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Italian officials were delighted by Buscetta's offer. But they were also skeptical, knowing that no high-level Mafioso was likely to violate omerta, the code of silence, and disclose secrets about the criminal organization. Palermo Deputy District Attorney Vincenzo Geraci was understandably surprised when he met Buscetta in Brazil last June and found him willing to tell what he knew. In their initial interview, Geraci recalled, Buscetta told the prosecutor, "I am not your adversary." A month later, after Buscetta had been extradited to Italy and assured that his family would be protected, he began to talk, said...
...governments cynically dispatching their national treasures all over the world, like greeting cards. France sent the Mona Lisa to Japan; Los Angeles is asking Italy for the Riace bronzes to promote the 1984 Olympics. "We must have the courage," declared the former Italian Minister for Arts and the Environment Vincenzo Scotti in a speech in New York last November, "to send our most precious masterpieces out of the country." It would be better to pray for the divine gift of cowardice and fly the audience to Italy instead...
...Paul De Vincenzo Savannah...
...addition, the investigators are looking into reports that the mobsters held him somewhere in eastern Long Island and released him only after members of his family paid them an undisclosed bonus. The Sindona case is also being investigated in Italy, where police have arrested two brothers, Rosario and Vincenzo Spatola, both Sicilian contractors, for complicity in the financier's disappearance...
...problem was, he had forgotten both the charcoal and the lighter fluid. Vincenzo had come up with the idea of using rolled up pamphlets, and maybe even one of the banners. We voted. It was ratified, accepted into law in a matter of minutes, and soon the benevolent Bronze was warming all our fannies...