Yes, but the world has become small you fly from Brasil to Palermo in no time.

A boss with many entrepreneurial skills with a modern mentality, capable of investing abroad but also of attracting capital from entrepreneurs from the Far East, according to Colonel Mauro Carrozzo, who traces the identikit of Giuseppe Calvaruso, considered head of the Pagliarelli mafia district .

A young boss, just 44 years old with a very modern mentality - explains Carrozzo -. It is easier for him, in addition to dedicating himself to the classic activities of controlling the territory typical of the clan, to travel, establish ties abroad and invest in more contemporary activities, such as tourism, for example, even if the pandemic emergency has forced him too to a sudden stop.

Easter feast proves to be the undoing of Sicilian mafia boss

https://www.independent.ie/world-ne...ing-of-sicilian-mafia-boss-40279401.html

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Mafia, extortion and exchange vote: raid with 31 arrests in Messina. During the night, in an operation carried out by the carabinieri, the financial police and the police, custody was ordered for 21 in prison, for 10 under house arrest, for 2 the obligation to submit to the judicial police.

The investigation, coordinated by the Messina DDA, led by the prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia, made it possible to discover the illegal activities in the central area of ​​Messina. Document extortion, drug trafficking and the control of commercial activities in the field of catering and betting on sporting events.

In particular, the investigations by the carabinieri concerned the "family" of Giovanni Lo Duca, boss of the Provincial district ; the financial police focused on Salvatore Sparacio at Fondo Pugliatti. The police men, on the other hand, concerned the Giovanni De Luca clan, active in Maregrosso .

Epicenter of a feud between clans familiar to Zen . This is the reason behind the closure of the Cherì bar in Palermo for 30 days. A measure ordered by the commissioner and carried out today by the police.

The background bears the date of 23 March when, in via Filippo Patti, a real manhunt, with shots and scenes from the far west in the streets of Zen .

Dozens of gunshots against a family unit: the Colombo family, a father and two sons, were wounded in the ambush. The investigations of the flying squad made it possible to reconstruct the situation, discover the identity of the fire group on the Colombo, leading to the arrest of 6 people.

A picture of tensions and frictions within the delinquent fabric of Zen and the hegemonic mafia family of the neighborhood emerged.

Sgarbi and spite in succession, an escalation of violence that often had the Cherì bar in the background: a meeting point for meetings between the protagonists of the story.

In light of these considerations, the police commissioner of Palermo issued the suspension of the license of the bar, for 30 days, which the policemen of the administrative and social police division of the San Lorenzo police station carried out, affixing the seals to the place.

14 arrests for 2 mafia murders, clan gun battle


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Mafia, Totò Riina's brother comes out of prison: he will be transferred to house arrest in Sicily
April 21, 2021
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Gaetano Riina, brother of the boss Totò Riina, comes out of prison . This was decided by the surveillance court of Turin, which ordered home detention at the request of its lawyers. Gaetano Riina is 88 years old and has had serious health problems for some time. He will be transferred to a location in Sicily.

Gaetano Riina, younger brother of the former head of Cosa Nostra, is being held in the Vallette prison under high surveillance with an end sentence set in 2023. The sentence he is serving was imposed on him by the Naples Court of Appeal for having participated in a mafia-type association. His lawyers have asked for his release several times in the past. The first two attempts failed in 2019, when the judges emphasized the "offensive nature of the crimes committed". Last September another petition was presented also in the wake of the Covid emergency, also rejected by the same surveillance court in Turin.

Arrested in 2011, it appeared to the carabinieri that Riina was working on the reorganization of the Cosa Nostra in Corleone. Years later the accusation of having entered into an agreement with the Casalesi Camorra clan for illicit trafficking in fruit and vegetables was added.

Sexual violence against minors, son of a Mafia boss from Campobello di Mazara arrested
In handcuffs tonight Vincenzo Spezia, 58 years old from Campobello di Mazara. The man was stopped by the investigators of the Ros on charges of sexual assault on two minors.
It is a story that emerged as part of the investigation into the faithful of the red primrose of Castelvetrano Matteo Messina Denaro. The Ros had closed the circle around Vincenzo Spezia, son of Nunzio, the historic boss of Campobello who died in 2009. Vincenzo Spezia had returned to freedom in 2019, after having served a sentence for mafia association and drug trafficking. In the 1990s, he was also accused of murder, at the time he managed to flee to Venezuela.
A few weeks ago, ROS investigators intercepted Vincenzo Spezia's strange movements. The alert has risen but this time it was not about a summit or the exchange of a pizza. In fact, other horrors even more serious and involving two children have emerged. When the first abuses of minors emerged, the carabinieri and the prosecutor's office immediately intervened with an emergency measure.
Now, Spezia is locked up in the prison of Trapani. This story, on the profile of the protection of children, will also be dealt with by the attorney regent of the prosecutor's office for minors of Palermo, Massimo Russo, the magistrate who in the 1990s investigated Spezia, arriving at his capture in Venezuela.

