Blitz against Cosa Nostra in Palermo and New York, Italian police and FBI arrested 19 members of Passo di Rigano 'mandamento' on charges of mafia association, extortions, frauds, money laundering and other crimes; among the arrested the acting boss Giovanni Buscemi, Francesco Inzerillo, Tommaso Inzerillo, Rosario Gambino (brother of John) and Salvatore Gambino, the mayor of Torretta.

Did anyone in New York get arrested?

They waited Calogero Zito, Giuseppe Spatola and Tommy Gambino to come on vacation in Sicily to arrest them. They didnt arrested anyone in NYC

I guess the Cali murder has put them back on the radar of the feds.

Video of Thomas Gambino and the others.

https://palermo.gds.it/video/cronac...ti-bb4dc01b-3271-42f8-932a-681574e4fed4/

FBI officers and Italian colleagues with international search warrants carried out raids on three properties in New Jersey, Staten Island and Philadelphia, police said.

whick tommy gambino the son of the cherry hill guys or carlos son who must be 90ty??

Tommy the son of Rosario the one from LA.

Was just going to post this pic. Someone mentioned they were discussing Cali's property he had in the DR. And then the raid happened. Interesting....

Maybe but then the Antimafia had not much time to build a case. Specifics Charge will be interesting. Sounds White Collar for me.
We see a lot of activity in sicily about this new cupola.

Pure speculation but this can change the power balance in NYC too.

Tommaso Inzerillo

so now we now that the la family is just a gambino crew...

Rosario the OG

Rosario looks good.

I wonder if Cali woulda been swept up in this if he were alive.

You can also see the resemblance to Carlo Gambino.

Joe's son, not Rosario's son (the one in LA).

Yeah you're right baldo very confusing lol.

is joe son a made gambino?

Tommaso Inzerllo was mad at Calì and he was complaining to a Gambino family member who stole stuff from another member and got his life saved somehow.

Among the videos is one that shows the 47-year-old son of alleged mobster Joseph Gambino, Thomas Gambino, discussing the sale of proceeds of a potential land sale with Francesco Inzerillo. The land in the Dominican Republic had formerly been owned by Frank Cali as well as a relative of the Inzerillos, police say.

Don’t know if it’s fact but hear New Yourk and Philly Gambino’s and company are possibly involved with this .......very strange. ....I can see NY but Philly .

Most likely Feds just seeing what they can shake up .....no way Philly involved no way.

This is coming from guys that are connected and were on the beach today talking about it .

Several outlets are now saying one person was arrested in New York. So 19 total arrests, 18 in Sicily, 1 in NYC. Italian charges are expected to be Mafia association, fraud, and extortion.

buy land in DR or selling it, im out. americans going there an dropping like flys, they shot there own national hero david ortiz. no bueno....... penny on the dollar, dont care if its beach front or top of a moutain

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ke-arrests-Mafia-clan-looks-regroup.html

Good photo's

They take perp walk to a whole nother level over there. Just marching them down main st. Shame shame shame

That was blown up for government reasons .... that shit would of never hit the news if not for someone high up in DR not playing ball.

As far as Ortiz wrong place wrong time....he was shot because he looked like a guy that owed a drug dealer cash...

We go there and stay at a private villa with paid security guards buy the owner who is loaded and keeps staff there year round.

But one thing is true you have to pay off everyone and don’t drive at night always hire x-police as chauffeur and guide .

Sarcasm in my posts. So rosario is definitely a inducted member of the gambino family. Him an the brother john were all made in 76 77. Wonder how that plays out in todays Sicily mafia climate. Is he like a celebrity or do other mafia clans shunn him. Little known fact john gotti was the one who bumped john gambino up to capo and made that crew successful till this day.

Gambinos from Philly yes.

Arrests in Canada too, 18 arrests.

Nope.

They are not connected to this thing at all?

^^^^
No, sir.

I find it hard to believe that these 2 raids are not connected in some way. Too many Sicilian connections are going to come up once the list of people indicted in Canada becomes public.

Good source but I still was not sure ......very interesting..

