īuscetta was the first high-profile Sicilian Mafiosi to become an informant he revealed that the Mafia was a single organisation led by a Commission, or Cupola (Dome), thereby establishing that the top tier of Mafia members were complicit in all the organisation's crimes. Buscetta asked to talk to the anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, and began his life as an informant, referred to as a pentito. Buscetta was arrested in Sao Paulo, Brazil once again on 23 October 1983, and extradited to Italy on 28 June 1984. This was followed by the deaths of his brother Vincenzo, son-in-law Giuseppe Genova, brother-in-law Pietro and four of his nephews, Domenico and Benedetto Buscetta, and Orazio and Antonio D 'Amico. On 11 September 1982, Buscetta's two sons from his first wife, Benedetto and Antonio, disappeared, never to be found again, which prompted his collaboration with Italian authorities.
In response to public disquiet about the failure to effectively combat the organisation Riina headed, La Torre's law was passed ten days later.
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However, not long after arriving, on 3 September 1982, he was gunned down in the city centre with his wife, Emanuela Setti Carraro, and his driver bodyguard, Domenico Russo. In May 1982, the Italian government sent Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, a general of the Italian Carabinieri, to Sicily with orders to crush the Mafia. A law to create a new offence of Mafia association and confiscate Mafia assets was introduced by Pio La Torre, secretary of the Italian Communist Party in Sicily, but it had been stalled in parliament for two years. Whereas Riina's predecessors had kept a low profile, leading some in law enforcement to question the very existence of the Mafia, Riina ordered the murders of judges, policemen and prosecutors in an attempt to terrify the authorities.
In February 1980, Tommaso Buscetta fled to Brazil to escape the brewing Second Mafia War instigated by Riina. By the end of the war, the Corleonesi were effectively ruling the Mafia, and over the next few years Riina increased his influence by eliminating the Corleonesi's allies, such as Filippo Marchese, Giuseppe Greco and Rosario Riccobono. There were up to a thousand killings during this period as Riina and the Corleonesi, together with their allies, wiped out their rivals. Between 19, Bontade and Inzerillo, together with many associates and members of both their Mafia and blood families, were killed. The Corleonesi's primary rivals were Stefano Bontade, Salvatore Inzerillo and Tano Badalamenti, bosses of various powerful Palermo Mafia families. By the end of the 1970s, his lieutenant Salvatore Riina, who was also a fugitive, was in control of the Corleonesi clan. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975. He became a fugitive, and was finally captured in Milan on. Leggio was linked to the murder of the General Attorney of Sicily, Pietro Scaglione, who was shot dead on with his police bodyguard Antonino Lo Russo. In February 1971, the Corleonesi clan's first boss, Luciano Leggio, ordered the kidnapping for extortion of Antonino Caruso, son of the industrialist Giacomo Caruso, and also that of the son of the builder Francesco Vassallo in Palermo. 2 Affiliation and power of the Corleonesi.Between 19, the Corleonesi initiated a season of attacks against the state, followed by the State-Mafia Pact. The victory of the Corleonesi, and in particular the rise of Totò Riina, marked a new era in the history of the Sicilian Mafia. During the Second Mafia War in the early 1980s, the Corleonesi clan opposed the faction of the Palermitans represented, among others, by Gaetano Badalamenti, Stefano Bontate and Salvatore Inzerillo. Notable leaders included Luciano Leggio, Salvatore Riina, Leoluca Bagarella and Bernardo Provenzano.Ĭorleonesi affiliates were not restricted to mafiosi of Corleone. The Corleonesi Mafia clan was a faction within the Corleone family of the Sicilian Mafia, formed in the 1970s. Luciano Leggio, Totò Riina, Calogero Bagarella, Bernardo Provenzano, Leoluca Bagarella, Giovanni Brusca Luciano Leggio at a court appearance in 1974Īnd numerous others Palermo Mafia families