Ecco come la mafia si è spartita Palermo: This is how the mafia divided Palermo L’Ora, Newspaper Palermo, Sicily During the 1970s, mafia bosses from Palermo, Sicily appeared to gain sudden wealth overnight. From 1976-to-1980, the Inzerillo-Gambino-Spatola families dominated the heroin trade between Sicily and New York. More specifically, between…...
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Was Matteo Messina Denaro Replaced?
Matteo Messina Denaro On January 16, 2023, following a 30-year manhunt, Italian law enforcement apprehended Matteo Messina Denaro. His capture took place at the La Maddalena clinic in Palermo, Sicily, where he was undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Most considered Denaro the last link between the death-dealing cosa nostra of the past…...
Sicilian Mafia-A New Beginning
Every story has an end. But in life, every ending is just a new beginning. Uptown Girls The death of Matteo Messina Denaro, who died while in prison last September, marked the end of an era. More specifically, one filled with public massacres, bombings, and the mafia’s war against the…...
In His Words: Matteo Messina Denaro
The majority of Italians and Italian authorities hailed the capture of Matteo Messina Denaro, the nation’s most wanted fugitive, on January 16, 2023. The arrest took place at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily where Denaro went to receive treatment for stomach cancer. In February 2023, Palermo magistrates enthusiastically interrogated…...
Sins of The Father
“Undeservedly, you will atone for the sins of your fathers”- Horace The Godfather In the late 1970s, unwanted infamy graced the town of Corleone, Sicily. Particularly, on account of the movie The Godfather using its name. The movie’s main characters belonged to a fictitious mafia family named after the town…....
The Picture
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”- Ansel Adams What makes a photograph stand out from the rest? For me, it involves catching an unexpected person or moment and capturing it. I’m not a photographer by any means, but I do own a camera and…...
Hitting Lilo-Pt.1
Part 1 “Not since the days of Vito Genovese has there been a more ruthless and feared individual” – Police Lieutenant Remo Franceschini Camillo Galante was born in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City in 1910. Nicknamed Lilo, Sicilian slang for cigar, a name which he lived up…...
Dismantling ‘Ndrangheta
“It crushes the region. We are always getting poorer, but this is what they want. The weaker we are, the less likely we are to resist. The ‘Ndrangheta has got inside of us. Inside our minds…” – Gaetano Saffioto, Calabrian businessman ‘Ndrangheta ‘Ndrangheta derives from the Greek word, andragathizesthai ,…...
Pizza Connection Turmoil
“These 19 defendants, along with their co-conspirators…agreed and conspired to work as narcotic racketeers in order to generate millions of dollars…When it’s all said and done, the case before you is about two commodities-dollars and drugs…” – Prosecutor Louis J. Fresh “It is a tremendous victory in the effort to…...