I know a couple of Spatolas here in Philly. Every kid in the family has a pizza shop scattered throughout the Philly burbs and in New York and Jersey. And it’s a HUGE family. Wonderful people. Pretty sure they’re not involved in anything but who knows. Here’s a sidebar.. there’s an amazing Italian cafe in my neighborhood downtown who’s owner is from Palermo. I go there every morning. He just opened a pizzeria that is to die for in the same neighborhood. One morning I was helping him send a contract in an e-mail via his cell phone to his food distributor. As I was scrolling through his contacts he had about 30 Gambinos (all the same 3 or 4 names), Spatolas and several Inzerillos in his book. I joked and said how do you know who is who and he laughed and said “I don’t always”. He was kidding but I thought that was hilarious. He’s a wonderful guy. Looks just like the fourth guy(I think) I saw in the video but wasn’t him. I’m talking dead ringer. They all have the same features it’s crazy. Guess that’s how it goes when you keep the families close to each other.

Rosario is a member of Cosa Nostra in Sicily, his brothers John and Joseph were made in the gambinos the sons Tommy and Tommy also probably.

The boss of bosses Settimo Mineo is very close to the Inzerillos.

The Canada bust is ´Ndrangheta.

Almost everyone is doing something , and some more them others .

I know Ontario is mostly Calabrian territory but with all the Sicilian chaos going on it just seems like too much of a coincidence for them not to be related. Maybe the Calabrians and Sicilians have been playing nice and somebody unknowingly brought the 2 indictments together. It happens that way sometimes. I’m looking forward to the names getting released to try to put the pieces together.

Im pretty sure theres a old picture like 5 7 yrs ago. Rosario getting off the usa federal prisoner plane in a wheel chair with a oxygen mask(maybe) he was fighting his extradition to italy saying he was sick n what not also its double jeopardy. Then i see this picture must have found the fountain of youth over there. Guy looks great for must be 80ty hes older then john im guessing.

Nothing to do with the Philly family...

these connections go back to the Cherry Hill guys and Domenico Mannino....

Exactly my man.....

It's a huge clan... Gambinos, Spatolas, Manninos, DiMaggios, Inzerillos.... The Gambinos tops over here, Inzerillos over there... The Spatolas just below the Inzerillos, the Manninos just below the Gambinos...

Yeah the timing of both busts is curious and we already know the Gambinos and the Calabrian Ursino clan work together.

No doubt....

But those guys are earning....and they have a huge very profitable area with no push back from Philly family , and I sure they love all the eyes are / were on Skinny .

They have been active and nobody has herd one word of it .

why do you keep copying felices post and posting them here like they are yours. you've done that in 3 posts so far. i dont get it

I literally copy-pasted this from BBC article. If i copy paste someones post directly from other board ,i always ask for permission via PM , like i did with Wiseguy and his timeline of rudaj organization

Here is the article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49015661

ya, not true pal. see above. nice try

so there is a chance that the cali hit wasn't random ?

You need to stop with this shit, not sure why people are desperate for this to be LCN related, it clearly isn't.

Salvi interesting u say that..theres a Spatolas out here by me in Doylestown been goin there since i was a kid. The owners last name is Gambino .. I went to school with their daughter nice people... theyre from Cherry Hill and there was always rumors about them being connected

stop with what !? with asking a question !?

Any Sicilians left in the Philly family? Not zips per say, just they always had a decent faction but I havent heard anything about them post-80s.

That information is from Italian article,same article where they mentioned that Zitos were responsible for vote buying in Torreta in June 2018,to get Salvatore Gambino elected as mayor. I will post link to article as soon as i find it. Then u can use google translate to translate it.

i would never copy-paste original stuff from that board here,stuff that are his posts only like gambino members party and all photos posted on that board.

cool story.

Dont these guys live in brooklyn/staten island? Wouldnt john gambino and cali cefulo induct them into there family otherwise they wouldnt have power in nyc?

I found the article here... I think...


https://www.agi.it/cronaca/mafia_new_york_palermo_gambino_inzerillo-5852167/news/2019-07-17/

GAMBINO MAFIA
Dealt a heavy blow to the Mafia pact on the Palermo-New York route. The Palermo police demolished the vertexes and affairs of the Passo di Rigano district with a blitz started at dawn and conducted by over 200 men from the mobile squad, the central operational service and the FBI in New York.

Executed numerous arrests, arranged by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Prosecutor of Palermo, against as many members of the district that have to respond in various ways, of crimes conspiracy mafia-type, extortion, collusion with the Mafia, fraudulent transfer of aggravated values, unfair competition aggravated by the Mafia method and others.


