The operation foiled an attempt to reconstitute a new Mafia Commission after the arrests of Mafia bosses Bernardo Provenzano, Antonio Rotolo and Salvatore Lo Piccolo in 2006 and 2007.
After the arrest of an older generation bosses of Cosa Nostra – such as Provenzano, Lo Piccolo and Antonio Rotolo – in 2006 and 2007, Raccuglia chances of becoming one of the possible leading Mafia bosses improved.
"He's our friend and he is everything over there", confided Sicilian mobster Gianni Nicchi to his boss Antonio Rotolo, after a trip in 2003.
Pulizzi was one of Lo Piccolo’s soldiers in the power struggle with Antonio Rotolo in Palermo.
After several years as a fugitive, Calò was arrested on March 30, 1985, in a villa at Poggio San Lorenzo, in the province of Rieti, together with Antonio Rotolo, one of the Mafia's heroin movers.
On June 13, 2007, two hitmen killed 46-year-old mafia boss Nicola Ingarao – an ally of Nino Rotolo.
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After the arrest of an older generation Mafia bosses – such as Bernardo Provenzano, Antonio Rotolo and Salvatore Lo Piccolo – in 2006 and 2007, Motisi, Pietro Tagliavia, Gianni Nicchi and Salvo Riina – the second-born son of boss of bosses Totò Riina – were considered to be the upcoming young Mafia bosses.