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HI m2w, I see that you closely follow whats doing with the mafia in Italy and Sicily. I usually focus more on the activities in the United States with the exception of the Castellammare del Golfo and Trapanese coscas. Several months back I actually wrote an extensive expose' on their cosca tracing its history into the U.S. and back again.

If you have any new knowledge of their cosca (or little known older history), activities, or both, by all means post it up. I find all their provinces and Families interesting but CDG is of singular interest to me.

I appreciate any "intel" you could supply me with, because this project of mine is ongoing. In a perfect world I'd like to periodically update my storyline and keep current on this Family and town.

Thanks agains for your anticipated input.

Best regards, "The Other Guy"

Salvatore Milano , known as Totuccio, the boss of central Palermo, returns to prison . The financiers of the Economic - Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Palermo, in the context of investigations coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Public Prosecutor's Office, have executed the order of the Court of Palermo - Section for Review, which restores the precautionary measure of custody in prison, in relation to the crime of extortion aggravated by the mafia method.

The measure of pre-trial detention was confirmed last September 4 by the Court of Cassation, in acceptance of the appeal of the Public Prosecutor's Office - Dda against the order of the investigating judge which on December 23, at the request of the defense, had granted him in Milan house arrest with electronic bracelet.

The disputed facts date back to the years 2016 and 2017, when the investigations of the Gico financiers made it possible to ascertain the role of Milan regarding an extortion request committed against a well-known commercial activity in the historic city center. In the same procedure, in May 2018, Luigi Salerno and Giuseppe Bosco had already been arrested for other extortionate events.

The sum of between 500 and 1,000 euros was requested as a "repair", necessary to obtain the authorization to carry out trade in the territory of the Porta Nuova district and thus avoid damage and retaliation.

Milano is a historic man of honor belonging to the mafia family of Palermo Center in which he played, among other things, the role of "cashier" of the families of the Porta Nuova mafia district, providing for the sustenance of mafia exponents detained or recently released from prison.

He had already been arrested and definitively convicted by the Palermo Court of Appeal for mafia association following the “Perseo” operation, during which the first attempt to rebuild the Cosa Nostra provincial commission of Palermo was discovered.

Sicilian mafia boss serving life sentence 'eats guard's finger' in jail fight
Guiseppe Fanara was serving a life sentence when he bit off and swallowed a guard's finger

By
Our Foreign Staff
8 September 2020 • 4:35pm
A Sicilian mafia boss serving a life sentence bit off and swallowed a prison guard's finger during an altercation, an Italian news report said on Tuesday.

Guiseppe Fanara, 60, who was serving a life sentence at Rome's Rebibbia prison, attacked seven guards in June when they came to inspect his cell, the daily Il Messagero reported.

Mr Fanara, from Sicily's notorious Cosa Nostra clan, was nine years into his sentence under Italy's tough "41-bis" penal code reserved for mafia members.

The harsh prison regime isolates mobster bosses entirely to prevent them from running their clans from behind bars.

"During the altercation he (Fanara) bit off the agent's little finger on his right hand," the paper said.

"The finger disappeared, leading a Rome prosecutor to conclude it had been eaten," it added.

The prisoner then charged the six other guards, using a broomstick as a weapon, allegedly shouting "I'll slit your throats like pigs!"

Mr Fanara has since been transferred to Sardinia's high-security Sassari prison, the paper said, adding he was facing new charges including aggravated assault and resisting arrest.

Earlier this year Italy decided to release elderly and infirm mobster bosses - including some belonging to the influential Cosa Nostra.

That decision sparked an outcry, forcing the justice ministry to backpedal and review the release decision.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...erving-life-sentence-eats-guards-finger/

The police in Catania seized five real estate assets for a value of about 350 thousand euros from the boss Alfio Santangelo.

Santangelo, 67 years old, called 'U' taccuni ', is considered the head of the homonymous mafia clan, an articulation of the Santapaola-Ercolano clan, which operates in Adrano, Paternò and Biancavilla.

According to the accusation, the boss, although detained in prison for long periods, would have continued to give orders and criminal strategies to the associates, always maintaining command of the group.

Seven people - four in Favara and three in Belgium - were arrested tonight by the police and the Belgian federal police judiciare. The operation was called "Mosaic" and shed light on the feud that bloodied the streets of Favara and Liège from 2015 to 2018 , with five murders and as many attempted murders, some of which never reported.

The investigation was coordinated by the Palermo DDA and the Liège Public Prosecutor's Office with the help of the Eurojust and Europol agencies.

According to what emerged, for the management of drug trafficking, there were two opposing groups operating between Favara and Belgium. The investigations, initiated by the Dda of Palermo,

Those arrested are held responsible for the double attempted murder of Maurizio Distefano and Carmelo Nicotra , as well as for the illegal carrying of weapons, damage and receiving stolen goods. All crimes committed on 23 May 2017 in Favara and in the province of Agrigento.

