What were they charged with?

His murder was mafia related only or did members of the his lodge have something to do with it? And do the lodges ever compete with one another?

Police arrested 27 freemasons on charges of crimes of corruption, bribery, forgery, embezzlement, fraud, trafficking of illicit influences, disclosure of official secrecy, abetting, abuse of office.
Among the arrested the former president of the regional parliament, Francesco Cascio, the former mayor Felice Errante, his deputy Vincenzo Chiofalo, and Luciano Perricone, one of the former mayoral candidates for Castelvetrano, the former regional deputy Giovanni Lo Sciuto, the latter, who was also a member of the regional anti-mafia commission, would be the venerable master of the lodge, the current regional councilor for Education and former rector of the University of Palermo, Roberto Lagalla and 3 policemen, one of them member of the DIA

These are mysteries we will never know. Italian magistrates believed that Stefano Bontade, Bernardo Provenzano and Matteo Messina Denaro belonged to a secret lodge that was an articulation in Sicily of Licio Gelli's P2.

How were these men not disgraced after that? Money and power I would say.

If you’re a member of a lodge like that, then is it somewhat like a fraternity of men who just do business with one another? But in this case it’s some of the most powerful men in Italy(in some cases the world) in both the legitimate and illegitimate worlds.

As i said you earlier, people like this almost never go to prison.

Recent events
On 7 November 2012, an investigation by the Catanzaro DDA revealed the alleged involvement of the cosca for reconstruction work after the earthquake in Abruzzo and the implementation in Rome of the fiber optic network for the Internet and the involvement with Paolo Coraci founder of a Masonic lodge that would have requested electoral support for D'Ambrosio in exchange for contracts in Lazio, Lombardy and Veneto. [11] In the same year the investigation Saggezza of the DDA of Reggio Calabria showed that the link with Italian Freemasonry would be very strong, to the point of constituting a way of infiltration to the most vertex sides of Italian politics and economy [12]
On 17 November 2013, the Grand Orient of Italy suspended a lodge for the first time in its history, in this case the Rocco Verducci lodge based in Gerace , and with the temple in Siderno for a possible involvement of irregularly connected criminals organized in Calabria. The choice of suspension was taken after the last judicial inquiry: the operation Saggezza , in which people affiliated to both the 'ndrangheta and the loggia were arrested [13] .
On January 4, 2016 , the operation Kyterion 2 concludes, directed by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catanzaro which leads to the arrest of 16 alleged members of the Great Arrojes of Cutro , from the investigations it is possible to deduce presumed attempts to connect with representatives of the Vatican and of the Court of Cassation , as well as the intrusion into Masonic orders and knighthoods by the local leader Nicolino Grande Aracri [14] [15] .
From the Mammasantissima operation of the Ros of the Carabinieri concluded on 15 July 2016, the 2014 minutes of the former Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy Giuliano Di Bernardo ( 1990 - 1993 ), now Grand Master of the regular Grand Lodge of Italy , would emerge, who reported to the public prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo the confidences of Ettore Loizzo, at the time deputy of the Grand Master: «During a meeting of the Grand Orient Council, I urgently announced in '93 after the investigation of the Dr. Cordova on Freemasonry, to my specific request, said that he could state with certainty that in Calabria, out of 32 lodges, 28 were controlled by the 'Ndrangheta. I immediately told him: "And what do you want to do in the face of this disaster?" He replied: "Nothing". I, even more startled, asked why. He replied that he couldn't do anything because otherwise he and his family risked serious reprisals .... From July he began to talk about the relationship between Freemasonry and 'Ndrangheta also the repentant and Freemason Cosimo Virgiglio. He says that the highly politicized Freemasonry uses Calabrian crime to control electoral flows while it is for money laundering. According to the penitent, the loggia of Reggio Calabria would be divided into two parts: a clean and a hidden; the 'ndranghetisti' belong to the second. It also tells of the presence in the lodges of exponents of the Piromalli and the De Stefano. The mixture of criminal elements, with the dowry of the Saint and Masons in Masonic dialect, is called "passage" (referring to the Breccia di Porta Pia ); and technically it would be the Masonic world to enter the ranks of the '[18] [19] .
On January 31, 2017 at the hearing of the anti-mafia commission, former GOI master Giuliano Di Bernardo tells of the links between 'ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and Freemasonry, and that the number 1 of the Calabrian Freemasonry told him that 28 Calabrian lodges out of 32 were infiltrated by the 'ndrangheta [20] [21] .
On May 23, 2018 in the B process enters a computer of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department where the repentant Cosimo Virgiglio and former Mason says that 'ndrina of Molé through the former government minister Claudio Scajola wanted to get to Impregilo also .Racconta of the Molè relations with the covered loggia of Ugolini Giacomo Maria aka Grande Oriente of San Marino [22] .

The boss Pino Bonavita, 73, who has been detained since 14 July 2016 after being arrested in Prague leaves prison for house arrest.
It was the Catanzaro Review Court, accepting an instance of the lawyers Giovanni Vecchio and Giuseppe Bagnato, who decided to release him on the basis of the law providing for the prison for seventy-year-olds only in cases of exceptional gravity, not considered in the present case.

Some familiar family names for those who follow Canadian oc, have infiltrated the Milan premises.

In 2019 the anti-Mafia disqualifications affected nine activities, including a tattoo shop of "Gambino srl", the nursery of the "New Garden srl" in Sedriano, the "Flamingo" bar in Piazza XXV Aprile of the company "Quintet Ristorazione srl", the "Caffè Belfiore" in the name of Rocco Musitano, 47-year-old son of the clan chief of Bareggio. Remaining in the field of the bars, in the list there is also "The corner of the cafe of Giuseppe Violi" in Via dei Mille in Buccinasco, considered the historic den of the Barbaro-Papalia. Everyone in the village knew him as the former Lyons, the 'ndrine office for 30 years. The Prefecture has decided to close it for contacts with Violi's organized crime, a nephew from his mother Anna of Francesco Barbaro, the forefather of the Pillaru family of Calabria, who died in 1998 with the title of "King of Aspromonte".

