In 2012 Gennaro Sortino died at the age of 90, he had returned to Ribera after sixteen years in hiding in the USA. His son Emanuel Sortino is also believed to belong to the mafia clan of Ribera.
Giuseppe Capizzi, a prominent man of honour from Ribera is the number two of the mafia in the province of Agrigento and the right arm of Giuseppe Falsone. He is a son of Simone Capizzi, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Akragas trial.
The leaders of the Ribera gang are in a true trait d 'union with the Palermo mafia and with a stable connection with the Decavalcante clan also supported by the Bonanno clan.