All Blog Posts Tagged 'Catania' (20)
40 Mafiosi of Cosa Nostra family in Catania arrested - Stashed drugs in cemetery
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
40 alleged members of the Santapaola-Ercolano family in Catania, Sicily, were arrested on Tuesday and charged with Mafia association, drug trafficking, extortion, social security and pension fraud. The Santapaola-Ercolano clan is led by…
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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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Sicilian Mafia snitch shot dead in parking lot – Testified against Catania’s notorious Santapaola Clan in 1990s
By David Amoruso
A Sicilian Mafioso, who in the 1990s decided to testify against his Cosa Nostra colleagues, was shot to death on Tuesday evening in a parking lot in Chiavari, a city in Northern Italy. 70-year-old Pino Orazio was allegedly killed by a bullet to the neck fired from close range.
Orazio was known to…
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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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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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Secrets & Lies: Bringing down the Mafia and Italian State
By Thom L. Jones
If you Google ‘Mafia’ you will get 163,000,000 hits.
If you Google ‘Cosa Nostra’ you will get 5,280,000 hits.
In 1950 the Mafia did not exist, publicly that is. Sicily knew about it, but even then, to the…
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Relative of Sicilian Mafia boss Messina Denaro busted for medical fraud
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
A relative of fugitive Cosa Nostra boss of bosses Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested yesterday along with five…
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Mafia Math: Calculating Italian organized crime’s illicit income
By David Amoruso
How much money does the Italian Mafia make? How many billions of dollars go up the chain through the organizations of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, Campania’s Camorra, and Calabria’s ‘Ndrangheta? Criminology professor Francesco Calderoni did the math and came up with some very interesting numbers, numbers that many deem the most…
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Sicilian mob boss busted trafficking guns to Middle East
By David Amoruso
Italian police arrested 51-year-old Carmelo Piacente and his girlfriend, 31-year-old Simona Puccio - both pictured above - and charged them with weapons smuggling. Piacente is the reputed leader of the Ceusi clan, part of the…
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In search of the Corleonesi: How the Mafia changed forever
By Thom L. Jones
Italians know Corleone as a small, inland town of about 12000 inhabitants, situated in the highlands of Western Sicily, approximately mid-way between Palermo and Agrigento.
We mostly know Corleone as the name of a fictitious Mafia boss-Don Corleone- the central character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather. Although…
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The Sound of Silence: How the Mafia in Sicily Communicates
By Thom L. Jones
Omertà: Good is he who sees and is silent.
Old Mafia saying.
Sicily is an intricate web of favors done in exchange for other favors owing among people of all class, from the humblest to the highest. The trick is to never over-estimate…
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New book covers history of organized crime in Montreal
Pierre de Champlain is one of Canada’s foremost experts on organized crime. As an intelligence analyst for the RCMP he got an up close and personal look at gangsters and crimes. As an author he shared his knowledge with readers around the world. On February 26, his new book about the history of organized crime in Montreal will hit stores.
By Pierre…
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The Slaughter at Slaughterhouse Square
By Thom L. Jones
It was bloodletting out of all proportion, even for the men who ran the Mafia in Sicily.
Eight men killed for eighteen horses.
The worst day of mass killing in its history since May 1947, when 11 people were shot dead and 33 wounded by Salvatore Giuliano’s bandit gang at Portella della Ginestra, near San Giuseppe Jato; an…
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Santa Claus Joins Fight Against Cosa Nostra
By David Amoruso
Posted on December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas everybody! And may Santa bring you all the gifts you wished for.
It seems Santa is already hard at work. Yesterday, an Italian police officer dressed up as Santa arrested a member of the…
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Catania: Downfall
Catania: Downfall
Arrests of Catania bosses
Santapaola killer Umberto Di Fazio
23 July 1992 were Francesco Celano and Lorenzo Marsengo (Marengo or Marsegno ?) near Palagonia killed by the Santapaola clan because… Continue
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Catania Province, Sicily - Mayors
Catania mayors
Catania mayor Angelo Francesco Lo Presti
Catania mayor Francesco Lo Presti (later arrested) only served from 10 march 1992 till 27 june 1992. Angelo Francesco Lo Presti was Catania’s short-lived mayor between March and June 1992. Among his… Continue
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Santapaola clashes with Ferlito Family and Reito-Pillera Clan
Santapaola clashes with Ferlito Family and Reito-Pillera Clan
Santapaola’s underboss Franco Romeo murders Camilleri
In 1980 or 1981 was the criminal Camilleri killed by Franco Romeo at the orders of Benedetto Santapaola. Camilleri's partner Nino Bua then joined ranks with Santapaola.
Alfio Ferlito and Pillera soon went to war with… Continue
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Puparo Presents: Cosa Nostra in Catania Province
Puparo has compiled the following text through thorough research. However, if you see an error, or would like to add something, Puparo welcomes the contribution.
Catania
Catania has the quarters San Cristoforo (area of Catania’s Fish Market), Puntina and San Cosimo. Catania has an international airport Fontanarossa (just outside the city and there drive busses between) and a… Continue
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- 40 Mafiosi of Cosa Nostra family in Catania arrested - Stashed drugs in cemetery
- Five Minutes to Midnight: The Sicilian and New York Mafias, the Catholic Church and a huge finance scandal
- Five Minutes to Midnight – Part 2: The Sicilian and New York Mafias, the Catholic Church and a huge finance scandal
- Sicilian Mafia snitch shot dead in parking lot – Testified against Catania’s notorious Santapaola Clan in 1990s
- Three good men and their fight to the death against the Sicilian Mafia: Giovanni Falcone
- Three good men and their fight to the death against the Sicilian Mafia: Giovanni Falcone (Part 2)
- Three Good Men: Life and death in Sicily fighting the Mafia
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- Five Minutes to Midnight: The Sicilian and New York Mafias, the Catholic Church and a huge finance scandal
- The Sound of Silence: How the Mafia in Sicily Communicates
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- Puparo Presents: Cosa Nostra in Catania Province
- The Slaughter at Slaughterhouse Square
- Catania: Downfall
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