NOUN
- a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia
How To Use Cosa Nostra In A Sentence
- So it was that Giusy became the Cosa Nostra's first female boss pentito -- or informer. TALES OF A 'MAFIA MAMMA'
- Riding a wave of unchecked immigration and seemingly eluding law enforcement, the Mexican Mafia is poised to become the Cosa Nostra of 21st century America.
- Provenzano's predecessor at the head of the Cosa Nostra, Toto "The Beast" Riina, has been behind bars for 15 years, serving multiple life sentences.
- Gomorrah, directed by Matteo Garrone, is an unflinching and unromantic look at the story of the Camorra - the crime syndicate, operative in Naples and Caserta, that is responsible for more murders than the IRA or Cosa Nostra. National Review Online
- One little slip of the scalpel and, batta boom, you´re on the phone to the La Cosa Nostra. Gucci "Black Widow" Trial Opens in Venice
- In an unprecedented attack on Italy's cultural heritage, Cosa Nostra planted bombs at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence as well as near two churches in Rome.
- (Come on Italy!) party with which Berlusconi burst onto the political scene in 1994 had previously had links with Cosa Nostra, the original Mafia. Silvio Berlusconi ally had no Mafia links after 1992, court rules
- Riding a wave of unchecked immigration and seemingly eluding law enforcement, the Mexican Mafia is poised to become the Cosa Nostra of 21st century America.
- He told the tribunal under oath that the Mafia, also known as Cosa Nostra, controls a major section of Quebec's construction industry. CBC | Top Stories News
- Sicily's Cosa Nostra, the Camorra from Campania, the 'Ndragheta of Calabria and the lesser known Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia dominate the economic life of one third of Italy. Berlusconi Is No Mobster
