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Stefano Bontade

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622:, in an effort to isolate the Palermitan bosses. Despite the larger economic means and the wider international network, the Bontade-Spatola-Inzerillo-Badalamenti network was unable to withstand the overmuch violence of the Corleonesi. The most important members of the Inzerillo, Spatola and Gambino clans were arrested in March 1980 for heroin trafficking, which undermined Bontade's position significantly. In 1981, in an attempt to control the situation, Bontade plotted Totò Riina's killing but the latter learned all through Michele Greco, a Bontade's former ally. 631: 647: 639: 454:(a freemason, like Bontade) was one of those who organised Sindona's travel. The real purpose of the kidnapping was to issue lightly disguised blackmail notes to Sindona's past political allies – among them Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti – to engineer the rescue of his banks and recover Cosa Nostra's money. The plot failed and after his "release" Sindona surrendered to the 538:, a convicted mafioso who used to be a stable manager there. Giuffrè said: "When Vittorio Mangano got the job in the Arcore villa, Stefano Bontade and some of his close aides used to meet Berlusconi using visits to Mangano as an excuse." Berlusconi's lawyer dismissed Giuffrè's testimony as "false" and an attempt to discredit Berlusconi and his party. 583:
replaced him. This marked the end of a period of relative peace and signified a major change in the Mafia itself. Greco was actually allied with Salvatore Riina, and he subsequently used his position to lure many more of Bontade's friends to their deaths in the subsequent Mafia War. Historically, the
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clan. Riina had secretly formed an alliance of mafiosi in different families, cutting across clan divisions, in defiance of the rules concerning loyalty in Cosa Nostra. This secretive inter-family group became known as the Corleonesi. They slaughtered the ruling families of the Palermo Mafia to take
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Andreotti's attempt failed. After the murder of Mattarella on 6 January 1980, Andreotti again contacted Bontade to try to straighten things out. However, according to Marino Mannoia, Bontade told Andreotti that "we are in charge in Sicily, and unless you want the whole DC canceled out, you do as we
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was killed in September 1970 on the orders of Bontade because of his investigations into the death of Mattei. Buscetta said that Bontade organized the kidnap, because De Mauro's investigations into the death of Mattei came very close to the Mafia, and Bontade's own role in the affair. Other pentiti
375:. Mattei was killed in 1962 at the request of the American Cosa Nostra because his oil policies had damaged important American interests in the Middle East. The American Mafia in turn was possibly doing a favour to the large oil companies. Buscetta claimed that the killing was organized by Bontade, 315:
Bontade was closely linked to the Spatola-Inzerillo-Gambino network. This network and other Sicilian suppliers dominated heroin trafficking since the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s when US and Italian law enforcement were able to significantly reduce the heroin supply of the Sicilian Mafia (the
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who actually would represent the Corleonesi. At the time Bontade was emerging as one of the Sicilian Mafia's acknowledged leaders. Young, rich, personable, intelligent and judicious, as well as the son of a renowned Mafia boss, it all made Bontade an undisputed candidate to sit on the
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changed the Mafia war into a war against the Mafia. It prompted the first concerted anti-mafia efforts by the state in post-war Italy. Within a period of ten weeks 1,200 mafiosi were arrested, many of whom would be kept out of circulation for five or six years. The
194:, Sicily, into a family of Mafiosi. His father and grandfather were both powerful Mafia bosses in the area Villagrazia, Santa Maria di Gesù and Guadagna, which were rural districts before they were absorbed into the city of Palermo in the 1960s. Stefano's father, 522:(Berlusconi was prime minister from 1994–1995, 2001–2006, and from 2008 to 2011). At the time, Berlusconi was still just a wealthy real estate developer and started his private television empire. Bontade visited Berlusconi's villa in Arcore on the outskirts of 400:, a mafioso from Bontade's Santa Maria di Gesù Family. De Mauro's body has never been found. Marino Mannoia testified that he had been ordered by Bontade in 1977 or 1978 to dig up several bodies, including De Mauro's, and dissolve them in acid. 458:. The Sindona-affair showed the close links between the Mafia and certain important businessmen, freemasons and politicians. In the aftermath of the investigations it appeared that many of them were connected through the secret P2 lodge ( 33: 510:. Mattarella became the President of the autonomous Sicilian Region in 1978 and wanted to clean up the government's public contracts racket that benefitted Cosa Nostra. Bontade and other mafiosi felt betrayed by Mattarella (his father 350:
recalled having refined at least 1,000 kilograms of heroin for Bontade. Marino Mannoia, who had been close to Bontade, decided to cooperate with the Italian state in October 1989, after his brother was killed by the
237:, though only ten minor figures would be convicted of anything. Bontade nonetheless managed to remain a highly important figure within Cosa Nostra, and he was also one of those responsible for ordering the death of 681:
Many of Bontade and Inzerillo's friends, fellow mafiosi and relatives were cut down in the following months to prevent them from avenging the death of their bosses. One of Bontade's close friends was
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The Corleonesi initiated the war against the coalition led by Bontade and Badalamenti to try to control heroin trafficking. They began by first eliminating Bontade's allies outside Palermo, including
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While under indictment in the US, Sindona staged a bogus kidnapping in August 1979 to conceal a mysterious 11-week trip to Sicily before his scheduled fraud trial. Bontade's brother in law
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did a little bit of cigarette smuggling and gave him part of the profits, "because they were starving to death." Spadaro was related to Bontade, being a godfather to one of his children.
