Operation Iron Tower

[cavita]

in the first operation there were more arrests between Italy and Usa anyway

Is there a way to edit your posts and list what city each were arrested in? As I recall some were from San Francisco, Buffalo, Miami, etc.

Were any from the Chicago area?

As far as I know just Joe Ocello from Rockford

[Patrickgold]

in the first operation there were more arrests between Italy and Usa anyway

Is there a way to edit your posts and list what city each were arrested in? As I recall some were from San Francisco, Buffalo, Miami, etc.

Were any from the Chicago area?

As far as I know just Joe Ocello from Rockford

Oh ok. What’s the story behind him? Don’t remember you talking about him before

[felice]

Iron Tower (1st december 1988)
Usa:
Emanuele Adamita
Francesco Badalamenti
Vittorio Barletta
Pietro Candela
Salvatore Candela
Francesco Cipriano
Giuseppe D’Amico
Paolo D’Amico
Salvatore D’Amico
Filippo Filiberto
Francesco Gambino
Giovanni Gambino
Giuseppe Gambino
Carmelo Guarnera
Francesco Inzerillo
Joseph Larosa
Rocco Launi
Salvatore Lobuglio
Lorenzo Mannino
Rosario Naimo
Salvatore Rina
Matteo Romano
Fabrizio Tesi
Giovanni Zarbano
John Doe a/k/a “Sasha”

co-conspirator:
Salvatore Inzerillo
Domenico Mannino


Iron Tower II (3rd january 1989, indictment of 18 people)
- 1st Trial: (importation and distribution of cocaine)
Francesco Badalamenti
Salvatore DiMaio
Filippo Filiberto
Salvatore Pilliteri
Antonio Romano
Frank Sciarrino

- 2nd Trial: (importation and distribution of heroin)
Carlo Fodero
Francesco Gambino
Salvatore Inzerillo (b.1956)
Domenico Mannino
Emanuele Salvatore Mannino
Grace Pulitano Mannino
Ignazio Anthony Mannino
Tommaso Scalici
Enzo Varisco
Simone Zito
Stefano Zito

Felice, do you know the hometowns in Sicily where all these people originated from?

Torretta, Villabate, Palermo, Prato. 90% of them are from Torretta

[PolackTony]

in the first operation there were more arrests between Italy and Usa anyway

Is there a way to edit your posts and list what city each were arrested in? As I recall some were from San Francisco, Buffalo, Miami, etc.

Were any from the Chicago area?

As far as I know just Joe Ocello from Rockford

Oh ok. What’s the story behind him? Don’t remember you talking about him before

Cavita undoubtedly has more info on Ocello, but we’ve discussed him before in one of Chicago threads. He’s from Burgio (his wife is from Palermo) and arrived in Rockford in the early 70s, subsequently opening the Sicilian Restaurant in Roscoe, IL. He was the only guy in IL indicted in Iron Tower II in ‘88 (busted for selling weight in cocaine to an undercover agent in ‘86), but as we’ve discussed elsewhere there was a bunch of other Sicilian drug activity in Chicago and Rockford/Beloit/etc in this period. I believe that Joe Ocello today runs Bravo Pizzeria in South Beloit and is evidently very well tied into the broader Sicilian business community in the Chicago/Rockford/Beloit area. Recently, he was photographed hanging out in Biagio Cucina in Harwood Heights with Tony Miceli (who may have been the guy busted for credit card fraud in 2009, not sure) and is also close to Salvatore Perricone, a Chicago immigrant from Chiusa Sclafani who runs a major landscaping company in Northbrook.

[cavita]

in the first operation there were more arrests between Italy and Usa anyway

Is there a way to edit your posts and list what city each were arrested in? As I recall some were from San Francisco, Buffalo, Miami, etc.

Were any from the Chicago area?

