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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Asia Pacific World Search Search: US mafia goodfellas bid their long goodbye AFP - Tuesday, March 3 NEW YORK (AFP) - - As an alleged mafia hitman, Charles Carneglia excelled at making people vanish. Now he and the rest of New York's once mighty Cosa Nostra could be the ones disappearing. ADVERTISEMENT Carneglia, 62, is on trial for five murders and other crimes, including kidnapping, allegedly committed as a soldier for the Gambinos -- one of the five historic mafia families based in the New York area. Appearing in court in a pea green sweater and grey slacks, the white-bearded, bespectacled Carneglia hardly resembled the monster prosecutors say used acid baths to dispose of people he shot. But he does mirror the face of an aging and crumbling Italian-American crime empire. Forget the glamor of "The Godfather" movies. Today's wiseguys are scrambling to survive a wave of arrests, the death of experienced hands, and, most crippling, the shattering of "omerta," their code of silence. In this new world, the men doing most to send Carneglia to prison are not FBI agents, but former comrades -- including his unofficially adopted son -- who wore surveillance microphones and used bugged telephones. Another of these so-called "rats," a thuggish former mobster called John Alite, is likely to star in the upcoming murder trial of John "Junior" Gotti, son and namesake of the Gambino's infamous "Dapper Don," who died in prison in 2002. For the other families -- the Bonanno, Colombo, Genovese and Luchese -- the story is the same or worse. Mafia author and Cleveland police officer Rick Porrello says that cultural shifts in the Italian American community are as responsible as vastly improved law enforcement for the Cosa Nostra's decline. "There's a new era. These guys that are coming up are not the street-hardened criminals that their fathers and uncles were," Porrello told AFP. "When they get put to the test ... they are more likely to betray their oath of silence and go to work with the government." The Cosa Nostra once had huge sway over government, labor unions, and Las Vegas, not to mention narcotics, extortion and loan sharking networks. The grip on the American imagination was even tighter. Movie and literary tales of mafia derring-do -- set against a background of honor codes, sharp suits, Catholic culture, opera and sumptuous Italian cooking -- are almost on a par with the Western in US mythology. But there is little of that power or romance for today's goodfellas. At the Carneglia trial, expletive-laden surveillance recordings left the impression not of honor among thieves, but of petty bickering and cold-blooded betrayal. "This guy scares the shit out of me," convicted mafia man Salvatore "Fat Sal" Scala blurted in a taped conversation about Carneglia. During a court session last week, just two members of the public attended -- a woman and an elderly man with a Rosary of Catholic prayer beads who scowled and cracked his knuckles. Across the aisle, a dozen off-duty law-enforcement officers watched with grim satisfaction. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is cautiously optimistic, but wary. There is no plan to disband special teams assigned to each of the five families. "What's happened is that it's become a downward cycle for them," Jim Margolin, the FBI spokesman in New York, told AFP. But "I don't think we're there yet in an unequivocal victory over the Cosa Nostra." Margolin said the mafia was adept at finding new ways to make money and had managed to survive previous setbacks. "The history over the last 15 years is that we arrest people, convict them, they go to prison. But eventually they get out and it's our belief that people don't leave that kind of life, other than by dying." Joseph Scelsa, founder of the Italian American Museum in Manhattan's Little Italy district, says good riddance to an organization that has cast a shadow across an entire immigrant group. "The number (of Italian Americans) in organized crime today is minuscule," he said. "As far as I can tell it's over. Italian Americans are very well educated and have other avenues of opportunity." Mafia stereotypes anger Scelsa. DVDs on sale in the museum include "Anti-Italianism. Discrimination and defamation in the history of Italian Americans." But at nearby Palermo Caffe -- one of the last surviving Italian establishments in an area flooded with Chinese immigrants -- the window proudly displays an autographed photo of the cast from the hit television mafia series "The Sopranos." Frank DiMatteo, publisher of Mob Candy, a glossy magazine filled with features on mafia personalities, cigars, and barely clad women, concedes the Cosa Nostra is not what it used to be. "All the old timers got old, either very old, or dead, or they died in jail. They held it all together. Now you have young guys who have money already and just want to be wiseguys, but when the shit hits the fan and they face jail for life -- they turn rats." Yet DiMatteo believes the allure of the mob will never die. "They get smart again. It's like changing the bad blood," he said. "Maybe after it's finished with John 'Junior' and a few others, you'll hear a lull ... But I don't think you'll ever see the end of it." 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