by CabriniGreen » Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:32 am
The return of the "escaped" and the business of the bosses with drugs and slots, asked for 23 sentencesChronicle
The return of the "escaped" and the business of the bosses with drugs and slots, asked for 23 sentences
The process in abbreviated form is the one born from the "New Connection" operation in which the links between the Palermo and American mafia members had re-emerged. The Prosecutor invokes 20 years in prison for the head of the Passo di Rigano clan, Tommaso Inzerillo
Sandra Figliuolo
19 October 2020
The return of the "escaped" and constant contacts with the New York mafia, but also deals with slots, lace and drugs, the summits organized on a rubber dinghy in the middle of the Mondello sea to avoid wiretapping. These are some of the central points of the "New Connection" investigation which, in July last year, had led to 19 arrests , including those of the Passo di Rigano bosses Tommaso and Franco Inzerillo. Now the prosecutor has asked the gup Elisabetta Stampacchia for the sentence of 23 defendants who have chosen the shortened procedure.
Specifically, the highest penalties invoked by the deputy prosecutor Salvatore De Luca and the substitutes Amelia Luise and Giovanni Antoci, who coordinated the investigation, are the 20 years in prison each for Tommaso Inzerillo and Giovanni Buscemi, who he has already spent several years in his cell due to the mafia and the murder of Giovanni Giordano, whose body he had also dissolved in acid. Unexpectedly, however, the life sentence was converted into 30 years of imprisonment and, in 2018, Buscemi was free again. But briefly, since he was arrested again with "New Connection".
The Prosecutor then asked for 14 years and 8 months for Giuseppe Sansone, 14 years 2 months and 20 days for Alessandro Mannino, 14 years for Antonino Fanara, 12 years each for Benedetto Gabriele Militello and Giuseppe Spatola, son-in-law of Tommaso Inzerillo. He himself, in the interceptions, claimed to have to teach his 2-year-old son to shoot: "As soon as he has the strength in his finger - he said - he takes and cafudda". A will that the accused had also expressed on the day of the anniversary of the Capaci massacre, on 23 May 2018.
The prosecution invoked 10 years each for four other defendants: Santo Cipriano, Antonio Di Maggio, Francesco Inzerillo and Giuseppe Lo Cascio. Much lighter penalties were finally requested for Giovanni Buccheri and Veronica Cascavilla (2 years and 4 months each), for the owner of "La Rosa Sport", Tommaso La Rosa (2 years and 2 months) and for Paolina Argano, Alfredo. Bonanno, Maurizio Ferdico, Antonino Intravaia, Salvatore Lapi, Alessandra Mannino, Fabio Orlando, Rosalia Purpura and Giovanni Sirchia (2 years each).
According to the Prosecutor's Office, the sports shop in La Rosa should have been transformed into a large betting hall. And Spatola thought big, imagining an "American place, a Texan casino, a poker thing and all machines", a slot room "with a card and 40 televisions, which as it is coming up there are none in Palermo" , a "spectacular thing". Tommaso Inzerillo's son-in-law also had ambitious plans for the inauguration: he would have liked "sushi, oysters, models, Anna Falchi, Mara Venier, Belen, let's see who we can annagghiare".
Another ten defendants, who have decided to carry out the trial, have already been sent to trial in recent months by the judge. For them, the trial will begin in court in December. Last summer, when the preliminary hearing had opened, the defense counsel of a defendant had found that the prosecutor had not respected the deadlines for the notification of the request for indictment, which was brought forward by three days. An element that had brought everything back to the preliminary investigation stage. Someone had raised the risk of release from prison for the accused, but the margins were wide and in fact the prosecutor not only redid all the documents in time, but also proceeded with the indictment.
GALLERY
The return of the "escaped" and the business of the bosses with drugs and slots, asked for 23 sentences
The return of the "escaped" and the business of the bosses with drugs and slots, asked for 23 sentences
The return of the "escaped" and the business of the bosses with drugs and slots, asked for 23 sentencesChronicle
The return of the "escaped" and the business of the bosses with drugs and slots, asked for 23 sentences
The process in abbreviated form is the one born from the "New Connection" operation in which the links between the Palermo and American mafia members had re-emerged. The Prosecutor invokes 20 years in prison for the head of the Passo di Rigano clan, Tommaso Inzerillo
Sandra Figliuolo
19 October 2020
The return of the "escaped" and constant contacts with the New York mafia, but also deals with slots, lace and drugs, the summits organized on a rubber dinghy in the middle of the Mondello sea to avoid wiretapping. These are some of the central points of the "New Connection" investigation which, in July last year, had led to 19 arrests , including those of the Passo di Rigano bosses Tommaso and Franco Inzerillo. Now the prosecutor has asked the gup Elisabetta Stampacchia for the sentence of 23 defendants who have chosen the shortened procedure.
Specifically, the highest penalties invoked by the deputy prosecutor Salvatore De Luca and the substitutes Amelia Luise and Giovanni Antoci, who coordinated the investigation, are the 20 years in prison each for Tommaso Inzerillo and Giovanni Buscemi, who he has already spent several years in his cell due to the mafia and the murder of Giovanni Giordano, whose body he had also dissolved in acid. Unexpectedly, however, the life sentence was converted into 30 years of imprisonment and, in 2018, Buscemi was free again. But briefly, since he was arrested again with "New Connection".
The Prosecutor then asked for 14 years and 8 months for Giuseppe Sansone, 14 years 2 months and 20 days for Alessandro Mannino, 14 years for Antonino Fanara, 12 years each for Benedetto Gabriele Militello and Giuseppe Spatola, son-in-law of Tommaso Inzerillo. He himself, in the interceptions, claimed to have to teach his 2-year-old son to shoot: "As soon as he has the strength in his finger - he said - he takes and cafudda". A will that the accused had also expressed on the day of the anniversary of the Capaci massacre, on 23 May 2018.
The prosecution invoked 10 years each for four other defendants: Santo Cipriano, Antonio Di Maggio, Francesco Inzerillo and Giuseppe Lo Cascio. Much lighter penalties were finally requested for Giovanni Buccheri and Veronica Cascavilla (2 years and 4 months each), for the owner of "La Rosa Sport", Tommaso La Rosa (2 years and 2 months) and for Paolina Argano, Alfredo. Bonanno, Maurizio Ferdico, Antonino Intravaia, Salvatore Lapi, Alessandra Mannino, Fabio Orlando, Rosalia Purpura and Giovanni Sirchia (2 years each).
According to the Prosecutor's Office, the sports shop in La Rosa should have been transformed into a large betting hall. And Spatola thought big, imagining an "American place, a Texan casino, a poker thing and all machines", a slot room "with a card and 40 televisions, which as it is coming up there are none in Palermo" , a "spectacular thing". Tommaso Inzerillo's son-in-law also had ambitious plans for the inauguration: he would have liked "sushi, oysters, models, Anna Falchi, Mara Venier, Belen, let's see who we can annagghiare".
Another ten defendants, who have decided to carry out the trial, have already been sent to trial in recent months by the judge. For them, the trial will begin in court in December. Last summer, when the preliminary hearing had opened, the defense counsel of a defendant had found that the prosecutor had not respected the deadlines for the notification of the request for indictment, which was brought forward by three days. An element that had brought everything back to the preliminary investigation stage. Someone had raised the risk of release from prison for the accused, but the margins were wide and in fact the prosecutor not only redid all the documents in time, but also proceeded with the indictment.
GALLERY
The return of the "escaped" and the business of the bosses with drugs and slots, asked for 23 sentences
The return of the "escaped" and the business of the bosses with drugs and slots, asked for 23 sentences