The Commission of Cosa Nostra is destroyed: 46 sentences arrive, inflicted over 4 centuries in prison The abridged excerpt of the trial born from the "Cupola 2.0" operation completed exactly two years ago ends at first instance. The investigators thwarted the attempt to reconstitute the Provincial Commission after the death of Totò Riina and discovered dozens of extortions. 9 defendants acquitted
Once the Cosa Nostra Commission is disintegrated, there are ... sentences for bosses and followers „ It is certainly the most important anti-mafia investigation of recent years because it has allowed to foil a new attempt to reconstitute the provincial commission of Cosa Nostra after the death of the boss who had been its undisputed leader for more than a quarter of a century, Totò Riina. . Today, with the sentence handed down for 55 defendants in the bunker of the Ucciardone by the gup Rosario Di Gioia, at the end of the trial that took place with the abbreviated procedure, 46 sentences and 9 acquittals arrived. In all, 435 years in prison were inflicted. The judge essentially accepted the requests of the prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi, the deputy Salvatore De Luca and the substitutes Amelia Luise, Francesca Mazzocco, Dario Scaletta, Gaspare Spedale and Bruno Brucoli, who had coordinated the investigations of the carabinieri andthe maxiblitz "Cupola 2.0" scored exactly two years ago, on December 4, 2018. At the end of January, on the 22, other arrests arrived with the "Cupola 2.0 bis" operation . The prosecutors had asked for over 7 centuries in prison (precisely 727 years).
Compensation to entrepreneurs and municipalities, but not to that of Palermo ... The sentences The 15-page device was read in the courtroom where the Maxi trial was held at around 2 pm and 46 prisoners were sentenced. Here are the penalties that the judge inflicted on each of them, in strict alphabetical order: Stefano Albanese 9 years and 2 months, Filippo Annatelli 13 years and 4 months, the repentant Filippo Bisconti 6 years, Giuseppe Bonanno 5 years and 8 months, Carmelo Cacocciola 7 years, Giovanni Cancemi 8 years, Francesco Caponetto 13 years and 4 months, the repentant Francesco Colletti 6 and a half years, Giovanna Comito a year and 8 months (suspended sentence, is defended by the lawyers Alessandro Martorana and Giovanni Pecorella), Giuseppe Costa 9 years, Maurizio Crinò 10 years, Filippo Cusimano 9 years and 4 months, Rubens D'Agostino 10 years, Gregorio Di Giovanni 15 years and 4 months, Filippo Di Pisa 8 years and 8 months, Andrea Ferrante 8 years, Salvatore Ferrante 2 years and 8 months,
The acquittals For 9 other defendants, the GUP decided for acquittal, thus exonerating them of the accusations made by the Prosecutor's Office. It is first of all the alleged boss of Ballarò, Massimo Mulè (defended by the lawyers Giovanni Castronovo and Marco Clementi) Giacomo Alaimo, Gioacchino Badagliacca, Giusto Giordano (defended by the lawyer Salvatore Gugino), Rosolino Mirabella (assisted by the lawyers Castronovo and Silvana Tortorici ), Andrea Mirino (defended by the lawyer Amalia Imbrociano), Nicolò Orlando (defended by the lawyer Domenico Cacocciola), Pietro Scafidi and Giusto Sucato (defended by the lawyer Domenico La Blasca).
The defendant died of Covid Another defendant, Vincenzo Sucato, 76, accused of having been the head of the Misilmeri clan and already convicted years ago for the mafia, died during the trial . It was also the first inmate who died of Covid in Italy, last April 1st. He was imprisoned in the Dozza prison in Bologna and an investigation into manslaughter was opened on his death, following the denunciation of his family, defended by the lawyer Domenico La Blasca. Sucato was suffering from various pathologies and therefore among the subjects highly at risk in case of contagion from Coronavirus. Despite the requests of his lawyer, however, he would have been left in the cell, where he had actually contracted the virus.
