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Salvatore Riina, the head of the Corleonesi Mafia Family, is now serving a life sentence in prison for sanctioning the murders of Borsellino and Falcone, as well as Bernardo Provenzano, Pippo Calò, Salvatore Biondino, Pietro Aglieri, Michelangelo La Barbera, Raffaele and Domenico Ganci, Francesco Madonia, Giuseppe Montalto, Giuseppe and Filippo Graviano, Carlo Greco, Francesco Tagliavia, amongst others.
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Salvatore and Riina
* 1993 – Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as " The Beast ", is arrested in Sicily, Italy after three decades as a fugitive.
* 1930 – Salvatore Riina, Italian Mafia leader
* January 15 – Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as ' The Beast ', is arrested in Palermo, Sicily, after 23 years as a fugitive.
** Salvatore Riina, Italian multiple murderer
Salvatore " Toto " Riina ordered the murder of Falcone, the decision was taken over an objection by Ignazio Salvo who had had argued Falcone was best neutralized through political machinations.
The council of top bosses headed by Riina reacted by ordering the assassination of Salvatore Lima ( on the grounds that he was an ally of Giulio Andreotti ), and Falcone.
Riina reportedly threw a party, toasting Falcone's death with champagne, according to the pentito Salvatore Cancemi.
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It is known primarily as the birthplace of several Mafia bosses, some fictional, such as The Godfather < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Vito ( Andolini ) Corleone, and some real, such as Jack Dragna, Giuseppe Morello, Michele Navarra, Luciano Leggio, Leoluca Bagarella, Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.
* Salvatore Riina, a Sicilian mafioso
One of his accomplishments included the arrest of six Mafia members in 1980 including Leoluca Bagarella the brother-in-law of Mafia boss Salvatore Riina.
Giovanni Brusca later claimed that ' boss of bosses ' Salvatore Riina had told him that after the assassination of Falcone, there were indirect negotiations with the government.
He was murdered in Palermo on September 3, 1982, on the orders of Mafia boss Salvatore Riina.
Because Leggio was imprisoned in 1974, he acted through his deputy, Salvatore Riina, to whom he would eventually hand over control.
This led to a public outcry and a massive government crackdown, resulting in the arrest of Salvatore Riina in January 1993.
Calogero Vizzini, Salvatore Riina, and Bernardo Provenzano were especially influential bosses who have each been described by the media and law enforcement as being the " boss of bosses " of their times.
When he affirmed himself, Salvatore Riina, then the most powerful boss of Cosa Nostra, took a needle and pricked Brusca's finger.
* Salvatore Riina ( born 1930 ), Sicilian mafioso
It consisted of ten members but was initially ruled by a triumvirate consisting of Gaetano Badalamenti, Stefano Bontade and the Corleonesi boss Luciano Leggio, although it was Salvatore Riina who would actually represent the Corleonesi.
The Commission was meant to settle disputes and keep the peace, but Leggio and his stand-in and successor, Salvatore Riina, were plotting to decimate the Palermo clans.
Salvatore Riina was arrested in January 1993 and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for ordering dozens of murders, including the two high-profile bombings ( the Capaci massacre and Via D ' Amelio massacre ) that killed prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
Apparently, the Sicilian Mafia at present is divided between those bosses who support a hard line against the Italian state – mainly bosses currently in jail such as Salvatore ' Totò ' Riina and Leoluca Bagarella – and those who support the more moderate strategy of Provenzano.
On the one hand there were the hardline " Corleonesi " in jail – led by Totò Riina and Leoluca Bagarella – and on the other the more moderate " Palermitani " – led by Provenzano and Antonino Giuffrè, Salvatore Lo Piccolo and Matteo Messina Denaro.
Salvatore and head
Only two months earlier, on July 21, 1979, Boris Giuliano, head of the police investigation squad investigating heroin trafficking by the Mafia headed by Rosario Spatola and Salvatore Inzerillo, had been assassinated.
In January 1978, the old and ailing former head of the Commission Salvatore Greco " Ciaschiteddu " came all the way from Venezuela to try to refrain Badalamenti, Giuseppe Di Cristina and Salvatore Inzerillo from retaliating against the growing power of the Corleonesi.
His first signings included several high-profile players from the Italian Serie A such as Jérémy Ménez, Mohamed Sissoko, Salvatore Sirigu, Javier Pastore and Thiago Motta, and was the mastermind behind the appointment of his friend Carlo Ancelotti as head coach of PSG.
The massacre had taken place in the frame of the first Mafia War in the 1960s, with the bomb intended for Salvatore Greco, head of the Sicilian Mafia Commission formed in the late 1950s.
