Word: prestipino
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...scraps of knowledge, investigators are better able to "identify with him," as one put it, to track him down. "Capturing him would be an immense blow, striking at his image of invincibility and impregnability," says Lucio Carluccio, commander of Italy's anti-Mob police investigative unit. Michele Prestipino, the Palermo magistrate who oversees the investigative unit set up specifically to hunt Provenzano, says secrecy is the key to the Mob leader's elusiveness. So while the boss has "the entire organization at his disposal" to run Cosa Nostra's economic activities, including construction contracting, drug trafficking and extortion, Prestipino explains...
...believe is a prostate illness. Aldo Piscopo, the medical director of the clinic, Clinica Sant'Anna, doesn't deny the possibility, but says: "How could we have known? We are busy here, and he obviously wouldn't walk in with an identity card with his name on it." Magistrate Prestipino knows that silence is the biggest obstacle to nabbing Provenzano. He also knows that his work won't end, even with the Tractor behind bars: "Cosa Nostra will live on even after Provenzano is gone. But it is intolerable for the state that he is still walking free...
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