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Gianni Nicchi
Giovanni "Gianni" Nicchi (; born 16 February 1981 in Turin) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. Despite his relatively young age – he is nicknamed ("the little boy") – he is considered to be one of the leading mafiosi of Cosa Nostra in Palermo. He had been on the "List of most wanted fugitives in Italy, most wanted list" of the Italian Ministry of the Interior since 2006, until his arrest on 5 December 2009.Mafia, presi due superlatitanti La Repubblica, 5 December 2009 Mafia heritage Gianni Nicchi is the son of Luigi Nicchi, a mafioso, who is jailed for life.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gambino Crime Family
The Gambino crime family (pronounced ) is an Italian American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia. The group, which went through five bosses between 1910 and 1957, is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963, when the structure of organized crime first gained public attention. The group's operations extend from New York and the eastern seaboard to California. Its illicit activities include labor and construction racketeering, gambling, loansharking, extortion, money laundering, prostitution, fraud, hijacking, and fencing. The family was one of the five families that were founded in New York after the Castellammarese War of 1931. For most of the next quarter-century, it was a minor player in organized crime. Its most prominent member during this time was its underboss Albert Anasta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Ingroia
Antonio Ingroia (born 31 March 1959) is an Italian lawyer, ex magistrate, politician and leader of Civil Revolution, with Luigi de Magistris, the mayor of Naples. Ingroia is also the director of a United Nations investigation against narcotraffic in Guatemala. He is also a writer and contributes regular columns to the daily newspaper '' Il Fatto Quotidiano''. Biography Antonio Ingroia was born in Palermo, the capital city of Sicily, Italy. In 1987 Ingroia started to cooperate in the Antimafia pool of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, two Italian magistrates who were killed in 1992 by the Mafia. In 2009 he became deputy chief anti-mafia prosecutor of Palermo. On 26 July 2012 he became the director of a UN investigation into narcotraffic in Guatemala. On 29 December 2012, he announced that he would run to become Prime Minister of Italy The prime minister of Italy, officially the president of the Council of Ministers (), is the head of government of the Italy, Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Del Bene
Francesco, the Italian (and original) version of the personal name "Francis", is one of the most common given name among males in Italy. Notable persons with that name include: People with the given name Francesco * Francesco I (other), several people * Francesco Barbaro (other), several people * Francesco Bernardi (other), several people *Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439-1501), Italian architect, engineer and painter *Francesco Zurolo (first half of the 15th century–1480), Italian feudal lord, baron and italian leader * Francesco Berni (1497–1536), Italian writer * Francesco Canova da Milano (1497–1543), Italian lutenist and composer * Francesco Primaticcio (1504–1570), Italian painter, architect, and sculptor * Francesco Albani (1578–1660), Italian painter * Francesco Borromini (1599–1667), Swiss sculptor and architect * Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676), Italian composer * Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618–1663), Italian mathematician and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Raccuglia
Domenico "Mimmo" Raccuglia (; born 27 October 1964, in Altofonte), nicknamed ("the veterinarian") is a member of the Mafia in Sicily. He was a fugitive and included on Italy's most wanted list since 1996, until his capture on 15 November 2009, near Trapani.Sicilian police arrest Mafia boss BBC News, 15 November 2009 Biography Mafia career Raccuglia is the current boss of Mafia family, the mandamento of |
Matteo Messina Denaro
Matteo Messina Denaro (; 26 April 1962 – 25 September 2023), also known as ''Diabolik'' (from the Italian comic book character), was an Italian mafia boss from Castelvetrano. He was considered to be one of the new leaders of the Cosa Nostra after the arrests of Bernardo Provenzano on 11 April 2006 and Salvatore Lo Piccolo in November 2007. The son of a Mafia boss, Denaro became known nationally on 12 April 2001 when the magazine ''L'Espresso'' put him on the cover with the headline: ''Ecco il nuovo capo della Mafia'' ("Here is the new Mafia boss"). Messina Denaro became a fugitive on the most wanted list of the Italian Ministry of the Interior in 1993; according to ''Forbes'' in 2010, he was one of the ten most wanted and powerful criminals in the world. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Caruso (policeman) (1935–2018), Italian composer, conductor and music arranger
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Giuseppe Caruso may refer to: * Giuseppe Caruso (brigand) (1820–1892), Italian brigand * Giuseppe Caruso (composer) (), Italian composer and organist of the Baroque period * Pino Caruso (1934–2019), Italian actor, author and TV-personality * Pippo Caruso Giuseppe Caruso (22 December 1935 – 28 May 2018), best known as Pippo Caruso, was an Italian composer, conductor and music arranger. Biography Born in Belpasso, Catania, Caruso linked his professional success to the television presenter Pip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totò Riina
Salvatore Riina (; 16 November 1930 – 17 November 2017), called Totò ( sicilian diminutive of Salvatore), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, resulting in widespread public outcry, legal change and a major crackdown by the authorities. He was also known by the nicknames ''la belva'' ("the beast") and ''il capo dei capi'' (Sicilian: '''u capu di 'i capi'', "the boss of bosses"). Riina succeeded Luciano Leggio as head of the Corleonesi criminal organisation in the mid-1970s and achieved dominance through a campaign of violence, which caused police to target his rivals. Riina had been a fugitive since the late 1960s after he was indicted on a murder charge. He was less vulnerable to law enforcement's reaction to his methods, as the policing removed many of the established chiefs who ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Tagliavia
Pietro Tagliavia (born in 1978) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. Despite his young age, he is considered to be one of the upcoming leading Mafiosi of Cosa Nostra in Palermo.Cosa Nostra, tanti boss ma nessun capo La Repubblica, 6 November 2007'Vincere Cosa nostra? Arresti e lavoro'. Intervista al magistrato De Lucia , Ateneonline, 20 November 2007 Mafia heritage Pietro Tagliavia is a scion from a historical Mafia family in Palermo. His father Francesco Tagliavia[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pizzino
''Pizzino'' (; plural as ''pizzini'') is an Italian language word derived from the Sicilian language equivalent ''pizzinu'' meaning "small piece of paper". The word has been widely used to refer to small slips of paper that the Sicilian Mafia uses for high-level communications. Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is among those best known for using ''pizzini'', most notably in his instruction that Matteo Messina Denaro become his successor. The ''pizzini'' of other mafiosi have significantly aided police investigations. Provenzano case Provenzano used a version of the Caesar cipher In cryptography, a Caesar cipher, also known as Caesar's cipher, the shift cipher, Caesar's code, or Caesar shift, is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in t ..., used by Julius Caesar in wartime communications. The Caesar code involves shifting each letter of the alphabet forward three places; Provenzano's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Franzese (mafioso)
Francesco Franzese (born 8 September 1981 in Nola) is a former Italian football goalkeeper. He is currently the goalkeeping coach for Serie C side Arezzo Arezzo ( , ; ) is a city and ''comune'' in Italy and the capital of the Province of Arezzo, province of the same name located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about southeast of Florence at an elevation of Above mean sea level, above sea level. As of 2 .... External linksProfileat aic.football.it * 1981 births Living people Italian men's footballers Novara FC players SS Juve Stabia players Hellas Verona FC players Men's association football goalkeepers People from Nola Footballers from the Metropolitan City of Naples 21st-century Italian sportsmen Association football goalkeeping coaches {{Italy-footy-goalkeeper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
