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unusual facts about Sicilian Mafia


Joey and Maria's Comedy Italian Wedding

The arrival of Maria's Mafioso godfather Don Ziti (often played by a selected good-sport audience member) also means the arrival of a large sum of money for the new couple.


1983 in organized crime

Sicilian mafioso Salvatore Contorno begins anonymously writing letters to the police with information on the mafia.

Bruno Contrada

Bruno Contrada (born September 2, 1931) is the former police chief of Palermo and deputy director of the civil intelligence service SISDE who was arrested based on revelations of former Sicilian Mafiosi turned pentiti, Gaspare Mutolo and Giuseppe Marchese.

Grasmere, Staten Island

The mafioso Aniello Dellacroce resided in Grasmere at the time of his death on December 2, 1985.

Mustache Pete

Mustache Pete was the name given to members of the Sicilian Mafia who came to the United States (particularly New York City) as adults in the early 1900s.

Stereotypes of West and Central Asians in the United States

"The Turk", a Turkish Mafioso in the dark comedy film Buffalo Soldiers and "Ahmet Sunay", a Turkish High-Tech Missile Guidance System dealer and "businessman" in the thriller film The International, both played by Turkish actor Haluk Bilginer is another similar stereotype.


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Banda della Magliana

In 1997, Italian prosecutors in Rome implicated a member of the Sicilian Mafia, Giuseppe Calò, in Calvi's murder, along with Flavio Carboni, a Sardinian businessman with wide ranging interests.

Gaspare Mutolo

Together with another cooperating witness and mafioso turned pentito, Francesco Marino Mannoia, Mutolo provided landmark testimony documenting the ongoing nexus between the Sicilian Mafia and the American Cosa Nostra.

Joseph A. Shakspeare

Hennessy’s assassination in October 1890, allegedly by members of the Sicilian Mafia, sparked an anti-Italian riot in which the parish prison was stormed and eleven Italian immigrants were lynched.

Michele Pantaleone

Michele Pantaleone (Villalba 1911 – Palermo, February 12, 2002) was a respected journalist and expert on the Sicilian Mafia and one of the first to shed light on the links between organized crime and political power.

Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence

In 1996, Francesco Marino Mannoia, an informant and former member of the Sicilian Mafia, claimed he had stolen the painting as a young man on the orders of a high-ranking mobster, but other sources say it was stolen by amateurs and then sold on to various Mafiosi; at one point it is said to have ended up in the hands of Rosario Riccobono, who was killed in 1982, after which it passed on to Gerlando Alberti.

The local Sicilian Mafia are generally considered to be the prime culprits in the theft although nobody actually knows who committed the crime.

Nuvoletta clan

The Mafia "supergrasses", Tommaso Buscetta, Antonio Calderone and Salvatore Contorno, confirmed that the Nuvolettas had very close links with the Sicilian Mafia.

Pete Price

In January 2008 Pete tried to find his natural father by using the networking skills of an imprisoned Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano in the hope that "The Don" can help him trace his dad.

Salvatore Contorno

Salvatore "Totuccio" Contorno (born May 28, 1946) is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned into a state witness against Cosa Nostra in October 1984, following the example of Tommaso Buscetta.

Totuccio

Salvatore Inzerillo (1944–1981), an Italian criminal, a member of the Sicilian Mafia

Salvatore Contorno (born 1946), a former member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned into a state witness against Cosa Nostra