Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian MafiaSimon & Schuster, 1991 - 384 pagine A shocking expose of how the Sicilian Mafia uses financial influence and ruthless violence to control the international narcotics trade. "The most definitive work yet published on the transformation of the old bootlegging and gambling Mafia into a multinational conglomerate".--The Washington Times. |
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Pagina 48
... Vito Cascio Ferro : Don Vito to a deferential public , Sicily's first grand capo di tutti capi . Don Vito was born in Palermo in 1862 and grew up illiterate , which was no handicap . Never again would the Mafia produce 48 OCTOPUS.
... Vito Cascio Ferro : Don Vito to a deferential public , Sicily's first grand capo di tutti capi . Don Vito was born in Palermo in 1862 and grew up illiterate , which was no handicap . Never again would the Mafia produce 48 OCTOPUS.
Pagina 49
... Vito ruled and inspired fear mainly by the use of his great qualities and natural ascendancy . In point of fact , Don Vito was accused in his lifetime of twenty homicides , five burglaries , thirty - seven cases of extortion , a ...
... Vito ruled and inspired fear mainly by the use of his great qualities and natural ascendancy . In point of fact , Don Vito was accused in his lifetime of twenty homicides , five burglaries , thirty - seven cases of extortion , a ...
Pagina 50
... Vito in 1903 , when a dismembered head with genitals stuffed into its mouth was found in a barrel on New York's Eleventh Avenue . The victim was a Sicilian immigrant who had worked for Black Hand higher - ups . Petrosino was persuaded ...
... Vito in 1903 , when a dismembered head with genitals stuffed into its mouth was found in a barrel on New York's Eleventh Avenue . The victim was a Sicilian immigrant who had worked for Black Hand higher - ups . Petrosino was persuaded ...
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 9 |
Prologue | 23 |
The View from Palermo | 36 |
Copyright | |
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