The investigations of the operation, called " New connection ", recorded the strong bond established between Cosa Nostra Palermo and US organized crime, with particular reference to the powerful Gambino Crime Family of New York, as well as the strong pervasive capacity of the family mafia from Passo di Rigano, on the legal economy of the neighborhood on the outskirts of Palermo, according to a widespread division of roles and duties: from wholesale food supply to classic extortion, through the management of online games and bets.

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In Passo di Rigano, important representatives of the Inzerillo family had re-established their criminal stronghold , a historic Palermo mafia cell, decimated in the 1980s by the second mafia war. At the end of the investigations, it turned out that these " escapes ", who had returned to Italy in the early 2000s, had reconstituted the ranks of the "family", also thanks to the rediscovered balance with the opposing criminal faction.

During the "New Connection" operation, movable assets, real estate and company shares were seized for about three million euros attributable to the Inzerillo who had reconstituted part of the army of the 'Scappati', escaped from the fury of the Corleonesi of Totò Riina and in the recently returned to command in a piece of Palermo.

Mafia Palermo new york Escape

The 'Escaped' to Riina's fury and that New York-Palermo bridge that never collapsed


Among the 19 arrested, therefore, Francesco and Tommaso Inzerillo , respectively brother and cousin of Salvatore "Totuccio" Inzerillo, killed by the Corleonese. They were arrested in the Gotha operation and then released.


The mayor of Torretta (Palermo) Salvatore Gambino , who was arrested during the night by policemen from the mobile squad, was also "available" to the gangs . The accusation p of external competition in mafia association. "Did I not make him win the elections?", Bragged Simone Zito intercepted: resident in America, speaking of Gambino, in charge since June 2018.


Calogero Zito, a 32-year-old son of Simone, born in the United States and resident of Torretta, also among those arrested, instead discusses with another man the assignment of the duties of councilors and councilors of the town of Torretta, indicating the names, then assignments actually assumed by the indicated subjects.

Business was spinning between Palermo and the United States.

There is Thomas Gambino, son of the American mobster Joseph, in a video of 3 August. Discusses with Tommaso Inzerillo about the division of the proceeds from the possible sale of a large piece of land in the Dominican Republic.

Formally registered to Frank Cali ', at the head of the Gambino family killed in March in New York and to the heirs of Benedetto Villico Benedetto, the deceased uncle of Tommaso Inzerillo who is hidden in the property in a hidden manner. In the images a meeting is resumed between mobsters, all of whom are now under arrest, of Passo di Rigano which took place aboard a rubber boat in the Gulf of Mondello last summer.

The property of Calogero Zito , in New Jersey, owned by Thomas Gambino , in Staten Island (New York) and Simone Zito , in Philadelphia, were seized for 3 million euros and searched by Italian FBI and Italian investigators .

The search decrees were issued by the DDA of Palermo and carried out at the end of the planned rogatory procedure. The suspects respond, in various ways, to mafia-type criminal association, aggravated extortion, external competition in mafia association, fraudulent transfer of aggravated values, unfair competition aggravated by the mafia method and others.

@strax like I said. you stole felice's posts and then posted them here as if they were your own.

The Zito property in Jersey that got searched, Does anyone know what town?

Mafia, Tommaso Inzerillo's no to the new dome: "Young people repent"
18 July 2019

The headmaster Tommaso Inzerillo
The fear that the new recruits might regret, in case of arrest, had led the Mafia leader Tommaso Inzerillo, stopped yesterday in the New Connection blitz, not to attend the meeting of the new dome. Inzerillo doubted the "keeping" of the new levers of Cosa Nostra as it comes out of an interception on 22 January 2019.

Inzerillo, cousin of the boss Totuccio killed in the first mafia war on May 11, 1981 in Palermo, talks with Giuseppe Spatola and Gabriele Militello of Leandro Greco, grandson of the 'father' of Cosa nostra Michele, appointed to join the newly established commission of Cosa Nostra. "He is twenty-four, he empties as soon as he enters (collaborates, ed)," he says.

However, Greco was later arrested, but did not cooperate with the prosecutors. Unlike two other mafia leaders who ended up with him in handcuffs, Colletti and Bisconti, who repented. The fears would have induced Inzerillo to refuse to attend the meeting in which the Dome was reconstituted and preferred to send his man, Giovanni Buscemi. "Giovanni also came here, for me you can go, I chased him ... he still wanted that to come ... I told him: ... inc ... he wanted ... inc ... , but get out ... "he says.


