LoPiccolo in Sicily

[CabriniGreen]

Saw this article this morning....



With a LoPiccolo in n power in Sicily, do you guys think the close relations between the Sicilian mafia and Gambinos/New York will resume?


Any thoughts?

[bronx]

Mannino's uncle is lopiccolo

[CabriniGreen]

Really? Didnt know that....Interesting...

[CabriniGreen]

Wait, wheres the article?? I'll post again...

https://www.thestate.com/news/nation-wo ... 93550.html

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https://www.france24.com/en/20190122-it ... afia-sting

[CabriniGreen]

Its been said recently that Denaro is not really involved in the day to day, or policy making...

[CabriniGreen]

Anyone have any info on Leandro Greco?

I dont usually pay attention to wiki, but this caught my eye...

The Greco clan lost its grip on the mandamento of Ciaculli, which was merged with Brancaccio and the leadership eventually was passed on, but its criminal presence emerged into Calabria in the late 1990s and with the turn of the new millennium, Interpol and FBI intel information showed that the reemergence of the Greco Clan was strongly evident in the United States and Australia, the Grecos were no longer part of the power structures of Cosa Nostra but restructured their organization to adapt to the new ways of organized crime.[19]

Was, or is the Greco clan still powerful in Calabria?
This said they controlled olive oil, was this in partnership with the Piromallis?

Also, the part about them no longer being Cosa Nostra, and restructuring? Sounds quite intriguing to me..... Mostly because it sounds like the Rizzuto clan...

Any thoughts?

[scagghiuni]

the greco's are cosa nostra since 1800s, leandro greco is the grandson of michele 'the pope' greco, ciaculli boss in the 1980s and member of the commission, and the son of giuseppe greco, also a mafia member
the father and grandfather of michele greco were mafiosi too, and probably even the ancestors of them, in other words they were always a cosa nostra family since the beginning

[CabriniGreen]

Oh, I know... Riina fucked them over too..

What caught my eye was that they were a power in Calabria... the olive oil business... Is this part true?

[JeremyTheJew]

Anyone have any info on Leandro Greco?

I dont usually pay attention to wiki, but this caught my eye...

The Greco clan lost its grip on the mandamento of Ciaculli, which was merged with Brancaccio and the leadership eventually was passed on, but its criminal presence emerged into Calabria in the late 1990s and with the turn of the new millennium, Interpol and FBI intel information showed that the reemergence of the Greco Clan was strongly evident in the United States and Australia, the Grecos were no longer part of the power structures of Cosa Nostra but restructured their organization to adapt to the new ways of organized crime.[19]

Was, or is the Greco clan still powerful in Calabria?
This said they controlled olive oil, was this in partnership with the Piromallis?

Also, the part about them no longer being Cosa Nostra, and restructuring? Sounds quite intriguing to me..... Mostly because it sounds like the Rizzuto clan...

Any thoughts?

there is some ties to Montreal as well. Luigi Greco was top sicilian although i believe it was B that said this Greco might not have been connected to the better known Greco clan.

[CabriniGreen]

Confirms that conflict between Corleonesi and the " Escapees" has ended.....


http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/ma ... trica.html

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Another article.....

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/ma ... mafia.html

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Home Mafie News Cosa Nostra Greco-Lo Piccolo, relatives of art with desire of the mafia
MAFIE NEWS
Greco-Lo Piccolo, art relatives with a desire for mafia
Details Published: 23 January 2019
Greek leandro lopiccolo calogeroby Aaron Pettinari - Video / Photo
"The rules of Cosa Nostra? Guarded in Corleone"

