What families in New York have ties to the Ndrangheta? I have read that the Ursino family has set up a faction.

2020 is the year of a global attack on the 'Ndrangheta
30 December 2019

“The 'Ndrangheta is being established in several countries, where it finds unequipped legislation and markets that offer great development opportunities.
It does not do it in a military way, but silently infiltrating the economic, political and administrative fabric. Our plan is to develop awareness of the mafia threat in the world. For 2020, our goal is to launch a global attack on the 'Ndrangheta ". This is what the central director of the criminal police, Vittorio Rizzi, said during a press conference on the activities of the service for international police cooperation.

In 2019, according to Scip information, 61 fugitives were arrested at mafia criminal associations, led by the Camorra and ethnic mafia and followed by 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and Apulian mafias, with 29 million euros of assets seized in 12 countries of the world .

Almost 1,600 (to be exact 1,595) fugitives arrested in 2019, an average of more than four per day: 747 "active", that is, wanted by the Italian judicial authorities and tracked in 42 countries around the world, and 848 "passive", wanted by foreign authorities and captured in Italy. This is the balance of one of the key sectors of the International Police Cooperation Service (SCIP) activity outlined in a press conference at the Interior Ministry by the Central Director of the Criminal Police, Vittorio Rizzi. Almost 60% of the active fugitives were traced in five European countries (Romania, Spain, Germany, France, United Kingdom) while 50% of the fugitives arrested in Italy were sought by seven European judicial authorities (from Romania, Germany, France, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Austria).

The Piromalli are a Calabrian 'ndrina of Gioia Tauro. According to Dia, they are the largest and most influential gang in Western Europe, with more than 400 families and several thousand affiliates. They are among the founders of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta present in the area for more than a hundred years.

wwwowww !!!
they are an army !!!!!

“Canadian 'ndrangheta connection” investigation: twenty requests for indictment
January 2 2020 14:50

There are 20 requests for indictment for mafia association, port and possession of weapons, fraudulent transfer of values, abusive exercise of credit, usury and personal support requested in the "Canadian ndrangheta connection" investigation, which last summer hit the Muià of Siderno. On the other hand, 28 precautionary measures were issued, but 20 suspects were requested to be brought to trial.
The hearing before the GUP has already been set for January 28. The investigations began after the murder of Carmelo Muià, killed on the evening of 18 January 2018 in Siderno and considered the lieutenant of the boss Giuseppe Commisso.
Some of Muià's family members would also have contributed, providing useful information for the reconstruction of the facts that led to the killing of Muià: according to the reconstruction of the investigators, the motive for the murder would have been linked to a revenge by another sidernese ndrina, that of the Salerno, whose leader, Vincenzo, would in turn have been moved by the murders of the brothers, Salvatore and Agostino.
The investigations would then have taken some tracks ending up deepening the structures and the organization chart of the so-called Siderno group of crime, the Canadian stable cell of the association, able to manage business and criminal dynamics overseas and also to make decisions on what happened In Calabria.

Interesting, I have heard that there’s a disconnect in communication between the Ndragheta in Canada and Calabria. This would indicate that at least with Siderno not the case. Interesting stuff.

All the cells around the world are answering to Calabria.

The sentence that the 66-year-old boss Diego Mancuso from Limbadi will have to serve in prison goes from six to two years. The Catanzaro Court of Appeal has in fact accepted a request for a "continued" sentence between the "Genesis" trial and the "Dinasty" trial against the prisoner, who was arrested last May to serve a final sentence of 6 years for mafia association.
In the "Dinasty " trial, Diego Mancuso was recognized at the top of one of the branches into which the family had divided after the arrests for the "Tirreno" operation (1993) of the Dda of Reggio Calabria, of the bosses Luigi and Giuseppe Mancuso( cl. '49), respectively uncle and nephew. Diego Mancuso (brother of Giuseppe, aka Peppe 'Mbroggja ") together with his nephew Domenico Mancuso (son of Giuseppe Mancuso) for a given time span would have governed the clan headed by him, as opposed to the other branch of the family that saw at that time allies Cosmo Michele Mancuso and his nephew Pantaleone Mancuso, called "Scarpuni".
After serving the sentence for "Dinasty", at the time of release, Diego Mancuso had moved his residence to Santa Maria di Ricadi. Last May, therefore, the new arrest to serve the definitive sentence remedied in the "Genesis" trial now reduced to two years.