In another interception, Tommaso Inzerillo remembers the Mafia war with the Corleonese. "It flared up for a wrong word, a misunderstanding," he said on December 8, 2017, when he met Michele Micalizzi and his mafia victim, Giuseppe. "We find ourselves at this point, at this point for a word, to you it seems to you a joke, the world has ended for a word, a brother cannot say a word?".

Dialogue is intercepted by investigators. Micalizzi replies: "The word is over". And Inzerillo: "Una! I'm saying it here, in my honor". 'What are you saying as well ... if you reflect, summing up, because they were with Riina, as long as there is ... one, a word, no two, capable even of Riina, if that reflected at this point we do not we would be, I explain, you have, but get up, it may be that if you thought about it at this point, maybe I thought, why did you want me ... ".

Speaking with another Mafioso resident in America, Tommaso Inzerillo, he remembered the escape to the US. "The ban was since then, as I was telling you, it's a situation of my cousin, that some are going to America ... Others, to tell you that here is, we are all stuck, we are great. Now let's see, now with this death (refers to that of Totò Riina, ed) ... You see it if God forbid my cousin died and Stefano (Bontade, ed) remained alive ". The reference is to the possible revenge that Bontade, head of the Villagrazia mafia slain by Riina, would have implemented if he had remained alive. "That, see who reset them", replies the interlocutor. "Shit ... Mama ... A hundred picciotti ... One hundred and twenty were with him", comments Inzerillo.

https://palermo.gds.it/articoli/cro...no-5cab123d-054b-4c26-a0ef-a9add7f57aff/

https://nypost.com/2019/07/17/reput...to-give-reporter-two-hits-with-a-mallet/

Reputed Italian mobster wanted to give reporter ‘two hits with a mallet’

https://www.phillyvoice.com/mafia-raid-philadelphia-fbi-italy-gambino-new-jersey-staten-island/

Philadelphia property raided as U.S., Italian investigators crack down on Mafia

Stanfa was backed by the Gambinos in '91 so I wouldn' 't be surprised there are still connections between the Sicilian factions.

And the Genovese family must be sitting back comfortably watching all this with the only headlines is Vincent Esposito . Makes me wonder what they think of all this since Cali's death. Off topic in a way but still makes me wonder what they got there hands in ?

The Genovese must be doing pretty well $ wise cuz vinny Esposito forfeited that $3.8 million like it was nothing lol

big question would have cali been arrested in this sweep over in italy? was his brother in law tall pete arrested? i still think 1 or 2 of these guys are inducted gambino members. they were living in nyc for the last 30+ yrs cause they couldnt go back there cause toto and they never joined the family in america

Two questions I have:

1. Is this a reflection of the power Cali had? Meaning he was definitely an instrumental piece in establishing these ties again over there. I know the Gambino's have always had strong ties there, but with what happened after the second war, someone had to be a serious mover to get the wheels back in motion. And I'd have to believe he was under surveillance during this project prior to his passing.

2. As far an international reach goes, do the Gambinos have the strongest? Obv that has weakened now. But with Cali gone and this raid, do they still have more international reach than the rest of the families?

Interesting times ahead still guys around who are loyal to the Corleonesi.

so the old guy mineo settimo is the bosses of bosses over there and hes just strolling around the streets meeting guys having chats in the street, no body guards. times have changed from bernardo pro.... hiding in farmhouses, plastic surgerys, giving little messages on tiny pieces of paper. also how good those cameras are is nuts. you can see a wrinkle on the guys forehead and im guessing there a street or 2 over... the case seems pretty boring.yahn... they were shaking down some pasta distributors, dececco ziti went up 3 cents buy barilla... case dissmissed im out

Well Riina and Provenzano were only bosses that were hiding , before them , bosses in Sicily were were walking around,eating in restaurants and so on,everyone knew who they are

I think the top boss is a actually Leandro Greco, and Calogelo LoPiccolo is his ally.....

Greco set up the whole summit , his exclusion of Bisconti and Colletti led to them ratting, which I'm sure help lead to these arrest.... The Inzerillos didnt want to participate because they didnt trust the other bosses, with their history, good reason.

They also said, " As soon as they are caught, they speak", or something like that, which is exactly what happened. I think after Old Bridgd they just focused on making money. If I were them, I wouldnt trust a Greco either, forsaking mafia politics for business has been good to them...