"This is a kid, though, that is, he looks like he has an old man inside, but he's a boy." So the newly repentant Francesco Colletti , a 49-year-old former head of the Villabate, describes to the public prosecutors the rise of Leandro Greco at the top of the Ciaculli mandate. His collaboration with justice, together with that of Filippo Bisconti , former boss of Belmonte Mezzagno, could create a real earthquake within the mafia consortium of Palermo. It is also thanks to their statements that the role of the two art relatives ended up in handcuffs was more delineated in the operation of yesterday that took development from "Cupola 2.0". In fact, besides Greco, Calogero Lo Piccolo was arrested, a "guarantee" for the mafia organization of San Lorenzo-Tommaso Natale and neighboring families, as well as Giovanni Sirchia, Giuseppe Serio, Erasmo Lo Bello, Pietro Lo Sicco and Carmelo Cacocciola . Judged by the magistrates on 21 December 2018, Colletti confirmed the existence of a reorganization project of the Provincial Commission, promoted by the Greek who called himself "Michele", probably in honor of his grandfather, known as the "Pope" who for years was He was at the very top of the Commission until his arrest in 1986.
"Michele Greco tells me that we have ..., we have to make an appointment, then he let me know and in this appointment the chief leaders of Palermo had to participate,- he told the prosecutors - he is a kid even if he has an old man inside ... He does not speak badly, and the brain has it ... I always thought he had made up his mind that he had to be the head of this commission " .



It is very probable that young Greco had the right "friendships" within other families. His brother, Emilio Nicolò , had married the daughter of Gregorio Di Giovanni , the mafia boss of Porta Nuova and another member of the provincial commission of Cosa Nostra.
Then there were opportunities. In 2013, Giovanni Di Giacomo , speaking in jail with his brother Giuseppe who would soon be assassinated, made a reference to the young Greco also commenting on the possible rise of Ciaculli compared to Brancaccio because in the historic mandate of the Graviano referent Pietro Tagliaviahe was controlled by law enforcement. What is certain is that given the weight that Brancaccio has had within Cosa Nostra in the years of the massacres, and not only that, it seems difficult to believe at least that there has not been a "well-being" by historians capimafia, currently held in 41 bis .

The rules of Cosa Nostra
The former boss of Villabate, who in the interceptions recorded while talking with his driver had already unveiled to the investigators the meeting, he then described all the outlines of that meeting with the leaders of the families of Palermo. There were almost all of them. It was this Seventh Mineo , the Pagliarelli family and already arrested last December, and even Gregorio Di Giovanni .
" Michele Grecohe often spoke, saying that we must do serious things, we must organize ourselves so that only we who meet and gather will have to know things - said Colletti -. These were the main rules if someone does something without the authorization of his boss can be put out. "
A list of rules that would be" documented "to Corleone: " We must respect the ancient rules - he added - and apparently these rules someone guards them and I think it is Corleone. I believe that these rules are kept in Corleone. " So it is not so far from the past this new mafia 2.0 that focuses on young offspring to rebuild their foundations and carry out new business."What do you keep in mind? What is something written?" , asked the pm. And Colletti replied: "Yes, yes, yes, I repeat I'm new to certain situations, but I tell you that in that appointment the Bisconti ( Filippo Bisconti , boss of Misilmeri ed ) told him to the Greek (Capomafia di Ciaculli ed ): 'You can not say this has to participate and this does not have to participate, do not talk about rules because the rules, the written ones, must be kept and the rules are dated, I do not know how many hundreds of years'. I do not know who has it, but there are also written these rules and in any case that Bisconti knows " .

