Giampiero Tocco may have been a distant relative of the Tocco family in Detroit, they are also from Terrasini.

One of my favorites is the BBC's The Real Godfather about Provenzano.

https://vimeo.com/184313161

Mafia, Cupola 2.0 investigation: penalties requested for 7 centuries in prison
04 February 2020
mafia, Palermo, Chronicle
A moment in the arrest of Settimo Mineo
The Prosecutor of Palermo has asked for the sentence to over seven centuries of prison for 56 of bosses, wingmen, extortors and figureheads of the Palermo clans who ended up in handcuffs as part of the investigation called Cupola 2.0 which revealed the mafia's attempt to reconstitute the provincial commission and he reconstructed the organization charts of Tommaso Natale, Porta Nuova, Pagliarelli, Misilmeri, Belmonte Mezzagno and Villabate. The process takes place with the abbreviated rite before the Rosario Di Gioia gup.

The accusation in the courtroom was represented by the prosecutors of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate Amelia Luise, Dario Scaletta and Francesca Mazzocco. The prosecutors asked for sentences of between 2 and 20 years. For the collaborators of justice, the Prosecutor asked for the granting of the special mitigating factor provided by law for the contribution given to the investigations.

The investigation revealed the top role of Settimo Mineo , 80 years old, an official jeweler profession, already sentenced to the maxiprocesso. For him the Prosecutor asked for 20 years of imprisonment. It would have been him, during a summit with Filippo Bisconti, then regent of the mafia mandate of Misilmeri - Belmonte Mezzagno, now collaborator of justice, and Gregorio Di Giovanni (also asked for him 20 years), regent of the Porta Nuova clan, to establish the new rules of the Palermitan mafia. For Bisconti, the prosecutors solicited 5 years and two months by virtue of his collaboration with justice. The investigation told a mafia more interested than ever in business: drugs, an old business left for years to the Ndrangheta, online betting, a new frontier of illicit gains, extortion. The carabinieri ascertained more than 30. Targets traders and entrepreneurs, especially construction workers.

Two scions of historical clans also ended up in prison: Calogero Lo Piccolo, son of the godfather of San Lorenzo Salvatore Lo Piccolo, and Leandro Greco, grandson of Michele Greco the "pope". They were asked for 20 and 16 years in prison respectively.

Here are the other requests: Giacomo Alaimo 7 years; Stefano Albanese 12; Filippo Annatelli 18; Gioacchino Badagliacca 14; Filippo Salvatore Bisconti, collaborator of justice, 5 years and 2 months; Giuseppe Bonanno 11 years and 4 months; Carmelo Cacocciola 15 years old; Giovanni Cancemi 14; Francesco Caponetto 20; Francesco Colletti, another collaborator, also 5 years and 2 months old; Giovanna Comito 2 years; Giuseppe Costa 14; Maurizio Crinò 13 years and 4 months; Filippo Cusimano 14; Rubens D'Agostino 20; Gregorio Di Giovanni 20; Filippo Di Pisa 13 years and 4 months; Andrea Ferrante 10 years; Salvatore Ferrante 4; Calogero Lo Piccolo 20; Vincenzo Ganci 12; Giusto Giordano 4 years and 6 months; Michele Grasso 12 years; Leandro Greco, known as Michele, grandson of the "Pope" of the mafia, 16 years old; Marco La Rosa 10 years; Gaetano Leto 18 years old; Erasmo Lo Bello 20; the collaborator Sergio Macaluso 2; Michele Madonia 13 years and 4 months; Umberto Maiorana 2 years and 8 months; Domenico Mammi, repentant, 2 years; Just Francesco Mangiapane 13; Matteo Maniscalco 10; Antonio Giovanni Maranto 8 years and 4 months; Luigi Marino 15; Fabio Messicati Vitale 14; Giovanni Salvatore Migliore 14; Settimo Mineo 20; Andrea Mirino 4; Salvatore Mirino 16; Massimo Mulè 14; Domenico Nocilla 14; Salvatore Pispicia 18; Gaspare Rizzuto 20; Michele Rubino 14; Giovanni Salerno 20; Pietro Scafidi 10 years and 8 months; Salvatore Sciarabba 20; Giuseppe Serio 20; Giovanni Sirchia 13 years and 4 months; Salvatore Sorrentino 18; Giusto Sucato 11; Vincenzo Sucato 16 years and 8 months; Rosolino Mirabella 13 years and 4 months; Salvatore Troia 14; Giacomo Alaimo 7; Nicolò Orlando 10 years and 8 months.

