Sicilian Mafia Resources and Information

 

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How might a person do business with the Sicilian Mafia? Perhaps like this: Walk up to someone you are certain is Mafia and complain how expensive a new car is. The man listens, nods, is sympathetic. When no longer suspicious of you, a reply “Si. Si. Go to this business (business name). Mention my name, Roberto. You will get a good deal.” And perhaps you will get an incredibly good deal - but now you owe a Mafia family a favor. Say you suddenly understand while driving your new car that maybe you could do this again? You find Roberto. Explain what you have in mind, to sell your car and make a huge profit, but could you get the same deal again? “Si, si.” But now, while you made a huge profit and still have a fantastic deal on the next car, you are in business with the Mafia. Part of the family. Does anyone lose? And, if you do your research, you may form the opinion that Sicilians have no issue with the Mafia, that only politicians do. You may also conclude that when it comes to Sicily, it isn’t a question of who is Mafia, it is a question of who is not? An ancient Way of Life. (Does this explanation feel right? No laws are broken, and that is why the Italian government put in place a law that anyone can be accused of association with the Mafia and the police can kick a family onto the street and confiscate their wealth. Makes you wonder who is the real Mafia?)

 

The Most Elusive Scent of All is a tale told by the Sicilian Mafia dimension.

“I need to confess my sins, father.”

… in a room full of women I saw her face…

… in a room full of mirrors I saw her...

… in a garden of dreams my thoughts turned to her...

… in a house of mirth an angel came to me…

The Mafia Code in The Most Elusive Scent of All

1. Look after family

2. Respect the law

3. Business is Business

4. Don’t attract attention to our Way of Life

5. Harm no one if possible

6. Tell the accuser “Explain how I don’t respect the law?”

7. I believe I AM as good a Catholic as any

 

The Honoured Society

Originally published in 1964, Norman Lewis describes how, after Mussolini came close to destroying the Mafia, the U.S. Army returned them to power in 1944. Henceforth, they infiltrated every aspect of Sicilian life, corrupting landowners, the police, the judiciary, and even the church.  (Why didn’t the USA military sue this author? Honestly, how would anyone understand about such matters? Is this book ‘make believe’ from beginning to end? About the only book about the Mafia which appears not as make believe but Italian government propaganda, is David Lane’s book Into the Heart of the Mafia.)

A plaque on a Palermo University entrance wall. In memory of two slain Mafia hunting magistrates.

In his book Into The Heart Of The Mafia, David Lane says that two well known Mafia hunters (Falcone and Borsellino) went to the same school, played in the same yard, as their classmates whom they later began to hunt in their anti-Mafia campaigns.

Falcone was killed in a car bomb explosion with 3 police officers also. Borsellino was killed by a car bomb and 5 policemen also. But, study the actual images and it looks like a heavy missile struck and leveled the heavy car. The ‘Mafia conspiracy theory’ in Italy can blind investigators.  Judging by the scale of the killing of Borsellino and Falconi and their predecessor, this wasn’t the mythical Mafia but the remnant of Red Brigades. Obviously the three magistrates focused on imaginary Mafiosi suspects and instead focused on real Red Brigade remnant.  That is clear from the little made public. Even after the arrest of 12,000 Red Brigade members, that doesn’t mean the group was finished. This group was known to have access to Russian military missiles and bombs, and was also aided by Italian Intelligence services. That is well known. About the only way to explain how it was possible for the bomber(s) to know the precise time and route the cars would be taking. It was thought the group disbanded in 1988, but they reappeared in 1990. (Red Brigades formed in 1969 when Italy was on the verge of total collapse).

And, before the media invented the word ‘Mafia’, what were Mafiosi called?  A similar term was invented long ago by Sicilian police. It meant ‘gun for hire’. It referred to those who made a living in this way.

 

(Image:Palermo Centrale train station.

 

 

 

 

 

The Museum in Corleone

A building said to be confiscated from Sicilians under the Italian anti-Mafia laws and named ‘Laboratory of Legality’. Italy had put in place laws under which anyone said to be associated with the Mafia can be charged with being Mafia. Except they can’t define Mafia! Apparently impossible to challenge. Apparently no trial needed. Which suggests that if a police officer in Italy doesn’t like you - that’s it! The State machine gunners arrive and kick you out on the street. That sounds more like the real Mafia and Mafiosi of Italy!