The fourth section of the court of Palermo sentenced the boss of Resuttana Giovanni Niosi to 7 years in prison accused of having carried out an extortion at the pizzeria La Braciera .

The college chaired by Bruno Fasciana also retrained the accusation against the other accused, Antonino Cumbo, from consummated extortion to attempted, and sentenced him to 5 years. To both, as reported by Agi, the aggravating circumstance of mafia was applied, for having each participated in a segment of an extortion orchestrated by Cosa Nostra and which lasted decades, first against the old owners of the restaurant and then against the brothers Antonio and Roberto Cottone, who decided to denounce after having suffered for a long time the iron law of the lace .

40 arrested in Catania Mafia sweep
Coke shipments hidden in banana containers, hash at graveyard

(ANSA) - CATANIA, MAY 4 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested 40 people in a sweep of Catania-based Cosa Nostra clans that also bagged alleged mafiosi operating in Siracusa, Cosenza and Bologna.he 40 have been charged with mafia association, drug trafficking, extortion and conspiracy to commit fraud against social security and pensions agency INPS.
Police said their investigation had enabled them to map out the power and command structure of the Santapaola-Ercolano clan at Paternò and Belpasso, two towns near Catania.
Police said they had found a "picture of grave mafia pollution of the economic fabric, as shown by the identification of several businessmen who willingly favoured the clan's illicit activities".
They cited the example of a fruit and vegetable company owner who used the clan's protection to beat competitors and help him settle loans.
The Santapaola-Ercolano clan, police said, was planning to bring in "huge" quantities of cocaine in banana containers from Ecuador.
The mafiosi also allegedly stashed marijuana in the local cemetery, police said.
The clan is run from prison by superboss Benedetto 'Nitto' Santapaola. (ANSA).

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Angelo Pipitone, former boss of Torretta, dies: public funerals are prohibited
May 12, 2021
He died in Carini on 28 April, but the news has only just leaked out, the old mafia boss of Torretta, Angelo Antonino Pipitone , 78, father of the repentant Nino. Public funerals were banned . The boss had been sentenced to 13 years and 4 months in the maxi trial. No precautionary measures hung on him anymore.

Judge slain in Sicily by mafiosi put on path to sainthood
May 10, 2021
by Frances D'Emilio, The Associated Press VaticanWorld

ROME — A magistrate slain by mobsters in Sicily and praised by two popes has been beatified by the Roman Catholic church on May 9 in the last formal step before possible sainthood.

Rosario Livatino was gunned down on a Sicilian highway outside Agrigento as he drove to work in 1990. Three years later, during a pilgrimage to Sicily, Pope John Paul II hailed him a "martyr of justice and, indirectly, of the Christian faith."

Livatino was beatified in a ceremony in a cathedral in Agrigento. Hours later, Pope Francis at the Vatican said Livatino worked to judge "not to condemn, but to redeem." As an investigative magistrate, Livatino, 37, had been leading probes into the Mafia and corruption when he was slain. He was known for praying daily before entering court.

Francis also praised Livatino as a "martyr of justice and of the faith," noting that the magistrate "always put his work 'under the protection of God,'" a reference to Livatino's motto. Describing Livatino as a "witness of the Gospel until his heroic death,'' Francis expressed hope that his example would inspire others to be "loyal defenders of legality and of liberty."

Shortly after meeting with Livatino's parents in Agrigento, John Paul II became the first pontiff to publicly decry the Mafia. In improvised remarks on May 9, 1993, at an outdoor Mass in the ancient Valley of the Temples, John Paul thundered against mobsters, demanding they repent their murderous ways.

Four gunmen shot at Livatino's car as he drove without bodyguards. The alleged masterminds and attackers were eventually arrested and convicted. The Agrigento area is a power base for the Stidda, a group of mobsters who rival Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia with its main stronghold in the Palermo area across the island. Helping in the prosecution was description from a northern Italian businessman who was driving by and witnessed the shooting.

For the beatification, Livatino's blood-soaked shirt was taken from investigators' evidence deposits and put into a glass-enclosed reliquary, a holder of relics for faithful who want to venerate those beatified.

The Vatican has been considering developing a doctrine about excommunicating Catholic mobsters. That drive followed a visit by Pope Francis in 2014 to the southern Italian region of Calabria, the stronghold of the 'ndrangheta crime syndicate, which is one of the world's biggest cocaine traffickers. Francis met with the father of a 3-year-old boy slain in the region's drug turf wars and declared that all mobsters are automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

The Vatican's commission on human development on May 9 said that to honor Livatino a working group was set up to study "excommunication for mafias," an initiative which will involve bishops worldwide.

