Word: buscetta
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...existence of the Cupola, taken for the Italian word for dome, first came to light in the 1960s and was confirmed by the turncoat witness Tommaso Buscetta, whose testimony to legendary magistrate Giovanni Falcone in the 1980s unlocked many of the Mafia's secrets. Allowing each family to remain autonomous in its own geographic area, the Cupola was effectively tasked with preventing disputes that would threaten the whole system...
DIED. TOMMASO BUSCETTA, 71, Italian organized-crime turncoat; of cancer; at an undisclosed U.S. witness-protection location. He testified in the New York "pizza connection" heroin-smuggling trial of the 1980s and helped put away hundreds of mobsters on both sides of the Atlantic...