All Blog Posts Tagged 'Riina' (48)
Italian Organized Crime: Cosa Nostra, Camorra, 'Ndrangheta, Sacra Corona Unita
By Angelo Carmelo Gallitto
Italian organized crime, divided in Cosa Nostra, ‘Ndrangheta, Camorra and Sacra Corona Unita, is a rich and powerful criminal enterprise with a lot of connections and branches around the world.…
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Behold a Pale Horse: The Killing of Boris Giuliano - Part Two
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
"Death will be the proof that we lived." - Rosario Castellanos
The Killer.
It seemed to some, Leoluca Bagarella organized his murders with the same care and deliberation you might…
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Behold a Pale Horse: The Killing of Boris Giuliano - Part Two
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
The catalyst is an arrest and a search.
On July 7, a bar-owner on Via Francesco Crispi, near the Palermo waterfront, finds a hand gun left behind by a customer. It’s a Brazilian made, six-shot Taurus.38 Special. He…
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Behold a Pale Horse: The Killing of Boris Giuliano - Part One
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
If you stroll through the gardens of Villa Bonanno, in Piazza Vittoria, Palermo, late in the afternoon as the sun is slowly sinking over Tunisia, the towering palms and beautiful walkways that seem to meander forever can quietly seduce you. Everywhere,…
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Pietro Scaglione: The First Excellent Corpse
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Cadaveri Eccellenti: Excellent, or more appropriately, eminent corpses, is a term created by the Italian author Leonardo Sciascia, to denote public or noteworthy figures killed by the Mafia in Sicily. The original victim may have…
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The Wrong Side of Darkness: A Mafia Trilogy
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
"It’s a matter of fate on which he has no influence." - Paul Tillich, The Future of…
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The Wrong Side of Darkness: A Death less than Just
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
"Violence has settled more issues in history than any other factor." - Robert Heinlein, Starship…
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The Wrong Side of Darkness: An Anger of Kings
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
"Man turns his back on his family, we’ll he ain’t just no good." - Bruce Springfield…
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The Two Doctors of Corleone
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
It was a trip into the countryside
Off to see some people.
Business to attend, lunch, in a township clinging high on the top of Sicani Mountain, with views to the south across the endless hills and valleys to the Strait of Sicily, and…
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The Madman of the Mafia
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
“My crime was to have been born and raised in a family of…
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Part 2 of The Madman of the Mafia
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Five Minutes to Midnight: The Sicilian and New York Mafias, the Catholic Church and a huge finance scandal
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
“You never know what enough is unless you know what is more than enough.” - William Blake
It’s a story with more twists and turns than a novel by Agatha Christie. A list of…
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Five Minutes to Midnight – Part 2: The Sicilian and New York Mafias, the Catholic Church and a huge finance scandal
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Film detailing life of Mafia snitch Tommaso Buscetta competes for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
The film Il Traditore (The Traitor) detailing the life of Sicilian Mafia boss-turned-snitch Tommaso Buscetta has been selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival on May 14-25, the event’s organization announced on Thursday.
Directed by Marco Bellocchio,…
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Three good men and their fight to the death against the Sicilian Mafia: Giovanni Falcone
By Thom L. Jones
"By knowing the men of honor, I have learned ……..that Mafia logic is the logic of power, and it always works towards a purpose. Sometimes those Mafiosi strike me as the only rational beings in the world populated by madmen." - Giovanni Falcone to Marcello Padovani
"You’re the Maradona of the law:…
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Three good men and their fight to the death against the Sicilian Mafia: Giovanni Falcone (Part 2)
This is part 2 of Three good men and their fight to the death against the Sicilian Mafia: Giovanni Falcone. To read part 1 click here.
By Thom L.…
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Pax Mafiosa: Guilty verdicts as prosecutors prove secret pact between Sicilian Mafia and Italian government
By David Amoruso
A secret pact between the Sicilian Mafia and the Italian State has resulted in the conviction of eight men, including Mafia bosses and police and government officials, among them a close political associate of Silvio Berlusconi. The pact was made in the 1990s to bring a halt to Cosa Nostra’s bloody war…
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Sicilian Mafia boss Toto Riina dead at 87
By David Amoruso
He was the boss of bosses of Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia. As leader of the infamous Corleonesi, Salvatore "Toto" Riina ordered the death of hundreds, including the high-profile assassinations of anti-mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Now he is dead himself, at age 87, of natural causes.
Riina had turned 87 on…
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Three Good Men - The Second One: Antonino Cassarà
By Thom L. Jones
The media called them raggazzi di una stagione ‘straordinaria: “The boys of an extraordinary season.”
Beppe Montana and Calogero Zucchetto and Pippo Giordano and Roberto Antiochia and Natale Mondo and Ninni Cassarà and the rest of the Squadra Mobile, the Flying Squad. They knew what they had to do and lived their lives doing…
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Three Good Men: Life and death in Sicily fighting the Mafia
By Thom L. Jones
Sometimes, history makes us remember and then, at times, helps us to forget.
It’s easy to recall the first iPhone that was launched in 2007 and would come to change everything we have ever known about personal communication. Mention a judge who was blown up by the Mafia in 1983, and eyes glaze and heads shake and no one…
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