Partinico hub of drug trafficking, especially cocaine between the provinces of Palermo and Trapani. Twenty-six arrests (but a total of 30 precautionary measures)were made this night by the police of the capital during an operation as large as the territory it involves. The investigations, conducted by the policemen of the police station of Partinico, have highlighted how flourishing the illegal activity of the gang was and how long its tentacles were, which also touched other municipalities in western Sicily.

The cocaine market, from procurement to sale, in fact extended far beyond the borders of Partinico, also involving Balestrate, Trappeto, Camporeale, San Cipirello and large towns in the Trapani area such as Alcamo, Mazara del Vallo, Castellammare del Golfo, Santa Ninfa, Gibellina.

Italy-US drug trafficking, 9 arrests and 29 suspects including 5 doctors in Catania

Police officers of Syracuse and soldiers of the Catania financial police carried out an operation, called "Fast shipping", against drug trafficking between Italy and the United States. Executed an order of precautionary measures against 9 people accused, for various reasons, of criminal association aimed at drug trafficking and dealing. 29 people are being investigated in the investigation, including five doctors.

The former mayor of Castelvetrano Antonino Vaccarino, 76, died of cardiac arrest in the Covid ward of the Catanzaro hospital , where he had been transferred from prison due to the worsening of his health conditions after contracting Covid.

The freemason Vaccarino was involved in mafia affairs, freemasonry, espionage, he ended up in prison again in April 2019. Vaccarino collaborated with the secret services, entertaining an epistolary relationship with the fugitive mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro through code names: he called himself "Suetonius", Messina Denaro "Alessio".

The goal would have been to have the mafia boss captured, but the operation was not successful. The former mayor was also awaiting a review process for an old drug trafficking conviction and the 2019 Sentence Appeal process.

Sicily ranks second in Italy in the ranking of organizations dissolved for mafia infiltration and managed by extraordinary commissions. According to data from the Interior Ministry for 2020, the sad record belongs to Calabria.

There were 54 extraordinary commissions that, in 2020, administered dissolved entities for mafia-type infiltration and conditioning. Specifically, these are 52 municipalities, with a total population of 704,728 inhabitants, and 2 provincial health authorities (ASP of Reggio Calabria and Catanzaro). This number includes both the commissioner managements started in 2020 and those connected to previous dissolution as well as the extended managements.

This is what is contained in the report of the Minister of the Interior on the activity carried out by the Extraordinary Commissions, presented to Parliament.

Almost all of the local authorities are concentrated in the 4 Regions of historical settlement of organized crime : Calabria (21), Sicily (14) , Puglia (8) and Campania (7). The remaining two municipalities are located in Basilicata (1) and Valle D'Aosta (1).

The dissolution of the municipal council of Saint Pierre, ordered in 2020, confirms the growth of the trend, recorded in recent years, in the municipalities of Northern Italy which, now, have risen to a total of nine. Here, the presence of organized crime is growing attracted by the possibility of expanding its business volume, exploiting, thanks to the penetration of the legal economy, the most advantageous economic conditions, especially in the sector of public procurement and urban planning.

Giovanni Brusca was released from prison.

I posted a profile here unbelievable they let him out at 64 he still can have a nice life.

http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1012315#Post1012315

Since he is a 'pentito' maybe someone finds him and gets the job done. But i doubt it there is anyone from that time period looking for revenge on him.

Yes I believe his life is in danger some people in power are now nervous. Ok he collaborated, but the truth about the massacres is still unknown. After Falcone there have been many repentants, but we still do not know the truth. We know who the executors are but not the principals.

Mafia: ties between clan and Freemasonry, eight convictions in Licata
01 June 2021

The Palermo GUP Claudia Rosini sentenced, in abbreviated form, eight of the eleven defendants in the trial to sentences of between 2 years and 4 months and 20 years, which shed light on a business intertwining between the mafia, politics and deviant Freemasonry that involved the mafia clan of Licata . The accusation in the courtroom was represented by the prosecutor Claudio Camilleri. The investigation, called "Sedio-Halycon", was coordinated by the adjunct Paolo Guido and led to the elimination of the Licata "family" between July and August 2019.

The boss of the town of Agrigento, Angelo Occhipinti , accused of mafia, extortion and exchange vote, was sentenced to 20 years , to 10 and 8 months the Grand Master Lucio Lutri, an official of the Region, accused of concurrence in a mafia association, to 12 Giovanni Mugnos, agricultural worker, very loyal to Angelo Lauria, a reserved man of honor of the mafia family who had 10 years and 8 months. Same punishment for Giuseppe Puleri, boss of Campobello and cousin of the Agrogentino boss Falsone. Marco Massaro, accused of aiding and abetting, was instead sentenced to two years and 4 months.