As far as I know just Joe Ocello from Rockford

Oh ok. What’s the story behind him? Don’t remember you talking about him before

Cavita undoubtedly has more info on Ocello, but we’ve discussed him before in one of Chicago threads. He’s from Burgio (his wife is from Palermo) and arrived in Rockford in the early 70s, subsequently opening the Sicilian Restaurant in Roscoe, IL. He was the only guy in IL indicted in Iron Tower II in ‘88 (busted for selling weight in cocaine to an undercover agent in ‘86), but as we’ve discussed elsewhere there was a bunch of other Sicilian drug activity in Chicago and Rockford/Beloit/etc in this period. I believe that Joe Ocello today runs Bravo Pizzeria in South Beloit and is evidently very well tied into the broader Sicilian business community in the Chicago/Rockford/Beloit area. Recently, he was photographed hanging out in Biagio Cucina in Harwood Heights with Tony Miceli (who may have been the guy busted for credit card fraud in 2009, not sure) and is also close to Salvatore Perricone, a Chicago immigrant from Chiusa Sclafani who runs a major landscaping company in Northbrook.

Spot on, Tony.....do you have a copy of that photo with Joe?

[PolackTony]

in the first operation there were more arrests between Italy and Usa anyway

Is there a way to edit your posts and list what city each were arrested in? As I recall some were from San Francisco, Buffalo, Miami, etc.

Were any from the Chicago area?

As far as I know just Joe Ocello from Rockford

Oh ok. What’s the story behind him? Don’t remember you talking about him before

Cavita undoubtedly has more info on Ocello, but we’ve discussed him before in one of Chicago threads. He’s from Burgio (his wife is from Palermo) and arrived in Rockford in the early 70s, subsequently opening the Sicilian Restaurant in Roscoe, IL. He was the only guy in IL indicted in Iron Tower II in ‘88 (busted for selling weight in cocaine to an undercover agent in ‘86), but as we’ve discussed elsewhere there was a bunch of other Sicilian drug activity in Chicago and Rockford/Beloit/etc in this period. I believe that Joe Ocello today runs Bravo Pizzeria in South Beloit and is evidently very well tied into the broader Sicilian business community in the Chicago/Rockford/Beloit area. Recently, he was photographed hanging out in Biagio Cucina in Harwood Heights with Tony Miceli (who may have been the guy busted for credit card fraud in 2009, not sure) and is also close to Salvatore Perricone, a Chicago immigrant from Chiusa Sclafani who runs a major landscaping company in Northbrook.

Spot on, Tony.....do you have a copy of that photo with Joe?

Yeah, he was recently at a dinner for the Società SS Crocifisso di Rifesi di Burgio of Chicago at Biagio Cucina. As I’ve posted before, the Società also has a number of Buscemis and Bacinos as members.

[cavita]

in the first operation there were more arrests between Italy and Usa anyway

Is there a way to edit your posts and list what city each were arrested in? As I recall some were from San Francisco, Buffalo, Miami, etc.

Were any from the Chicago area?

As far as I know just Joe Ocello from Rockford

Oh ok. What’s the story behind him? Don’t remember you talking about him before

Cavita undoubtedly has more info on Ocello, but we’ve discussed him before in one of Chicago threads. He’s from Burgio (his wife is from Palermo) and arrived in Rockford in the early 70s, subsequently opening the Sicilian Restaurant in Roscoe, IL. He was the only guy in IL indicted in Iron Tower II in ‘88 (busted for selling weight in cocaine to an undercover agent in ‘86), but as we’ve discussed elsewhere there was a bunch of other Sicilian drug activity in Chicago and Rockford/Beloit/etc in this period. I believe that Joe Ocello today runs Bravo Pizzeria in South Beloit and is evidently very well tied into the broader Sicilian business community in the Chicago/Rockford/Beloit area. Recently, he was photographed hanging out in Biagio Cucina in Harwood Heights with Tony Miceli (who may have been the guy busted for credit card fraud in 2009, not sure) and is also close to Salvatore Perricone, a Chicago immigrant from Chiusa Sclafani who runs a major landscaping company in Northbrook.

Spot on, Tony.....do you have a copy of that photo with Joe?

Yeah, he was recently at a dinner for the Società SS Crocifisso di Rifesi di Burgio of Chicago at Biagio Cucina. As I’ve posted before, the Società also has a number of Buscemis and Bacinos as members.

Yes, definitely Joe and his wife Francesca Intravaia next to him.

