MAFIAS
Here is the axis between the Sicilian clans and the Gambinos again: 17 arrested between Palermo and New York. Messina Denaro also appears in the interceptions
by Manuela Modica | NOVEMBER 8, 2023
“Because… we must give people ' security ' my brother…”, Frank Vicari spoke clearly , in a series of conversations held in 2020 with Gabriele Vito Rappa , son of the more well-known Frank , and considered by the US authorities to be an affiliate of the US mafia . A "security", against a monthly payment of 6 thousand euros , to guarantee entrepreneurs subject to their control. A series of conversations that were transmitted by the American authorities to Italy, and from which emerges "not only the inclusion of the same interlocutors in a criminal organization, stable and with a top-down structure, operating in New York to be identified in the historic Gambino family - they write the investigators in the request for arrest - but also the ability of today's suspect Frank Rappa to intervene for the benefit of the American associates, through his emissaries, in an affair with a clear extortion motive".
Mafia affairs between Sicily and the United States , also thanks to import-export activities , while the Americans were kept informed of everything. Last August, Giovan Battista Badalamenti revealed about his brother Martino to John Jack D'Amico , regent of the Gambino family until 2008: "No, in the evening he even goes to sleep inside ", updating D'Amico on his brother's state of imprisonment . A mix of American and Italian that reveals the mafia ties between Sicily and the USA . A direct thread that today links 17 precautionary measures , taken between Palermo and New York . At 4 in the morning in the Big Apple, at 10 in the Sicilian capital, mafia members on both sides of the pond were handcuffed. An operation by the FBI and SCO of Rome , coordinated by the Palermo prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia , the deputy Marzia Sabella and the deputy Giovanni Antoci . A direct line between the two worlds that takes us back to the investigations that the head of the Palermo mobile Boris Giuliano conducted in the Seventies and to the famous Pizza Connection and Iron Tower investigations . Today's investigation concerns the mafia families of Partinico , Borgetto and Torretta . Torretta was the protagonist in the 1980s in the Pizza Connection investigation conducted by Giovanni Falcone which revealed the relationships between the mafias of the old and new continent.
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