Sunday, January 5, 2020 - 12:44 pm
'Ndrangheta, 55 billion in turnover. Business in over thirty countries.

http://www.affaritaliani.it/cronach...-oltre-trenta-paesi-la-mappa-645377.html

The Piromalli family has 400 separate crews that answer to a boss? And I thought the Nirta family was the most influential and powerful?

Not crews but 400 blood families all intertwined with the Piromalli-Mole.

Thursday, January 9 for 16 defendants, bosses and wingmen, starts the maxiprocess born from the investigations called "European 'ndrangheta connection - Pollino" , taken in December 2018 between Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, in a joint action against the ndrangheta in Europe and South America, in the framework of an organic reconstruction of multiple criminal activities carried out, on the national territory and abroad, by various exponents of established families of Calabrian organized crime.

The 16 defendants who have been indicted before the Court of Locri are Antonio Barbaro, Domenico Barbaro, Giuseppe Campagna, Maria Rosaria Campagna, Luciano Camporesi, Salvatore Santo Cappello, Roberto Esposito, Carmelo Vincenzo Gerasolo, Domenico Pelle, Giuseppe Pelle, Antonio Pizzata , Serafino Rubino, Vincenzo Salzano, Angelo Sansoterra, Giuseppe Strangio, Giorgio Violi.

Switzerland to Prioritize Fight Against ‘Ndrangheta in 2020

https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch...oritize-fight-against-ndrangheta-in-2020

A review Tribunal in Reggio Calabria had cancelled the “mafia association” charge so Ricci now voluntarily accepts to return to Italy.

The 'ndrangheta was preparing an attack in the Turin area with hand grenades: this is the reason why a 61-year-old Sicilian, after presenting himself as a former member of "Cosa Nostra", decided to collaborate with the DDA of Piedmont, making declarations then used in the Carminius investigation on the presence of the clans in Carmagnola (then linked to the arrest of the regional councilor Roberto Rosso for exchange vote).

"I knew - said the repentant at the beginning of 2018 - that people have got hand grenades to use for an attack and I don't like this thing and I want to avoid it". According to the 61-year-old, the bombs (six in all) had been brought in from Calabria "to use them against a person who created problems" .

In the meantime they had to be kept in Carmagnola. According to the repentant, in the area " 'ndrangheta and Cosa nostra they made a pact to work together without bothering each other".

The statements of superpentito Liuzzo on 'Ndrangheta, freemasonry and politics
PRINTDetails Published: 11 January 2020

In the minutes the relations with the Matacena
by Aaron Pettinari

A river in full. This could define the flow of consciousness of Pino Liuzzo , in the past boss-entrepreneur and today collaborator of justice. In recent days, the assistant prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Lombardo , has not obtained the reopening of the hearing to hear the repentant at the Breakfast trial (the procedure that among others sees the ex Interior Minister, Claudio Scajola ,accusedwith the Accusations of having helped the former parliamentarian of Forza Italy Amedeo Matacenato escape from prison following the final sentence for external competition), but the reports reveal the intertwining between 'Ndrangheta, freemasonry and institutions with that dense network of "invisibles". Entrepreneurs, professionals and politicians who find themselves managing an obscure system of power that starts from Reggio Calabria and probably influences the country's politics and economy.
"Liuzzo - Lombardo had represented to the Court last December - allows us to precisely frame the very close relationships between the Matacena family, and therefore the Cavaliere Matacena and Amedeo Jr, with the 'Ndrangheta reggina through the Rosmini family".
And reading the minutes it is clear why the repentant's statements are considered of great importance. Indeed, Liuzzo was a direct protagonist of numerous events.

