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...takeover of the Mafia by the Corleone faction in the early 1980s, had never made more than a passing (and indecipherable) allusion about the crime to the authorities since his arrest in Palermo a year after the Borsellino killing. His longtime partner in crime and successor as capo dei capi, Bernardo Provenzano, has also stayed mum since his capture near Corleone in 2006. Known as Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mob has long maintained power on the island (and beyond) with the help of omertà, a vow of silence and absolute refusal to cooperate with authorities. Most had expected Riina...
...turn instead to another video victim, the archconservative capo di tutti capi at the National Review. A polyglot, intellectual and harpsichordist, Mr. Buckley has never been the media’s darling, or their plaything; indeed, he has become late in life the Jeremiah of authentic American conservatism...
...seemed to know how to wind up on the winning side of internal feuds, a gift that eventually made him supreme boss in the Sicilian capital. But Lo Piccolo wanted more: control over the entire island of Sicily, expanded cooperation with U.S. mobsters, even the title of capo dei capi - the boss of bosses...
After 43 years, Bernardo Provenzano, the Sicilian Mafia's elusive capo dei capi, the boss of bosses, was run to ground just a mile west of the town of his birth, Corleone, a place made famous by the fictional protagonists in Mario Puzo's saga The Godfather. Provenzano had run the enormous La Cosa Nostra crime organization by way of messages on slips of paper, called pizzini, smuggled out from his hiding places over the years. But Cortese finally found him by following peripatetic packages of clean laundry from the home of Provenzano's wife in Corleone. Each delivery...
...association. But there was no sign of Provenzano. Authorities may never get that close to him again. A turncoat Mob informant later confirmed that Provenzano, who's been on the lam in Sicily for the past four decades, had indeed been in Mezzojuso that morning. But the capo dei capi was some 200 m up the hill in a smaller shack when cops arrived at the main house. So Provenzano, who some believe was tipped off to the raid, hunkered down as investigators finished their work below. "He was lucky," an undercover agent involved in the raid recalled...