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    The Corleonesi Mafia clan was a faction within the Corleone family of the Sicilian Mafia, formed in the 1970s. Notable leaders included Luciano Leggio...
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    Bernardo Provenzano (category Corleonesi)
    an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia clan known as the Corleonesi, a Mafia faction that originated in the town of Corleone, and de facto...
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  • Second Mafia War (category Corleonesi)
    secrecy of the Mafia. The instigators of the Second Mafia War were the Corleonesi, the Mafia Family from the town of Corleone, although they were helped...
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    Giuseppe Di Cristina (category Mafiosi murdered by the Corleonesi)
    the Corleonesi of Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano. His death was a prelude to the Second Mafia War, which would start in 1981 after the Corleonesi killed...
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    Luciano Leggio (category Corleonesi)
    criminal and leading figure of the Sicilian Mafia. He was the head of the Corleonesi, the Mafia faction that originated in the town of Corleone. He is universally...
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    Stefano Bontade (category Mafiosi murdered by the Corleonesi)
    Andreotti. In 1981 he was killed by the rival faction within Cosa Nostra, the Corleonesi. His death sparked a brutal Mafia War that left several hundred mafiosi...
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    Leoluca Bagarella (category Corleonesi)
    Corleone on 3 February 1942. Bagarella sided with Luciano Leggio of the Corleonesi in the late 1950s. Bagarella became the brother-in-law of Salvatore Riina...
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  • born 20 February 1957) is an Italian mobster and former member of the Corleonesi clan of the Sicilian Mafia. He had a major role in the 1992 murders of...
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    was loyal to him – and strengthened relations with Totò Riina and the Corleonesi. While Riina was a fugitive he frequently spent time in and around Catania...
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    Rosario Riccobono (category Mafiosi murdered by the Corleonesi)
    Gaetano Badalamenti who opposed the rising power of Salvatore Riina and his Corleonesi. He tried to keep a neutral position, but became more and more isolated...
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    Giuseppe Calderone (category Mafiosi murdered by the Corleonesi)
    Riina and Bernardo Provenzano and their Corleonesi in their attempt to dominate the Sicilian Mafia. The Corleonesi were attacking the allies of the Palermo...
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  • Salvatore Riina (category Corleonesi)
    "the boss of bosses"). Riina succeeded Luciano Leggio as head of the Corleonesi criminal organisation in the mid-1970s and achieved dominance through...
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    boss of the Corleonesi clan and a member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission, and he forged a coalition of mafia clans known as the Corleonesi with himself...
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    Giuseppe Greco (category Mafiosi murdered by the Corleonesi)
    clear the Corleonesi were winning the war. However, when they had outlived his usefulness, Riina decided to have them eliminated. The Corleonesi invited...
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  • War — when the Corleonesi allies of Michele Greco and Salvatore Riina attacked the established Mafia families of Palermo — the Corleonesi killed Contorno's...
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  • machine-gunned by a Kalashnikov on 10 May 1981 in Palermo. After that, the Corleonesi under Salvatore Riina killed his brothers Santo (who died in Palermo)...
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    Salvatore Scaglione (category Mafiosi murdered by the Corleonesi)
    main rivals of the Corleonesi Mafia clan of Salvatore Riina during the Second Mafia War in Palermo. He was killed by the Corleonesi on 30 November 1982...
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  • Badalamenti, Stefano Bontade and the Corleonesi boss Luciano Leggio, although it was Salvatore Riina who represented the Corleonesi, substituting Leggio who was...
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    family had sent one of their explosives experts to Sicily to work with the Corleonesi Mafia clan. This individual allegedly helped plan the Capaci bombing that...
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  • Calogero Bagarella (category Corleonesi)
    Mafia. He was from the town of Corleone and belonged to the Mafia clan of Corleonesi. Calogero Bagarella was born in Corleone to a family of Mafiosi that gave...
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  • Stefano Bontade and the Corleonesi boss Luciano Leggio, although it was Salvatore Riina who would actually represent the Corleonesi. One of the first issue...
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    against the growing power of the Corleonesi. His efforts were in vain. Gradually, Michele Greco sided with the Corleonesi and according to some, was no more...
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  • boss of the Corleonesi clan and a member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission, and he forged a coalition of mafia clans known as the Corleonesi with himself...
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    Vincenzo Puccio (category Mafiosi murdered by the Corleonesi)
    that particular family he operated a great deal under the orders of the Corleonesi. He was arrested together with two other men, Giuseppe Madonia and Armando...
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  • di Rigano Santa Maria di Gesù Noce Pagliarelli Resuttana San Lorenzo Corleonesi Mafia clan Inzerillo Mafia clan (7 mandamenti): Camporeale Corleone Cinisi...
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  • Nostra, and his rise in the Mafia ran parallel to the ascension of the Corleonesi clan headed by Salvatore Riina and later by Bernardo Provenzano, to whom...
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  • and Leoluca Bagarella as ‘reserved’ man of honour affiliated with the Corleonesi. His membership of Cosa Nostra was to be kept confidential in order to...
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    mafia family from the movie The Godfather or its real-life parallel, the Corleonesi). Chris finds the new school difficult to adjust to because of social...
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  • in Italy since 1995. In the past the clan was reportedly linked to the Corleonesi Mafia clan. Over the years, the Russo clan has maintained good relations...
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    with the established Mafia-families of Palermo who were massacred by the Corleonesi headed by Salvatore Riina. However, they apparently were able to find...
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