Operation against Cosa Nostra in the central region of Tuscany; the DDA of Florence arrested 12 people and put 60 under investigation on charges of criminal conspiracy in order to launder money for the crime family of Corso dei Mille (Brancaccio 'mandamento') led by the boss Pietro Tagliavia.

They have standing business ties- cocaine agreements with the Barbaro Clan... Brancaccio madamento is the one Leandro Greco controls... correct?

Yes CG. The Ciaculli people now control the mandamento. A change that investigators attribute to Leandro Greco and Nunzio Milano, elderly boss of Porta Nuova. The new name is Ciaculli-Brancaccio and not vice versa after the long domination of the Graviano brothers.

Really great documentary. I read that Pasquale Condello was even better at passing along pizzinis than Provenzano was.

Cosa nostra after Riina: the return from America of the old mobsters
PRINTDetails Published: 13 February 2020

by Salvo Palazzolo
After the death of the boss, the loyalists of Totò Riina and the "losers" who returned from American exile inaugurated the season of "broad agreements": the second Mafia Republic. They tried to reform the dome, but were stopped. What will they do now? Where were the treasures of the old mafia invested?

“The Inzerillos? Good people, ”says an old man in front of the church of San Giuseppe. "They have always done good, once and now that they are back." Perhaps this is why they have been looking for them from all over Palermo in recent months. Mafiosi and uncensored. And it is not yet clear why, despite the blitz of the Palermo prosecutor's office, the mobile team and the central operational service of the police which in July 2019 took place between Sicily and New York (in the context of the "New Connection" investigation, ed.)

The answer must be sought beyond the Madonnina which stands in front of the church of Passo di Rigano, a neighborhood on the south-eastern outskirts: here it is, via Castellana, it seems to have become the gateway to Palermo's return to the past. They were in via Castellana forty years ago, when Salvatore "Totuccio" Inzerillo was one of the kings of the city: the family had a lot of money (at the time from drug trafficking with the United States) and made billionaire investments in construction. Now that Totò Riina is dead and the American exile imposed on the survivors after the murder of Totuccio in 1981 is over, the Inzerillos have returned to via Castellana. With their assets never seized and a respectable judicial curriculum. They are back and they are no longer the "losers" banned by Cosa Nostra, but neither do they build more buildings. Officially they are model citizens. But many continue to look for them. And they are not only looking for the Inzerillos, but also for relatives and friends: the Gambino, the Spatola, the Mannino, the Sirchia, the Buscemi. They are back too. The protagonists of the first big investigation by the then investigating judge Giovanni Falcone for what later became the "Spatula trial". It was 1980. What is going on today between the Auditor, Passo di Rigano, Boccadifalco and Torretta? Torretta is the only town that is part of a "mandate" of the city, it seemed a story now passed, that told by the repentant Tommaso Buscetta. They have returned from the United States, but they often return to visit relatives and friends. Are they just pleasure visits? Or do you still travel a lot of money on the New York-Palermo axis?

To try to understand you have to walk along via Castellana, beyond the Madonnina, the door of Palermo's return to the past. At number 81 there is a well-established shop of paper products, the "Karton Plastik" of Mrs. Olimpia Caruso, the wife of Francesco Inzerillo, the brother of Totuccio who is nicknamed the truttaturi. He is a horse racing enthusiast: he had been arrested in 2006, but then the Cassation had acquitted him from the charge of mafia, sweeping away the sentence on appeal. Inzerillo u truttaturi was re-arrested in the blitz of July: Settimo Mineo, the elderly boss of Corso Calatafimi who, after being released from prison, the carabinieri of the investigative team were keeping an eye on why he was reorganizing the Cupola of Cosa Nostra. Four visits, between 6 March 2017 and 25 May 2018, four days before the summit of the reconstituted provincial commission of Palermo. Meetings that changed the history of Cosa Nostra Siciliana: Mineo, a loyalist of Riina, wanted to sign a peace with the "losers" of the past. Four visits that ended a long season of hatred and revenge. And they inaugurated the season of "broad agreements", the second Mafia Republic.

Today, the protagonists of the turning point are in prison, the Palermo prosecutor has arrested the protagonists of the reorganization (with the operation "Cupola 2.0" of December 4, 2018, ed.). But the mysteries of the old mafia still remain in the bowels of Palermo. Where were the treasures of the old mafia invested? What do prisoners released from prison do? A monitoring ordered by the prefect of Palermo Antonella De Miro has revealed 300 prisoners in western Sicily: they will no longer have teams of killers available, but they are equally dangerous for the secrets of the past that they preserve. On unidentified assets, on relationships never discovered in the world of economics and politics. Those secrets are the strength of the Sicilian mafia.