The political project
The magistrates spoke of a real political project, with direct interests of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, behind the election in Parliament of Amedeo Matacena jr and also Mimmo Crea , definitively sentenced to 7 years and 6 months for competition outside in mafia association in the "Honored Health" procedure.
"Amedeo - reads the minutes - with Rome referents, he says they want to pull inside Crea" Reason?"They wanted Mimmo Crea to pass because he had a platoon of frightening votes. They tell us he was getting 4/5 thousand votes."
But according to Liuzzo there were other directors behind that operation. "One was Alfredo Biondi , then there was another who came, who always went down, but I don't remember now" he told the prosecutors to then name after a while. And it is one of the high-sounding ones: the former interior minister Claudio Scajola .
Matacena jr, for its part, would have kept contacts in the area. "He was not a luminary - says Liuzzo - but after so much school ... because Matacena taught people in Rome, by Alfredo Biondi, he was his companion, I mean, by people who specialize in studying ... people prepared to go to Parliament. "And then again, still referring to Matacena:" The father wanted to bring his son to make him honorable. Roman level. Yes, having a deputy in Rome. "
Liuzzo's statements were also filed at the Gotha trial where the dense network of invisibles ended up at the bar. Among the defendants there are figures such as Senator Antonio Caridi and lawyers Giorgio De Stefano and Paolo Romeo

The Phoenix and the covered loggias
Other collaborators of justice, such as Cosimo Virgiglio , have reported the existence of these very high relationships between entrepreneurs, Masons and politicians.They talked about the existence of covered loggias .
Heard at the Breakfast Virgiglio trial had told of the existence of the "Phoenix", connected to that of the "Two Worlds". And according to him also Matacena senior would have been part of it as "Whispered in the ear" that is "one of those people who for their public role prefer not to appear on the lists. Together with him there were politicians, before '93 also magistrates, then law enforcement. There was the lawyer Romeo, that Lombard who was a surgeon, the then commander of the municipal of Reggio, the owner of a restaurant, Baylik. These people here. The Phoenix had a parallelism with the obedience of Prince Alliata ".Those names had been learned directly from the Serene Grand Master, Francica, the only one who knew the complete list of names.
Today Liuzzo says that Matacena father was a "trusted person" who had made available his network of Masonic contacts.
A fact that he would have learned directly from Diego Rosmini, a leading figure of the Reggio clans at the time ( "He tells me you know they promised us in a few words, he says, it's not a question of money, it's a question, being that Santa Barbara is gone bad, being that the father of Amedeo Matacena , the knight I mean, is Freemason says he promised us guarantees " ). So Matacena senior would have promised to"to make lawyers available, who paid him" , and who "had friends in Rome and that the process made him go back".

Crociata Matacena
Returning to talk about the political project with Matacena protagonist he reported a real "crusade" that would have been made for the latter. And then again: "When he joined Forza Italia, he had a boom to be afraid of" . How was this possible? According to him, why it " would have been touched at 360 degrees".
Then he added: "The result of the vows between Matacena in 94 and Paolo Romeosupported, I mean, from a frightening array, I mean, you see, I mean, here's the strength, I mean the work that has been ".
And by the families of 'Ndrangheta the support was total " with all the families of the arches, Condellian, Rosminian, Serraino and company, the whole mountain, the good soul of Musolino and ... went to the Pelle, all Alvaro, Peppe Piromalli and Mammoliti. I mean: Matacena was their candidate, I mean. There was one thing, I mean, from the votes he then took. " Basically also the old families of 'Ndrangheta who had supported that candidacy also thanks to the peace reached after the Mafia war. " These alignments no longer exist- Liuzzo explained - By now they are all related ". A support that was somehow " returned " between business and millionaire contracts.

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/hom...su-ndrangheta-massoneria-e-politica.html

For three days, the Assize Court of Bouches-du-Rhône will travel a bit, to grapple with what justice has considered a bridgehead of the Calabrian mafia in France.