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seven times – and who once defined Sindona as the "rescuer of the lira". After Sindona's banks went bankrupt in 1974, Sindona fled to the US. In July 1979, Sindona ordered the murder of
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On the evening of April 23, 1981, while driving home from his 42nd birthday party in Palermo, Bontate was killed; this happened at a red light in via Aloi while sitting in his
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control of the organisation, while waging a parallel war against Italian authorities and law enforcement to intimidate and prevent effective investigations and prosecutions.
209:, who would become a lawyer, studied at a Jesuit college. In 1964, at the age of 25, Stefano Bontade became the boss of the Santa Maria di Gesù Mafia Family when his father, 260:– Chief Prosecutor of Palermo – on 6 May 1971, the police rounded up the known Mafia bosses. Bontade was arrested in 1972 and he was sentenced to three years in the second 2021: 498:, ruled in October 2004 that Andreotti had "friendly and even direct ties" with top men in the so-called moderate wing of Cosa Nostra, Stefano Bontade and 2026: 584:
Greco clan from Croceverde Giardini had been at odds with the Greco clan of Ciaculli led by Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco, of whom Bontade was an ally.
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in June 1963 that killed seven police and military officers sent to defuse a bomb in an abandoned Alfa Romeo Giulietta after an anonymous phone call.
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who acted as the tax collectors on the island (tax collection was contracted out by the government). Through them Bontade had access to
2036: 217:). The Mafia went through difficult times at that moment. A bloody internal struggle (known as the First Mafia War) culminated in the 2031: 1806: 1186: 1169: 1155: 1141: 1127: 1708: 693:, one of Bontade's trusted aides, followed Buscetta's example. They were the key witnesses that enabled prosecuting magistrates 579:. At the close of 1978, the leadership of the Sicilian Mafia changed. Gaetano Badalamenti, was expelled from the Commission and 2016: 1304: 447:, who was investigating the Mafia's heroin trafficking and had contacted Ambrosoli two weeks before to compare investigations. 1646: 795: 355:(and subsequently saw his mother, his sister and his aunt killed as well). According to Marino Mannoia, Sicilian-born banker 292:
by imposing first their protection, and later their involvement, upon the smugglers in Naples (who were connected with the
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was rumored to be associated with the Mafia, but all accusations against him were not proven before any court of law).
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was dissolved and those mafiosi who had escaped arrest went into exile abroad or had to hide out in Italy. In 1968,
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The Second Mafia War raged from 1981 to 1984. In fact, two wars were being waged simultaneously by the
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in July 1974, but the sentence was annulled in appeal. Nevertheless, Bontade was sent in banishment to
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was revived. It consisted of ten members but would initially be ruled by a triumvirate consisting of
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but turned state witness after his arrest in April 2002. Bontade's contact at Arcore was the late
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laundered the proceeds of heroin trafficking for the Bontade-Spatola-Inzerillo-Gambino network.
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was shot to death outside his mistress house by a group of hitmen armed with the same rifle.