 

Were The 1986-92 Maxi Trials A Farce?

The jury consisted of 4 men and 2 women. Randomly selected you think - surely you are joking! If they found the 450 alleged ‘Mafiosi’ guilty, each juror would have to be reallocated and given a different identify. Each would have to be paid a huge wage for life and settled in a large house in an unknown location. (Like winning a lottery?) Likely an offer these 6 couldn’t refuse. Would you? Seriously, would you? Each would live a life of leisure with no financial concerns. All they had to do is find the alleged people guilty. The testimony of a Mr Buscetta, an alleged Mafia boss who it was claimed broke Omerta, appears to have been simply unbelievable. So unbelievable that even the heavily biased Italian media dubbed that testimony as the ‘Buscetta theorem’. One of the accused appears to have been an ordinary financier.

 

So Is There A Cosa Nostra?

Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/crime-rate-by-country

Crime Rate by Country. Rate calculated by dividing the number of reported crimes by the population, and the result is multiplied by 100,000.

 

Venezuela 84.36                United States 47.7

Australia 41.67                  Qatar 11.9

Papua New Guinea 80.04  France 47.37

Israel 30.44                       El Salvador  67.84

Italy 44.24                         Japan 21.67

 

Where is the Mafia in those figures?

 

Is it possible in the modern western world to have large scale organized crime? Is it really possible? There is El Salvador but that is a poor country.

 

It appears that the crusade against Cosa Nostra began with Mussolini, because Sicilians resisted the fascists. Aided by Hitler’s propaganda machine, Mussolini built on a fanciful ‘myth/legend’ of the Cosa Nostra, and developed fine details how Cosa Nostra was supposed to operate. How they existed for centuries and how they came about. How these were large organized crime families who fought over territory and carried out extortions and murder. How godfathers and Mafia bosses were in charge of large clans.

In the 1986-92 Maxi Trials about 500 alleged mafiosi were put on trial. One in every 100 persons in England is a criminal. That suggests given a similar stat, that Italy could have randomly arrested people and labeled them as Mafia and 1 in 100 would be a criminal.

After the war Italy had unstable parliaments. On average an election every 1.5 years. The Mafia myth/belief may have suited the politicians. Hunting the mythical Cosa Nostra appealed to voters.

 

Mafiosi 10 Commandments?

Supposedly found on paper in a house raided by police. You may need to be a hypothetical Mafiosi to correctly understand these.

The Mafia language has been described by Italian newspapers as “typically oblique language of Mafiosi”.

 

1. No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.

2. Never look at the wives of friends.

3. Never be seen with police.

4. Always be available for Cosa Nostra, even if wife about to give birth.

5. Appointments must be respected.

6. Wives must be treated with respect.

7. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.

8. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.

9. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra are anyone with a close relative in the police, with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.

10. Absolute silence and secrecy - "omerta" - must be kept at all times.

 

What Does The Mafia Weebly Say About The Mafia?

Sicily, is the motherland of the Mafia. It is a beautiful island in the Mediterranean Sea infested with unlimited series of vendettas, crimes and assassinations. The Sicilian Mafia is a loose confederation of about one hundred Mafia Families. Every single Mafia Family claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighborhood of a larger city.

In fact, the word "Mafia" is a literary creation. The real name is believed to be "Cosa Nostra" meaning "our thing".

In the beginning and even till the 1950s, many people regarded the Mafia not as law-breaking criminals but as role-models and protectors of the weak and the poor, as the state offered no protection to the lower classes.

 

Extracts from FBI Files

One problem when comparing La Cosa Nostra to the Cosa Nostra, is that USA defines precisely what a ‘mafiosi’ is - meaning a member of a relatively small group of criminals usually of Italian descent or heritage. However, FBI does try to link La Cosa Nostra to Cosa Nostra and that’s when it falls apart. The FBI information appears to contradict Italian intelligence (as explained in ‘How Reliable is the FBI information’).

