User:Mafia Expert
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As my WP-name Mafia Expert suggest I am interested in the Mafia and somewhat arrogantly consider myself an expert on the matter. I have at home an extensive library of books about Cosa Nostra in Italian, French and English, so I can actually check facts without having to rely on the often shaky legends and myths that float around on the Internet and unfortunately are repeated in Wikipedia too often.
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[edit] Articles initiated
Some of the articles on Sicilian mafiosi I initiated:
- Calogero Vizzini (1877 – 1954), the Mafia boss of Villalba who was considered to be one of the most influential Mafia bosses of Sicily after World War II until his death in 1954. In the media he was often depicted as the "boss of bosses" – although such a position does not exist in the loose structure of the Mafia.
- Giuseppe Genco Russo (1893 – 1976), Mafia boss of Mussomeli, considered to be the heir of Calogero Vizzini.
- Cesare Manzella (1897 – 1963), the head of the Mafia family in Cinisi who sat on the first Sicilian Mafia Commission and was killed by a car bomb during the First Mafia War.
- Antonio Cottone (1904/1905 – 1956), boss of the Mafia Family in Villabate killed in the Mafia Wholesale market war in 1956.
- Pietro Torretta (ca. 1912), the boss of the Mafia family in the Uditore district in Palermo and one of the protagonist in the First Mafia War.
- Nenè Geraci (1917 - 2007), the historical boss of the Mafia in Partinico.
- Salvatore Greco "Ciaschiteddu" (1923 – 1978), boss of the Mafia Family in Ciaculli. He was the first "secretary" of the first Sicilian Mafia Commission that was formed somewhere in 1958.
- Giuseppe Di Cristina (1923 – 1978), boss of the Mafia Family in Riesi who was killed by the Corleonesi.
- Gerlando Alberti (born 1923), one of the top mafiosi involved in cigarette smuggling and heroin trafficking in the 1970s.
- Angelo La Barbera (1924 – 1975), boss of the Mafia Family in Palermo Centro, who was one of the protagonists of the First Mafia War.
- Salvatore Greco "The Engineer" (1924 - unknown), one of the most enigmatic mafiosi of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.
- Giuseppe Farinella (born 1925), boss of the San Mauro Castelverde family and a one-time member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission.
- Michele Cavataio' (died 1969), the boss of the Acquasanta mandamento in Palermo and a member of the first Sicilian Mafia Commission.
- Giuseppe Calderone (1925 – 1978) boss of the Mafia Family in Catania and the first ‘secretary’ of the interprovincial Sicilian Mafia Commission.
- Antonino Calderone (born 1935), the brother of Giuseppe Calderone who turned state witness (pentito) in 1987.
- Benedetto Santapaola (born 1938), Mafia boss of Catania.
- Mariano Agate (born 1939), the boss of Mazara del Vallo Mafia family since the 1970s.
- Gaspare Mutolo (born 1940), the first mafioso who spoke about the connections between Cosa Nostra and Italian politicians.
- Salvatore Cancemi (born 1942), a pentito who made controversial declarations on the links between former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Cosa Nostra.
- Antonino Giuffrè (born 1945), boss of the Mafia Family of Caccamo who became one of the most important Mafia turncoats (pentito) after his arrest in April 2002.
- Antonio Rotolo (born 1946), who has become a key figure in Cosa Nostra's hierarchy.
- Giuseppe Guttadauro (born 1948), a Mafia boss and a high profile surgeon from the neighbourhood Roccella in Palermo.
- Baldassare Di Maggio (born 1954), who helped the police to capture the head of Cosa Nostra, Totò Riina.
- Santo Di Matteo (born 1954), took part in the killing of Antimafia judge Giovanni Falcone.
- Vito Badalamenti (born 1957), on the Most wanted list of the Italian ministry of the Interior since 1995.
- Vito Vitale (born ca. 1958/1959), who was considered to be the heir of Totò Riina for a while.
- Pietro Aglieri (born 1959), listed as the emerging man of the year 1995 in Italy by The Guardian.
- Giuseppe Graviano (born 1963), a prominent mafioso from the Brancaccio quarter in Palermo.
- Giuseppe Falsone (born 1970), considered to be the boss of Cosa Nostra in the province of Agrigento
- Gianni Nicchi (born 1981), an upcoming young Mafia boss in Palermo.
- Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia family from Siculiana who held a key position in the illicit drug trade and money laundering for Cosa Nostra in the 1980s and 1990s. The Italian press baptized the clan as 'The Rothschild’s of the Mafia' or 'the bankers of Cosa Nostra'.
- Greco Mafia family, a historical and one of the most influential Mafia clans in Sicily, going back to the late 19th century.
[edit] Articles re-edited
Some of the articles on Sicilian mafiosi I re-edited significantly:
- Nicola Gentile (1885 - ??), a Sicilian mafioso and an organized crime figure in New York City.
- Vito Ciancimino (1924 - 2002), the first Italian politician to be found guilty of Mafia membership.
- Stefano Bontade (1939 – 1981), boss of the Mafia Family in Santa Maria di Gesù in Palermo who was killed by the Corleonesi in 1981 during the Second Mafia War.
- Salvatore Lo Piccolo (born 1942), considered to be one of the successors of Provenzano.
- Francesco Di Carlo (born 1942), a member of the Mafia who turned state witness (pentito).
- Matteo Messina Denaro (born 1962), considered to be one of the successors of Provenzano.
[edit] Mafia related people and events
I also initiated or significantly re-edited some articles on Mafia related people and events:
- Ciaculli massacre in June 1963 that changed a Mafia war into a war against the Mafia.
- Sicilian Mafia Commission, also known as Commissione or Cupola; a body of leading Mafia members to decide on important questions concerning the actions of, and settling disputes within the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra.
- Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957, the so-called Palermo Mafia summit in 1957 that has become a legendary landmark in the international heroin trade in popular Mafia non-fiction. The question is if it ever took place.
- Corleonesi, the name given to a faction within the Sicilian Mafia that dominated Cosa Nostra in the 1980s and the 1990s.
- Origin of the term 'mafia'.
- Omertà, the code of silence.
- The Italian Antimafia Commission, a bicameral commission of inquiry into the "phenomenon of the Mafia"
- Mario Scelba (1901 – 1991), longtime Italian Minister of the Interior implicated in the Portella della Ginestra massacre.
- Article 41-bis prison regime that allows to suspend certain prison regulations for people accude of Mafia involvement.
[edit] Antimafia
And to give credit to the people who resisted the Mafia and sometimes lost their lives while doing it, I created the Category:Antimafia and Category:Pentiti, and initiated or significantly expanded or re-edited articles on:
- Danilo Dolci (1924 – 1997), was a social activist best known for his opposition against poverty, social exclusion and the Mafia on Sicily and is considered to be one of the protagonists of the non-violence movement in Italy.
- Giuseppe Impastato (1948 – 1978), was a political activist who opposed the Mafia that ordered his murder in 1978.
- Giuseppe Fava (1925 - 1984), was a Sicilian investigative journalist who was killed by the Mafia.
- Michele Pantaleone (1911 – 2002), was a journalist and expert on the Sicilian Mafia and one of the first to shed light on the links between organized crime and political power.
- Gerardo Chiaromonte (1924 – 1993), former president of the Antimafia Commission.
- Pio La Torre (1927 - 1982), a communist leader killed by the Mafia after he introduced a new Antimafia law.
- Girolamo Li Causi (1896 – 1977), a Sicilian Communist leader actively involved in the post war struggle against the Mafia.
- Cesare Terranova (1921 – 1979), an Antimafia prosecutor killed by the Mafia.
- Letizia Battaglia (born 1935), a Sicilian photographer and photojournalist that documented the Mafia.
- Mauro De Mauro (1921 – 1970), a journalist, disappeared and probably murdered by the Mafia following his investigations on the death of Enrico Mattei and on the Golpe Borghese.
[edit] Camorristi
I also initiated or significantly expanded articles on members of the Camorra:
- Raffaele Cutolo (born 1941), the charismatic leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO), an organisation he built to renew the Camorra.
- Paolo Di Lauro, (born 1953), head of the Camorra clan that ran the northern suburbs of Naples.
- Michele Zaza, (1945 – 1994), "’O Pazzo" (the madman), was one of the first Camorristi to emerge as a powerful figure in the cigarette contraband industry. He who was also initiated in the Sicilian Mafia.
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