[CabriniGreen]

Iron Tower (1st december 1988)
Usa:
Emanuele Adamita
Francesco Badalamenti
Vittorio Barletta
Pietro Candela
Salvatore Candela
Francesco Cipriano
Giuseppe D’Amico
Paolo D’Amico
Salvatore D’Amico
Filippo Filiberto
Francesco Gambino
Giovanni Gambino
Giuseppe Gambino
Carmelo Guarnera
Francesco Inzerillo
Joseph Larosa
Rocco Launi
Salvatore Lobuglio
Lorenzo Mannino
Rosario Naimo
Salvatore Rina
Matteo Romano
Fabrizio Tesi
Giovanni Zarbano
John Doe a/k/a “Sasha”

co-conspirator:
Salvatore Inzerillo
Domenico Mannino


Iron Tower II (3rd january 1989, indictment of 18 people)
- 1st Trial: (importation and distribution of cocaine)
Francesco Badalamenti
Salvatore DiMaio
Filippo Filiberto
Salvatore Pilliteri
Antonio Romano
Frank Sciarrino

- 2nd Trial: (importation and distribution of heroin)
Carlo Fodero
Francesco Gambino
Salvatore Inzerillo (b.1956)
Domenico Mannino
Emanuele Salvatore Mannino
Grace Pulitano Mannino
Ignazio Anthony Mannino
Tommaso Scalici
Enzo Varisco
Simone Zito
Stefano Zito

Felice, do you know the hometowns in Sicily where all these people originated from?

Torretta, Villabate, Palermo, Prato. 90% of them are from Torretta

The Torreta guys? Born in the states? Or did they immigrate in the mid 60s-70s period?

Are ALL these Torreta guys connected to the actual Toretta family? Or are they spread out amongst multiple families?

Naimo is Tommaso- Natale family?

Where did Carini ( Guys like LoDuca) fit in here, if at all?

[motorfab]

If I'm not mistaken, Rosario Naimo was part of the mandamento of Partinico, but I don't remember which Family/Cosca. But maybe it was San Lorenzo, not sure

[felice]

Naimo was a member of Tommaso Natale family and was later transfered to San Lorenzo

[CabriniGreen]

Naimo was a member of Tommaso Natale family and was later transfered to San Lorenzo

I should read up on that..... Tommaso Natale was..... absorbed into San Lorenzo? Some kind of reorganization?

[johnny_scootch]

With the "Bivio 2" operation, another hard blow to the San Lorenzo district 2021

By Giovanni Burgio

Giulio Caporrimo, arrested together with 7 other people on Wednesday, July 21, reaffirmed his power over the San Lorenzo - Tommaso Natale district thanks to the capillaries, almost obsessive, extortion carried out on the economic activities falling within his territory of competence.

There was no entrepreneur, trader, contract or business movement, who escaped the ‘putting in place’, the ‘subsidy to the prisoners’, the ‘Christmas gift’. Vincenzo Taormina, Antonino Vitamia, Vincenzo Billeci, imposed them punctually on those who worked in this part of Palermo.

Cosa Nostra: carpet extortion

If there was a new excavation work in Sferracavallo (another village in the so-called “Mandamento San Lorenzo-Tommaso Natale), it was necessary to immediately ascertain ‘to whom it belonged”; if renovations were being done in a school, it was necessary to pay the due; when a construction company resisted, a van was burned; if the owner of the

And some of these extortion and ‘concession of permission’ have had paradoxical if not even comic implications. There is the construction builder who protests with the boss for the failure to award the 780,000 euro contract; another owner of works who turns to other family heads to intercede on the “permission”; the small bar that pays the wrong man of the cosca; the owner of numerous garages who went to Caporrimo to get a discount, finds himself paying more because some of these activities

Eleven were the extortion ascertained by the investigations. Two entrepreneurs who rebelled and denounced.

Giuseppe Vassallo, owner of several agencies, would have paid Cosa Nostra 1,000 euros a week. In this case, however, the investigators say, it would not be a real extortion, but a collaboration between the owner of the betting points and the mafia organization.