Since their appearance in the 1800s, the Italian criminal societies known as the Mafia have infiltrated the social and economic fabric of Italy and now impact the world. They are some of the most notorious and widespread of all criminal societies. There are several groups currently active in the U.S.: the Sicilian Mafia; the Camorra or Neapolitan Mafia; the ’Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia; and the Sacra Corona Unita or United Sacred Crown.

We estimate the four groups have approximately 25,000 members total, with 250,000 affiliates worldwide. There are more than 3,000 members and affiliates in the U.S., scattered mostly throughout the major cities in the Northeast, the Midwest, California, and the South. Their largest presence centers around New York, southern New Jersey, and Philadelphia.

Their criminal activities are international with members and affiliates in Canada, South America, Australia, and parts of Europe. These enterprises evolved over the course of 3,000 years during numerous periods of invasion and exploitation by numerous conquering armies in Italy. Over the millennia, Sicilians became more clannish and began to rely on familial ties for safety, protection, justice, and survival.

An underground secret society formed initially as resistance fighters against the invaders and to exact frontier vigilante justice against oppression. A member was known as a “Man Of Honor,” respected and admired because he protected family and friends and kept silent even unto death.

Since the 1900s, thousands of Italian organized crime figures—mostly Sicilian Mafiosi—have come illegally to this country. Many who fled here in the early 1920s helped establish what is known today as La Cosa Nostra or the American Mafia.  Charles “Lucky” Luciano, a Mafioso from Sicily, came to the U.S. during this era and is credited for making the American La Cosa Nostra what it is today. Luciano structured the La Cosa Nostra after the Sicilian Mafia. When Luciano was deported back to Italy in 1946 for operating a prostitution ring, he became a liaison between the Sicilian Mafia and La Cosa Nostra.

Sicilian Mafia

The Sicilian Mafia formed in the mid-1800s to unify the Sicilian peasants against their enemies. In Sicily, the word Mafia tends to mean “manly.” The Sicilian Mafia changed from a group of honorable Sicilian men to an organized criminal group in the 1920s. The Sicilian Mafia specializes in heroin trafficking, political corruption, and military arms trafficking—and is also known to engage in arson, frauds, counterfeiting, and other racketeering crimes. With an estimated 2,500 Sicilian Mafia affiliates it is the most powerful and most active Italian organized crime group in the U.S. The Sicilian Mafia is infamous for its aggressive assaults on Italian law enforcement officials.

How Reliable is the FBI Information?

Possibly as reliable as the “Magic bullet theory”? (The JFK assassination was officially attributed to one man Oswald, said to have fired a bullet from a Dallas Texas book repository building. A bullet that supposedly bounced back and forth between the president and the governor, wounding the governor more than once before finally killing the president. Hence the ' Magic bullet theory’). In fact, according to Italian police “Most (kidnappings) are the work of criminal bands not connected to the Mafia”. Also, at one time the head of the Squadra Mobile of Trapani (Italian police group), Giovanni Leuci, revealed that the criminal group (Cosa Nostra) is generally only indirectly involved in drug trafficking. (What does that mean? Indirectly? And how does one ‘estimate’ the ‘unknown’? The FBI report reads like a fanciful Mafia novels.)

 

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Among Italians the Mafia myth is as enshrined as Santa Claus. Perhaps ‘a religion’ is more correct.

There is no definition of a Mafiosi other than ‘Of Sicilian origin’.

Journalists and law enforcement in Italy and USA have taken to this myth or de-facto  religion. And it all started with Adolf Hitler who persuaded Mussolini to invent the myth of the Mafia the NAZI way - make Mafia appear as absolutely huge and established and total evil.

Italian intelligence appears to admit that it has no understanding how Sicilian Mafia operates.  A ‘baffling mystery’. That led to a law requiring two policemen to be present at any public tender in Sicily. (Prior to police investigating “Mafia”, the Italian Military was responsible for hunting the Mafia. Such concluded it was a waste of time, because no one understands how the Mafia operates or does business.)

