News from Italy

[Cacuzza]

Remember the Vatican banker Roberto Calvi? I believe they found him hung from a bridge in northern Italy if memory serves me...... did he bang himself? I’m not so sure.
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It was part of that whole Frederick Sindona scandal years bank and the billions in Vatican money.... I’m sure that forces OTHER and stronger than the Mafia were at play there!

Michele Sindona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Sindona

[maxiestern11]

Remember the Vatican banker Roberto Calvi? I believe they found him hung from a bridge in northern Italy if memory serves me...... did he bang himself? I’m not so sure.
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It was part of that whole Frederick Sindona scandal years bank and the billions in Vatican money.... I’m sure that forces OTHER and stronger than the Mafia were at play there!

Michele Sindona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Sindona

Exactly! Thanks Cucuzza.... Michele not Frederick lol.... my mistake.... I’m getting old! Lol

[Cacuzza]

Remember the Vatican banker Roberto Calvi? I believe they found him hung from a bridge in northern Italy if memory serves me...... did he bang himself? I’m not so sure.
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It was part of that whole Frederick Sindona scandal years bank and the billions in Vatican money.... I’m sure that forces OTHER and stronger than the Mafia were at play there!

Michele Sindona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Sindona

Exactly! Thanks Cucuzza.... Michele not Frederick lol.... my mistake.... I’m getting old! Lol

You're not getting old. You're just getting started.

[Strax]

Remember the Vatican banker Roberto Calvi? I believe they found him hung from a bridge in northern Italy if memory serves me...... did he bang himself? I’m not so sure.
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It was part of that whole Frederick Sindona scandal years bank and the billions in Vatican money.... I’m sure that forces OTHER and stronger than the Mafia were at play there!

Roberto Calvi and Michele Sindona weren't the only bankers in P2. Matteo Messina Denaro's father Francesco Messina Denaro started his mafia career as armed guard for D'Ali family , they were owners of Banco Sicula , biggest private bank in Sicily , Antonio D'Alì Sr. was a member of P2. His son Antonio D'Alì Jr. became a senator for Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party and then in April 2001 under-secretary at the Ministry of the Interior, the institution responsible for fighting organised crime.His cousin Giacomo D’Alì is a counsellor of the Banca Commerciale Italiana in Milan. Antonino D'Alì who is senator was pictured meeting with mafia members in 2018.

[maxiestern11]

Remember the Vatican banker Roberto Calvi? I believe they found him hung from a bridge in northern Italy if memory serves me...... did he bang himself? I’m not so sure.
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It was part of that whole Frederick Sindona scandal years bank and the billions in Vatican money.... I’m sure that forces OTHER and stronger than the Mafia were at play there!

Roberto Calvi and Michele Sindona weren't the only bankers in P2. Matteo Messina Denaro's father Francesco Messina Denaro started his mafia career as armed guard for D'Ali family , they were owners of Banco Sicula , biggest private bank in Sicily , Antonio D'Alì Sr. was a member of P2. His son Antonio D'Alì Jr. became a senator for Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party and then in April 2001 under-secretary at the Ministry of the Interior, the institution responsible for fighting organised crime.His cousin Giacomo D’Alì is a counsellor of the Banca Commerciale Italiana in Milan. Antonino D'Alì who is senator was pictured meeting with mafia members in 2018.

Strax, it’s crazy how well plugged in they are in Italy.... so much more pervasive than America. But let’s face it, that’s the epicenter of things. Always was

[bingo]

Remember the Vatican banker Roberto Calvi? I believe they found him hung from a bridge in northern Italy if memory serves me...... did he bang himself? I’m not so sure.
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It was part of that whole Frederick Sindona scandal years bank and the billions in Vatican money.... I’m sure that forces OTHER and stronger than the Mafia were at play there!

Roberto Calvi and Michele Sindona weren't the only bankers in P2. Matteo Messina Denaro's father Francesco Messina Denaro started his mafia career as armed guard for D'Ali family , they were owners of Banco Sicula , biggest private bank in Sicily , Antonio D'Alì Sr. was a member of P2. His son Antonio D'Alì Jr. became a senator for Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party and then in April 2001 under-secretary at the Ministry of the Interior, the institution responsible for fighting organised crime.His cousin Giacomo D’Alì is a counsellor of the Banca Commerciale Italiana in Milan. Antonino D'Alì who is senator was pictured meeting with mafia members in 2018.

That's pretty informative Strax thanks.

[aleksandrored]

Italy condemns mobsters to life in prison for judge's death.

PALERMO, NOV 15 (ANSA) - The Caltanissetta Court of Appeal in the Italian region of Sicily on Friday sentenced two mobsters to life imprisonment for the assassination attempt on Judge Paolo Borsellino in 1992.

