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    Bernardo Provenzano (Italian pronunciation: [berˈnardo provenˈtsaːno]; 31 January 1933 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian...
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  • became the new boss. Together with Riina, Calogero Bagarella and Bernardo Provenzano (who were three of the gunmen in Navarra's slaying), Leggio began...
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  • coalition led by Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano that was opposed by Gaetano Badalamenti and Stefano Bontade. Riina and Provenzano secretly formed an alliance...
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    one of the new leaders of the Sicilian mob after the arrests of Bernardo Provenzano on 11 April 2006 and Salvatore Lo Piccolo in November 2007. The son...
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    1970s. Notable leaders included Luciano Leggio, Salvatore Riina, Bernardo Provenzano, and Leoluca Bagarella. Corleonesi affiliates were not restricted...
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  • for murder, Riina soon took over as boss of the Corleonesi with Bernardo Provenzano. The Corleonesi began to win over allies amongst other Mafia Families...
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    deduced that Rotolo — Number 25 in the numbered code of Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano — had become a key figure in Cosa Nostra's hierarchy. Rotolo was...
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    faction, opposing another faction commanded by the successor designate Bernardo Provenzano, creating a real rift in Cosa Nostra. Bagarella was captured in 1995...
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  • Riina and Bernardo Provenzano were bestowed with the title by the media. In April 2006, the Italian government arrested Bernardo Provenzano in a small...
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  • Provenzano is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anthony Provenzano (1917–1988), New York mobster Bernardo Provenzano (1933–2016)...
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    had been running his Mafia affairs in hiding. With the capture of Bernardo Provenzano on 11 April 2006, Lo Piccolo had been cementing his power and rise...
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    Navarra, Luciano Leggio, Leoluca Bagarella, Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano. It is also the birthplace of several fictional characters in Mario...
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  • school. As a boy, Calogero worked at a mill with his childhood friend Bernardo Provenzano. From the second half of the 1950s, Calogero Bagarella became affiliated...
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    Calò was given a further life sentence together with Bernardo Provenzano, Michele Greco, Bernardo Brusca, Salvatore Riina, Francesco Madonia and Nenè Geraci...
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    with 14 others among which his brother Salvatore Greco, Totò Riina, Bernardo Provenzano and Nitto Santapaola for the murder on the prefect of Palermo, General...
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    Democrat. Ciancimino was close to Mafia boss and perennial fugitive Bernardo Provenzano, but regarded Salvatore Riina as irrational. In the aftermath of...
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    Sicilian Mafia uses for high-level communications. Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is among those best known for using pizzini, most notably in his...
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  • held by Leoluca Bagarella, then passed to Bernardo Provenzano when Bagarella was captured in 1995. Provenzano halted the campaign of violence and replaced...
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    smart new northern area of Palermo – by a Mafia hit squad including Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Bagarella (an elder brother of Leoluca Bagarella the brother-in-law...
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    within the Carabinieri. Control of the organization then fell to Bernardo Provenzano who had come to reject Riina's strategy of war against the authorities...
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    advisers of Bernardo Provenzano. Spera became part of a "directorate" that ruled Cosa Nostra after 1995 when it was established by Provenzano. This group...
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    as did two other young local criminals, Calogero Bagarella and Bernardo Provenzano. On 10 March 1948, Placido Rizzotto, trade unionist, was kidnapped...
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  • Bernardo allied himself with the Corleonesi of Salvatore Riina, Bernardo Provenzano and Leoluca Bagarella when he replaced Antonio Salamone as capomandamento...
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    bombing among other crimes. Virga was one of the trusted men of Bernardo Provenzano and considered to be his financial brain. He was one of the members...
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    were to get hold of it. A Mafia hit squad was composed including Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Bagarella (an elder brother of Leoluca Bagarella the brother-in-law...
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    version of frequency analysis. In April 2006, fugitive Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano was captured in Sicily partly because some of his messages, clumsily...
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  • sorted by crime family. Michele Navarra John Bie Baliao John Salvador Bernardo Provenzano Salvatore Riina Franco Quattrocchi Gaetano "Tommy" Reina Tommy Gagliano...
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    father. The mandators of this massacre were Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, in favor to Nitto Santapaola, who was in a year-long war with Ferlito...
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  • the killers for Totò Riina and his Corleonesi, but became close to Bernardo Provenzano when the latter took over the position of Riina as head of Cosa Nostra...
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    Giovanni Brusca. After the arrest of the Mafia's boss of bosses, Bernardo Provenzano, his name was mentioned as one of the possible successors together...
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