Acquitted Vito Lauria, Giuseppe Galanti and Angelo Graci. According to the accusation "thanks to the relational network at his disposal as venerable Master of the Masonic Thought and Action lodge in Palermo, Lutri would have" acquired and conveyed to members of the mafia family confidential information about the existence of investigative activities against them "and "would have intervened for favors of another nature".

Confiscation of assets for one hundred million euros from Calcedonio Di Giovanni , an entrepreneur from Monreale. The decision is by the Court of Appeal of Palermo which confirmed what was decided by the court of Trapani in 2016 on the proposal of the director of Dia.

Di Giovanni, from the early seventies, would be linked to the clans of the district of Mazara del Vallo for which he laundered dirty money and had built a tourist complex on the coast of Campobello di Mazara. In more recent years, the man has had access to significant national and EU public funding, also involving the interests of the Mafiosi of Castelvetrano in his projects.

Mobster's son arrested for 'honour killing' of sister
Woman allegedly murdered for being unfaithful to husband

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 4 - A 47-year-old man, the son a late mafia boss from the province of Catania, has been arrested for allegedly murdering his sister in an honour killing in 1995.
Alessandro Alleruzzo allegedly killed his sister, Nunzia, for being unfaithful to her husband by having affairs with members of the clan he belonged to and a rival group.
The woman went missing on May 30, 1995.
Her son, who was five at the time, said he saw her leave home with her uncle on that day.
Her body was found in a well three years later.
Investigators believe they have cracked the cold case thanks to information from a former Mafioso turned State informant.
The informant alleged that Alleruzzo told him that he killed his sister to "save the honour of the family". (ANSA).

Palermo, Cupola 2.0 operation. The judge: "There was a summit of the bosses, so the mafia members reorganized themselves"
June 11, 2021

Over 4 centuries of first degree prison for the suspects of the Cupola 2.0 operation: in all 46 convicted and 9 acquitted, plus one accused in the meantime deceased. In the reasons for the sentence, the judge, Rosario Di Gioia, referring to the mafia boss of Pagliarelli Settimo Mineo , sentenced to 16 years, believes, as reported by Leopoldo Gargano in an article in the Giornale di Sicilia on newsstands, that he "unquestionably held head of the district of Pagliarelli, distinguishing himself as a mafia subject with the greatest authority on the territory ".

At the center of the investigation conducted by the carabinieri and the district anti-mafia management, the famous meeting of the provincial commission of Cosa Nostra, called on 29 May 2018 after a quarter of a century, that is, from the capture of Totò Riina. For the judge, the summit really took place. "Summa of the relationship maintained by Mineo with the heads of the other districts - the reasons stated - is certainly represented by the participation above all in the meeting of 29 May 2018, held among the most important heads of the province. This meeting was organized for the purpose to reconstitute the provincial commission and provide new and indispensable rules of organization and behavior within the Cosa Nostra ".

The judge also considered the meetings with another prominent figure in the trial, that is Calogero Lo Piccolo, son of Salvatore, head of San Lorenzo, sentenced to 27 years continuously with a previous sentence, as proven .

Messina Denaro has done a great job to bring cosa nostra back at the top he follows the same strategy as Bernardo Provenzano.

Mafia in Castellammare del Golfo, asked for two years for the mayor Rizzo
by Laura Spanò - June 19, 2021
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The anti-mafia prosecutors of the Palermo Prosecutor's Office, deputy prosecutor Paolo Guido, prosecutors Gianluca De Leo and Francesca Dessì, at the end of the indictment, before the Gup of the Palermo Court, judge Annalisa Tesoriere, asked for a two-year sentence for the mayor of Castellammare del Golfo, Nicolò Rizzo, accused of aiding and abetting with the aggravating circumstance of having facilitated Cosa Nostra.

The request concerns a total of eleven people accused with the abbreviated procedure, in the anti-mafia investigation called "Cutrara", carried out in June last year by the carabinieri of Trapani and which involved the area of ​​Castellammare del Golfo.

Overall, more than one hundred years of prison sentences were sought . At the end of the indictment, the Prosecutor asked: 6 years for Diego Angileri; 4 years and 6 months for Francesco Di Bono (former president of the municipal council of Trapani); 12 years for Camillo Domingo; 10 years and 8 months for Daniele La Sala; 20 years for Salvatore Mercadante; 8 years and 10 months for Gaspare Maurizio Mulè; 20 years for Antonino Sabella; 10 years for Francesco Stabile; 12 years for Carlo Valenti; 6 years and 8 months for Francesco Virga and 2 years for the mayor of Castellammare del Golfo Nicolò Rizzo.