Salvo Madonia and Vittorio Tutino were considered, respectively, the mastermind and the perpetrator of the crime, who also victimized five agents of the magistrate's escort. Already Francesco Andriotta and Calogero Pulci were sentenced to 10 years in prison for slander in their awards awarded to court. Vincenzo Scarantino, accused of the same offense, benefited from the prescription.

The ruling confirms the lower court ruling issued on April 20, 2017. An appeal is still available to the Court of Cassation, Italy's supreme court. "Confirmation of the lower court ruling confirms the most serious screening in Italian history," said lawyers Vincenzo Greco and Fabio Trizzino, who represent Borsellino's children.

Beside Giovanni Falcone, the judge led investigations against the mafia in Sicily, the so-called “Cosa Nostra”, which put him in the crosshairs of the criminals. On July 19, 1992 in Palermo, an explosive-filled Fiat 126 was detonated in front of Borsellino's mother's house just as he arrived.

In the 1990s, Scarantino, a common thug, had pleaded theft of the car used in the attack, information confirmed by Andriotta, a former cellmate, and Pulci, a repentant mobster.

However, in 2008, another former mafia member, Gaspare Spatuzza, reported that he was the one who had stolen the Fiat 126, contradicting previous allegations. Investigated again, the three confessed that they lied in their collaborations with the court.

Scarantino and Andriotta justified themselves by denouncing the prosecutors' psychological pressures, while Pulci claimed to have acted on his own.

The same Spatuzza also revealed to have stolen the vehicle next to Tutino, at the behest of a Cosa Nostra commission of which Madonia was part. The latter had already been sentenced to life imprisonment for the “Capaci massacre”, which killed Falcone, his wife and three escort agents. (ANSA)

[The Greek]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ousin.html

A gay mafia hitman was murdered by his own cousin because an Italian mob boss regarded his lifestyle as a 'disgrace', it has emerged.

Andrea Mantella told Italian authorities that he had arranged the killing of Filippo Gangitano in 2002 after mobsters said his cousin's homosexuality 'could not be tolerated'.

Mantella was told it was up to him to 'wash' the honour of his family and his protests were waved away, according to La Repubblica.

After failing to convince mob bosses to have Gangitano expelled instead, Mantella had him lured to a farm where he was shot dead and buried in an unmarked grave.

'We could not afford to have or have had a gay man in the gang', Mantella said he was told by bosses of the 'Ndrangheta gang.

Gangitano had been living with his partner in the town of Vibo Valentia but mobsters believed his lifestyle was a 'disgrace'.

Mantella is currently in prison for his role in the mafia but has become a government mole in a major anti-mob operation.

His evidence is linked to a huge government raid in which 334 people were arrested in early-morning swoops last week.

Some arrests were also carried out in Germany, Switzerland and Bulgaria.

The 'Ndrangheta is based in the southern region of Calabria, the toe of Italy's boot, and has surpassed Sicily's more famous Cosa Nostra to become the most powerful mafia group in the country.

Italian investigators say the group, which is made up of dozens of smaller clans that all answer nominally to senior leaders in Calabria, is now Europe's top cocaine broker.

The suspects were facing a raft of possible charges including mafia conspiracy, murder, extortion, loan sharking, corporate fraud and money laundering.

Politicians were involved, as well as lawyers, accountants, public officials, court clerks,' said prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, who led the investigation

'All people who had jobs and did not need to put themselves at the service of the 'Ndrangheta.

'The mobsters are not in a position to carry out sophisticated money laundering. To do that they need professionals,' he added.

Among those arrested on Thursday were a former lawmaker from Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, the centre-left mayor of a Calabrian coastal town and a senior official in the Carabinieri police.

'This has inflicted a very hard blow on the 'Ndrangheta,' said interior minister Luciana Lamorgese.

Gratteri, the prosecutor, said it was the largest haul of suspected mobsters in Italy since a massive anti-mafia swoop in Sicily in 1984.

That led to the so-called Palermo maxi-trial when more than 450 members of Cosa Nostra were tried.

The Palermo trial marked a turning point in the battle against the Sicilian crime gang, and their influence has waned dramatically over the past three decades, allowing 'Ndrangheta to surge to prominence.

[mafiastudent]

I guess that puts to rest the recent article that was posted about them being open to gay members.

[Wiseguy]

Sicilian Mafia rips off EU for millions in Farm Aid

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wi ... d-68293603

[Strax]

Sicilian Mafia rips off EU for millions in Farm Aid

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wi ... d-68293603

One of the land run by mafia was a NATO/US Navy base.

[Strax]

The president of a local bank in Calabria, a leading Rome-based doctor and a prominent local businessman were arrested Wednesday in an operation against the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/01 ... aTy98nqRdU

[Wiseguy]

Sicilian Mafia rips off EU for millions in Farm Aid

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wi ... d-68293603

94 busted

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... dies-sting

[ChicagoOutfit]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... -in-foggia

[Chopper]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/italian-pr ... 1579948200

20,000 members for the Ndrangheta alone, jesus.