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The Sicilian Mafia was less active during the era of Fascist Italy and it was fought by Benito Mussolini's government. In June 1924, Mussolini instructed Cesare Mori to eradicate the Mafia from Sicily and on October 25, 1925, appointed Mori prefect of the Sicilian capital, Palermo .
Michele Cavataio (18 March 1929 – 10 December 1969), also known as Il cobra (The cobra) was an Italian mobster and powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was the boss of the Acquasanta mandamento in Palermo and was a member of the first Sicilian Mafia Commission. Some sources spell his surname as Cavatajo. [1]
This is a list of members of the Sicilian Mafia born in Sicily. A Mariano Agate (1939–2013) Pietro Aglieri ... (1929–2000) Giovanni Brusca; Tommaso Buscetta (1928 ...
The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (Italian: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa-], Sicilian: [ˈkɔːsa ˈnɔʂː(ɽ)a]; "our thing" [3]), also referred to as simply Mafia, is a criminal society and criminal organization originating on the island of Sicily and dates back to the mid-19th century. It is an association of gangs which sell their ...
List of Sicilian Mafia members by city. 1 language. Magyar; ... This is a list of prominent Sicilian mobsters by city. Agrigento province ... (1929–86) Ignazio ...
Following his death, control of the Brooklyn Castellammarese is turned over to Sicilian boss Salvatore Maranzano by Buffalo, New York mob boss Stefano Magaddino. Chicago and New York police detectives establish a connection between the weapons used in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the murder of New York mobster Frankie Yale , implicating ...
Pasquale Lolordo (1887 – January 8, 1929), also known as Pasqualino or "Patsy", was an Italian-born American Mafia boss from Ribera, Sicily, and head of the Chicago chapter of the Unione Siciliana, a "front" organization for the Mafia. Lolordo was considered one of the most powerful Mafia bosses during the late 1920s.
The neo-fascist politician Giorgio Almirante wrote on Il Borghese in the 1970s that Sicilian society was really transformed by the full destruction of the Mafia in the 1930s, but the destruction of World War II and the imposition of "antifascism", which criticised everything achieved by Fascism, even against mafiosi, together with the return of ...