The Inzerillos referred to him as a kid basically I think, but in Sicily he has huge pull, he even goes by Michele apparently, like his grandfather.

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Greek, the destiny in the name "U criaturi" which became the boss
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Written by Riccardo Lo Verso on January 22nd 2019 - 20:01
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Greek, the destiny in the name
"U criaturi" which became the boss

He started with a surname that was famous in Cosa Nostra and he made a lot of it. Here's who the 'nephew' is.
PALERMO - Everyone is the creator of his own destiny. And Leandro Greco chose to draw on his destiny to build on his family's DNA.


"U criaturi (the little creature, the little boy)", as he called it
Giovanni Di Giacomo , a prisoner of the firing group of Pippo Calò , has traveled a lot along the way, starting from a surname that he recorded in the old Cosa Nostra. Leandro's grandfather is Michele Greco , the pope of the mafia, the undisputed lord of Ciaculli. In Ciaculli, at number 461 of the street of the same name, in the house that belonged to his grandfather lived his nephew who sank his roots in the past to become a protagonist in the present. There was also, according to the magistrates of the Anti-Mafia District Directorate and the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit, at the table of the new provincial commission, the one that met to establish the rules of the organization after Riina.

For most, but not for the carabinieri, the figure of Greco looked like a young man like many others. With a particularity: he did not give himself to do for a living, evidently his family assets were enough for him. In 2013 Giovanni Di Giacomo spoke in prison with his brother Giuseppe who was to be murdered shortly thereafter. He made a reference to the "grandson of the vavetto". And here is the ability of the carabinieri to immediately frame the character on the basis of the nickname of the uncle, Nunzio Milano , the "vavetto" that had a decisive weight in Porta Nuova in the mafia designed by Nino Rotolo , boss of Pagliarelli. Milan returned to prison in March 2014 when the carabinieri always stopped the possible mafia war after the Di Giacomo murder. Nunzio's sister was the wife of the 'dad'.

"They've moved him to Ciaculli ... I don't know his nephew," said Giuseppe Di Giacomo, referring to the shift of power from Brancaccio to Ciaculli. Then, his brother Giovanni suggested that he look for alliances with Greco who had assumed a leading role probably because Pietro Tagliavia of Corso dei Mille was controlled by the police. The life sentence killer had some doubts: "Do you think that if the spirugghua ... the Greek Greek one".

The young Leandro was only 24 years old which, four years after those interceptions, participated in the new dome of Cosa Nostra. The Greco have missed a generation in terms of mafia power, as Leandro's father, Giuseppe, has been talked about for his failed attempt to establish himself as a film director.

Since the interception of the Di Giacomo the carabinieri have not stopped concentrating on the figure of Leandro Greco. Symptomatic of his weight is the conversation with which an unidentified person informed him that there were "two friends of Brancaccio" who wanted to talk to him because "perhaps there is some problem here in Ciaculli". A problem that only he could solve. In the life of Greco the figure of Lorenzo Tinnirello appeared at some pointtoday 81 years old, arrested in the 'Ghiaccio' blitz. A few months ago a happy event has in fact strengthened the mafia axis that links Ciaculli to Porta Nuova. Leonardo's brother married the daughter of Gregorio Di Giovanni , Mafia leader of Porta Nuova and another member of the provincial commission of Cosa Nostra. A commission whose convocation would have been pushed by the young Greco.

Written by Riccardo Lo Verso on January 22nd 2019 - 20:01

Damn, Greco was only 29 when he was arrested in January.. so is either 29 or 30 now. And he was apparently a boss at 23:



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Yeah Cabrini he is the real boss, but they choose Mineo to keep everyone happy. The Greco´s are Corleonesi through and through.

I don´t know, but I´m sure felice doesn´t mind give him my greetings.

Well Michele Greco was Riinas puppet

But yeah i agree that Greco's and LoPiccolo's are the people pulling the strings in Palermo, and on top of that Greco is still very young.

Speaking of Trapani , i don't think they have much power there

Within the Corleonesi you had a faction known as the "Palermitani" – led by Bernardo Provenzano and Antonino Giuffrè, Salvatore Lo Piccolo and Matteo Messina Denaro.

Yes Cali would be caught and no Pietro ´Pete´ Inzerillo is still free Joe Gambino also.

