Over 200 mobsters sentenced to 2,150 years

LAMEZIA TERME, Italy: A court in southern Italy convicted more than 200 mobsters and their white-collar accomplices on Monday, the culmination of a historic, nearly three-year trial against the Calabria region's notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia.

For over an hour and a half, Brigida Cavasino, president of the court, steadily read out the names of the guilty and their sentences, which ranged from a few months to 30 years in jail, as defendants already incarcerated in prisons across the South European country watched via video link.