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Sicily's Cosa Nostra has even started working with other gangs, including the notorious and far larger 'Ndrangheta in mainland Italy.

They also found that Sicily's Cosa Nostra mafia have updated the practices of their "founding fathers" and no longer need to meet in person.

He had persuaded the F.B.I. to stop using the terms Mafia and Cosa Nostra in its news releases.

The 'Ndrangheta is considered by prosecutors to be Italy's most powerful mafia group, easily eclipsing the more famous Cosa Nostra gang in Sicily, with its influence extending across Europe and beyond.

The probe revealed "the solidity of the existing relationship" between New York and Sicilian mobsters, and "American interest in the organisational affairs of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra", the statement said.