yes, they are alive and kicking, among the people under investigation even the politician Giuseppe Alaimo, the Agrigento provincial president of DC party

The murder of Emanuele Pizza: victim of Cosa Nostra and the institutions
Emanuele Piazza was murdered on 16 March 1990.
Policeman and hunter of fugitives such as Totò Riina , Salvatore Lo Piccolo , Armando Bonanno and more.
As has often happened in many cases, the Piazza murder has also seen a very long series of misdirections over time which to date have not allowed the family to have a complete truth.
Suffice it to say that the first convictions of the mafia leaders occurred only in 2001.

The murder
Emanuele Piazza was about to sit down at the table when Onorato knocked on his door asking him to accompany him to Capaci, to the Nino Troia furniture warehouse , where he would have to cash a check. Piazza went with him. Waiting for him inside the warehouse were the bosses Salvatore Biondo and Nino Troia who attacked and strangled him. His body was later taken to a farmhouse in the Capaci countryside and dissolved in acid.

His father, Giustino Piazza , a well-known lawyer from Palermo, then decided to report his disappearance to the police station, precisely because of the strangeness of his son's unexpected absence from home.

when his father decided to give an interview to Francesco Viviano , a journalist from Repubblica. In that journalistic investigation Giustino Piazza revealed a whole series of circumstances that had been kept silent until then, as requested by the authorities, including that relating to his son's collaboration with the security services. “ My son died because he was under the illusion that sooner or later he would become a real secret agent, and my poor Emanuele fell for it. - he told the journalist Viviano on 11 September 1990 - After my son's disappearance, those of Sisde tried to minimize his role, but they couldn't help but admit that Emanuele worked for them. I know my son was on their payroll.”
The official collaboration of "Topo", this is his code name, with the SISDE was obtained only after Giovanni Falcone took action . The judge, having gone to the Interior Ministry, began to conduct interrogations, from the top down to the bottom and, as a result, when he returned to Palermo on 22 October 1990, he found on his desk the document signed by the prefect Malpica which recognized Emanuele's work.

https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/ho...-di-cosa-nostra-e-delle-istituzioni.html

Mafia and drugs in Catania, 41 arrests

CATANIA (ITALPRESS) - The drugs placed in a basket tied to a rope, then climbed to the home of the leader of a gang of pushers. It is a refueling technique discovered by State Police officers who carried out 41 precautionary measures in Catania. Around 300 policemen were involved in the execution of an order issued by the investigating judge of the Etna Court, at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, as part of the operation called "Locu".

The suspects must respond, in various capacities, to mafia-type association, as they are indicated as belonging to the Cappello-Bonaccorsi clan, association aimed at drug trafficking, carrying and possession of firearms, dealing of various types of drugs: cocaine , crack, marijuana and hashish. In particular, the management of a large "drug dealer" operating in the city of Catania was documented

Total omertà about Messina Denaro continues - prosecutors

Three more people who allegedly aided late Mafia boss arrested

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/20...37bbabc-4cee-43ae-a416-9e89fd7934cc.html

Last, the carabiniere who captured Riina reveals his face after 31 years: «I'm running for the European elections»

https://www.unionesarda.it/en/italy...ning-for-the-european-elections-ox0a6hou

Mafia, weapons and drugs in Librino: 30 police arrests in the "Third chapter" operation

Over 200 police officers deployed since the early hours of the morning. The alleged crimes are mafia-type association with the Arena clan, drug trafficking and possession of weapons, including weapons of war. A complex system of lookouts to manage the drug dealing was also discovered

Since the early hours of this morning, around 200 police officers have been carrying out a precautionary measures order against around 30 people. The crimes alleged are mafia-type association with the Arena clan, association aimed at drug trafficking, carrying and possession of weapons, including weapons of war, dealing of various types of drugs (cocaine, crack, marijuana and skunk). In particular, the management of a large "drug plaza" was identified through a system of lookouts operating in the city of Catania, precisely in Librino.

