Joe D'Anna allegedly used his family's reputation as leaders of a Sicilian Costa Nostra or Mafia family in Terrasini. They are cousins of Salvatore D'Anna, boss of Terrasini, the revelations of Michele Seidita, former regent of the Partinico district and collaborator of justice since 2002, were important. According to the repentant, D'Anna would have been in charge of the territory already at the time in which "Terrasini was the mandate of Partinico" and explained that, at the suggestion of Salvatore Lo Piccolo, it was he himself who "sent for D'Anna to place him in Terrasini".