Mafia, Cupola 2.0 investigation: penalties requested for 7 centuries in prison
04 February 2020
mafia, Palermo, Chronicle
A moment in the arrest of Settimo Mineo
The Prosecutor of Palermo has asked for the sentence to over seven centuries of prison for 56 of bosses, wingmen, extortors and figureheads of the Palermo clans who ended up in handcuffs as part of the investigation called Cupola 2.0 which revealed the mafia's attempt to reconstitute the provincial commission and he reconstructed the organization charts of Tommaso Natale, Porta Nuova, Pagliarelli, Misilmeri, Belmonte Mezzagno and Villabate. The process takes place with the abbreviated rite before the Rosario Di Gioia gup.

The accusation in the courtroom was represented by the prosecutors of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate Amelia Luise, Dario Scaletta and Francesca Mazzocco. The prosecutors asked for sentences of between 2 and 20 years. For the collaborators of justice, the Prosecutor asked for the granting of the special mitigating factor provided by law for the contribution given to the investigations.

The investigation revealed the top role of Settimo Mineo , 80 years old, an official jeweler profession, already sentenced to the maxiprocesso. For him the Prosecutor asked for 20 years of imprisonment. It would have been him, during a summit with Filippo Bisconti, then regent of the mafia mandate of Misilmeri - Belmonte Mezzagno, now collaborator of justice, and Gregorio Di Giovanni (also asked for him 20 years), regent of the Porta Nuova clan, to establish the new rules of the Palermitan mafia. For Bisconti, the prosecutors solicited 5 years and two months by virtue of his collaboration with justice. The investigation told a mafia more interested than ever in business: drugs, an old business left for years to the Ndrangheta, online betting, a new frontier of illicit gains, extortion. The carabinieri ascertained more than 30. Targets traders and entrepreneurs, especially construction workers.

Two scions of historical clans also ended up in prison: Calogero Lo Piccolo, son of the godfather of San Lorenzo Salvatore Lo Piccolo, and Leandro Greco, grandson of Michele Greco the "pope". They were asked for 20 and 16 years in prison respectively.

Here are the other requests: Giacomo Alaimo 7 years; Stefano Albanese 12; Filippo Annatelli 18; Gioacchino Badagliacca 14; Filippo Salvatore Bisconti, collaborator of justice, 5 years and 2 months; Giuseppe Bonanno 11 years and 4 months; Carmelo Cacocciola 15 years old; Giovanni Cancemi 14; Francesco Caponetto 20; Francesco Colletti, another collaborator, also 5 years and 2 months old; Giovanna Comito 2 years; Giuseppe Costa 14; Maurizio Crinò 13 years and 4 months; Filippo Cusimano 14; Rubens D'Agostino 20; Gregorio Di Giovanni 20; Filippo Di Pisa 13 years and 4 months; Andrea Ferrante 10 years; Salvatore Ferrante 4; Calogero Lo Piccolo 20; Vincenzo Ganci 12; Giusto Giordano 4 years and 6 months; Michele Grasso 12 years; Leandro Greco, known as Michele, grandson of the "Pope" of the mafia, 16 years old; Marco La Rosa 10 years; Gaetano Leto 18 years old; Erasmo Lo Bello 20; the collaborator Sergio Macaluso 2; Michele Madonia 13 years and 4 months; Umberto Maiorana 2 years and 8 months; Domenico Mammi, repentant, 2 years; Just Francesco Mangiapane 13; Matteo Maniscalco 10; Antonio Giovanni Maranto 8 years and 4 months; Luigi Marino 15; Fabio Messicati Vitale 14; Giovanni Salvatore Migliore 14; Settimo Mineo 20; Andrea Mirino 4; Salvatore Mirino 16; Massimo Mulè 14; Domenico Nocilla 14; Salvatore Pispicia 18; Gaspare Rizzuto 20; Michele Rubino 14; Giovanni Salerno 20; Pietro Scafidi 10 years and 8 months; Salvatore Sciarabba 20; Giuseppe Serio 20; Giovanni Sirchia 13 years and 4 months; Salvatore Sorrentino 18; Giusto Sucato 11; Vincenzo Sucato 16 years and 8 months; Rosolino Mirabella 13 years and 4 months; Salvatore Troia 14; Giacomo Alaimo 7; Nicolò Orlando 10 years and 8 months.