Finance police on Thursday executed arrest warrants against 15 people suspected of mafia association, usury, drugs crimes and money laundering as part of a nationwide anti-mafia operation coordinated by the authorities in the Sicilian city of Catania. In total 26 people have been placed under investigation in the probe. Arrests were carried out in the regions of Sicily, Campania, Tuscany and Friuli Venezia Giulia. In all, 120 finance police officers were deployed.
Somehow I feel Cosa Nostra in Catania and Messina is still underrated compared to western Sicily, maybe because they were brought in the fold many years later.
I made a thread on the other board expressing much the same sentiment. The Catania police investigations always reveal these huge operations.
I said I thought Catania to be amongst the strongest families. The guys took it like i said Catania is stronger than......I dunno.... the Whole of Palermo or the whole of Trapani or Agrigento. There's ONE, excuse me.....TWO (?) official families in Catania. With the Capello- Carrateddi independent?
What exactly are the Cursoti?
in Catania city there are two Cosa Nostra families (Santapaola and Mazzei) with branches all over the province and out of the province; in the province, in addition to the branches of the aforementioned families, there are two other Cosa Nostra families based in the towns of Caltagirone and Ramacca. Then there is the Laudani clan, a sort of offshoot of the Santapaola family and the independent clans (Cappello, Cursoti, Pillera-Puntina)
