Originally Posted by Hollander
As you know their grandfather Domenico Violi was the head of the Violi clan in Sinopoli and these brothers belong to the same family/'ndrina.
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During the investigation, the investigators reconstructed the network of supports on which Gigliotti could count in Calabria: among these, the most important was Franco Fazio, a relative of Gigliotti's wife, and the brothers Francesco and Carmine Violi, with which Fazio himself was in close relations. The Violi brothers, in turn, are relatives with members of the Alvaro gang. Fazio was therefore the trusted man of the restaurateur in Calabria and he was the one who contacted the subjects interested in buying drugs throughout the region. And among the main recipients of cocaine was, in fact, Francesco Violi. Among those arrested there is also a candidate for the municipalities of Lamezia There is also a candidate in the municipal elections of Lamezia Terme, scheduled for May 31, among those arrested in the investigation. Franco Fazio, 46, is a candidate on the list of the CDU who supports the candidate for mayor of Lamezia Terme of the center-right Mascaro in the next municipal elections. According to the investigators, the aspiring adviser is not just any type, but the operative arm of the drug trafficker Gregorio Gigliotti. Following Fazio, the investigators managed to rebuild a long series of contacts with the main Calabrian clans. The candidate councilor would be one of the main drug brokers, capable of making agreements with the men of the most powerful 'ndrine: the Violis of Sinopoli, the Berlingieri of Catanzaro, plus other exponents of the gangs. - See more at: http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/ar...0376410-9726-4ac0-b101-9cc22f011280.html


Actually, I don't know that the patriarch Domenico Violi was the head of a clan bearing his surname in Sinopoli. You seem to know but, as usual with these types of claims of yours, you don't provide any evidence.

When did Violi receive le doti (i.e., when was he inducted into the 'ndrangheta)? No poster here or elsewhere would have trouble believing that Violi was knee-deep in the 'ndrangheta, but we'd be right to question whether you can assume he was the head of a Violi 'ndrina in Sinopoli. (Incidentally, you know he was born in Reggio Calabria and not Sinopoli, right?)

Which of Domenico Violi's brothers or sisters have grandsons named Francesco Violi and Carmine Violi who are related to Paolo Violi's sons, Domenico and Joe (who are imprisoned) here in Canada? Are brothers Francesco and Carmine Violi related instead neither to the Violis nor the Alvaros but to a Condina, which is the maiden name of patriarch Domenico's wife, Annunziata (Nancy)?

See Domenico Violi: SSN, DOB, DOD, POB, which is my Evernote item containing details about the Violi patriarch, taken from the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007.