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Giovanni Brusca (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni ˈbruska]; born 20 February 1957) is an Italian mobster and former member of the Corleonesi clan of the Sicilian Mafia.He played a major role in the 1992 murders of Antimafia Commission prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and businessman Ignazio Salvo, and once stated that he had committed between 100 and 200 murders. [1]
Pino Maniaci filming an event in memory of Giuseppe Impastato, in Cinisi, Sicily, May 2010. Telejato's owner and most of the people working there have reported receiving anonymous threats against their lives and their families' well-being, all of which, they claim, come from local Mafia bosses who are upset with the publicity caused by the station's anti-Mafia activity.
Giovanni Falcone (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni falˈkoːne]; 18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. [1] [2] From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia.
In the 1980s, he was an illegal immigrant to the United States where he lived in New York City. [2] Modica was a member of the Gambino family , where he was considered to be a good earner. [ 2 ] He was convicted of heroin trafficking, and was deported back to Italy in 2000 after serving a long prison sentence. [ 2 ]
Divers of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Corps. of Firefighters enter Porticello harbor near Palermo. They recovered the body of Hannah Lynch, the last missing person at the back of the boat ...
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Former New York Mafia made member John Pennisi speaks to Insider about all the ways the mob make their money. John Pennisi was born and raised in an Italian New York neighborhood where the mob had ...
Giovanni returned to Sicily in 2000. Officially he is a building constructor and lives in the same house his father lived in at 346 Via Castellana in the district of Palermo called Passo di Rigano. He was indicted and arrested on February 7, 2008, in Operation Old Bridge against the Gambinos in New York and their connections in Palermo ...