Events January January 13 – Ranking Chicago Outfit member, Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo, was arrested by FBI agents in Elmwood Park, Illinois. January 8 – Carmen Milano, underboss of the Los Angeles crime family died of a heart attack in Las Vegas. February February 20 – Kansas City mob boss Anthony Civella died of natural causes. March March 5 – American Mafia associate, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski, died of natural causes at the age of 70. 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 ('Ndrangheta) and criminal groups in Latin America and Morocco March [day unknown/disputed(?)] - 10 members of at least two of New York's five families (some sources citing from the Bonanno and the Lucchese crime families; others suggesting the Gambino crime family) arrested for stock manipulation. {Conflicting sources: & } March 27 – 4 persons found shot dead in Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy with no indications of motive for the murders. March 27 – A narco submarine being constructed on the orders of the Calabrian mafia ('Ndrangheta), to transport cocaine from Colombia to Italy seized. March 27 – The two sons of former mobster, Francesco "Frank" Frassetto, pleaded guilty to drugs charges in court; both claiming the involvement of their father. March 28 – 17 arrested for drug trafficking in Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy March 30 – Gambino crime family acting underboss, Anthony Megale, pleaded guilty to extortion charges. March 31 – Cleveland mob boss turned government informant, Angelo Lonardo, died of natural causes. April April - Sicilian mafia boss Salvatore Riina stood trial for the murder of Mauro De Mauro, a reporter who disappeared in 1970. 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 (DDA) of Palermo, referring to the previous period of authoritarian rule under Salvatore