The murder of the boss in New York, a Palermo-US investigation: contrasts with the Sicilian mafia
19 March 2019
mafia, murder Calì, Christine Posa, Frank Calì, Pietro Inzerillo, Settimo Mineo, Sicily, WorldPete Inzerillo (S) and Frank Romano (D) in a still image taken from the state police video.

The liaison magistrate between the United States and Italy, Christine Posa, made contact with some prosecutors of the prosecutor's office of Palermo, in relation to the joint investigation into Francesco Paolo Augusto Calì, known as Franky Boy, killed in Staten Island, New York last March 14th.

The name of Calì, after the investigations of "Old Bridge", an operation conducted in parallel by the Sco, the Palermo squad and the FBI in 2008, had come out even more recently and its contacts with the Palermo Inzerillo cosche (the murdered man was married to the sister of Pietro Inzerillo, one of the "escapes" of the 1980s), but above all with mafia groups from the provinces of Agrigento and Trapani.

These last connections had been particularly intense and completely independent from the contacts with the Inzerillos, which can also be explained with family relationships: with the mobsters of the south-western part of Sicily, Calì would have common economic interests and relations not without deep contrasts.

Returning to Palermo, other fibrillations had emerged in the months preceding Settimo Mineo's arrest as part of the Cupola 2.0 operation (4 December last): Pagliarelli's mafia boss, indicated as the new head of the renewed Cosa Nostra Palermo commission, had asked for a passport, expressly stating the intention to go to the United States.

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