Antonio Magnoli answers for his participation in an international drug trafficking. The sailboat "Relambi" was boarded on June 8, 2015, off the island of Saint-Martin, with 79 cocaine buns on board for a total weight of 89 kilos.

The goods were intended for criminals domiciled in the Alpes-Maritimes, Italy and Spain, in connection with the same mafia.

Antonio Magnoli, 60, a native of Antibes - his brother Rocco and his nephew have already been tried in Marseille -, had raised the incompetence of the Marseille court and asked to go to the assizes. Nothing says that his choice will be happier upon arrival. He will however be assisted by two renowned criminal lawyers, Me Frédéric Monneret and Me Jean-Marc Darrigade.

The Magnoli brothers are presented by French justice as "a team of seasoned criminals". They are reputed to be very established on the Côte d'Azur, near Vallauris.

But for justice, Antonio Magnoli, even if he denied his belonging to the Calabrian mafia, was " particularly silent in his statements" and "gave no verifiable explanation, both on his movements and his associates ". Above all, the judge has so far considered that the project he says to be his import of fruit and vegetables from his native Calabria " is in no way supported".

The state police arrested in Reggio Calabria the alleged instigator and perpetrators of the murder of Bruno Ielo, tobacconist killed with a gunshot to the head on May 25, 2017. Francesco Mario Dattilo, indicated as the operational killer, Francesco Polimeni and Cosimo Scaramozzino.
The 66-year-old trader was killed on a mandate by an exponent of the 'Ndrangheta in a blatant manner with a pistol abandoned next to the corpse, because he had not wanted to bend to the diktat of the gang to close the tobacconist competing with that of the principal of the murder, a prominent element of the Tegano family.

Bank chief, doc arrested in 'Ndrangheta bust
Grande Aracri clan's influence on Cutro council uncovered

(ANSA) - Crotone, January 15 - The president of a local bank in Calabria, a leading Rome-based doctor and a prominent local businessman were arrested Wednesday in an operation against the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia.
The operation focuses on how the 'Ndrangheta's Grande Aaracri clan influenced the business of the council of the town of Cutro.
Those arrested are Ottavio Rizzuto, president of the Banca di Credito Cooperativo del Crotonese, and former manager, from 2007 to 2015, of the Cutro council's technical area; Alfonso Sesito, a cardiologist at Rome's Policlinico Gemelli Hospital; and businessman Rosario Le Rose.
The trio are accused of mafia association, extortion, abuse of office, influence peddling, failing to report crimes by a public officer, illegal access to computer systems, all crimes aggravated by mafia methods.
Catanzaro prosecutors said "investigations have enabled us to state that over the years the 'Ndrangheta clan led by Nicola Grande Aracri exercised its influence on the council of Cutro, in fact managing extremely numerous contracts and deriving direct and conspicuous economic benefit from that.
It said Rizzuto, the bank chief and former council manager, was a "central figure in this criminal metastasis".
It said police carried out several raids of the local bank and council offices.
The probe enabled prosecutors to shed light on how Rizzuto favoured and helped the 'Ndrangheta clan in getting hold of council contracts.
It said Le Rose, the businessman, was another key figure.
Sesito, the cardiologist, also "exerted considerable influence" in the case, the investigators said.

REVIEW COURT
Syracuse, "Ndrangheta and Freemasonry": the domiciliaries for Elisabetta Lo Iacono arranged


For the 49-year-old accountant from Syracuse the mafia-type aggravating circumstance has fallen while the accusations of money laundering and circumvention of a preventive measure in favor of a suspect remain


House arrest for Elisabetta Lo Iacono, the 49-year-old accountant from Syracuse initially ended up in prison following the operation of the Catanzaro Prosecutor's Office "Rinascita - Scott" , together with 334 other people. An investigation that focuses on the alleged intertwining of "Ndrangheta, Freemasonry and politics".

In all, 416 suspects were accused in various capacities of mafia association, murder, extortion, usury, fictitious registration of property, money laundering and other crimes aggravated by mafia methods. Among these, in fact, also the accountant from Syracuse and comrade Antonio Delfino. Prison custody had been applied to both of them for the aggravating circumstance of having committed the fact in order to facilitate the activity of the "Ndrangheta" as well as making use of the conditions provided for by the Mafia-style association.


