You mean this Napoli?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/eb/15/e2/eb15e27d3f8f42da49e1a49969e02c61.jpgAbout the Gambinos you have right this guys in the History and also now the biggest LCN Family in Drugs. All other are little against the Gambinos in narcotic. Rizzutos, Familys from Ontario and the Gambinos this are the biggest guys in drugs from all italian groups in north america.
Here is a other interesting articel about Roberto Settineri.
In italian.
http://archivio.panorama.it/italia/Reality-mafiahere in english:
Reality Mafia
Traditionalist as in the "Godfather". Dangerous as in "Donnie Brasco." Caricatured as in "The Sopranos". Here's What Our 2010: dialogues, lifestyles and connections that outclass film and television. For months the Italian police checked boss and picciotti between Miami, New York and Palermo. And a journalist from Panorama was joined to agents, following live the last stages of the investigation. Until, March 10, between Italy and the US have taken the handcuffs
Reality Mafia
of Antonio Rossitto
reality mafia
Traditionalist as in the "Godfather". Dangerous as in "Donnie Brasco." Caricatured as in "The Sopranos". Here's What Our 2010: dialogues, lifestyles and connections that outclass film and television. For months the Italian police checked boss and picciotti between Miami, New York and Palermo. And a journalist of "Panorama" was joined to agents, following live the last stages of the investigation. Until, March 10, between Italy and the United States have taken the handcuffs. The story and audio files of some eavesdropping
At Brickell Key, one of the most beautiful areas of South Miami, is a little after 5 in the morning. It's Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Ten officers in camouflage Swat, specific core FBI raid in the elegant gray building. The goalkeeper dodges, federal go up to the sixth floor. Break through a door. Enter a beautiful house overlooking the ocean. On the dining room table is a tall half meter humidifier: inside there are thirty cigars of high quality.
Before the huge plasma TV is a thumbnail of a Sicilian cart. two caps: a beige, the other brown input on the mobile stand out. Next there are the keys to an Audi Qt and a Mini Cooper. The host is called Roberto Settineri: for the prosecutor in Palermo is the link between the clans in Palermo and American ones. The officers handcuffed still white boxers. His wife, a beautiful South American girl, is terrified. He does not lose control, "I'm a good person," he says. "There was no need to break the door. I would have opened anyway. "
The latest survey on the links between Italian and American Cosa Nostra is a romanzone from unusual canvas: The Godfather by
Mario Puzo revisited by David Chase, the writer of The Sopranos. "Paesan blues": the title of the book has already coined Raffaele Grassi, Deputy Head of the SCO, the Italian police officer who coordinated the operation. He tells a modern and ancestral Mafia at the same time.
Criminals who use telecommunication connections Skype and smoke long cigars as knives. Speak the English slang with US businessmen and the narrow Palermo with old Sicilian bosses. Investors in New York art galleries and meet every night in the same Italian-American restaurant. Buy apartments in Dubai and are trafficking cocaine.
-audio And Photo: The Boss Settineri phones Enzo Buscetta, grandson of "Don Masino"
The agents of the SCO, the Police Central Operations Service, and the FBI for two years are being followed, caught, photographed, did bank checks. In Florida, Panorama has followed the last frantic days of the investigation, marked by stalking in the boulevard fringed with palm trees of Miami Beach and the meeting in a nondescript building cream of Fort Lauderdale, the FBI headquarters. Until dawn Wednesday: March 10. Twenty-six people, arrested for crimes ranging from money laundering Mafia association: three to Miami, two in North Carolina, one in New York and 20 in Palermo.
In the list there are big shots of the Gambino family, the most powerful of the US. And the heads of the church of Santa Maria de Jesus, the clan of the Sicilian capital. More than a quarter of a century after the Pizza Connection investigation, the protagonists of criminal association between Italy and the United States remain the same. United in the name of money and honor.
The link between the two sides, according to investigators, is Settineri: a 41 year old Palermo who lives in Miami Beach, Florida, in 1998. In Italy accuse him of mafia association. In recycling America. Nothing makes him forget the origins and aspirations: physical wrestler, tinted glasses, dark clothes, always unbuttoned shirt, Havana between his lips and gold Rolex on your wrist.
