They thing about frank cali selling his plot of land in DR was last august. So he was alive and well. He probaly just sold the shit cause he knew it was a dump. What charges could they have got him over there for? Did he even visit over there? Im thinking he loves america to much for the bullshit over there. Weres his kids live and parents ect. Think the guy was way more americanized then the press is letting on. He was jackie d'amico protege. He spoke sicilian probaly cause its his parents language. They keep saying he was born over there its not true his ass would have been deported yrs back. I agree he was important as like a conduit for his wifes family over there to the powers that run nyc today.

Remembering the press ran with vito rizzuto was the godfather of Canada more powerfull then any american boss. Hes international. Well guess what that was wrong. They killed that guys dad hid son cousins everybody.

I actually think their power is over, it's in Palermo now...

Cali got killed by a nut...... doesnt really prove anything.....

It took a whole coalition to dislodge the Rizzutos, and it still didnt really work, cause no one player had the capabilities to actually take over.

Those moves only kinda worked because they had legal issues. Look at the recent NY indictments.... guys always try to take advantage if you are jammed up .....

19 Mafia Suspects Arrested, Including Some From The Gambino Family
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Police in the U.S. and Italy recently arrested a number of mafiosi. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks author John Dickie about a trans-Atlantic criminal connection.

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:

The Mafia is back in the headlines in a series of raids involving the FBI and Italian police. Nineteen Mafia suspects were arrested in New York and Italy this past week; among them, some from the notorious Gambino crime family. John Dickie studies the Italian Mafia. He's the author of "Blood Brotherhoods," and he joins us now to talk about why these raids are significant.

Welcome.

JOHN DICKIE: Thank you. Thank you.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Let's start with these raids. What do you make of them?

DICKIE: Really, you have to begin the story back in the late 1970s when a number of Mafiosi with strong family ties and organizational ties across the Atlantic between Sicily and the eastern coast of the United States started trafficking in heroin in huge quantities. Now, in the early 1980s in Sicily, a group of Mafiosi who had been left out of that lucrative trade essentially mounted a kind of military coup de tar within the Sicilian Mafia in Sicily and either murdered or expelled from Sicily the members of the Gambino-Inzerillo family. And since then, they have been trying to make a return to re-establish that trans-Atlantic bridge.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: The families on the losing end of that turf war fled to the United States. Why the United States? And it seems strange that members of a crime family could find footing in the United States if they were known sort of Mafiosi.

DICKIE: We've really only begun to understand in recent years just how profoundly important - to the history of the Mafia since at least the very early 20th century - is this whole trans-Atlantic connection. This is not something that just happened once when millions of Sicilians emigrated to the United States before the First World War. This is an ongoing process, the toing and froing of criminal personnel, criminal commodities, criminal ideas. The Inzerillos and Gambino families are intermarried over several generations as part of this process.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: And so what happened recently is that members of this family who had fled to United States were then trying to go back and re-establish themselves in Sicily again. And it was leading to sort of a turf battle.

DICKIE: Yeah, that's right. I mean, the return of the Inzerillos represents a huge internal political problem for Cosa Nostra in Sicily because the people who governed the Sicilian Mafia for a generation from the early 1980s were precisely the people who had murdered many of the Inzerillos, who had effectively ethnically cleansed the others out of Sicily and sent them back to the United States.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: So the Mafia survives off what it's always survived off of, which is essentially protection rackets, right? But where are they at this particular moment? I think many of us think of the Mafia as being a sort of pale shadow of what it once was, both in the U.S. and Italy.

DICKIE: I think that's true, but that is a great symptom of both the huge step change that there's been since particularly the early 1990s in the law enforcement response to organized crime in Italy. And another great indicator of that is this trans-Atlantic cooperation between the authorities. They've now worked together for a generation because they understand the importance of this old bridge. It's no coincidence that FBI headquarters has in it a bust of Giovanni Falcone, the great hero and martyr of the struggle against the Mafia in Italy. He was blown up, along, with his wife and his armed escort by a Mafia bomb in 1992 because Falcone was who pioneered this trans-Atlantic cooperation in the fight against the Mafia. He got it.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Do you consider these raids are a major blow to the attempts to sort of reanimate these links?

DICKIE: I think this is an ongoing process. It clearly shows that the authorities are watching it very, very carefully. They understand it and know it. And that - from that point of view, it's reassuring. But it's always difficult to tell, when an operation is as fresh as this one is, just how damaging it will prove to be.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: That's John Dickie, professor of Italian studies at University College London. Thank you so much.

DICKIE: Thank you.

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/21/7438...-from-the-gambino-family?t=1563787383048

I think Sal Gambino is placed under house arrest not in prison.

https://eu-ocs.com/cosa-nostra-raid...ed-efforts-to-establish-old-mafia-links/

Cosa Nostra raids in Sicily and New York highlight renewed efforts to establish old mafia links

New background of the "New Connection" inquiry emerges which, on 17 July, led to 19 arrests. One of these concerns the fact that the lace is also paid by the grandchildren of the bosses and in particular of Tommaso Inzerillo.


From interceptions emerges, as Sandra Figliuolo reports in an article in the Giornale di Sicilia on newsstands, that it was precisely the mafia uncle, to whom the grandchildren had turned to mediate, to "advise" to pay. Inzerillo is challenged for extortion against his relatives.