Errtu is some twelve feet tall, covered in red scales, with a large pair of bat-like wings and a tail, and is frequently described as having a " horned, ape-like head " ( Salvatore 2007 ) and a " canine maw " ( Salvatore 2007 ).
Toni remains loyal to Salvatore and poses as his lawyer, while continuing to accept jobs from him which lead to Toni attacking Salvatore's rivals, culminating with Toni killing the head of the Sindacco family, Paulie Sindacco.
Both Salvatore and Toni head to the island where Torini is holding the mayor and a fight ensues, resulting in the two killing Torini and using the time with the mayor to establish that O ' Donovan is now in the Leone family's debt and as the game concludes, Salvatore demands that O ' Donovan grant protection to the Leone family while Toni attempts to unsettle the mayor to ensure it is granted.
Upon his return to New York, Michael is appointed head of the family, but Clemenza and fellow caporegime Salvatore Tessio, unsatisfied with the way things are going, request that they be given permission to break off from the Corleone family to start their own families.
Salvatore and Corleonesi
What sparked off the crisis was a request from the Inzerillo family, one of the clans whose leaders – among them Salvatore Inzerillo – were killed by the Corleonesi during the Second Mafia War in the 1980s and which are now in exile in the United States.
This time he was tried alongside over sixty of his fellow Corleonesi, including Salvatore Riina, who was one of almost two-thousand Mafiosi rounded up in the mid-1960s in the aftermath of the violence in the early years of that decade.
Pentiti Tommaso Buscetta and Salvatore Contorno later said Leggio personally shot Scaglione dead because he either did not want him to help deliver an acquittal for one of the Corleonesi boss's rivals or he did not want to leave someone who knew a lot of his secrets alive.
However, by the end of the 1970s, his lieutenant Salvatore Riina was in control of the Corleonesi clan.
Bernardo Brusca allied himself with the Corleonesi of Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano when he replaced Antonio Salamone as capo mandamento of San Giuseppe Jato, paving the way for his three sons ’ careers – apart from Giovanni, his younger brother Vincenzo and elder brother Emanuele – in Cosa Nostra's most powerful and ruthless clan.
It consisted of ten members but would initially be ruled by a triumvirate consisting of Gaetano Badalamenti, Stefano Bontade and the Corleonesi boss Luciano Leggio, although it was Salvatore Riina who actually would represent the Corleonesi.
Salvatore and Mafia
* 1963 – Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.
* April 15 – The Castellemmarese War ends with the assassination of Joe " The Boss " Masseria, briefly leaving Salvatore Maranzano as capo di tutti i capi (" boss of all bosses ") and undisputed ruler of the American Mafia.
The main topic of the modern age is the struggle against the Mafia and bandits like Salvatore Giuliano, who controlled the neighbouring area of Montelepre.
Eventually, Bonanno became involved in bootlegging activities, and soon joined a Mafia family led by another Castellammarese, Salvatore Maranzano.
Lansky was instrumental in Luciano's rise to power by organizing the 1931 murder of Mafia powerhouse Salvatore Maranzano.
The Castellammarese War ( 1929 – 1931 ) was a bloody power struggle for control of the Italian-American Mafia between partisans of Joe " The Boss " Masseria and those of Salvatore Maranzano.
In 1930, Luciano finalized his plans to take over the organized crime rackets in New York by destroying the two old-line Mafia factions headed by Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano.
In September 1931, between the killing of young Vengalli and his acquittal for that death, Coll was hired by Salvatore Maranzano, who had recently crowned himself the Mafia boss of all bosses in New York City, to murder his right-hand man, Charles " Lucky " Luciano.
His sister Rita ran as centre-left presidential candidate in the 2006 regional election, after having won the regional primary election, but lost to incumbent Salvatore Cuffaro, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for collusion with the Mafia.
During the events of the game, CJ briefly returns to Liberty City to assassinate a high ranking Forelli Mafia member at Marco's Bistro, under orders from Salvatore Leone.
Other defectors, such as Antonino Calderone and Salvatore Contorno, confirmed the use of Cosa Nostra to describe the Mafia.
The bloodbath was perpetrated by the bandit Salvatore Giuliano who was possibly backed by local Mafia bosses.
Salvatore Lima, a close political ally of the Mafia, was murdered for failing to reverse the convictions as promised.
In addition to Salvatore Lima, mentioned above, the politician Giulio Andreotti and the High Court judge Corrado Carnevale have long been suspected of having ties to the Mafia.
According to historian Salvatore Lupo, “ if everything is Mafia, nothing is Mafia .”
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