The following were arrested : Antonio Bellavia, 48; Calogero Bellavia aged 31; Calogero Ferraro of 42 years; Carmelo Nicotra of 38 years; Gerlando Russotto aged 31; Carmelo Vardaro of 44 years; Vincenzo Vitello aged 64. Antonio Bellavia, Calogero Ferraro and Carmelo Nicotra were arrested in Belgium by the joint team of Italian and Belgian police, in execution of three European arrest warrants. Among those arrested also Calogero Bellavia who was considered close to the boss Gerlandino Messina, the young man whom the carabinieri - on the advice of the secret services - followed while bringing meals to the provincial head of Cosa Nostra in his hideout in Favara. Following him, on 23 October 2010, they arrived to capture the boss.

Mafia, extortion and drug trafficking, 21 arrests from Catania to Milan

Drugs traded by sea and recovered ashore with complex systems to avoid being intercepted. The mafia managed the traffic from Catania but it expanded from Puglia to Lombardy.
Carabinieri of the provincial command of Catania are carrying out an order of precautionary custody against 21 people, under investigation for mafia association, traffic and dealing of drugs, extortion and serious injuries, with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method. Therefore, there was not only drugs but all the traditional activities of the Cosa Nostra families among those crimes at the center of the investigation. Operation 'Iddu' started at dawn.
The investigation made it possible to outline the position held by the apical investigators of Benedetto La Motta, 62, referent for the Riposto area of ​​the Cosa Nostra family of Santapaola-Ercolano

16 arrested in Mafia bust

Italian police arrested 16 people suspected of belonging to the Santapaola-Ercolano crime family on charges of mafia-type association, extortions and other crimes

Over eighty years in prison were requested by the prosecutors of the DDA of Palermo, before the Court of Marsala, in the trial of eight of the 16 people involved in the anti-mafia operation "Pionica "of 12 March 2018 .

The most severe sentence (20 years in prison) was requested for Salvatore Crimi, 62, the alleged boss of Vita (Tp). Thirteen years, on the other hand, was the request for Ciro Gino Ficarotta, 68, of San Giuseppe Jato (Pa), and 12 years for Michele Gucciardi, 67, presumed mafia boss of Salemi, already sentenced to 14 years and 4 months in the context of the "Ermes" trial.

20 arrests as racket victims report Palermo extortion
Business owners break wall of silence after years of paying out


(ANSA) - PALERMO, OCT 13 - Italian police on Tuesday made 20 arrests after protection racket victims in Palermo spoke out after years of silence and reported their mafia extortionists.
Twenty bosses, clan members and Mob enforcers were arrested by Carabineri after shopkeepers in Palermo's Borgo Vecchio district rebelled against the extortion rackets.
They have been placed under investigation for mafia association, conspiracy to traffic drugs, rob and received stolen goods, attempted aggravated homicide, extortion and damages.
Police have established more than 20 episodes of extortion by the Cosa Nostra racketeers, judicial sources said.
Some 13 of these cases were uncovered after victims spoke out, police said.
In a further five cases victims said they had been forced to pay the Mob after being called in by investigators.
Police said breaking the wall of silence was an "extraordinary result" in a district where fear had allowed Cosa Nostra to enforce a blanket control of businesses.
Most of the arrests were among the Borgo Vecchio mafia clan but the 'mandamento' of Porta Nuova was also implicated, police said.
Among those arrested was the acting boss of the Borrgo Vecchio clan, Angelo Monti.
Monti was released from prison three years ago and had gone back to his lead role in the family, police said.


https://www.ansa.it/english/news/ge...bd518ec-cdab-4c19-b1da-bdc3acda3d2e.html

This is big news , people standing up to the mafia , 30 years ago something like this was unimaginable. I think we will be seeing more and more stuff like this

Sicilian business owner confronts mafioso over alleged protection money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INZQlvjXIhg

this guy has balls the mafia member was surprised that he hadn't asked who was in charge in that area to pay spontaneously lol it means in that zone everybody usually pays

Denaro Messina convicted in Absentia, again.

https://www.gangsterismout.com/2020/09/matteo-messina-denaro-diabolik.html

I just saw some familiar names in the Borgo Vecchio bust, like Gambino, Cusimano and Ingarao.

the 3 sons of the murdered boss nicola ingarao have been arrested

Thanks m2w and is Giuseppe Gambino related to the famous Gambinos? He had the task of keeping and managing the cash register of the crime family.

Also m2w they have strong links to Campania in the drug pipelines any idea with whom?

the ingarao's sons were strongly linked with the neomelodic singer niko pandetta from catania, nephew of the boss turi cappello so i suppose they had links through the wife of cappello who is from naples with strong links in colombia

Thank I remember her I think, she has huge influence in several Campania ports.

