Was he actually apart of the Riina regime or was that only speculation?
He always denied, but according to the pentiti Francesco Di Carlo, Salvatore Cancemi, Giovanni Brusca and Antonino Giuffrè, Palazzolo is a member of Cosa Nostra in the Mafia family of Partinico. Don't forget he left Sicily in 1962 at the age of 15 and emigrated to Switzerland. Later Italian police claimed that Palazzolo was believed to lead a mafia family in South Africa.