Mafia and vote swapping in Palermo, former FdI councilor Russo arrested

https://www.breakinglatest.news/bus...rmo-former-fdi-councilor-russo-arrested/

Mafia is expanding Sicily’s white collar crime
The business of phony invoices and tax avoidance has become more profitable than drugs
By Rachel Sanderson / Bloomberg

Sicily’s tourist hot spots are living an economic boom thanks to shows like HBO’s The White Lotus, which put the island’s breathtaking vistas on display. However, the ancient island’s infamous underbelly remains untouched by the influx of new wealth. In fact, organized crime has only diversified and become more entwined with the legitimate economy

On a recent trip to Sicily, the contrast between the flourishing tourism sector and the declines elsewhere was as stark as I have seen in more than 20 years of reporting on the island.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2024/04/14/2003816385

Mafia threats to pollute judicial auctions, 17 arrests: a lawyer also involved

https://news.italy24.press/trends/1469731.html

among the people under investigation the mayor of Paternò Nino Naso and two other politicians

Salemi-Palermo axis: bosses and entrepreneurs in business, 11 arrests

Interests in large-scale distribution and energy

The Salemi mafiosi had gone into business with some Palermo bosses and entrepreneurs. The Palermo District Anti-Mafia Directorate reconstructs the plot. The Carabinieri of the investigative unit of the provincial command of Trapani arrested 11 people (six in prison and five under house arrest) in the provinces of Trapani, Palermo, Como and Rimini. The soldiers of the Palermo investigative unit contributed to the investigations.

The alleged crimes

The crimes charged are mafia association, corruption, bid rigging, fraudulent transfer of valuables, receiving stolen goods and self-laundering.

According to the prosecution, there was a convergence of interests around the figures of Salvatore and Andrea Angelo di Salemi . They are father and son. The first ended up under house arrest, the second is in prison. Salvatore Angelo was one of the entrepreneurs close to Matteo Messina Denaro , in the past, after the previous arrest and conviction for mafia, his assets were confiscated, including some construction and wine companies.

Supermarkets and energy

An ambitious project, which did not come to fruition, had envisaged fictitiously attributing to two Palermo entrepreneurs the shares of a joint-stock company set up specifically to avoid patrimonial measures. The plan envisaged that numerous Coop-branded supermarkets in western Sicily would be acquired with dirty money . The acquisition did not materialize due to various business decisions made by the company.

Nino Madonia remains at 41-bis, his family is still active in the area
Jamil El Sadi April 16, 2024
The appeal of the Resuttana boss, as well as Riina's trusted man and close to the secret services, against the extension of the hard prison was rejected
The Supreme Court of Cassation endorsed the decision of the Review Court which had rejected the complaint against the special regime, on the basis of investigative investigations, declarations of justice collaborators and sentences. For this reason, the boss of the Resuttana district Antonino Madonia remains at 41-bis.
This was reported by Il Sole 24 Ore , which reported that, according to the judges, there are more than reliable documents from which the current operations of the Resuttana mafia family in the area and, in general, of Cosa Nostra emerge. Hence the real danger that the boss, once controls have been relaxed by virtue of the transition to an ordinary penitentiary regime, could once again re-establish contacts with the criminal organization of which he was at the top for many years. Nino Madonia is the author of excellent massacres and crimes, as well as the subject implicated in many Italian mysteries and Totò Riina 's trusted man .

The Madonias, an undisputed power
Having joined the elite of Cosa Nostra at the beginning of the 1970s, the Madonias established themselves in the Resuttana area when the previous mafia generation disappeared as a result of the first mafia war, during which, in particular, they were the areas of San Lorenzo and Acquasanta are affected. A war which resulted in the purge of a series of subjects considered dangerous for the Corleonesi and the advance by the latter towards Palermo. “An ethnic cleansing, more than a war” , to recall a statement by the deputy national anti-mafia prosecutor Domenico Gozzo . Over time the Madonias have entered the inner circle of Totò Riina 's loyalists . The “Chief of Chiefs” spoke extensively about them. Riina immediately had an eye for Nino Madonia , defined by him as a "powerful" individual, because he was considered the most dangerous of his brothers. He enjoyed Riina's full trust to the point of being "autonomous" even if faithful.

Full article: https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/ho...a-e-ancora-operativa-nel-territorio.html

Nino Madonia resided in Constance, Germany , where he was connected to the financier Vito Roberto Palazzolo in the laundering of narco-dollars from the " Pizza connection". He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in the Palermo maxi-trial .

