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CRIMINALS SEE GOLD AT OLYMPICS

It's not just the gymnasts, grapplers and jumpers who are worth watching at this summer's Beijing Olympics, a British organized crime expert says. It's also the prostitutes – or lack of them. "China is a police state and it's a police state that is paranoid about its image," says Misha Glenny, author of McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld. …

FORMER MEMBER OF THE MAFIA TRADES IN GODFATHER FOR GOD ... Former mob man Rocco Morelli is in town, but he's not here as an enforcer.The 48-year-old is visiting the Maritimes as a pastor and founder of the Rocco Morelli Ministries International. …

RITA BORSELLINO: ANTI-MAFIA CAMPAIGNER ... The city's network of avenues, roads and squares have been constantly renamed or transformed into discreet memorial sites as the criminal web has claimed its victims. …

THE MOB GETS STAR BILLING IN VEGAS ... Las Vegas, a city forged on gambling, booze and flesh, has been strangely reluctant , and perhaps a little nervous, to make money off its mob roots. Until now. …

MCMAFIA: CRIME WITHOUT FRONTIERS, BY MISHA GLENNY ... Gangsters, profiteers, poisoners and pimps are ripping through global society. A grim new study concludes that peace brings crime to nations In James Morton's enthralling work, Gangland International, published in 1998, the author observed that "crime, along with football, boxing and bullfighting, has always been a traditional way out of the gutter. …

MAFIA KING ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW ... GoodFellas was the definitive mafia film - and it is the story of one man, Henry Hill, one of the only survivors of a ruthless gang of robbers and killers. …