According to investigators, Francesco Di Filippo, alleged right arm of the Cruillas boss Giovanni Nicoletti, imposed the lace on the local "Rodeo Drive" in Via Atanasio and the "West Los Angeles Cafè" in Via Galilei, attributable to Antonino, Rosario and Vincenzo Mannino.

palermo.gds.it/articoli/cronaca/2019/08/04/mafia-anche-i-nipoti-del-boss-inzerillo-pagano-il-pizzo-7b7a9498-f830-4086-a4f9-4e54644119b4/

After the appeal of his lawyer Tommy Gambino has been released. So they got nothing.

Police filmed a meeting in Palermo between Tommaso Inzerillo and Totò Catalano, acting boss of Bonanno family in the early '80s. On August 9th 2018 the investigators followed a car left from Ciminna with two men, one of them was Catalano, who went to Palermo in order to meet Inzerillo.

Thanks to the poster Carmelo.

wow that guy toto still in the mix. he must have strong ties to all the families in america seeing he did 30 yrs in the federal system. whats the end game with this case over there? sounds like nothing. what type of time do these guys get for stuff like this 2 yrs 4 yrs. kinda what they would get over here for extortion 5 yrs?

Yeah I wonder if Catalano still in contact with his Bonanno friends, he was a major player could have been the future boss but his english was not that good.

pmac most guys get at least a sentence for mafia association that's a few years and they have to serve only 2/3 of the sentence.

So its a bullshit headline grab. On toto im just gonna assume being in a usa prison for 30yrs and watching tv and talking to other prisoners he became well. Versed in the english language

Sal Catalano is almost 80 now but he doesn't think about retirement lol..

checked his inmate thing says hes 78. he was released in nov 2009 so hes been out 10yrs. im guessing they deported him. he was in the usa since 60tys must have been a huge coulture change

Someone reminded me that there are many people involved in Pizza Connection and Iron Tower in freedom.

Why couldn’t he have just used a bilingual solider or associate as a messenger to pass orders to his capos?

Good point, trouble with communicating wasn't the only thing. He was already made in Italy the American rules back then were that he couldn't be the boss.

Mafia, dismissed appeals
Unredeemable in prison

by Riccardo Lo Verso

The decision concerns Francesco Inzerillo, Giovanni Buscemi and Rosario Gambino

PALERMO - They all remain in jail. The Review Court rejects the appeals of Francesco Inzerillo, Giovanni Buscemi and Rosario Gambino . The prosecution of the prosecutor's office that coordinated the investigation into the Mafia of Passo di Rigano is being prosecuted.

"Two, three months after he left the prison, he looked for me and I went very willingly," said Filippo Bisconti, boss of Belmonte di Mezzagno and today repented. To look for it was Giovanni Buscemi, 64, who had taken back the scepter of power after serving a long sentence for the mafia. The Dda and the Palermo mobile team place him at the top of the mandate.

His judicial history began in 1994 when he was already a loyalist of Totò Rina. After a period of inaction, Buscemi had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Giovanni Giordano, whose body he had also dissolved in acid. The sentence to life imprisonment in April 2018 was commuted to him in thirty years of detention. A month later, at the end of May, this is how Francesco Colletti, Villabate's repentant boss, recounts, "there was also Buscemi Giovanni and, I believe, he thought of putting this house at his disposal." And that is the house in Baida where the new dome of Cosa Nostra has gathered.

Francesco Inzerillo, 63, one of the sons, is also in prison , the other is Rosario, of Giuseppe who survived the mafia war of the 1980s. Brother Totuccio was one of the first to fall under the blows of the Corleonese. Francesco Inzerillo,, has always emerged unscathed from the investigation. In 1988 he was involved in the Iron Tower operation, and was acquitted in 1999 of the crime of mafia association. In 1997 he was expelled from the United States and arrested upon his arrival in Rome. In 2006 he was again in prison in the Gotha blitz and sentenced to ten and a half years, in the first and second grade, annulled by the Cassation.

Appeal also rejected for Rosario Gambino, 77 years old, the drug trafficker investigated by Giovanni Falcone. In 2014 he returned to Palermo after 55 years of life in America. Gambino, Joseph's nephew, the chief of the American mafia, had made his fortune overseas, but remained there for 25 years. I will be the American he had settled in the Borgo Nuovo district where he would have weighed his criminal past. Gambino was granted house arrest for reasons of health and age.

Today the outcome of the appeal presented by Tommaso Inzerillo will be known, nicknamed Tamì 'u scarpuni, cousin of Francesco, 70 years old. In 1980 they found him in Santo Domingo where he had taken refuge to escape the arrest warrant signed by the investigating judge Giovanni Falcone for conspiracy to export currency and sell drugs. He risked life imprisonment for the accusation of having enticed his relatives Pietro and Antonio Inzerillo, giving them to the Corleonese in exchange for his own life. He was acquitted of murder and released on November 15, 2013 after serving 10 years in prison for the mafia.

Tuesday 13 August 2019 - 06:00

https://livesicilia.it/2019/08/13/mafia-respinti-i-ricorsi-gli-irredimibili-in-carcere_1079544/