In May 1987 he was arrested together with his father and brother Giuseppe . Having been released from prison after only a year, the then head of Cosa Nostra Totò Riina entrusted him with the regency of the district of Resuttana of Palermo in place of his now imprisoned father.

In December 1989 the police arrested Madonia in an apartment in Via Mariano d'Amelio (where the famous massacre took place three years later ) in which a ledger of extortions delivered to around 150 entrepreneurs was found. The list included the names of car showrooms, boutiques, restaurants and small factories whose extortion rates range from 150,000 lire to 7 million lire. None of those whose names were on the list of extortionists helped investigators identify the identity of the extortionists . Since then he has been in prison where he has to serve a series of life sentences for multiple mafia-related murders.

Catania, mafia and corruption in the municipality of Tremestieri: 11 arrests, the deputy governor of Sicily Luca Sammartino suspended

Sammartino is vice president of the Region and leader of the League. The mayor, a former opponent under house arrest, was arrested

The Carabinieri of the provincial command of Catania are executing a precautionary measure order against 11 people including political exponents, municipal officials and entrepreneurs accused, in various capacities, of political-mafia electoral exchange, extortion aggravated by the mafia method, aggravated corruption, incitement to corruption and disturbed freedom of auctions.

Among those arrested was the mayor of Tremestieri Etneo, Santi Rando. His political opponent, Mario Ronsisvalle, later his ally, was under house arrest. The vice president of the Region and leader of the League Luca Sammartino has been suspended from public duties for a year.

The investigation, coordinated by the District Prosecutor's Office of Catania and conducted by the Catania investigative unit between 2018 and 2021, shed light on illicit agreements between some administrators of the municipality of Tremestieri Etneo and elements close to the "Santapaola-Ercolano" mafia gang, concerning the election in 2015 of the current mayor Santi Rando, recipient of pre-trial detention in prison for political-mafia electoral exchange and aggravated corruption

new identikit of the fugitive boss Giovanni Motisi

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Interesting AI hehe..

The mystery of Messina Denaro's tattoo and his baptism as a killer
October 8, 1981 written in Roman numerals, «an important date for me»
Published on: 04/22/2024 – 16:06

PALERMO A distinctive sign to remember the affiliation to Cosa Nostra and the baptism as a killer. There is a tattoo with a date on Matteo Messina Denaro's left arm, a tattoo he decided on while on the run. October 8, 1981 written in Roman numerals, this is "the important date for me", the former boss would have told his sisters during a conversation in prison which took place after the arrest. On 8 October 1981 the mafia boss was 19 and a half years old and was the scion of Don Ciccio Messina Denaro's family. The date, the investigators suspect, could mark a fundamental moment in his life: the formal entry into Cosa Nostra followed, the following day, by the young boss's debut as a killer. In fact, October 9th went down in history as Palermo's Black Friday, a bloody day in which, in the midst of the mafia war, 4 murders occurred in the city and one in the province in just a few hours. Crimes in which Matteo Messina Denaro, investigators believe, may have participated. The victims of the rain of fire that bloodied the city were Antonino Vitale, a farmer killed in the Brancaccio district, the convicted mafioso Calogero Misuraca, resident of Cinisi, killed in Piazza Marina as he was leaving the building of the Intendenza di Finanza, Agostino Calabria, former driver of a bus, killed a few meters from the place where Vitale had been killed hours earlier, and Giovanni Costanza, a street vendor, also killed in the same area. In the evening between Campofiorito and Bisacquino, in the Palermo area, the body of Giuseppe Stabile, a farmer found with a disfigured face, was discovered in a landfill. The last victim was an electrician, Salvatore Manno, with no criminal record, found dead near the Palermo ring road.

