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4/12/2006
The Don of Dons Apprehended in Italy
We shall see how they work this in on the Sporanos, yes?

Via Bloomberg:
Provenzano, the Mafia's Boss of Bosses, Captured

April 11, 2006
Bloomberg
By Steve Scherer

Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano was arrested in an abandoned country house above his native town of Corleone after almost 43 years as a fugitive, police and magistrates said. Provenzano, 73, had been the boss of bosses of the Sicilian mob, known as Cosa Nostra, since the previous Don, Salvatore Riina, was captured in 1993. He was Italy's most wanted fugitive...

...Provenzano has been convicted in absentia and given life sentences for several murders, including those of magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992. Provenzano is one of the men responsible for the rise of the Corleone family to the apex of Cosa Nostra, and earned the nickname in his youth of "the tractor'' because he mowed down everything in his path...

..."This is a great victory for the state," said Maurizio De Lucia, an anti-mafia magistrate at the Palermo courthouse. "It wasn't acceptable that after almost 43 years this man was free."
More gritty details, here.

-- MDT

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