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Events

January

February

March

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April

  • April - Sicilian mafia boss Salvatore Riina stands trial for the murder of Mauro De Mauro, a reporter who disappeared in 1970.
  • April 4 - Bernardo Provenzano mentions Matteo Messina Denaro as a possible successor as boss of the Sicilian Mafia. However this fact is only realized after Provenzano's capture when police decipher messages sent between Provenzano and other mobsters. This presupposes that Provenzano has the power to nominate a successor, which is not unanimously accepted among Mafia observers. "The Mafia today is more of a federation and less of an authoritarian state," according to anti-Mafia prosecutor Antonio Ingroia of the Direzione distrettuale antimafia (DDA) of Palermo, referring to the previous period of authoritarian rule under Salvatore Riina. [9]
  • April 6 - NYPD officers, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, are convicted for the murders of 8 men on the orders of mobsters. [10]
  • April 11 - Sicilian mafia boss, Bernardo Provenzano, captured by police outside of Corleone after more than 40 years of hiding. Several mafiosi were mentioned as his successor. Among the rivals were Matteo Messina Denaro (from Castelvetrano and the province of Trapani), Salvatore Lo Piccolo (boss of Tommaso Natale area and the mandamento of San Lorenzo in Palermo), and Domenico Raccuglia from Altofonte. Provenzano allegedly nominated Messina Denaro in one of his pizzini – small slips of paper used to communicate with other mafiosi to avoid phone conversations, found at Provenzano's hide out.
  • April 13 - National Police arrest a Moroccan man Tarifa, Cádiz province, Spain, for alleged links to Cosa Nostra.
  • April 13 - Salvatore Terracciano, head of a leading Camorra clan, arrested with 11 other family members and associates. [11]
  • April 13 - Giuseppe Arena, head of a 'Ndrangheta clan in Catanzaro, Calabria, arrested alongside his "right hand man", Francesco Gentile. [12]
  • April 14 - Five people arrested in Messina, Sicily in further investigations into Sicilian and Calabrese organized crime
  • April 20 - Marco Rodolfo del Vento, financier and alleged front man for Sicilian mafia boss Biagio Crisafulli, arrested in the Balearic Islands.
  • April 24 - Joseph Mastronardo is stopped on his way home from Florida and has $500,000 cash seized from his car and $2 million from his home. [13]

May

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  • May 31 - Joseph Vito Mastronardo and John V. Mastronardo are charged with bookmaking and criminal conspiracy. [26]

June

  • June 5 - Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are sentenced to life imprisonment but have the verdict postponed until June 23. [27] [28]
  • June 6 - Gambino crime family captain Gregory DePalma is convicted of racketeering.
  • June 7 - Transcripts of recordings of mobster Frank Calabrese, Sr. by his mobster turned government witness son Frank Calabrese, Jr. are released. [29]
  • June 7 - Buffalo crime family associate Leonard Mordino and 10 others are arrested in a cocaine ring. [30]
  • June 9 - Sicilian criminal Domenico Farina is murdered in Catania. [31]
  • June 9 - Matthew Ianniello is indicted in Connecticut for collecting $500,000 from a corrupt trash collector. [32] [33]
  • June 10 - The alleged boss of the Messina based Tortoriciani clan Francesco Cannizzo has property worth €1.2 million confiscated. [34]
  • June 12 - Sicilian mobster Salvatore Lupo is arrested in Catania by the piazza Dante Unit Carabinieri. [35]
  • June 12 - New Jersey mobster Stefano Vitabile is sentenced to life imprisonment for ordering the murder of one time boss John D'Amato. D'Amato was a homosexual, an offence punishable by death. In court the killer, Anthony Capo explained "Nobody's gonna respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business,". [36]
  • June 16 - Gambino crime family associate and "Corporation" crime family leader Alex Rudaj is sentenced to 27 years for racketeering and extortion. [37] [38]
  • June 16 - The French leader in organized crime Jacky Imbert, "Mad Jacky", was sentenced to four years for extorting from Paris businessmen in the early 1990s, in Marseille.[39]
  • June 19 - Frank D. Frassetto admits in federal court to conspiring with his son Phillip M. Frassetto to distribute a kilogram of cocaine. [40]
  • June 19 - Italian MP Gaspare Giudice is charged with mafia association. [41]
  • June 20 - Italian authorities issued 52 arrest warrants against the top echelon of Cosa Nostra in the city of Palermo (Operation Gotha). Study of the pizzini showed that Provenzano’s joint deputies in Palermo were Salvatore Lo Piccolo and Antonio Rotolo, capo-mandamento of Pagliarelli. In a message referring to an important decision for Cosa Nostra, Provenzano told Rotolo: "It's up to you, me and Lo Piccolo to decide this thing."[2] The investigations showed that Rotolo had built a kind of federation within the mafia, comprising 13 families grouped in four clans. His right-hand men were Antonio Cinà – who used to be the personal physician of Salvatore Riina and Provenzano – and the builder Francesco Bonura. The city of Palermo was ruled by this triumvirate replacing the Commission whose members are all in jail.