-audio And Photo: Settineri speaks with a person wants to take a vacation with Laura. And 'it covered language: Laura is the fugitive Antonio Lo Nigro
Settineri is officially a representative of wines and spirits. The same craft that was his father, John, in Palermo. "He sold mainly Glen Grant" explains August 1st of 1987 the repentant Antonino Calderone to the judge Giovanni Falcone. "I was his host during the run," he adds in his deposition.
But for the son the marketing of expensive bottles would be just a cover. The few movements of his checking account does not justify work activities. He lives like a king, Settineri. He attends the glitterati. Runs on expensive cars. Yet it has no investments in any company, he has verified the FBI. In Miami Beach, along with federal, Panorama has discovered a different truth. The Soprano cafe is a restaurant with blue curtains and 20 small tables placed in the middle of Lincoln Road, the most trendy and diverse city street: scollacciate girls, teenagers skateboarding, businessmen in dark jacket. To Soprano Settineri it is at home. Even so, says the FBI.
Confusion among the people, the agents see him feasting for hours: dispenses smiles, shakes hands. Everyone calls him "Roberto." The photograph while playing cards with his henchmen, business talks, eats eagerly, and sprinkle the robust wines foods.
Inside, posters Godfather and The Sopranos posters crowd the yellow walls. I'm a little after 10 of Monday, March 8 evening. At the bar there is a Genoese girl with pronounced chin. "The owners are Italians» trusts, newly discovered dell'avventore nationality. Where from? "One is from Bari: it is called Rocco." And the other? "Siciliano: Roberto is ...." Surname? The waitress thinks for a moment: "I do not remember."
-audio And Photo: Settinieri talks with two friends who tell him their relationship with a woman
They spend a few minutes. Rocco arrives at the counter, in his fifties: stonewashed jeans, blue shirt untucked and hairy chest in sight. "Where you from?" He asks. "Sicilian". Rocco for a moment lights. He has the nose of a boxer in the middle of a face crafty. "Even my partner is from Sicily: Palermo," he says as he runs his hand through his white hair, long at the temples. He glances at a group of blondes who stops to look at the menu: "His name Settineri». But for Roberto gourmet business it would be even more lavish.
To get to the popular restaurant Carpaccio must move to North Beach on Collins Avenue, one of the most exclusive streets of Miami. Tuesday night, around 9 o'clock, in front of the restaurant about twenty people waiting for the turn. There will be at least 200 seats, but there is an empty chair.
Carpaccio is on the ground floor of the Bel Harbor shop, a commercial center for luxury brands. Next to the restaurant there is the Cartier boutique. In front of the most exclusive jewelers in the world: De Beers and Van Cleef & Arpels. The FBI monitors the room to be days. The policemen of the SCO, led by Grassi, make an inspection. Participates Luca Scognamillo, the liaison officer with the American authorities.
Here too Settineri is at home. "It acts as a master, and the master is treated," summarizes an FBI investigator. Hour layover under the awnings Venetian red color of the restaurant, while Ferrari and Jaguar tied down to young men and scantily clad women. In a phone call, Settineri says the Carpaccio is his. But, even in this case, the cards are not shares.
American agents have observed his movements for months and found the same ritual: lunches and dinners lasting hours. Sometimes, yarns via the last customers, the meetings are extended inside the restaurant, in the middle of design chandeliers and pop art paintings.
The restaurants, however, would be only part of the business. For the FBI, Settineri would clean up 10 million dollars "of illicit origin 'means a recycling so risks 20 years in prison. To wash the money would open two bank accounts to two nominees. "We can not yet give details on how it would be spent on the dirty money," says Panorama Dena Choucair, the forty-deputy head of the FBI in Miami, Lebanese origin and masculine look.