Greek lopiccolo

Divisions
At that meeting on May 29, it was also decided that further meetings would be held later ( "We had to do a meeting every two months, a month and a month, not first of all to get to know each other") also because they lacked prominent figures like the same Bisconti who with an excuse (he said he had been afraid of being followed) did not show up. Yesterday, the prosecutors highlighted the fact adding that Bisconti himself, who in recent weeks has begun to collaborate with justice, said he "fear" the Commission. Not only. There were two different currents of thought about how it should have been set. Does this mean that there was a rift in the criminal organization? Probably the further investigations will be able to clarify these aspects but in the meantime it is striking that the two subjects who were in disagreement with Greco (Bisconti and Colletti) decided to "skip the ditch". But what was the plan of the young scion of Ciaculli?
Greco would have tried to assert the hegemony of the Palermo clans to the detriment of the families of the countries trying to impose a palermocentric vision, also creating the role of the "supervisor" of the province mandates. An attitude that not even the boss Gregorio Di Giovanni , who also became a relative of the nephew of the "Pope", could have justified. Was this enough to generate a contrast? After all the same Bisconti, according to Colletti, was the "representative" of the province ( "the Bisconti told me that whatever I needed I had to talk to him about the province ... It was known that we had to talk with the Bisconti because he was dealing with the mandates of the countries "). This could mean that there was something else. And it is the same Colletti to confirm the data: "The Greek tells me, first all the praise, you're a good person, blah, blah, blah, tells me that in the next appointment in September I did not have to participate, do not take it, it's not something to you. What is the comparison? If you're telling me that I do not have to participate, you first harassed me to fix up the family (referring to the Villabate clan)that we absolutely did not want. The explanation that gives me is that, since the Bisconti had to bring the representatives of the countries, we could not hold meetings ten people, twenty people, fifteen people, I do not know how they were, this ..., the number I do not know, but he tells me: we can not, that is, there are no conditions, so we have all of us arrested. " That proposal, however, was not welcomed by Colletti also because Greco, in proposing the problem, also proposed the solution:"Let's make sure that, since you're from a country, you make yourself represent or be decided by someone in this group, you make you represent, when the meetings end, the person who represented your address will tell you the situations I was disappointed and it was obvious, I did not like it because it seemed like something against me ... I said but what's going on? There's something wrong " .



The return of Lo Piccolo
Unlike Greco, Calogero Lo Piccolo was not at the first experience in Cosa Nostra. He had already been convicted of mafia and returned to freedom in April 2018 after serving his sentence. Investigators have been monitoring it for some time and investigations have shown that, despite the long absence, it had not lost its role in the mandate.

Extortion: in Mondello the monopoly on the supply of fish
The investigation, in addition to confirming the dynamics of the new Commission, has revealed some extortion and the attempt of one of the arrested to establish itself as the sole fish dealer in the restaurants of Mondello, seaside resort of Palermo , and Sferracavallo. Thus it emerged that Giuseppe Serio, one of the arrested, was imposed on other merchants promoting the interests of the company officially registered to a relative.
"You ... in Mondello you can not sell seafood, here you do not have to sell seafood, go where you need to go and inform yourself", he told another dealer, and to the latter's question on what he should have Doing "to live" Serio replied: "I've been in jail, and now I'm here." The investigators, meanwhile, thanks to interceptions, recorded everything.
But the business of the Lo Piccolo family went even further. Cacocciola and Lo Sicco, entrepreneurs in the construction sector, would have dealt with the extortion. According to the prosecution they would provide preliminary information on the construction sites and companies in the earth-moving sector that operated between Isola delle Femmine and Capaci. Surveys also found that the percentage to be paid to the cosca would have been three percent. But there is also something else. The Chief Prosecutor Lo Voi and the Deputy De Luca have said that the new investigations will turn their gaze also "outside of Cosa Nostra". The earthquake triggered by the statements of Colletti and Bisconti could lead to new jolts.

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Home Mafie News Cosa Nostra '' Dome 2.0 '', so the mafia returns to being palermocentric
MAFIE NEWS
'' Dome 2.0 '', so the mafia returns to being palermocentric
Details Published: 04 December 2018
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by Aaron Pettinari
The words of the investigators after today's arrests

" Shit have you seen Bernardo Provenzano ...? He's dying ... mischief ... And if they do not die both, light does not see anyone ... is it true Uncle Mario? ". This was one of the passages of an interception of a few years ago between Santi Pullarà , one of the big shots of Santa Maria di Gesù, son of the former Regent Ignazio , and the mafia boss Mario Marchese . With the death of Provenzano first, and then Riina, Cosa nostra has rediscovered the strength to reorganize itself to establish a new provincial commission with a strong " palermocentric " influence . The data is strongly highlighted during the press conference to comment on theoperation "Dome 2.0" which led to the execution of 46 stops (which will have to pass the screening of the GIP), striking premier orders such as those of Pagliarelli , Porta Nuova , Bagheria-Villabate and Misilmeri-Belmonte Mezzagno . " This operation confirms the importance of the creation of the anti-mafia district directions, created 27 years ago to give space, in the fight against the mafia, to a unified vision of the phenomenon that was not a mere atomistic approach to individual associations, " said the Chief Prosecutor of Palermo, Francesco Lo Voi -The survey today is the result of the pooling of 4 different strands of investigation and just the exchange of information and coordination has allowed us to grasp in recent months movements, meetings and suspicious contacts for the quality of the protagonists who have made us discover the attempt of a return to a unitary structure to the organization of families ".