Matteo Messina Denaro’s social profile on Facebook was a doctor with a profile photo of a dog

https://news.italy24.press/local/1514600.html

lol

Bosses and followers of the Noce family in Palermo, 21 convictions and one acquittal
AMTwo thousand April 25, 2024
Twenty-one convictions for over two centuries in prison and only one acquittal, in Palermo, in the trial of bosses and followers of the Noce mafia family. Among those convicted, Giancarlo Seidita , 20 years in prison, considered the regent of the district, took over from his cousin Giovanni Nicoletti , who died in 2020 from an illness. The sentence was issued this evening by the Gup of the Palermo court Angela Lo Piparo , who largely accepted the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate in the process called Intero mandamento, concerning the Noce and Cruillas gang, a mandamento which was reorganized after Nicoletti's death.

Attempted murder, two gunshots against an ex pentito
The investigators have already collected the first statements from the victim, who underwent surgery
Published on: 04/25/2024 – 17:57

VITTORIA The victim of the ambush this morning in Vittoria is Roberto Di Martino, 62 years old, previously believed to be a member of the Dominante-Carbonaro clan and arrested in the Squalo operation 30 years ago. He was then a collaborator with justice and left the protection program in 2021. The man had just left his house, in the area near the Vittoria cemetery, when a man approached his car and wounded him with two shots gunshot that hit him in the neck and face. Di Martino managed to reach his brother-in-law's house, not far away, and telephoned the police. Immediately rescued, he was transported to hospital. He is not in any danger to his life. The investigators have already collected the first statements from Di Martino, who then underwent surgery for his injuries. Di Martino's wounding is the second criminal incident in Vittoria this year. On 28 February, in the Colledoro area, near the hospital, Giovanni Russo was killed. Alex Ventura, also believed to be close to criminal circles, admitted to having carried out the murder. However, Ventura had declared that the murder was the result of "personal disagreements", because in the past he had been threatened by Russo.

The mafias are shooting: from Vittoria to Niscemi it's an emergency. Business between silences and 'compromising' photos
Paolo Borrometi April 26, 2024
A murder and an attempted murder in two months in Vittoria, in the Ragusa area, murders foiled just in time in Niscemi, in the Nisseno area. The area between Ragusa and Nisseno returns to the scene of mafia violence, even if it would be more correct to say "it remains" .

https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/ho...i-tra-silenzi-e-foto-compromettenti.html

in 2020 Orazio Sciortino, former turncoat (Carbonaro-Dominante family) was shot dead in Vittoria

Italy's Liguria regional president arrested in corruption probe

The president of Italy's northwest Liguria region and the ex-head of Genoa's port were among 10 arrested on Tuesday in a sweeping anti-corruption investigation which also targeted officials for alleged mafia ties.

https://www.thelocal.it/20240507/italys-liguria-regional-president-arrested-in-corruption-probe

Italian regional politician and business chief held on corruption charges

Matteo Cozzani, Toti’s chief of staff, is accused of striking votes-for-jobs deals with suspected members of a Sicilian Mafia clan based in Genoa, the prosecutors said.


https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/italia...hief-held-on-corruption-charges/77091649

Cosa Nostra, over 400 years of imprisonment for 47 defendants in the Agorà trial
AMTwo thousand 08 May 2024
On 16 June 2022, the DDA blitz revealed relationships between the Santapaolas and the Nardos who allegedly did business in drug trafficking and in the control of the entrepreneurial fabric
The “Agorà” trial ended with sentences of over 400 years in prison for 47 defendants and seven acquittals , celebrated with an abbreviated rite. The sentence was pronounced by the preliminary hearing judge Dora Catena . The trial took place on the "Agorà" investigation of the Dda of the Etna Prosecutor's Office on the relationships between the Santapaola 'family' of Catania and the Nardo clan of Lentini, both belonging to Cosa Nostra, who allegedly did business together in drug trafficking and in the control of the entrepreneurial fabric, but they also had economic conflicts in sectors of common interest.

https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/ho...-per-47-imputati-nel-processo-agora.html

The Cammarata clan of Riesi: which is the mafia family involved in the "earthquake" that overwhelmed the governor of Liguria

In the 1990s, during the mafia war in the province of Caltanissetta, many Riesi residents were forced to move to Genoa to avoid being killed: but they continued to commit crimes

As part of the investigation by the Genoa Prosecutor's Office for corruption, which led among others to the arrest of the Ligurian president Giovanni Toti, vote swapping is also being investigated. In particular, the head of cabinet Matteo Cozzan , on the occasion of the 2020 elections, promised jobs and the change of public housing to convey the votes of the voters of the Riesi community of Genoa, which has at least 400 presences. Furthermore, again in exchange for votes for the Toti List, a job would have been given to the partner of the daughter of Venanzio Maurici , Genoese representative of the Cammarata clan in the Riesi mandamento.