Specifically, the woman is being investigated for facilitating, in competition with others, the activities of a mafia-style association and self-laundering in competition. Elisabetta Lo Iacono, in partnership with Delfino, even if not formally, for investigators managed all the company policies and attended the meetings in the presence of the Calabrian boss Saverio Razionale.

Yesterday the 49-year-old was released from prison and disposed of at home, as the mafia was less aggravated for the Review while the charges of money laundering and circumvention of a preventive measure in favor of a suspect remain

January 16, 2020

‘Ndrangheta, the businessman Antonio Ricci extradited from Malta arrives in Italy

January 18, 2020

Eventually the king of online betting on behalf of the ‘ndrangheta will respond to Italian justice. He was extradited and arrived in Italy late yesterday evening 44-year-old Antonio Ricci, an entrepreneur active in the criminal gambling sector, arrested last December in Malta in execution of a European arrest warrant, after he had escaped to the capture in Operation Galaxy.
On that occasion, in 2018, at the end of an investigation by the DDA of Reggio Calabria, 18 people were arrested for a plurality of criminal associations operating throughout Italy active in the betting collection sector in relation to the main gangs of De Stefano-Tegano, Pesce-Bellocco and Piromalli.
Last December, the Court of Reggio, at the request of the DDA had ordered the seizure of the assets attributable to Ricci and the family, for 400 million euros.

Police arrested 21 people for the illicit trafficking of drugs, drug dealing and possession for the purpose of drug trafficking in competition, as well as attempted murder, in the provinces of Rome, Naples, Reggio Calabria, Viterbo and Frosinone.
Further searches are underway against 13 other suspects, whose conduct was found to be linked to the illicit trafficking of narcotic substances attributed to those arrested.
The investigations have made it possible to disarticulate a criminal organization dedicated to traffic, active in one of the most important trading squares in the Roman district of San Basilio.
Among those arrested there are several subjects close to the Marando from Plati, including Alfredo and Francesco Marando, nephews of the boss Pasquale Marando.

'Ndrangheta, the holding company to conquer the world. New levers and historical clans in Calabria

SAVERIO PUCCIO | 22 JAN. 2020 16:02 | 0 comments

CATANZARO - A "holding company that never misses an opportunity to get rich", managing to "contaminate any part of society left without a presence and pervade the whole national territory". The 'Ndrangheta conquers an increasingly pervasive power, managing to dialogue with anyone and taking root in the territory with a widespread presence, as shown by the maps that indicate the gangs active in the Calabrian territory. A growth that looks, however, outside the national territory.

READ THE COMPLETE ANALYSIS OF THE DIA ABOUT NDRANGHETA

To reconstruct the dynamics of organized crime was the head of the operational section of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate of Catanzaro, the deputy chief Giuseppe Maria Emiddio. Having recently arrived at the head of the section, the deputy commissioner met the journalists to take stock of the activity carried out and the results achieved which are contained in the traditional Dia report, with particular attention to the district of the Dda of Catanzaro led by the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri.

"We have recorded the presence of" locals "in every region - he highlighted - even in those where until recently they were not even taken into consideration». A very high infiltration capacity, to the point that the Dia report itself becomes "a cross-section in work in progress that must also take into account new crimes to earn more".

In the whirlwind business set up by the 'ndrangheta, Dia found an ability to' specialize to create a 'laundry' with false invoices, companies headed by nominees and all those elements that can be used to clean up the money resulting from illicit activities ». Businesses that, according to what emerged in the various investigations, "are also carried out outside Italy, precisely because it is possible to make money disappear".

In a constantly evolving 'ndrangheta that is not only archaic traditions, women who take care of people in prison and carry out the affairs of the gang also play an important role. An expansion that obviously does not leave the public administration indifferent: "We find a link between criminal association and public administration - said Emiddio - which is not free from constraints".

