According to the turncoat Sergio Macaluso (acting boss of Resuttana 'mandamento'), some months before the death of Toto Riina last year, a new provincial and probably regional commission of Cosa Nostra was formed.
Paolo Calcagno, acting boss of Porta Nuova 'mandamento' and Filippo Bisconti, acting boss of Misilmeri 'mandamento', said him they were going to be part of the new-born provincial commission.

Was formed? So that means Sicilian Mafia have functionable commission again ?

Yes this is pretty big, because the cupola hasn´t met since the arrest of Riina in 1993. Now it seems the recent years were full of summits and meetings. The new Dome exists. It meets and makes important decisions. Riina was the only leader able to summon it. During the last months of life of the godfather someone decided to move overtaking him.

They were numerous attempts to rebuild commission,it is indeed pretty big. As police focuses more on 'Ndrangheta , Sicilian mafia will be able to gain some of power they lost.

The turncoats are still a problem for them, so many in recent years. But in my opinion the policies of Provenzano have helped them a lot they keep a very low profile. He tried to stem the flow of pentiti by not targeting their families, only using violence in case of absolute necessity. Provenzano reportedly re-established the old Mafia rules that had been abolished by Riina.

Agree with you, if they kept doing things like Riina did,it would bring them to knees completely.

Although the times have changed since ´93 lol, you can´t get away with murders anymore, they have the DNA of most of the mafiosi.

Sicilians have caught their breath a bit, I think they might have a pretty strong comeback.

Nicolo Clemente was arrested at an address in Trapani, Sicily. He would be in direct contact with the 'godfather' Messina Denaro. The construction contractor Clemente (50), known in Sicily, was arrested by order of the judge of the Palermo Court. He would be an important player in Cosa Nostra, and possibly also a crucial link between the upper world and the underworld on the island.
Goods have also been seized. Justice in Sicily tries to cut as many lines as possible that the boss Matteo Messina Denarocould maintain. In this sense, Nicolo Clemente is an important link. Through him, someone like Denaro would influence the building world with strangulation contracts. The line from Messina Denaro to Clemente would run through a brother of the latter. Although the justice system in Sicily claims that the whole family of Clemente has been in contact with the Mafia for years.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...-overlooking-parlermo-part-of21m-assets/

Italian police seize villa overlooking Palermo as part of €21m of assets from Sicilian mafia boss

24 nabbed in Palermo clan bust
'Money-laundering king' Corona caught

Italian police on Monday arrested 24 people in a major operation against Cosa Nostra clans in Palermo.
Four of them were placed under house arrest, including a well-known Palermo criminal lawyer, Nico Riccobene.
The probe uncovered the leading role of a boss who has come to the fore since the death of boss of bosses Totò Riina last November, Giuseppe Corona.
Nicknamed the "money-laundering king", Corona was able to launder "rivers of money", police said.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9cY8pKY0Q

$2.6 million has been awarded to the family of boy nabbed by the Mafia to silence his turncoat father. The victim, Giuseppe Di Matteo, was strangled and dissolved in acid at age 13.

He was held for 26 months, during which time he was tortured and kept in squalor.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...e-from-the-mafia-italian-mp-piera-aiello

‘I was tired of covering my face to hide from the mafia’: Italian MP Piera Aiello

Police blitz, the organization acted with threats and extortion, including drug trafficking among its criminal activities

Thanks to a dense criminal network they would have monopolized the Syracuse fruit and vegetable market. In the early hours of the morning the police blitz. Mafia criminal association aimed at extortion, trafficking of drugs, thefts in homes and farms. These are the accusations made in various ways to the 19 people against whom the investigating judge of the court of Catania has ordered the arrest. The investigation activity, carried out by the Syracuse mobile team, with the help of the police in Catania, has made it possible to ascertain the operations in the territories of the southern part of the province, where a criminal gropu, thanks to the intimidation force exercised by its members, it had monopolized and conditioned the entire fruit and vegetable market in the area. Illicit activities also involved extortion, the trafficking of drugs, the commission of theft to homes and farms. Sixty units of the State Police, with the Crime Prevention Department of Catania engaged in the "Araba Fenice" operation.