Many relatives of the Cammarata boss brothers fled from Riesi during the mafia war which occurred in the province of Caltanissetta within the Cosa Nostra in the 1990s, although they changed their municipality of residence because they landed in Liguria (in particular in Genoa) , they would have continued to live with the crime.

A life full of entanglements, affairs and judicial measures. The latest to end up in legal trouble is precisely Venanzio Maurici, brother-in-law of Francesco Cammarata, for whom the investigating judge of the Genoa court ordered the signature requirement. Obligation to reside in the municipality of Boltiere for the twin brothers Maurizio and Arturo Angelo Testa accused of electoral corruption aggravated by the facilitation of the Cammarata clan of Riesi.

The “war” and the escape

In the 1990s, when there was a mafia war in the province of Caltanissetta for the leadership within Cosa Nostra, many Riesi residents were forced to move to Genoa to avoid being killed. And here they would have worked hard to find work and continue carrying out the shady business. In this investigative framework, the Testa brothers together with Maurici worked hard to allow the re-election of Giovanni Toti to the regional presidency for the electoral competition four years ago . In particular, Venanzio Maurici in the September 2020 competition to vote for the "Let's change with Toti President" list would have accepted the promise of a job in favor of his daughter's partner.

The Testa twins, on the other hand, to support the candidacy of Stefano Anzalone from the "Let's change with Toti President" list would have promised jobs to more people. Anzalone himself would have supported the costs of room and board in Genoa for the Testa brothers in the period preceding the regional electoral competition.

Brothers

The brothers Pino, Vincenzo and Francesco Cammarata are all detained under 41 bis, last year their sister Maria Catena Cammarata also ended up under house arrest, aged 69 and managing the family business on behalf of the brothers. She would have been the one to keep the coffers of one of the most ruthless clans in the province of Caltanissetta.

Ambush in Palermo, a man shot in Monte Pellegrino
The victim is guarded at the VIlla Sofia hospital.

By Editorial Staff |
May 10, 2024
A man is hospitalized and guarded at the Villa Sofia hospital in Palermo after being wounded in the legs by gunshots. The ambush took place in via Ruggero Loria, in the Monte Pellegrino district. The investigations are conducted by the flying squad. According to an initial reconstruction, the victim was flanked by a person with his face covered by a helmet who fired two shots.

Maria Badalamenti, the fight against the mafia to defend the memory of her father Silvio/Nephew of the boss Don Tano...
Publication: 13.05.2024- Giovanna Tedde
At Cose Nostre, the story of Maria Badalamenti and her courageous fight against the mafia and the heavy legacy of a surname that does not represent her: her murdered father, an innocent victim...

https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/...silvio-nipote-del-boss-don-tano/2703539/

General Mori probed for 1993 Mafia bombings
Carabinieri ex officer under investigation in Florence

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/ge...e80f2cf-5c57-4945-a203-5f09ee10b54a.html

Palermo, raid in Brancaccio and Sperone neighborhoods: 26 arrested

The agents of the flying squad and the SCO carried out a precautionary custody order from the Palermo investigating judge against 26 suspects - 21 in prison and 5 under house arrest - accused, for various reasons, of association aimed at trafficking in narcotic substances aggravated by mafia method and drug dealing .

The investigation, coordinated by the district anti-mafia directorate directed by the prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia, made it possible to deal a blow to drug dealing in the Sperone and Brancaccio neighborhoods . To enter the drug " forts ", undercover agents were employed who managed to have contact with the leaders of the criminal group that managed the drug dealing. The interests of Cosa Nostra in the distribution of earnings from the illicit activity would also have been ascertained. During the investigation it was documented that the sale of the narcotic took place 24 hours a day, with a rigid organization of shifts of pushers and lookouts. During the blitz, the crime prevention department, dog units and the flight department were involved. Numerous searches were carried out in the Sperone district .