To counter this continuing rise, the deputy chief reiterated the need for fruitful collaboration by the population: "There is no strong collaboration of citizenship - said Emiddio - as if there was a sort of habit that should be eradicated because otherwise the war cannot be won. One cannot think of delegating only the police force ».

In the Dia report the dynamics concerning the provinces of Catanzaro, Crotone, Cosenza and Vibo Valentia were analyzed, examining the various gangs active in the area and the contrast operations carried out between January and June of last year.

New levers and balances in the Catanzaro area

As far as the province of Catanzaro is concerned, the investigations have made it possible to record "a sort of generational relay, a forced" regeneration ", caused by the loss of important leaders and affiliates decimated by the arrests". To add concern there is also a change in the balance: "To silently advance on the criminal scenario operating in the territory between the Ionian coast and the" mountain "of the Presila Catanzarese and Crotonese - says Dia - important surnames of the historical 'ndrangheta they seek to consolidate its presence by filling an apparent void ». In the Lamezia Terme area, however, "the gangs have once again highlighted the ability to project their criminal interests even outside the region".

The power of the Mancusos in the Vibonese area

La Dia reported how the Vibonese continues to "constitute a reference territory" for the Mancuso family of Limbadi. The powerful gang, according to the report, "makes use of a series of trusted satellite consortiums, boasting solid and consolidated alliances with the gangs of Reggino, in particular those operating in the territory falling in the plain of Gioia Tauro".

In Cosenza « institutional collusions »

To achieve their objectives, the gangs active in the Cosentino "also resort to collusive actions with institutional subjects". This is the most critical passage of the report in the analysis of the province of Cosenza. "In particular, the capital - highlights Dia - is characterized by the presence and constant operation of the Lanzino - Pattucci, Perna - Cicero, Abbruzzese and Rango - Gingari gangs".

The Grande Aracri landmark in the Crotone area

In the period examined by the report, "the Crotone area did not show significant changes in the mapping of the 'Ndranghetista families, which sees the hegemony of the Grande Aracri gang confirmed, at the top of the local of Cutro, which has always been a point of reference for the other gangs Crotone and the neighboring provinces, although it can boast particularly fierce operational projections in Northern Italy ".

https://www.quotidianodelsud.it/cal...an-in-calabria?cli_action=1579719023.948

Maps with all the gangs of the 'ndrangheta in Calabria

The Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate has published the new report on the activities carried out in the first half of 2019. Following all the maps with the names of the active gangs

https://www.quotidianodelsud.it/cal...e-le-cosche-della-ndrangheta-in-calabria

Giuseppe Gregoraci, an important member of the Figliomeni clan of Siderno commits suicide ! He was arrested in July 2019 as part of the "Canadian 'ndrangheta connection" which hit the Canadian tentacles of Calabrian organized crime, was found hanged in the Voghera prison where he was detained.

Vincenzo Muià and Giuseppe Gregoraci went to Toronto after the murder of Mino Muià, believed to be the lieutenant of the boss Giuseppe Commisso, where they met the brothers Cosimo and Angelo Figliomeni, called "the brigands", both fugitives in Canada, in order to know the real reasons that led to the murder of the brother.

The interesting part about the Ndragheta in Woodbridge, is there are those that participate similar to the international community, consistency with Calabria. As, well as Ndragheta? that isn’t always consistent with Calabria, meaning in communication. I believe the Commisso killed with women on purpose, opposed to Serrano missed and woman killed instead, is this.

Wolfpack??it has disappeared as quickly as it appeared??

It’s like a spilt Rome with Constantine, one is Real Rome, the other is just an illusion.

Interesting thing is it’s the same shooters in Musitano as in Serrano, who knows if that’s it.

If the communication gap has been addressed, it could also be part of the stability that is being observed currently in Canada.

i'm more curious who in the toronto 'ndrangheta was daniele ranieri working for after juan ramon fernandez's 2013 murder.
his name came up in the trial of giuseppe ursino for cocaine trafficking.

That is a great question, we know by now that nobody will get an answer out of Ranieri.