Vassal, in fact, would have deliberately and continuously sought the bosses, both to obtain authorization to open other agencies, and to have greater commercial advantages from these illicit relations.

The internal war at Cosa Nostra

In the last ten years, the San Lorenzo – Tommaso Natale district has undergone as many as ten anti-mafia operations, and the last two, in January 2021 and this one in July, have the same name ‘Bivio’ for a specific reason. The affiliates and heads of household, in fact, are faced with a choice, at a crossroads: to follow the directives of the last Provincial Commission reconstituted in Baida on May 29, 2018, or to deny ‘the legitimacy’ of this new Dome?

Giulio Caporrimo has no doubts, and has quite clear ideas about it. He explained them to himself and out loud in his frequent soliloqui captured by the bedbugs installed in his machine: “This is no longer Cosa Nostra. The Commission cannot make two or three mandates. And then they all repent, and they get scared. When you propose them to do something serious, they run away, they are afraid. They have shrunk like the stiddari. Cosa Nostra is now like Stidda. This is a Thing as it comes to us, as it appears to them. Cosa Nostra is like a field of gypsies.”

In fact, Caporrimo, out of prison, does not recognize the regent designated by the Commission, Francesco Palumeri, and, between 2019 and 2020, he leaves Florence for a few months. Returning to his territory, however, he is immediately recognized as the head by his men, even if the Court of Review does not impute him this managerial role on the district.

In short, in one of the most violent districts of Palermo the battle is fought between the old Cosa Nostra and the new leaders of the mafia families.

[CabriniGreen]

With the "Bivio 2" operation, another hard blow to the San Lorenzo district 2021

By Giovanni Burgio

Giulio Caporrimo, arrested together with 7 other people on Wednesday, July 21, reaffirmed his power over the San Lorenzo - Tommaso Natale district thanks to the capillaries, almost obsessive, extortion carried out on the economic activities falling within his territory of competence.

There was no entrepreneur, trader, contract or business movement, who escaped the ‘putting in place’, the ‘subsidy to the prisoners’, the ‘Christmas gift’. Vincenzo Taormina, Antonino Vitamia, Vincenzo Billeci, imposed them punctually on those who worked in this part of Palermo.

Cosa Nostra: carpet extortion

If there was a new excavation work in Sferracavallo (another village in the so-called “Mandamento San Lorenzo-Tommaso Natale), it was necessary to immediately ascertain ‘to whom it belonged”; if renovations were being done in a school, it was necessary to pay the due; when a construction company resisted, a van was burned; if the owner of the

And some of these extortion and ‘concession of permission’ have had paradoxical if not even comic implications. There is the construction builder who protests with the boss for the failure to award the 780,000 euro contract; another owner of works who turns to other family heads to intercede on the “permission”; the small bar that pays the wrong man of the cosca; the owner of numerous garages who went to Caporrimo to get a discount, finds himself paying more because some of these activities

Eleven were the extortion ascertained by the investigations. Two entrepreneurs who rebelled and denounced.

Giuseppe Vassallo, owner of several agencies, would have paid Cosa Nostra 1,000 euros a week. In this case, however, the investigators say, it would not be a real extortion, but a collaboration between the owner of the betting points and the mafia organization.

Vassal, in fact, would have deliberately and continuously sought the bosses, both to obtain authorization to open other agencies, and to have greater commercial advantages from these illicit relations.

The internal war at Cosa Nostra

In the last ten years, the San Lorenzo – Tommaso Natale district has undergone as many as ten anti-mafia operations, and the last two, in January 2021 and this one in July, have the same name ‘Bivio’ for a specific reason. The affiliates and heads of household, in fact, are faced with a choice, at a crossroads: to follow the directives of the last Provincial Commission reconstituted in Baida on May 29, 2018, or to deny ‘the legitimacy’ of this new Dome?

Giulio Caporrimo has no doubts, and has quite clear ideas about it. He explained them to himself and out loud in his frequent soliloqui captured by the bedbugs installed in his machine: “This is no longer Cosa Nostra. The Commission cannot make two or three mandates. And then they all repent, and they get scared. When you propose them to do something serious, they run away, they are afraid. They have shrunk like the stiddari. Cosa Nostra is now like Stidda. This is a Thing as it comes to us, as it appears to them. Cosa Nostra is like a field of gypsies.”