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In May 1994 Mafia turncoat Buscetta declared that Bontade had been involved in the murder of
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Octopus. How the long reach of the Sicilian Mafia controls the global narcotics trade
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Bontade and other banished mafiosi managed to get into the market of international
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Excellent Cadavers. The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
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also known as Scarpuzzedda ("little shoe") who shot him to death with an
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was in charge of one of the biggest banks in the United States, the
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Stefano Bontade had links with the Christian Democracy politician
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De Mauro, la verità di Mannoia; Sciolsi il suo corpo nell' acido'
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Bontate's body after he was shot multiple times with ak 47 rounds
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say." In the mid-1970s, Stefano Bontade was also in touch with
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Bontade, stepped down because of ill-health (he suffered from
443:. At the same time the Mafia killed police superintendent 336:, who in his youth peddled watered milk in the streets of 320:). The Bontade-Spatola-Inzerillo traffickers supplied the 662:. At 11:30 pm, he was reached by a motorcycle driven by 150:. He was the boss of the Santa Maria di Gesù Family in 1134:
The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection
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Bontade was born Stefano Bontate on 23 April 1939 in
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La strage di viale Lazio spiegata dal pentito chiave
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foreign investments, and was a major sponsor of the
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Buscetta also claimed that the journalist 775: 773: 771: 741: 739: 723: 721: 705:to successfully prosecute the Mafia in the 1405: 1214: 1200: 1192: 757: 755: 284:Cigarette smuggling and heroin trafficking 20: 280:, who would be initiated in Cosa Nostra. 182:that left several hundred mafiosi dead. 1668:Grand Hotel et des Palmes Mafia meeting 717: 308:, Bontade used to say that fortunately 1652:List of Sicilian Mafia members by city 142:(23 April 1939 – 23 April 1981), born 1827:List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia 731:Trent'anni fa l'assassinio di Bontade 7: 1150:, New York: Oxford University Press 1136:, London: Harvard University Press, 396:said that De Mauro was kidnapped by 1041:Mafia supergrass fingers Berlusconi 166:in Sicily, and with prime minister 2022:Mafiosi murdered by the Corleonesi 1164:, New York: Simon & Schuster, 911:Il debutto in aula dell'ex padrino 387:, a Sicilian born Mafia boss from 14: 2027:People murdered by the Corleonesi 1928:Italian brigandage (19th century) 1807:Direzione Investigativa Antimafia 913:, La Repubblica, 19 February 2011 486:, two wealthy mafia-cousins from 1709:Portella della Ginestra massacre 1016:, Time Magazine, 12 January 2003 403: 241:by sending two of his soldiers, 205:Stefano Bontade and his brother 31: 16:Italian Mafia member (1939–1981) 1028:, The Guardian, 5 December 2002 896:Quando Buscetta riapri' il caso 146:, was a powerful member of the 1739:Via Federico Pipitone massacre 1647:List of Sicilian Mafia members 733:, La Repubblica, 23 April 2011 377:Salvatore Greco "Ciaschiteddu" 1: 1014:Who Are You Going To Believe? 898:, La Repubblica, 22 June 1995 494:. 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1817:Addiopizzo 1542:Camporeale 1519:Brancaccio 1401:Mandamenti 1356:Corleonesi 1318:Mandamento 1288:Caporegime 1284:Capodecina 1237:Commission 1089:Sterling, 1052:Sterling, 959:, p. 37-42 942:Sterling, 846:Sterling, 833:Gambetta, 807:Gambetta, 765:, p. 52-54 713:References 707:Maxi Trial 600:Corleonesi 556:Corleonesi 476:Salvo Lima 353:Corleonesi 316:so-called 176:Corleonesi 124:Allegiance 50:1939-04-23 1785:Antimafia 1700:Massacres 1621:Mistretta 1496:Mussomeli 1438:Cianciana 1433:Canicattì 1418:Agrigento 1381:Inzerillo 1296:(Soldier) 1273:Underboss 1661:Meetings 1627:Siracusa 1557:Bagheria 1547:Corleone 1391:Graviano 1361:Galatolo 1313:Made man 1239:(Cupola) 1177:(1995). 1102:Stille, 1093:, p. 209 1076:Dickie, 1056:, p. 112 1001:, p. 391 997:Stille, 984:Dickie, 968:Stille, 955:Stille, 859:Stille, 837:, p. 312 811:, p. 231 783:, p. 103 779:Stille, 761:Stille, 745:Dickie, 701:and the 268:(in the 266:Qualiano 215:diabetes 160:Il Falco 114:Il Falco 93:In a car 1923:Garduña 1906:Camorra 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Index


Palermo
Sicilian Mafia
Sicilian Mafia
Palermo
politicians
Giulio Andreotti
Cosa Nostra
Corleonesi
a brutal Mafia War
Palermo
Francesco Paolo Bontade
Calogero Vizzini
Giovanni Bontade
diabetes
Ciaculli Massacre
Ciaculli Massacre
Sicilian Mafia Commission
114 went to trial
Michele Cavataio
Gaetano Grado
Emanuele D'Agostino
Viale Lazio massacre
Pietro Scaglione
Trial of the 114
Qualiano
province of Naples
Giuseppe Sciorio
Camorra
cigarette smuggling

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