Tommaso Buscetta (Italian pronunciation: [tomˈmaːzo buʃˈʃetta]; 13 July 1928 – 2 April 2000) was a high ranking Italian mobster and a member of the Sicilian...
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about the life of Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian Mafia boss who was treated by some as pentito. Pierfrancesco Favino stars as Buscetta, alongside Maria...
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of Lead. During the 1986–87 Maxi Trial and after the testimony of Tommaso Buscetta, the term was increasingly applied to former members of organized crime...
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turncoat Tommaso Buscetta revealed to anti-mafia Italian magistrate Giovanni Falcone that the term was used by the Sicilian Mafia, as well. Buscetta dismissed...
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former Mafia bosses turned informants, known as pentiti, in particular Tommaso Buscetta and Salvatore Contorno. Most were convicted, 338 people, sentenced...
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position does not exist according to later Mafia pentiti, such as Tommaso Buscetta. They also denied Vizzini ever was the ruling boss of the Mafia in...
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(pentito) against Cosa Nostra in October 1984, following the example of Tommaso Buscetta. He gave detailed accounts of the inner-workings of the Sicilian Mafia...
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by, the Sicilian Mafia. According to the pentito (Mafia defector) Tommaso Buscetta, Lima's father, Vincenzo Lima, was a member of the Mafia but is not...
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has repented) broke omertà. Among the most famous Mafia pentiti is Tommaso Buscetta, the first important witness in Italy, who both helped prosecutor Giovanni...
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Filippo Marchese, Giuseppe Greco and Rosario Riccobono. In January 1981, Tommaso Buscetta fled to Brazil to escape the brewing Second Mafia War. Prior to Riina's...
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ESTRADIZIONE TOMMASO BUSCETTA PRESTO IN ITAL – la Repubblica.it". Archivio – la Repubblica.it (in Italian). "FORSE GIA' DOMANI TOMMASO BUSCETTA ARRIVA IN...
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weapons and drugs. One of these witnesses was Sicilian Mafia pentito Tommaso Buscetta, who had already revealed information to Italian magistrate Giovanni...
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Marchese, Giuseppe Greco and Rosario Riccobono. In February 1980, Tommaso Buscetta fled to Brazil to escape the brewing Second Mafia War instigated by...
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Lima and Vito Ciancimino. Lima was connected to Angelo La Barbera, Tommaso Buscetta and the leading construction entrepreneur Francesco Vassallo. The period...
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with Rosario Riccobono, Stefano Bontade, Gaetano Badalamenti, and Tommaso Buscetta, all heads of fallen Palermo families which were defeated by the Corleonesi...
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Russo, Angelo La Barbera, Gaetano Badalamenti, Calcedonio Di Pisa and Tommaso Buscetta. One of the outcomes of this meeting was that the Sicilian Mafia composed...
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kidnapped, tortured and killed. A number of informants, including Tommaso Buscetta, said that it was Giuseppe Greco who abducted the youth and shot him...
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Pennino and Tommaso Buscetta. There are no first-hand accounts of the meeting, except for the version of Mafia turncoat Tommaso Buscetta, who denied a...
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that rule was not obeyed from the start. According to the pentito Tommaso Buscetta, the Commission first came into being "to settle disputes between members...
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stone for a seat and no walls or door according to Mafia turncoat Tommaso Buscetta. Traditional mafiosi like Genco Russo and Calogero Vizzini, the Sicilian...
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Greco and Salvatore Greco, also known as "l'ingegnere", Pietro Davì, Tommaso Buscetta and Gaetano Badalamenti. In 1970, the Sicilian Mafia Commission was...
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Roman Catholic prelate Tommaso Brugnami (born 2006), Italian artistic gymnast Tommaso Buscetta (1928–2000), Sicilian mafioso Tommaso Caccini (1574–1648)...
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language, the word cristianu means both "Christian" and "human being"). Tommaso Buscetta, the Mafia turncoat who had cooperated with Falcone's investigations...
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former Mafia bosses turned informants, known as pentiti, in particular Tommaso Buscetta and Salvatore Contorno. Most were convicted, 338 people, sentenced...
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folders there are the confessions of the famous pentito ("repentant") Tommaso Buscetta to Judge Falcone. In the Room of the Messages, visitors may see the...
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During the 1980s, at the Maxi Trial against Cosa Nostra, informants Tommaso Buscetta and Salvatore Contorno were protected by the FBI due to the lack of...
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Dead Man's Walk Captain Caleb Cobb 3 episodes 1999 Excellent Cadavers Tommaso Buscetta Television film Esther Mordechai 2000 The Darkling Bruno Rubin ill...
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kidnapped, tortured and killed. A number of informants, including Tommaso Buscetta, said that it was Pino Greco who abducted him and shot him through...
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Genco Russo, Angelo La Barbera, Gaetano Badalamenti, Totò Minore and Tommaso Buscetta. Di Pisa was killed on 26 December 1962, on the Piazza Principe di...
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ever was the boss of the Mafia in Sicily. According to the pentito Tommaso Buscetta, the title capo dei capi or "boss of bosses" did not exist in Cosa...
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