"Follow the money" between drug trafficking and money laundering
Where to start again? "Follow the money," said Falcone. Already Commissioner Boris Giuliano had discovered that Inzerillo had returned from the United States in 1973 and that he had become one of the protagonists of the international drug trade. When in the early eighties the commissioner Ninni Cassarà and Falcone resume the investigation they realize that the mafia is also one of the entrepreneurs who built half Palermo with the group "Spatola-Gambino-Inzerillo". But Inzerillo is also a Freemason, nobody knows this at the time, and he also has intense economic relations in Milan for his investments. Business that he shared with the other powerful Palermo, Stefano Bontate, killed nineteen days earlier.

Cassarà works on those phone numbers, but he won't come to decipher the mystery of the accounts. In Switzerland he goes with Falcone a month before being killed, in the terrible summer of 1985. When he returns he sends documents for a letter rogatory, but the envelope will arrive open, lightened by some papers. The investigations were trying to tighten up Vito Roberto Palazzolo, one of the managers who had laundered the money of international drug trafficking. Palazzolo recently finished serving his sentence for mafia association and has left for abroad. With its secrets. Palermo's past has already returned to current events.

From Colombian narcos to Malta's servers
Many of the freed mafia members immediately went to work. The main business is that of drug trafficking, as has not happened in years. The ambassadors of Colombian narcos have returned to Palermo who seemed to have lost confidence in the Sicilians, weakened by kidnappings that had limited the organization's liquidity. What happens instead now? The kidnappings continued, but the old bosses have got away with it to date and have restarted the cocaine network. Like the online betting network on servers in Malta. It is the Mafia 2.0 that in the name of business traces new alliances and not only within the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.
(January 30, 2020)

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/hom...rno-dall-america-dei-vecchi-mafiosi.html

dimaggio's and demaio are also related to that crew

22 alleged members of the Brancaccio gang were sentenced on Friday, specializing in extortion and drug trafficking, but also dedicated to other activities such as false billing to move millions of euros. The blitz started in 2018.

The condemned are the boss Pietro Tagliavia, who had the highest sentence, 14 years; Francesco Paolo Clemente, 12 years as well as Giuseppe Michelangelo Di Fatta, Santo Carlo Di Giuseppe and Giacomo Teresi; 10 years were inflicted on Giuseppe Ficarra, Antonino Marino and Giovanni Vinci; Giuseppe Lo Porto and Giovanni Mangano were given 8 years; 6 years to Giovanni Pilo; 5 to Pietro D'Amico, 4 to Roberto Mangano and Maurizio Puleo; 3 years and 4 months to Stefano Tomaselli. A group of defendants had the same sentence, two years and 8 months: Massimo Altieri, Giuseppe Frangiamore, Salvatore Graziano, Gaetano Lo Coco, Francesco Paolo Mandalà, Rosalia Orlando. Then Elio Petrone, who had 2, the lowest sentence.

Impregnated wife, warders not looking
Took advantage of moment's inattention says jailed Mafia boss

(ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, February 14 - Jailed Mafia boss Giuseppe Graviano said Friday he had taken advantage of warders looking the other way to impregnate his wife while being held under the 41 bis tough prison regime for mafiosi.
"I took advantage of a moment of inattention by the agents", he said at a trial in Reggio Calabria on a bombing campaign by the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia.
Officials have been baffled as to how Graviano got around the extremely tight 41 bis security procedures and managed to conceive a child.
Graviano is a former boss of Palermo's Brancaccio clan.
Graviano had already told a cellmate in a bugged conversation that he got his wife pregnant when she slept with him in jail while under the supposedly tough 41-bis mafioso jail regime.
"We slept in the cell together," Graviano said.
"My son was born in '97 and I was in their hands, the GOM (prison police), in 1996," Graviano told the cellmate.
He said "I was shaking...and we slept in the cell together.
Crazy stuff, I was shaking".
He concluded: "When she got pregnant the shakes ended, the anxiety I had".

Yep, in Palermo they are important Everybody is meeting them from all over Palermo in recent months. Mafiosi and others.