United States of Cosa Nostra
According to the FBI, there are almost more Mafia members in America today than in Palermo. They are "new" men of honor, arrived from Sicily, without any connection with the ancient families told by the cinema (and without even their strength). Yet, the historian Salvatore Lupo explains to "IL", that criminal tradition and that way of representing oneself continues to constitute, for them, a totem with which to deal

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/stati-uniti-cosa-nostra-ADX1Mjz

Does this include LCN members? Or just Sicilian mafia members?

Not sure they only talk about some three thousand current affiliates of the Sicilian mafia in the US. I personally think that includes the American Cosa Nostra.

they talk of sicilian mafia members only

I think the five families alone would have a lot more than 3000 affiliates. They have a lot of associates. But isn`t man of honor supposed to be made men? I don`t think there are 3000 Sicilian made men in the US, or them with LCN combined.

This would make more sense, so nowadays mafia members settling down in the US no longer establish connections with the US mob?

they sure have connections with some ny family, part of them shoud be included among us mob associates

Mafia, 33 arrests in Messina: Galli clan disrupted

The Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Messina have carried out a precautionary custody order against 33 people accused, for various reasons, of mafia association, clandestine horse racing, clandestine bets on unauthorized sports competitions, mistreatment of animals, fraudulent transfer of values, extortion, association for the purpose of drug trafficking

The investigation was coordinated by the Messina DDA led by the prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia.

http://www.tellerreport.com/news/20...na--galli-clan-disrupted.BJQ7ZoxYYP.html

Matteo Messina Denaro would be the mastermind of the project to attack the former prosecutor Nino Di Matteo. The new justice collaborator Alfredo Geraci would have revealed this to the magistrates of Palermo.
Geraci, 41, a member of the Mafia Family from Porta Nuova (a district of Palermo), decided to collaborate with the Italian justice system. He is presented as a trusted man of Alessandro D'Ambrogio, Geraci had notably managed the racketeering in the Ballaro district of Palermo.
He notably told the magistrates that he had loaned the apartment in which a mafia “summit” had been organized in December 2012. His boss D'Ambrogio had revealed to him that during this "summit", the request of Matteo Messina Denaro (main mafia boss still on the run, "reigning" over the west of Sicily) had been discussed to eliminate the Prosecutor Nino Di Matteo ( photo below ), in particular in charge of the case of negotiations between part of the Italian State and Cosa Nostra (" trattativa ") and now member of the Superior Council of Magistracy. Were present at this meeting: Vito Galatolo (former boss of the Acquasanta district), who came especially from Venice;Tonino Lipari, a man from the Porta Nuova neighborhood and D'Ambrogio's trusted man; Tonino Lauricella, head of the Villabate family; Giuseppe Fricano, regent of mandamento of Resuttana. Geraci was present to ensure the entry of the apartment to the bosses. As a result, a stock of 150 kilos of explosives had been sent from Calabria and Messina Denaro had provided an explosives "expert". The charge was to be placed in front of the Palermo Palace of Justice or in front of the magistrate's house. D'Ambrogio's arrest slowed down and the project then Galatolo was arrested and decided to collaborate by evoking this project.

It was also said that "Same people who wanted Falcone dead,wanted Nino Di Mateo dead" right? They just said it and it had to be done

Mafia and Freemasonry in Licata, 11 sentences requested,
A perverse business intertwining between mafia, politics and deviant Freemasonry with Licata epicenter,
The highest sentence - 20 years' imprisonment - was proposed for Angelo Occhipinti, 66, already convicted of mafia and extortion and considered the new head of the Licata family.

Sixteen years is the request for his alleged right-hand man - Raimondo Semprevivo, 48.

Sixteen years of imprisonment were also proposed for Giovanni Mugnos, a 54-year-old farm worker, considered the «alter ego» of Giovanni Lauria, another leading exponent of Cosa Nostra di Licata, accused in another excerpt.

Twelve years for Giuseppe Puleri, 41, entrepreneur, presumed affiliate of the Campobello family; Giacomo Casa, 65, pastor, presumed affiliate of the Licata clan Vito Lauria, 50, computer technician, son of Giovanni, considered "totally at the disposal of the mafia family" and for his cousin Angelo Lauria, 46, pharmacist and alleged affiliate; 10 years and 8 months to Giuseppe Galanti, 62, alleged cashier of the Licata clan and "very loyal" of Occhipinti.

Ten years to Angelo Graci, 33, a follower of the clan who would often have the task of presiding over the places of the summits and Lucio Lutri, 61, an official of the Sicily Region, accused of external involvement in the mafia association. Lutri, in particular, "thanks to the relational network at his disposal as venerable Master of the Masonic lodge" Thought and Action "in Palermo, he would have" acquired and conveyed to members of the Mafia family confidential information about the existence of investigative activities against them.