mug file, which left him where?