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  • Arrest Ends Chapter in Corleone's History

    04/28/2006 11:48:16 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 10 replies · 1,861+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/28/06 | Frances D'Emilio - ap
    CORLEONE, Sicily - Decades before Mario Puzo borrowed its name for his novel about a ruthless Mafia family and Marlon Brando brought "The Godfather" to life with a throaty voice, Corleone — the town, not the don — had its own bloody story. For generations, this medieval mountain town overlooking rolling fields where sheep and horses graze has been home to the murderous Corleonesi crime clan. The capture this month of Bernardo Provenzano, reputed chieftain of the Corleonesi crime family and No. 1 boss of Cosa Nostra across Sicily, ended one shameful chapter in the town's life. While breathing a...
  • How Godfather was betrayed by his need for clean pants

    04/13/2006 3:46:14 AM PDT · by MadIvan · 4 replies · 513+ views
    The Times ^ | April 13, 2006 | Richard Owen
    HE eluded capture for 43 years. But in the end he was betrayed by the need for clean underwear. Bernardo Provenzano, the Mafia “boss of bosses” who was arrested this week, was traced to his Sicilian hideaway by police who tracked a delivery of laundry. Provenzano, who had not been seen since going into hiding in 1963, asked his wife to send him “a pack of washed and ironed clothes” — underpants, shirts, and socks. Police intercepted a telephone conversation between mafiosi indicating that Provenzano’s wife, Saveria Benedetta Palazzolo, who runs a laundry in Corleone, was about to return her...
  • Laundry Betrays Reputed No. 1 Mafia Boss

    04/11/2006 2:11:15 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 20 replies · 1,724+ views
    yahoo news/AP ^ | Apr. 11, 2006
    Laundry Betrays Reputed No. 1 Mafia Boss By LUCA BRUNO and FRANCES D'EMILIO, Associated Press Writers Italy's No. 1 fugitive and reputed Mafia "boss of bosses" practically thumbed his nose at authorities for more than 40 years. He counted on Sicilians' centuries-old mistrust of the state to help him on the run, sleeping in islanders' homes, having his children born at local hospitals, even sending the public health care system a bill for prostate treatment abroad under a false name. But police finally caught up with Bernardo "The Tractor" Provenzano on Tuesday in a farmhouse outside his power base, Corleone...
  • Italy top Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano arrested after decades

    04/11/2006 2:46:13 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 8 replies · 603+ views
    Reuters | April 11, 2006
    ROME (Reuters) - Police have arrested Bernardo Provenzano, the head of the Sicilian Mafia who has been on the run for more than four decades and is Italy's most wanted man, Italy's Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.