In fact, Caporrimo, out of prison, does not recognize the regent designated by the Commission, Francesco Palumeri, and, between 2019 and 2020, he leaves Florence for a few months. Returning to his territory, however, he is immediately recognized as the head by his men, even if the Court of Review does not impute him this managerial role on the district.

In short, in one of the most violent districts of Palermo the battle is fought between the old Cosa Nostra and the new leaders of the mafia families.

Whoa..... this is some other shit. Recent too. You got me Intrigued my man.....

[CabriniGreen]

With the "Bivio 2" operation, another hard blow to the San Lorenzo district 2021

By Giovanni Burgio

Giulio Caporrimo, arrested together with 7 other people on Wednesday, July 21, reaffirmed his power over the San Lorenzo - Tommaso Natale district thanks to the capillaries, almost obsessive, extortion carried out on the economic activities falling within his territory of competence.

There was no entrepreneur, trader, contract or business movement, who escaped the ‘putting in place’, the ‘subsidy to the prisoners’, the ‘Christmas gift’. Vincenzo Taormina, Antonino Vitamia, Vincenzo Billeci, imposed them punctually on those who worked in this part of Palermo.

Cosa Nostra: carpet extortion

If there was a new excavation work in Sferracavallo (another village in the so-called “Mandamento San Lorenzo-Tommaso Natale), it was necessary to immediately ascertain ‘to whom it belonged”; if renovations were being done in a school, it was necessary to pay the due; when a construction company resisted, a van was burned; if the owner of the

And some of these extortion and ‘concession of permission’ have had paradoxical if not even comic implications. There is the construction builder who protests with the boss for the failure to award the 780,000 euro contract; another owner of works who turns to other family heads to intercede on the “permission”; the small bar that pays the wrong man of the cosca; the owner of numerous garages who went to Caporrimo to get a discount, finds himself paying more because some of these activities

Eleven were the extortion ascertained by the investigations. Two entrepreneurs who rebelled and denounced.

Giuseppe Vassallo, owner of several agencies, would have paid Cosa Nostra 1,000 euros a week. In this case, however, the investigators say, it would not be a real extortion, but a collaboration between the owner of the betting points and the mafia organization.

Vassal, in fact, would have deliberately and continuously sought the bosses, both to obtain authorization to open other agencies, and to have greater commercial advantages from these illicit relations.

The internal war at Cosa Nostra

In the last ten years, the San Lorenzo – Tommaso Natale district has undergone as many as ten anti-mafia operations, and the last two, in January 2021 and this one in July, have the same name ‘Bivio’ for a specific reason. The affiliates and heads of household, in fact, are faced with a choice, at a crossroads: to follow the directives of the last Provincial Commission reconstituted in Baida on May 29, 2018, or to deny ‘the legitimacy’ of this new Dome?

Giulio Caporrimo has no doubts, and has quite clear ideas about it. He explained them to himself and out loud in his frequent soliloqui captured by the bedbugs installed in his machine: “This is no longer Cosa Nostra. The Commission cannot make two or three mandates. And then they all repent, and they get scared. When you propose them to do something serious, they run away, they are afraid. They have shrunk like the stiddari. Cosa Nostra is now like Stidda. This is a Thing as it comes to us, as it appears to them. Cosa Nostra is like a field of gypsies.”

In fact, Caporrimo, out of prison, does not recognize the regent designated by the Commission, Francesco Palumeri, and, between 2019 and 2020, he leaves Florence for a few months. Returning to his territory, however, he is immediately recognized as the head by his men, even if the Court of Review does not impute him this managerial role on the district.

In short, in one of the most violent districts of Palermo the battle is fought between the old Cosa Nostra and the new leaders of the mafia families.

This is the aftermath of the LoPiccolos arrest I'm guessing?

[CabriniGreen]

Naimo was a member of Tommaso Natale family and was later transfered to San Lorenzo

Do you have a John Galatola from Miami?