But tapping into it speaks of real estate investments in Palermo, Dubai, New York, where Settineri was the purchase of apartments. And in Miami. In an interception with Palermo entrepreneur discusses the purchase 'of a nearby building on Danny DeVito's restaurant. "
Another recycling channel is the one of the works of art, thanks to the complicity of the New York gallery owners. In the Big Apple, after all, the relations of Settineri were consolidated. Wednesday, March 10, the FBI stopped Gaetano Napoli, 71, and two sons Gaetano junior and Thomas. They are accused of extortion, usury, money laundering and fraudulent bankruptcy.
The Naples are considered at the top of the Gambino family. Their criminal feud is Staten Island: here are run pizzerias and a meat resale. The Fort Lauderdale investigators have recorded several of Settineri in New York travel. Someone even in an official capacity.
On 4 September 2008, the FBI photographs him at the funeral of a man of the Gambino: John Ruggiero. He was the son of Angelo, right arm of John Gotti, former mammasantissima the Gambino family. Died in 2001, film and television have fueled the legend of criminal Gotti: inspired the character of Joey Zasa in the third part of the Godfather and that of the boss Johnny Sack of The Sopranos. Reverse fate happened to John Ruggiero, nicknamed "Johnny Boy" for its resemblance to one of the protagonists of the television series. Even his funeral was no exception. The snapshots taken by the investigators seem an episode of the saga.
Settineri just came out from the church: wearing black pinstripe suit, dark glasses. It looks around grimly, circumspect. A hundred meters away, hidden in a white pickup truck, the photographing all agents.
Relations between Settineri and Naples are balances. So much so that the old Mafia to intercede on behalf of the young Roberto. June 27, 2009 the FBI intercepts a phone call: Settineri, notes the SCO, complains to Naples he was not invited to a meeting organized by Colombo. To do this, of course, use a hermetic language: its guarantor for the moment is on "vacation", that is in prison. Decrypts Police: it refers to the boss Nicholas "Little Nick" Corozzo, former regent of the Gambino now in jail. Settineri is annoyed by the inconvenience: "As long as one speaks in friendship," he says, "it does so with education. But should they speak incorrectly they break the phones. Because I do not treat me bad, you understand me? ".
To settle the dispute, the July 1, 2009 is organizing a meeting in an Italian restaurant in Pompano Beach, north of Miami. They flock members of the New York Gambino. And even the FBI: the telephoto photographing all. Settineri arrives on his black Porsche. Then he closes in secret meetings with his right arm, Salvatore Tricamo, among those arrested on 10 March. Appointment not miss the mediator: Napoli. He gets out of black in dark suits, as required by the protocol.
It is not the only way to Florida for New Yorkers. Settineri also often goes to visit them. But his frequent trips are in his native Palermo. Here the SCO agents and they keep an eye on Mobile some time. Roberto knows many mobsters. And from them it is treated with consideration. For the prosecution the network would be woven in particular with Gianpaolo brothers, 37, and Gioacchino Corso, 42, said, "Ino." For the investigators are the heads of the Santa Maria family of Jesus. They were always stopped on March 10, in Palermo, with 18 other people.
The brothers have relationships with New Yorkers clan. Blood ties, as well as business: Gianpaolo is brother of Sylvester Lo Green, right arm dell'emergentissimo Frank Cali, who was arrested in 2008. The course is in close contact with Settineri. Often they go to Miami. December 31, 2009 Ino calling Gianpaolo, who is spending the New Year in Florida. He says he has to bring him "an American T-shirt". Must be "typical", "Me and I must look like I have to put American 'specification. The metaphor would indicate drug. In intercepted phone calls, moreover, metaphors and allusions are constant. In a phone call to a friend Settineri hums the air of the Godfather: "Speak more slowly, that no one will hear ...."
In Palermo Settineri it has relations, in addition to the course, with close to mafia clans Pagliarelli and Brancaccio. His travels are punctuated by meetings, meetings, business. And Dangerous Liaisons. Just a flight to Sicily should have taken the day of his arrest. An epilogue that Roberto did not expect. "To me," he said a month ago on the phone, "the only crime that I can challenge the heart theft and abuse of a smile."
