All Blog Posts Tagged 'SCU' (16)

By David Amoruso

The Italian Mafia and Catholic church have a strange relationship. Sometimes working together, at other times fierce enemies. However, the news that an anti-Mafia priest’s car was shot at should serve as a reminder that the Mafiosi don’t care who you’re ‘with’ if you stand in their way.

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By David Amoruso

Times have changed. Where a man could once get away with sexist and outright criminal behavior toward women, today he is shamed and prosecuted in front of a worldwide audience. And not just politicians and Hollywood moguls. Even the Italian Mafia is confronted with the power of a woman.

Through the use of deadly…

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By David Amoruso

Italian police arrested 22 individuals today in connection to their involvement in buying votes in the 2015 regional elections in Italy’s Puglia region. At the center of the scheme, prosecutors say, is the city of Bari’s Di Cosola clan, a crime group that is part of the…

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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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By David Amoruso

Davide Vadacca is considered a rising star within Sacra Corona Unita, Italy’s fourth largest criminal group. At the young age of 32 he is one of the organization’s leaders in the city of Lecce. Authorities say he is also the man behind a violent war that is terrorizing the honest, hardworking people of the Italian city.…

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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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By David Amoruso

For a Sicilian Cosa Nostra boss loyal to omerta, the code of silence, Toto Riina was quoted in the media an awful lot of times in the past few months. His incriminating and outright hostile words brought back memories of his vicious war on the Italian State during the 1990s in which the Sicilian Mafia terrorized the entire country…

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In Memoriam:



This corner is dedicated to the Palermitan judges Giovanni Falcone (born 1939) and Paolo Borsellino (born 1940). They grew up in the borough Kalsa near Palermo's harbor where Falcone lived in Via Castrofilippo and Borsellino in…

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CONCLUSION

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Veglie

Boss Francesco Santolla and son Romualdo Santolla (18 when killed in may 1996)



Veglie boss Francesco Santolla’s son Romualdo Santolla killed

Im may 1996 was in Veglie Romualdo Santolla (18) killed by Luigi Vergine to hurt his father Francesco Santolla the boss of Veglie.…

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Monte feud between Libergolis and Alfieri- Primosa and Sannicandro Garganico (Puglia) feud between Ciaravella and Tarantino families



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Manfredonia (Foggia province) family Romito

Francesco Romito “Ciccillo il Mattinatese” had as sons Mario Luciano Romito and Manfredonia boss Francesco “Franco” Romito (41 when killed 21 april 2009 with his… Continue

TARANTO

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Taranto SCU bosses

Paolo De Vitis and his son Salvatore De Vitis are trustees of Taranto boss Antonio Modeo. Antonio Modeo his stepmother Cosima Ceci and Antonio Modeo’s half brothers are Gianfranco Modeo, Riccardo Modeo and Claudio Modeo who become his enemies.



Taranto’s SCU bosses the…

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BARI

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Bari district Borgo Antico

Brothers Donato Laraspata, Raffaele Laraspata and Tommaso Laraspata are at war with the Biancoli clan (Parisi allies) and the Laraspata family rules the…

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SACRA CORONA UNITA HISTORY

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Nuova Camorra Pugliese (Societa foggiana)

In 1981 the camorraboss Raffaele Cutolo (right) allowed Giuseppe “Pino”Iannelli…

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At the origin of La Quarta Mafia, or Sacra Corona Unita, were Camorra Boss Raffaele Cutolo and Calabrian Bosses like Umberto Belfiore who had Pugliese criminals start new mafia groups in Puglia. The following text has been written and compiled by organized crime researcher Puparo. Any…

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By Clarence Walker, Investigative Crime Journalist



How many times have we heard these words? "Crime doesn't pay"....or a Judge will say, "it doesn't pay to commit crimes".



It is true crime didn't pay for some lawbreakers who were caught and lost their freedom and every dime they earned. Swindler Ken Madoff earned billions running a ponzi scheme that bilked investors and now he's been caught. With the exception of having… Continue

By Clarence Walker, Investigative Journalist, Houston Texas.

Posted on October 8, 2007



Is it a myth or reality that mob-related murders are at its lowest decline in Italy's history of… Continue