Mafia in Palermo, Inzerillo's son-in-law: "At 2 years old my son with the gun"
20 July 2019

"At 2 years of age I have to put the 38 (the .38 caliber, ndr) in his hand". It is the "gift" that Giuseppe Spatola, son-in-law of the boss of Passo di Rigano Tommaso Inzerillo, was planning to do to his son as soon as he was two years old. An absurd background that emerges from one of the interceptions of the «New Connection» survey, which led to the arrest of 19 people and beheaded the leaders of the Passo di Rigano clan , led by the Inzerillo, returned to Palermo in the 2000s from the US, where they had fled during the mafia war of Totò Riina.

As we read in an article by Sandra Figliuolo on today's Giornale di Sicilia , Spatola is on his off-road vehicle with two other suspects, Benedetto Gabriele Militello and Antonio Di Maggio, and prides himself exclaiming "At 2 years I have to put 38 in my hands and I have to blow up the glow plugs in the air ... But carabiniere if at 3 years I don't have to do it shoot ". And he suggests that he already has a gun stored for the child.

https://palermo.gds.it/articoli/cro...la-a2b3d62a-6f8a-4fd8-94f2-8b3f608a906b/

I gotta say this article makes it seem like Cali definitely woulda been caught up in this if he were still alive. Also interesting that the Feds thought Cali dying could’ve severed the relationship between the Gambinos and Inzerillos, but they decided to keep working together “for Franky”

They thing about frank cali selling his plot of land in DR was last august. So he was alive and well. He probaly just sold the shit cause he knew it was a dump. What charges could they have got him over there for? Did he even visit over there? Im thinking he loves america to much for the bullshit over there. Weres his kids live and parents ect. Think the guy was way more americanized then the press is letting on. He was jackie d'amico protege. He spoke sicilian probaly cause its his parents language. They keep saying he was born over there its not true his ass would have been deported yrs back. I agree he was important as like a conduit for his wifes family over there to the powers that run nyc today.

Remembering the press ran with vito rizzuto was the godfather of Canada more powerfull then any american boss. Hes international. Well guess what that was wrong. They killed that guys dad hid son cousins everybody.

I actually think their power is over, it's in Palermo now...

Cali got killed by a nut...... doesnt really prove anything.....

It took a whole coalition to dislodge the Rizzutos, and it still didnt really work, cause no one player had the capabilities to actually take over.

Those moves only kinda worked because they had legal issues. Look at the recent NY indictments.... guys always try to take advantage if you are jammed up .....

19 Mafia Suspects Arrested, Including Some From The Gambino Family
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Police in the U.S. and Italy recently arrested a number of mafiosi. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks author John Dickie about a trans-Atlantic criminal connection.

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:

The Mafia is back in the headlines in a series of raids involving the FBI and Italian police. Nineteen Mafia suspects were arrested in New York and Italy this past week; among them, some from the notorious Gambino crime family. John Dickie studies the Italian Mafia. He's the author of "Blood Brotherhoods," and he joins us now to talk about why these raids are significant.

Welcome.

JOHN DICKIE: Thank you. Thank you.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Let's start with these raids. What do you make of them?

DICKIE: Really, you have to begin the story back in the late 1970s when a number of Mafiosi with strong family ties and organizational ties across the Atlantic between Sicily and the eastern coast of the United States started trafficking in heroin in huge quantities. Now, in the early 1980s in Sicily, a group of Mafiosi who had been left out of that lucrative trade essentially mounted a kind of military coup de tar within the Sicilian Mafia in Sicily and either murdered or expelled from Sicily the members of the Gambino-Inzerillo family. And since then, they have been trying to make a return to re-establish that trans-Atlantic bridge.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: The families on the losing end of that turf war fled to the United States. Why the United States? And it seems strange that members of a crime family could find footing in the United States if they were known sort of Mafiosi.

DICKIE: We've really only begun to understand in recent years just how profoundly important - to the history of the Mafia since at least the very early 20th century - is this whole trans-Atlantic connection. This is not something that just happened once when millions of Sicilians emigrated to the United States before the First World War. This is an ongoing process, the toing and froing of criminal personnel, criminal commodities, criminal ideas. The Inzerillos and Gambino families are intermarried over several generations as part of this process.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: And so what happened recently is that members of this family who had fled to United States were then trying to go back and re-establish themselves in Sicily again. And it was leading to sort of a turf battle.

