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** Tommaso Buscetta, Italian mafioso ( d. 2000 )

One of the most important factors in the trial was the testimony of Tommaso Buscetta, the first ever Sicilian Mafiosi boss to become an informant ( pentito ).

Tommaso Buscetta ( in sunglasses ), the first important pentito of Italian Mafia, escorted in a court of law.

In the wake of the Maxi Trial in 1986-87, and after the testimony of Tommaso Buscetta, the term was more often used for former members of the Sicilian Mafia who abandoned their organization and started helping in investigations.

Among the most famous Mafia pentiti is Tommaso Buscetta, the first important pentito.

In the period until the 1990s, there were very few, albeit significant, pentiti such as Tommaso Buscetta, Salvatore Contorno, Antonino Calderone, etc.

* Tommaso Buscetta ( 1928 – 2000 ) was the first important pentito against the Sicilian Mafia.

Tommaso Buscetta (; 13 July 1928 – 2 April 2000 ) was a Sicilian mafioso.

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* Tommaso Buscetta, an important Mafia turncoat ( pentito ), declared that the Sicilian Mafia had been involved in the murder of Mattei.

Among the most famous Mafia pentiti is Tommaso Buscetta, the first important state witness who helped Judge Giovanni Falcone to understand the inner workings of Cosa Nostra and described the Sicilian Mafia Commission or Cupola, the leadership of the Sicilian Mafia.

* Tommaso Buscetta

In 1987, he won the Premio Bancarella, for his book Il boss è solo, interviewing former Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta, who had turned pentito ( state witness ).

In 1984, the Mafia turncoat Tommaso Buscetta revealed to the anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone that the term was used by the Sicilian Mafia as well.

Their big break came with the arrest of Tommaso Buscetta, a mafioso who chose to turn informant in exchange for protection from the Corleonesi, who had already murdered many of his friends and relatives.