[From article]
After years when Cosa Nostra luminaries communicated only by hand written notes in code, their youthful successors are making increasingly unabashed online boasts about their wealth, power and contempt for the magistrates hunting them down.
One Palermo mobster, Domenico Palazzotto, 28, who created a Facebook page under a false name, posted photos of himself cruising on motorboats, sitting down to sumptuous lobster and champagne dinners and riding in a limousine.
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Mr Palazzotto was among 95 mobsters rounded up in June in Palermo in an operation dubbed 'Operation Apocalypse' aimed at decapitating the city's new Mafia leadership. Police said they had put a temporary stop to vote rigging, extortion and drug trafficking operations as well as the laundering of ill gotten cash through betting shops. More importantly, officers said they had halted a bid to pull together scrapping clans across the city into a more compact criminal empire, harking back to the leadership of Toto Riina, the "boss of bosses" jailed in 1993.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11008060/Italians-enraged-at-rise-of-Sicilys-new-Facebook-mafia.html
Italians enraged at rise of Sicily's new Facebook mafia
Detectives are poring over social media for details that might help them arrest new generation of mobsters who have turned their back on traditional code of discretion
By Tom Kington, Rome
11:00AM BST 03 Aug 2014
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