Did you know Vincent Louis Gigante was found by a jury to be head of an American Mafia family? This was a person diagnosed with schizophrenia; who regularly spent time in a mental hospital; who would shower with an open umbrella; often urinate in New York city streets and have conversations with parking meters. Who would think this was a Mafia Don - not just a Don but The Don! And yet the American FBI and their lawyers persuaded a jury this was so. Read what the FBI sold to the media and jury (link) and not a surprise he was found guilty. FBI claims appear to be an extraordinary invention from start to finish. On a documentary about this patsy, there was a suggestion a double was used to produce incriminating photographs.

To get to Sicily, you can fly, take a bus, or a train from Rome. If you take the train, the carriages are moved onto a ferry to cross the Strait of Messina (about 3 km). You can go on top deck and relax. The ‘slow train’ has very few people.

A short stroll from the city center of Palermo and a ‘Monument to the Mafia’. You can’t miss it. Signs point the way.

 

Secrets of Life and Death: Women and the Mafia By Renate Siebert

 

 

 

Midnight in Sicily By Peter Robb

 

 

 

 

Giovanni Falcone (18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992) was an Italian prosecuting magistrate (i.e. judge). From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the mythical Mafia in Sicily. After a long career, culminating in the famous Maxi Trial in 1986-1987, he was killed in May 1992, on a motorway. (His successor, Borsellino, was also assassinated and that ended the Italian State’s persecution of the Cosa Nostra). (Make sure you are looking at the right car, the one almost leveled to the ground.)

 

JFK (1963)

Perhaps the most well known. Was it the Mafia? Mafia says so! The extent to which the American government tried to cover up the truth is history. The government desired to pin this on one sole assassin Oswald. That is how the ‘Magic Bullet Theory’ came about which goes something like this: Oswald fired a bullet from the third floor of the Dallas Book Repository building. That bullet hit the President in the arm, then turned in mid-air to hit the passenger in the front seat on his thigh, then did a few loops in mid-flight to turn right around and head upward to the President’s head to kill him.

“YEAH, I HAD the son of a bitch killed. I’m glad I did. I’m sorry I couldn’t have done it myself!”

These were the words of Carlos Marcello, the alleged Mafia godfather of Louisiana and Texas (that could mean 4 or 5 criminals under him). He was talking about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Marcello’s admission is in uncensored FBI files at the National Archives. But was it the Mafia? Everywhere you look Mafia keeps popping up. If so, why was JFK a Mafia target? Explained simply JFK appears to have been elected only with Mafia help. His father was super rich and had contacts. After being elected, JFK and his brother turned on the Mafia. The man who killed Oswald in a Dallas police station was a known Mafiosi.  The police officer Oswald is said to have shot, but witnesses to this shooting couldn’t identify Oswald as the killer, that police officer was behaving suspiciously that day. For example, witnesses claimed he was continually driving in his police car to a Road House (he didn’t have a partner that day) and trying to make a telephone call from a booth, then so agitated and banging the phone down when no one answered. It is possible that policeman was in fact the primary shooter behind the fence on the grassy knoll. (Note: Not easy to ignore Marcello’s admission. He also explained where a powerful bullet shell could be found on the grassy knoll, stomped into the ground at the time. A shell was found, it was old, where he said it could be found.) [If you are interested in Oswald, in a LIFE in the novel Voyages of Discovery - The Final Journey, one LIFE young Jason experiences is as Oswald in the days of the Cold War.)

 

Edward Lino (1990)

Edward Lino was shot nine times as he sat in his 1990 Mercedes S-Class on a service road leading onto the Belt Parkway near Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, by NYPD Detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa. They pulled him over at the side of the road under the guise of a traffic stop and killed him. His car was still in Drive on the automatic gearbox when he was shot, so the car rolled into the bushes. The two corrupt detectives murdered Lino from orders handed down by the Underboss of the rival Lucchese crime family, Anthony Casso. (And how would this be known given Mafia members are under Omerta? Maybe the cops are using Mafia as an excuse?)

 

Apparently in Sicilian schools the government aims to teach students why becoming involved with the Mafia is not good. That could be confusing to the students because the government appears not to have a definition of a Mafiosi.

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