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    Pentito (Italian pronunciation: [penˈtiːto]; lit. "repentant"; plural: pentiti) is used colloquially to designate collaborators of justice in Italian criminal...
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    Giovanni Falcone, and began his life as an informant, referred to as a pentito. Buscetta revealed information to Falcone for 45 days, explaining the inner...
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  • became known that Spatuzza had turned into a witness for the prosecution (pentito) four months earlier after spending 11 years in jail under the Article...
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  • 1963) is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia, who turned state witness (pentito). Giuseppe Pino Marchese was born in Palermo in a family with long-standing...
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  • The Repenter (redirect from Il pentito)
    Il pentito (internationally released as The Repenter and The Squealer) is a 1985 Italian crime-drama film directed by Pasquale Squitieri. The film is...
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  • 2002, he decided to collaborate with Italian law enforcement and became a pentito, a co-operating witness against organised crime. Giuliano was born into...
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    1935 – 10 January 2013) was a Sicilian Mafioso who turned state witness (pentito) in 1987 after his arrest in 1986. Antonino was born in Catania, the brother...
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  • After six years of rigorous imprisonment, Melluso decided to become a pentito. On March 2, 1984, when the preliminary hearings of the trial against the...
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  • of Cosa Nostra. He became one of the most important Mafia turncoats, or pentito, after his arrest in April 2002, providing further information about its...
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  • in Dubai. In December 2022 it was noticed that Imperiale had become a "pentito", starting crown witness procedure. Imperiale was born in Castellammare...
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    84 Rower United Kingdom 16 April 2020 Francesco Di Carlo 79 Mobster and pentito France (Paris) Jim Fraser 83 American football player United States (Lansdale)...
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  • became the first of Falcone's assassins to become a government witness—a pentito. He revealed all the details of the assassination: who tunnelled beneath...
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  • the Mafia Family is called the Omerta. This was confirmed in 1986 by the pentito Tommaso Buscetta. A hit, or murder, of a made man must be approved by the...
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    was a vendetta against his brother Patrizio, a member of RB who became pentito the year before. On 17 December, James L. Dozier, an American general and...
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    Burruano (1948-2017), actor Tommaso Buscetta (1928–2000), member and notable pentito of the Sicilian Mafia Lando Buzzanca (1935–2022), actor Alessandro Cagliostro...
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  • Sicilian Mafia Commission that turned himself in voluntarily to become a pentito, a collaborator with the Italian judicial authorities. Cancemi made controversial...
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  • a former member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned into a state witness (pentito) against Cosa Nostra in October 1984, following the example of Tommaso...
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  • the former La Torre clan boss who became a pentito, is married to an Albanian woman; the first foreign pentito, a Tunisian, admitted to being involved with...
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  • There are relatively few Calabrian mafiosi who have opted out to become a pentito; at the end of 2002, there were 157 Calabrian witnesses in the state witness...
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  • Bravo and Giuseppe Costanza survived. Salvatore Cancemi, who later turned pentito, described the Mafia's victory celebration that followed the Capaci bombing;...
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    Giovanni Falcone, and began his life as an informant, referred to as a pentito. Buscetta was the first high-profile Sicilian Mafiosi to become an informant;...
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  • Naples. Barra has the distinction of being the first NCO member to become a pentito, when he decided to collaborate with Italian Justice in 1982. Barra sported...
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  • Mammoliti decided to collaborate with the Italian justice and became a pentito. Nevertheless, he received another 20 years sentence for his role in the...
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    16, 2020) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned state witness (pentito — a mafioso turned informer) in 1996. He was accused of being the killer...
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  • 1956) is a former associate of the Sicilian Mafia who became a significant pentito. Stille, Alexander (1995). Excellent Cadavers. London: Vintage. ISBN 0-09-959491-9...
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  • Operation Old Bridge is the code name for the February 7, 2008 arrests in Italy and the United States that targeted the Gambino crime family; among the...
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    they started to accumulate large amounts of money rapidly. According to pentito Antonio Calderone, Bontade used to say that fortunately Tommaso Spadaro...
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    judge, Antonino Caponnetto. Gaspare Spatuzza, a mafioso who later became a pentito, eventually revealed he had stolen the Fiat 126 on the orders of the Graviano...
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    New York Gambino crime family and Francesco Marino Mannoia, an Italian pentito who had become a government witness, Joe and John Gambino and six other...
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  • Giovanni Falcone, and began his life as an informant, referred to as a pentito. Buscetta was the first high-profile Sicilian Mafioso to become an informant;...
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