Polizzi Generosa, a town in the Province of Palermo on the island of Sicily, Italy
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Alex Polizzi (born Alessandra Maria-Luigia O Polizzi Di Sorrentino; 28 August 1971) is a British hotelier, and the current presenter of the British TV series The Hotel Inspector on Channel 5, taking over from Ruth Watson.
Born in Siculiana, Sicily, Polizzi immigrated to the United States with his family the same year.
The mill and tea room also feature in the 2012 BBC2 series Alex Polizzi: The Fixer, which focuses on Alex Polizzi turning around family businesses.
As Giovanni Riggi kept running the DeCavalcante family in the late 1970s, Polizzi was involved in large heroin and cocaine distribution and transportation operations.
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According to Jerry Capeci; Polizzi's wife was on the witness stand trying to back her husband's claim that the bag the FBI saw him pick up from a cohort in June, 1983 contained fresh sardines, not money or heroin.
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Involved in loansharking, extortion, illegal gambling and especially narcotics activities, Polizzi continued to operate in the Newark faction of the family throughout the 1960s, but as Sam DeCavalcante took over the family in 1965, Polizzi was passed over of being promoted, as Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi was made captain of DeCavalcante's crew.
Frustrated by the lack of family friendly Halloween attractions in the Los Angeles area, Polizzi began to construct a display of his own in the front lawn of his Sherman Oaks, California home.