An Italian repentant has made statements about criminals in Amsterdam, reveals crime reporter Koen Voskuil in the Algemeen Dagblad .

Three investigations
Drug trader Giuseppe T. has made incriminating statements against Dutch, Italian, Albanian, Turkish and Colombian criminals in Amsterdam. His statements are now being used in three criminal investigations in the Netherlands. The man receives a reduction in punishment in Italy for his statements.

Colombia
T. was between 2003 and 2015 a transporter of large batches of cocaine for the 'Ndrangheta, the mafia in Calabria. He did business with countless leaders in the Amsterdam cocaine trade and was often in Colombia and Amsterdam.

2000 pounds per month
T. arranged for a batch of 2,000 kilos of cocaine to arrive every 3 to 4 months for different groups. The drugs were stored in apartments in Amsterdam and the surrounding area.

The national police unit set up a special anti-fraud team in 2017, which works closely with Italian investigation services.

The Dutch police will soon hear another Italian regret.

Giuseppe Tirintino, ex member of the Pesce clan based in Rosarno (Reggio Calabria).

https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/...pers_should_defy_the_court_#.XL3aJOhKhPY

Ban on the identity of someone with a mafia connection? Newspapers should defy the court

If the families near the port have the most power(for obvious reasons) then where do the San Luca families get their power?

I’ve been looking for some more ndrangheta docs with English subtitles but haven’t been successful.

The clans have access to all ports in Italy, even Naples.

I found this article and the video. It states that the San Luca clans are very strong in drug trafficking.

Is it really true that the San Luca clans belong to the richest and most powerful clans of the Ndrangheta? What do you guys think?

From the minute 09:50.


https://www.france24.com/en/2013051...heta-calabria-drug-trafficking-france-24

the san luca clan is called 'mammasantissima' by the other clans and the annual meeting of all ndrangheta boss is attended near san luca, it's clear they are the most respected inside ndrangheta

Yeah several Nirtas are also freemasons.

With the Nirtas being freemasons, that means that they have infiltrated both legitimate and illegitimate powers at be in Italy? Or at least have strong connections in both worlds?

I believe I’ve had this conversation on here and some people said San Luca clans while others said the Piromali’s and Mole families. Pesce clan as well. I haven’t gotten a sense of who really is the most powerful and wealthiest because not too many seizures have been done on individuals from articles I’ve read. Ones that have been done aren’t in the hundreds of millions like Messina or other members of the Sicilians or Camorra have undergone. Could be because of their low profile.

The 'Ndrangheta created the NCO.

The magistrate Nicola Gratteri reconstructed the relationship between Raffaele Cutolo and the Ndrangheta, a few years ago.
"Mico Tripolo was killed in the Poggioreale prison by two killer prisoners hired by Cutolo, when he was not famous. Cutolo was important because he had money in prison.. He pays the two killers to kill Don Mico Tripodo because the De Stefanos give him the rules of the Ndrangheta in exchange for forming the Nuova Camorra Organizzata”.

I always thought that Cutolo was more instrumental in the Ndrangheta than the other way around. And I believe he is credited for creating the puglia mafia

'Ndrangheta in Slovakia, scoop of Tg1 Tweet 25 April 2019 0.59
After the scoop of Maria Grazia Mazzola on Tg1, Slovak Prime Minister Pellegrini will ask Interior Minister Sakova and police chief Lucansky, why the information received by the Italian police about Antonino Vadalà, linked to the 'ndrangheta, and extradited for drug trafficking, have been ignored. The scoop found that the Slovak authorities had known since 2013 that Vadalà had created a 'ndrina in the country. The deputy Baranik hypothesizes that "Vadalà has had impunity because of the relationship with the former premier Fico".

On 11 April 2008 it became known that the Piromalli gang was negotiating with a Sicilian politician the sale of 50,000 votes for € 200,000 of Italians abroad (in South America ).

The ascent of Fuda to the office of mayor of Siderno dictated by the Commisso gang
BY ADMIN3 · APRIL 25TH 2019

The ascent of Fuda to the office of mayor of Siderno dictated by the Commisso gang

by Claudio Cordova - Center-right, in Forza Italia, then center-left, with small parties like the Democratic Center, regional politician, senator, mayor of Siderno, considered close to the Masonic circles and to the presumed leader of the 'ndrangheta, Paolo Romeo. This and much more would be Pietro Fuda, today no longer the first citizen of Siderno, but accused by the Dda of Reggio Calabria of external competition in mafia association.

http://www.comitato-antimafia-lt.or...di-siderno-dettata-dalla-cosca-commisso/

It´s a little more complicated. Last month they released from prison the powerful Paolo Romeo, due to the expiry of the terms of pre-trial detention. The lawyer Paolo Romeo, now 72 years old, returns to freedom. Investigators say he is the head of the Masonic cupola of the 'Ndrangheta.

'Ndrangheta: the repentant Moscato and the ties of the boss Razionale with the Vatican and Freemasonry

https://www.ilvibonese.it/cronaca/1...ale-roma-piscopisani-massoneria-vaticano

https://www.occrp.org/en/37-ccblog/ccblog/9642-the-rise-and-fall-of-mafia-women

The Rise and Fall of Mafia Women

Is he Sebastiano Romeo’s son?