On Friday, the Guardia di Finanza discovered a cache of weapons buried in the sand near the beach of Capannine, near Catania, in eastern Sicily. A man, Salvatore Raciti, descendant of a large family from the Etna region and owner of a bathing establishment, was arrested. The weapons were found in two tanks, in individual plasticized packages. 24 handguns, 6 rifles (semi-automatic, pump or double barrel), a machine gun, a Kalashnikov assault rifle (all these weapons with abrading serial numbers), 3,000 ammunitions of different calibers and equipment carrying or cleaning weapons have been seized.

Would anyone be able explain the difference between the Corleonesi Clan and the cosca/famiglia in Corleone? I read that they are two separate entities

Did they merge? Was the cosca/famiglia in Corleone absorbed by the Corleonesi Clan? Or wiped out?

Or maybe I’m misunderstanding...was Leggio and co. a part of the Corleone cosca/famiglia and then expand it into the Corleonesi Clan?

Is Messina Denaro considered to be a part of the Corleonesi? I know he’s from a different part of the island but I also know that the clan had members that were outside of just the town of Corleone.

Thank you to anyone that can explain it and add some clarity for me!

Blitz against the mafia in Palermo against the Arenella family: the 3 Scotto brothers and 5 other people arrested. The Arenella mafia family is one of the most representative of the Palermo-Resuttana mandamento.
Those involved in the operation are accused, for various reasons, of mafia association and other crimes. During the operation called "White Shark" the three brothers Gaetano, Pietro and Francesco Paolo Scotto were also arrested. Gaetano and Pietro have been linked to the killing of Paolo Borsellino.
Gaetano Scotto is also under investigation for the murder of the police officer Nino Agostino and his wife Ida together with the boss Nino Madonia. In recent days, the Attorney General Roberto Scarpinato sent a notice of closure of the investigation, which is a prelude to a request for indictment. Agostino and his wife were assassinated in front of their holiday home in Villagrazia di Carini on the evening of August 5, 1989.

Police filmed Gaetano Scotto meeting with Leonardo Lo Verde and other people investigated by the DEA and FBI and involved in the biggest anti-mafia operation between USA and Italy (250 arrested) in April 1988.

In 1995 Scotto was send to a big wedding in Montreal as a representative of the Sicilian families.

@ Balaclava777

There are three groups the Corleone family, the Corleone mandamento (the towns Corleone, Prizzi and Roccamena) and the Corleonesi, a faction within cosa nostra loyal to the Corleone family. Messina Denaro was considered a Corleonesi.

Wow also arrested in the operation today Giuseppe Costa, 48, brother of Rosaria Costa, the widow of Vito Schifani, one of the three escort agents who died with Giovanni Falcone and Francesca Morvillo in the Capaci massacre of 23 May 1992. According to the investigators of the Dia and the magistrates of the DDA of Palermo, Costa took care of collecting the lace in the village of Arenella controlled by the Scotto.

Gaetano Scotto



Rosaria Costa was a symbol of the anti-mafia: on the day of the funeral she shouted against Cosa Nostra and the words still echo today: "I Rosaria Costa, widow of agent Vito Schifani, on behalf of all those who gave their lives for the state. .. the state ... I ask first of all that justice be done. Now, turning to the men of the mafia ... because they are in here ... and not, but certainly not Christians, know that there is a possibility for you too forgiveness. I forgive you, but you have to bring down , if you have the courage to change ... but they do not change. "

Heartbreaking words that have reopened today, as reported by Il Corriere della Sera, a wound in the heart of Rosaria Costa who now lives in Liguria.

"I'm in pieces," she says. "If the accusations are proven, they will have to throw away the keys to the cell. The law is the same for everyone. I disassociate myself from everyone, from my brother and from these mobsters who poison the world.

Francesco Paolo Scotto, was accused by his brother Gaetano of having pocketed part of the illicit proceeds of the lace destined for him. A conversation captured thanks to the bug placed in Paolo Scotto's Mercedes. Gaetano was then detained.

Police arrested in Catania 23 members of Cosa Nostra on charges of several murders committed between 1980s and 2007, included the double murder of Angelo Santapaola and Nicola Sedici. Among them are Vincenzo and Vincenzo Salvatore Santapaola, 64 and 51 years old, respectively, sons of the mafia bosses Salvatore and Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola.

Former regional deputy Paolo Ruggirello remains in prison. The magistrate of Palermo rejected the requests made by his lawyers. The politician who has been in prison since last March 5, 2019, was arrested by the carabinieri in the Scrigno blitz on the mafia family of Trapani.