The turning point came as the carabinieri managed to intercept two mafiosi inside a car. A conversation in which reference was made to the successful summit in the presence of all the capimandamento of the province of Palermo. " It was a meeting at the highest level - added Lo Voi - where it was discussed the need to establish a return to the rules.In some ways it seemed to re-read the statements made at the time by Thomas Buscetta who confirm as Cosa Nostra in this meaning has not changed and does not renounce its unitary and vertical structure"At that meeting, it also emerged that the Commission meets only to decide serious matters, such as killings, since the operation has thwarted the murder of a convicted person," guilty "of extortion without the authorization of Cosa Nostra. in total there are 28 extortion discovered by police who carried out the survey. Nine of the victims have spontaneously denounced the protection racket. Among the areas targeted by extortionists traders and entrepreneurs especially in the construction sector.

Mineo on " new "face from which to start again
For the right of seniority and without particular opposition" Cosa Nostra had chosen as "President" or "main contact" the face of Settimo Mineo. You have remembered the participation of the latter in the maxi process. His criminal character had already been identified by Judge Giovanni Falcone : " They had spoken repentant as Buscetta, Contorno and Vitale ". " At the trial - Lo Lo said - he said he did not know any of his 360 and over co-defendants despite a common round of checks with characters like Nicolò Greco and Salvatore Buscemi ".



End of the Corleonesi?
The national anti-mafia prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho also took part in the press conference, and he complimented the prosecutor and the carabinieri who have inflicted this new blow on the criminal organization: " For years, the commission of Cosa Cosa has been biased on the figure of Riina With his arrest everything stopped, the commission did not work anymore.After the death of the Corleone godfather the leaders felt the need to move and redress the organization.It is necessary to co-manage affairs such as drugs and trafficking waste in which the mafia makes agreements with 'ndrangheta and camorra and served a structure that was a point of reference ". "means that the commission has returned to move to Palermo, after decades of excessive Corleone and Palermo is back central . "The head of the DNA has described a mafia that attempts to avoid internal conflicts." The oldest is designated as a summit - has added - There is no mention of merit. No one uses his own charisma, no one feels better than others. We want to overcome the two or three agreements . "The commander of the Carabinieri Legion Giovanni Cataldo , the provincial commander Antonio Di Stasio and the deputy prosecutor Salvatore De Luca also took part in the press conference ." From the investigation it emerged that Matteo Messina Denaro, which sooner or later the state will have to capture, does not command the Province of Palermo - the latter commented - The Commission had returned to meet after 25 years and the network of business emerged with investigations ranging from extortion to drug trafficking until new online betting business. Another fact is that at present there is no conflict between the losers of the mafia war, the so-called 'escaped', and the Corleonesi. This means that Cosa Nostra regroups, even if it is in difficulty ".
With today's operation, it is questionable whether an era has actually ended within Cosa Nostra. We start from this investigation to rebuild the new organigrams without forgetting a fact: in the interception of a few years ago, Sutera and Marchese emphasized that the change also passed from the death of the other "Corleonesi". "You do not see any prestige and nothing cares ... but no two of them alone (Riina and Provenzano, ed ), all 'u vicinanzo'" Marchese always said making then the names of the most important belonging to the Corleone lineup: the brothers Graviano , Leoluca Bagarella and the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro. The latter is still fugitive while the former are in jail where they have to serve several life sentences. The massers are still alive. Thick names from which it is really difficult to think of completely distancing oneself.

[Hellboy]

So if they waited for Provenzano and Riina to die before recreating the commission, then the two must've still carried a lot of weight even from prison. Maybe this was done through their followers that were still free, I dont know. Maybe also there is the fact, peace could finally be achieved between the Corleonesi and the "escaped", after their deaths and this was needed before a commission could be formed. Just talking out my ass