August

September

  • September - 18 year old Salvatore Montani, a relative of jailed Bari/Apulia crime boss Andrea Montani, is killed in a gangland slaying. [47]
  • September 4 - Anthony "Little Tony" Zizzo (71) disappears. His car is found in Melrose Park, but there is no sign of foul play.
  • September 5 - Neapolitan mafiosi Raffaele Caldarelli is arrested in London after evading authorities for more than 10 years. [48]
  • September 20 - Bonanno crime family captains Peter Calabrese and Louis Attanasio plead guilty to the 1984 murder of Cesare Bonventre. They are both sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.

October

  • Clarence "Chauncey" Smaldone, the reputed head of the mafia in Denver, Colorado, dies (mid-October) of natural causes. He was preceded in death by his two brothers Eugene "Checkers" Smaldone and Clyde "Flip Flop" Smaldone who he ran the family with for many years. [49]
  • October 30 - Giovanni Montani, a young footballer, is shot dead in Bari. Although a seemingly innocent victim Montani's imprisoned uncle Andrea Montani is the allegedly the head of a dominant Sacra Corona Unita crime family in the Bari area of Apulia. Giovanni Montani's cousin Salvatore Montani was shot dead in September of this year. [50]
  • Palermo Financial Police confiscate goods and real estate worth €104 million from Sicilian businessman Angelo Prisinzano for mafia related criminal association. Two others had assets confiscated; all three had been under investigation since February of 2005. [51]
  • October 31 - Pittsburgh mob boss Michael James Genovese dies of natural causes at the age of 87. [52] [53] [54]
  • October 31 - 3 people are killed in Naples in what appears to be a bloody turf war involving two Camorra groups for control of the drug trade. [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61]

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  • October 31 - All eleven of the prosecutors leading anti-mafia investigations in Catania, Sicily, resign this week because of the severe lack of funding causing them to personally finance the operations. [64] [65] [66]

November

  • November 2 - A man is stabbed in Naples, leaving him in a serious condition in hospital. [67]
  • November 3 - The Italian government pledges to post 1000 extra police officers in Naples after the spate of violence that saw 12 people killed in 10 days. [68] [69]
  • November 6 - Italian business man, Angelo Cottarelli, is found in his home, still alive but with his neck cut to near decapitation, his family dead. It seems that Cottarelli was made to watch his family die before his throat was cut and he was left to die. The attacks was perpetrated, it seems, by the 'Ndrangheta. [70]

Scheduled Events

  • June 23 - Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa will argue the incompetence of their lawyers before being sentenced to what will probably be life imprisonment. [71] [72]
  • June 27 - A pre-trial (for 3 members of the Mexican Mafia accused of murder) is scheduled. [73]
  • June 28 - Frank P. Frassetto scheduled to be sentenced in federal court. [74]
  • July 5 - John Gotti, Jr. scheduled to be sentenced in federal court. [75]
  • July 26 - Phillip M. Frassetto scheduled to be sentenced in federal court. [76]
  • September - Hai Waknine scheduled to be sentenced in federal court. [77]
  • September 18 - Patricia Palacios scheduled to be sentenced in federal court. [78]
  • September 22 - Frank D. Frassetto scheduled to be sentenced in federal court. [79]
  • October - Frank Depergola scheduled to be sentenced in federal court.

Arts and literature

Scarface (film) The Godfather trilogy (film) Goodfellas (film)

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Mafia drugs submarine seized.
  2. ^ Police strike at heart of mafia averts bloody power struggle, by John Hooper, The Guardian, June 21, 2006.







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