Another 24 people were arrested with Ruggirello, including the presumed mafia boss of the city Francesco Orlando and the brothers Francesco and Pietro Virga, sons of the then chief mandate Vincenzo Virga, arrested as a fugitive in 2001.

According to the prosecution, Ruggirello maintained contacts with the Trapani mafia families, especially during the 2017 regional elections, during which he promised € 50 thousand to the heads of the Trapani mafia family.

There's a family from Corleone and (I believe) a Corleone mandamento (like a district command) that has a few smaller nearby families under it. Then there's the "Corleonesi" faction which was all of the allies of the Corleone family (allies of Leggio/Riina/Provenzano, etc) when they waged war and took power from the Palermo-central families.

So were Leggio/Riina/etc members of the Corleone Famiy? Or were they members of the smaller nearby families under the Corleone mandamento?

Thanks

Corleone mandamento

The Corleone mandamento, located in the south of Palermo province, is formed by the Corleone, Prizzi, Roccamena, Bisacquino and Campofiorito families. This area is famous for the bloody escalation of the so-called 'Corleonesi' at the beginning of 1980s. However the 'Corleonesi' faction within Cosa Nostra was not formed solely by members of the Corleone crime family, it was an alliance between several bosses from both Palermo city and province and among them the most powerful were the bosses of Corleone. According to the turncoat Buscetta, before the 1980s the Corleone family was an ordinary crime group of Cosa Nostra among several others present in the Palermo province. In 1958 when Michele 'Our Father' Navarra, the old boss of the Corleone family, was gunned down, Luciano Leggio, who planned the murder, took over the family and became the new boss after a mafia war which left about 150 dead and finished in 1963.

59 suspected Mafia clan members arrested
Operation in Messina and other parts of Italy

(ANSA) - Messina, February 28 - Carabinieri police have arrested in Messina and in other Italian locations a reported 59 people suspected of being members of a prominent Mafia clan based in the Sicilian town of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto near Messina.
The suspects are charged with Mafia association, drug trafficking, extortion, illegal detention of weapons, violence and threats, aggravated by the mafia-style method.
The so-called ''Dinastia'' operation carried out by DDA anti-mafia investigators in Messina led by prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia focused on a Mafia ''family'', or clan, in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, historically connected to the crime syndicate in Palermo.

Brother of Palermo Mafia boss killed
Agostino Alessandro Migliore, 45, shot dead

The mafia returns to kill in Belmonte Mezzagno, a new ambush in the agricultural center a few kilometers from Palermo, which for months has been at the center of a bloody feud with two murders and an attempted murder.

At dawn he was killed with shots in his car Agostino Alessandro Migliore, 45 years old, Giovanni's brother, boss arrested in the operation "Cupola 2.0". The ambush took place in via Togliatti, around five o'clock.

The victim was in his Audi when the killers went into action.

Evidently there are those who try to send messages to Filippo Bisconti who is collaborating with justice, some people say.

The victim is the brother of Giovanni Migliore, who ran a supermarket, is believed to be the trusted man of the boss Filippo Bisconti, who has chosen to collaborate with justice since December 2018. The boss is currently on trial in the investigation called Cupola 2.0 which revealed the mafia's attempt to reconstitute the provincial commission and reconstructed the organization charts of the mandates of Tommaso natale, Porta Nuova, Pagliarelli, Misilmeri, Belmonte Mezzagno and Villabate.

The murder of Migliore is the fourth episode of blood in a year: on 10 January 2019, Vincenzo Greco, son-in-law of the boss Casella, was killed; then on May 8, the killers killed the accountant Antonio Di Liberto, brother of the former mayor and cousin of the repentant Bisconti.

The last ambush in chronological order, before the murder this morning, dates back to 2 December, when two killers fired in the crowd, in the main street of the town, to try to kill the building contractor Giuseppe Benigno. As part of the investigation into the feud, the carabinieri had arrested four people a month ago, including Salvatore Tumminia believed to be the new Mafia boss of Belmonte Mezzagno.

She Hid From the Mafia for Decades. Now She Helps People Fight Back.
Piera Aiello was elected to the Italian Parliament after spending almost three decades in a witness protection program.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/europe/piera-aiello-mafia-italian-parliament.html

david beriain 'clandestino' cosa nostra

Is there any possibility of a English subtitled version?

i dont know... anyway there is the possibility that this program is a fiction, i doubt that members of cosa nostra or ndrangheta leave interviews with strangers even if unrecognizable, how did you get in touch? the only way is this guy works for the secret services... italian authorities asked him to testify at a trial because of one of these interviews