Word: inzerillo
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...Inzerillo mob family of Palermo has long been referred to by a somewhat wistful moniker: gli Scappati, the Runaways. More than 20 years ago, the surviving Inzerillos had been "allowed" to flee their home island by the then Sicilian boss of bosses Toto Riina. The bloodthirsty capo had killed dozens of their brothers, cousins, uncles and fathers in a mob war in the early 1980s, a conflict that cemented Riina's Corleone clan as the supreme rulers of Sicily's crime syndicate, also known as Cosa Nostra. Mafia experts say Riina was on his way to exterminating the rest...
...however, the Cosa Nostra was assaulted again and again by major Italian police crackdowns in the 1990s. Police believe that Salvatore Lo Piccolo, Provenzano's successor as Boss of Bosses, was trying to revive the Sicilian mob's fortunes by linking back up with American mobsters through the old Inzerillo connection. Lo Piccolo's arrest in November is believed to have brought more of the "Old Bridge" operation to light...
...Inzerillo family members and their associates were among those taken down in Thursday's massive roundup, which netted 58 arrests in and around New York City and 19 in and around Palermo. Gambino, Genovese and Bonanno family members were also taken into custody in the investigation, which includes charges of murder, extortion, embezzlement and drug trafficking. Alleged Gambino hitman Charles Carneglia, who was arrested in the round-up, is charged with five murders dating to 1976, said U.S. authorities. Italian police allege that a key member of the network was Frank Cali, an American son of Sicily natives who Italian...
...focused on expanding ties with the American mob. He had favored allowing a historic Mafia family to return to the Sicilian capital after more than two decades of forced exile in the United States, following an internal mob war in the 1980s. Dubbed "gli scappati" (the fled ones), the Inzerillo family had been on the verge of total extermination by then boss of bosses Toto Riina, Provenzano's boyhood friend from Corleone, in the bloody Mafia War of 1980-81. With the intervention of relatives in New York, including associates of the Gambino crime family, a deal was worked...
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