"Here we command, tell that to Messina Denaro." the bosses were secretly recorded talking to each other.

Guardia di Finanza and Carabinieri del Ros are seizing 60 million euros from Giovanni Savalle, an expert in the tax and entrepreneurial sector, considered one of the recyclers of the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro. The investigation, resulting from the prevention measure, has shown the existence of a system of multi-level bonds, which aimed to maximize profits. Investigators have identified investments in the hotel and real estate sector in the Trapani area.

Messina 'business committee' busted
Numerous arrests, assets worth millions seized

(ANSA) - Messina, August 2 - The Messina DIA anti-mafia unit on Thursday executed arrest warrants for local politicians, businessman and criminals over an alleged illegal 'committee' to manage public business in the Sicilian city. Companies and properties worth many millions of euros were also seized as part of the operation. Ten of the suspects were put under house arrest and one person was taken to jail.
The former president of the Messina city assembly, Emilia Barrile, is among the people under investigation.

Police: Sicily gangsters crushed limbs for insurance

https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/ne...gsters-crushed-limbs-insurance/37365177/

Hey, a score is a score..

A new fugitive of importance in Sicily. Vito Bigione, 66, was sentenced in July to 15 years for mafia association and drug trafficking.

According to police wiretaps Bigione replaced Vito Gondola (dead in 2017) as boss of the Mazara del Vallo mandamento; He has connections in Venezuela, South Africa and Namibia. He worked closely with the Calabrian Marando crime family from Platì.

Cosa Nostra fully controls the Palermo fruit and vegetable market through the influence of the Acquasanta family, run by the Galatolo clan. They impose the prices, the Dia confiscated 150 million euros.

RIP Rita Borsellino.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7031774/bridge-italy-mafia-weakened-cement/

CUTTING CORNERS They use weakened cement that’s ‘like putting up shelves with sellotape’ – so have dodgy Mafia deals caused TEN bridges to collapse in five years?

The Palermo mobster Giovanni Lucchese, 46 years old, nephew of Giuseppe Lucchese, known as Lucchiseddu, fierce killer of Cosa nostra, author of dozens of murders, brother-in-law of the mafia boss Pietro Tagliavia and son of Nino, convicted mafia boss, has begun to collaborate with justice. The wife of the repentant, Rosalinda Tagliavia, refused protection, not sharing her husband's choice. Both the Tagliavia and the Lucchese are families with strong mafia traditions. Giovanni Lucchese was arrested on July 19, 1997 in a police and financial police blitz after the investigation by the Palermo prosecutor, who lifted the veil on the new organization charts and affairs of the powerful thug in the Palermo neighborhood of Brancaccio.

9 Cosa Nostra arrests in Sicily
Assinnata clan decapitated

(ANSA) - Catania, August 28 - Italian police on Tuesday made nine arrests in an operation they said decapitated the Assinnata clan of Cosa Nostra in the Sicilian town of Paternò.
The strength of the clan locally was highlighted in December 2015, police said, when a religious procession for the patron saint of the town 'bowed' while passing the home of the clan boss.

When the mafia opts not to kill

https://eastwest.eu/en/eastwest-79/leading-figures-when-the-ma-a-opts-not-to-kill

In the Cold Case of the murder of the businessman Diego Passafiume a man was arrested. Filippo Sciara, 54, is considered a member of the mafia family of Siculiana (Ag), involved in the kidnapping of little Giuseppe Di Matteo. Passafiume, an honest 41-year-old entrepreneur in the earth-moving sector, had been killed on the day of his wedding anniversary, August 22, 1993, in Cianciana, a small town in Agrigento.