March 23 - Police arrested dozens of people in several regions of Italy, as well as Spain and Morocco, and seized more than 20 tonnes of cocaine and 17,000 tonnes of hashish in an international drug trafficking ring, involving the Calabrian Mafia and criminal groups in Latin America and Morocco
March - 10 members of at least two of New York's five families arrested for stock manipulation.
March 27 - 4 persons found shot dead in Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy with no indications of motive for the murders.
April 4 - Bernardo Provenzano mentioned Matteo Messina Denaro as a possible successor as boss of the Sicilian Mafia. However this fact was only realized after Provenzano's capture when police deciphered messages sent between Provenzano and other mobsters. This presupposes that Provenzano has the power to nominate a successor, which is not unanimously accepted among Mafia observers. "The Mafia today is more of a federation and less of an authoritarian state," according to anti-Mafia prosecutor Antonio Ingroia of the Direzione distrettuale antimafia of Palermo, referring to the previous period of authoritarian rule under Salvatore Riina.
April 11 - Sicilian mafia boss, Bernardo Provenzano, captured by police outside of Corleone after more than 40 years of hiding. Several mafiosi were mentioned as his successor. Among the rivals were Matteo Messina Denaro, Salvatore Lo Piccolo, and Domenico Raccuglia from Altofonte. Provenzano allegedly nominated Messina Denaro in one of his pizzini – small slips of paper used to communicate with other mafiosi to avoid phone conversations, found at Provenzano's hide out.
May 12 - Sicilian mafia associate Ottavio Lo Cricchio had assets worth €30 million, including a horse race track, frozen by the Finance Police of Palermo.
May 13 - Sicilian mafia associate Vincenzo Piazza had assets worth €17.5 million, including villas in Pozzillo and Cinisi, frozen by the Finance Police of Palermo.
May 14 - Anti-mafia magistrate Giuseppe Narducci called for all Italian football "elites" to help investigations into corruption in the Serie A division. The leading Turin-based Juventus F.C. and Rome-based S.S. Lazio were both under investigation.
May 22 - Two NYPD officers, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, who worked as mob hitmen for Lucchese crime family underboss, Anthony Casso, were sentenced for their roles in the murder of several men between 1986 and 1990; Eppolito for life plus 100 years, Caracappa for life plus 80 years.
May 26 - Sicilian mafia turncoat Francesco Marino Mannoia was awarded €1 million to start a legitimate business.
June 16 - The French leader in organized crime Jacky Imbert, "Mad Jacky", was sentenced to four years for extorting from Paris businessmen in the early 1990s, in Marseille.
June 19 - Frank D. Frassetto admitted in federal court to conspiring with his son Phillip M. Frassetto to distribute a kilogram of cocaine.
June 20 - Italian authorities issued 52 arrest warrants against the top echelon of Cosa Nostra in the city of Palermo. Study of the pizzini showed that Provenzano’s joint deputies in Palermo were Salvatore Lo Piccolo and Antonio Rotolo, capo mandamento of Pagliarelli. In a message referring to an important decision for Cosa Nostra, Provenzano told Rotolo: "It's up to you, me and Lo Piccolo to decide this thing." The investigations showed that Rotolo had built a kind of federation within the mafia, comprising 13 families grouped in four clans. His right-hand men were Antonio Cinà—who used to be the personal physician of Salvatore Riina and Provenzano – and the builder Francesco Bonura. The city of Palermo was ruled by this triumvirate replacing the Commission whose members are all in jail.
August
August 10 - Several bones discovered by a farmer, in a property close to the hideout of Sicilian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, in Corleone. The property was dubbed a "mafia graveyard" after two jawbones, vertebrae, a breast bone with bullets wounds and two skulls with shotgun wounds are found buried in the soil. "The area has been impounded and a search of the field is taking place and will continue for the next few days. The suspicion is that further bodies will be discovered." said Corleone prosecutor Alberto Di Pisa.
October 30 - Giovanni Montani, a young footballer, was shot dead in Bari. Although a seemingly innocent victim, Montani's imprisoned uncle Andrea Montani was the allegedly the head of a dominant Sacra Corona Unita crime family in the Bari area of Apulia. Giovanni Montani's cousin Salvatore Montani was shot dead in September of this year.
Palermo Financial Police confiscated goods and real estate worth €104 million from Sicilian businessman Angelo Prisinzano for mafia related criminal association. Two others had assets confiscated; all three had been under investigation since February 2005.
October 31 - 3 people were killed in Naples in what appeared to be a bloody involving two Camorra groups for control of the drug trade.
October 31 - All eleven of the prosecutors leading anti-mafia investigations in Catania, Sicily, resigned this week because of the severe lack of funding causing them to personally finance the operations.
November
November 2 - A man was stabbed in Naples, leaving him in a serious condition in hospital.
November 3 - The Italian government pledged to post 1000 extra police officers in Naples after the spate of violence that saw 12 people killed in 10 days.
November 6 - Italian business man, Angelo Cottarelli, was found in his home, still alive but with his neck cut to near decapitation, his family dead. It seemed that Cottarelli was made to watch his family die before his throat was cut and he was left to die. The attacks was perpetrated, it seemed, by the 'Ndrangheta.
Scheduled Events
June 23 - Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa will argue the incompetence of their lawyers before being sentenced to what will probably be life imprisonment.
June 27 - A pre-trial is scheduled.
June 28 - Frank P. Frassetto scheduled to be sentenced in federal court.
July 5 - John Gotti, Jr. scheduled to be sentenced in federal court.
July 26 - Phillip M. Frassetto scheduled to be sentenced in federal court.
September - Hai Waknine scheduled to be sentenced in federal court.
September 18 - Patricia Palacios scheduled to be sentenced in federal court.
September 22 - Frank D. Frassetto scheduled to be sentenced in federal court.
October - Frank Depergola scheduled to be sentenced in federal court.
