(please note the name of the town he was arrested near - coincidence? mmmmmmm)
Top mafia boss nabbed after decades on the lam Bernardo Provenzano had been Italy’s most-wanted man
Reuters
Updated: 6:53 a.m. ET April 11, 2006
PALERMO, Sicily - Bernardo Provenzano, the chief of the Sicilian mafia who has been on the run for more than four decades and was Italy’s most wanted man, was arrested near Corleone in Sicily on Tuesday, officials said.
It was the state’s biggest success against the mafia in more than 13 years.
Provenzano, known as the “Phantom of Corleone” after the hill town in Sicily made famous by the Godfather films, has been running the mafia since 1993, when former “boss of bosses” Toto Riina was arrested in the Sicilian capital Palermo.
President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi expressed his delight over the arrest to Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu, a statement from the presidential palace said. The news bumped even national election results off the top spot of television news bulletins.
Italy's 'super fugitive'Provenzano, 73, has been wanted since 1963 and was known as Italy’s “super-fugitive.” The last picture police had of him before his arrest was taken in 1959 when he was 25.
He has been sentenced in absentia to life in prison in connection with the Mafia’s most notorious crimes over the past decades, including the killings in 1992 of top anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
Provenzano was arrested in a farmhouse in the countryside near Corleone and was due to be taken to a jail in Palermo later on Tuesday, police said..........
(picture of corleone; nicobastone.com)
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paisano! why, why,
Why God! whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
it's just a sopranos thing donviti so not to worry
The real sopranos? Well, who knew?
Beautiful photo!
p o p when you have a last name like mine (and donvinti's for THAT matter) YOU KNOW
Musta been Fredo...
Sunamabeech!
Now--Rosie. You actually went to a party where Ike Turner was spinnin' the O'Jays all night long?
You move up in the Pantheon!!!
I'm closing out my stay at the Chicago Hard Rock Hotel (in the famous Carbide and Carbon Building) listening to Pet Sounds. Ike wouldn't have spun that one. Nor should he have.But I should!
"I feel so broke up, I wanna go home"~,:^)
dearest mr shakespeare: NEVER go against the family.....
vanx, yes i really DID go to a party with ike, the ikettes and the WHOLE band MINUS tina. of course SHE was why i even went. i ingratiated myself to (or is that with) the saxaphone player during intermission. i bought him a drink and he invited phillip and i to the hotel party. and yes ike really did play the o jays as long as i was there. oh those ikettes were HOT
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