DICKIE: Yeah, that's right. I mean, the return of the Inzerillos represents a huge internal political problem for Cosa Nostra in Sicily because the people who governed the Sicilian Mafia for a generation from the early 1980s were precisely the people who had murdered many of the Inzerillos, who had effectively ethnically cleansed the others out of Sicily and sent them back to the United States.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: So the Mafia survives off what it's always survived off of, which is essentially protection rackets, right? But where are they at this particular moment? I think many of us think of the Mafia as being a sort of pale shadow of what it once was, both in the U.S. and Italy.

DICKIE: I think that's true, but that is a great symptom of both the huge step change that there's been since particularly the early 1990s in the law enforcement response to organized crime in Italy. And another great indicator of that is this trans-Atlantic cooperation between the authorities. They've now worked together for a generation because they understand the importance of this old bridge. It's no coincidence that FBI headquarters has in it a bust of Giovanni Falcone, the great hero and martyr of the struggle against the Mafia in Italy. He was blown up, along, with his wife and his armed escort by a Mafia bomb in 1992 because Falcone was who pioneered this trans-Atlantic cooperation in the fight against the Mafia. He got it.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Do you consider these raids are a major blow to the attempts to sort of reanimate these links?

DICKIE: I think this is an ongoing process. It clearly shows that the authorities are watching it very, very carefully. They understand it and know it. And that - from that point of view, it's reassuring. But it's always difficult to tell, when an operation is as fresh as this one is, just how damaging it will prove to be.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: That's John Dickie, professor of Italian studies at University College London. Thank you so much.

DICKIE: Thank you.

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/21/7438...-from-the-gambino-family?t=1563787383048

I think Sal Gambino is placed under house arrest not in prison.

https://eu-ocs.com/cosa-nostra-raid...ed-efforts-to-establish-old-mafia-links/

Cosa Nostra raids in Sicily and New York highlight renewed efforts to establish old mafia links

New background of the "New Connection" inquiry emerges which, on 17 July, led to 19 arrests. One of these concerns the fact that the lace is also paid by the grandchildren of the bosses and in particular of Tommaso Inzerillo.


From interceptions emerges, as Sandra Figliuolo reports in an article in the Giornale di Sicilia on newsstands, that it was precisely the mafia uncle, to whom the grandchildren had turned to mediate, to "advise" to pay. Inzerillo is challenged for extortion against his relatives.

According to investigators, Francesco Di Filippo, alleged right arm of the Cruillas boss Giovanni Nicoletti, imposed the lace on the local "Rodeo Drive" in Via Atanasio and the "West Los Angeles Cafè" in Via Galilei, attributable to Antonino, Rosario and Vincenzo Mannino.

palermo.gds.it/articoli/cronaca/2019/08/04/mafia-anche-i-nipoti-del-boss-inzerillo-pagano-il-pizzo-7b7a9498-f830-4086-a4f9-4e54644119b4/

After the appeal of his lawyer Tommy Gambino has been released. So they got nothing.

Police filmed a meeting in Palermo between Tommaso Inzerillo and Totò Catalano, acting boss of Bonanno family in the early '80s. On August 9th 2018 the investigators followed a car left from Ciminna with two men, one of them was Catalano, who went to Palermo in order to meet Inzerillo.

Thanks to the poster Carmelo.

wow that guy toto still in the mix. he must have strong ties to all the families in america seeing he did 30 yrs in the federal system. whats the end game with this case over there? sounds like nothing. what type of time do these guys get for stuff like this 2 yrs 4 yrs. kinda what they would get over here for extortion 5 yrs?

Yeah I wonder if Catalano still in contact with his Bonanno friends, he was a major player could have been the future boss but his english was not that good.

pmac most guys get at least a sentence for mafia association that's a few years and they have to serve only 2/3 of the sentence.

So its a bullshit headline grab. On toto im just gonna assume being in a usa prison for 30yrs and watching tv and talking to other prisoners he became well. Versed in the english language

Sal Catalano is almost 80 now but he doesn't think about retirement lol..

checked his inmate thing says hes 78. he was released in nov 2009 so hes been out 10yrs. im guessing they deported him. he was in the usa since 60tys must have been a huge coulture change

Someone reminded me that there are many people involved in Pizza Connection and Iron Tower in freedom.

Why couldn’t he have just used a bilingual solider or associate as a messenger to pass orders to his capos?

Good point, trouble with communicating wasn't the only thing. He was already made in Italy the American rules back then were that he couldn't be the boss.