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Encyclopedia > Salvatore Inzerillo

Salvatore Inzerillo (died May 11, 1981) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sicily (Sicilia in Italian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq. ... // Mafia The Mafia, also referred to as La Cosa Nostra (Italian, variously translated as This Thing Of Ours or Our Thing), is the collective name of various secret organizations in Italy, Sicily, Corsica and the United States. ...


He hailed from the capital, Palermo, and rose to be a powerful captain (or 'capo') of the city's Passo di Rigano Family. He was a close ally of Stefano Bontade and Gaetano Badalamenti and a cousin of the New York City Mafia boss Carlo Gambino. In the 1970s, like many mobsters from Sicily, Inzerillo got involved in heroin trafficking. In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ... Location within Italy Palermo (Palermo in Italian) (Palermu or Palemmu in Sicilian) (population 680,000) is the principal city and administrative seat of the autonomous region of Sicily, Italy as well as the capital of the Province of Palermo // History Palermo was founded in the 8th century BC by Phoenician... Stefano Bontade (April 23, 1939 - April 23, 1981) was a powerful member of the Sicilan Mafia. ... Gaetano Badalamenti (1923 - April 29, 2004) was an Italian-born Mafioso who was connected with the Pizza Connection drug smuggling scheme. ... This article is about the domestic group. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... Carlo Gambino (August 24, 1902 - October 15, 1976) was a native of Palermo, Sicily, who was born to a family that belonged to the Honored Society for centuries. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... Heroin or diamorphine (INN) (colloquially referred to as brown sugar, junk, babania, horse, golden brown, smack, black tar, H, big H, lady H, dope, skag, juice, jude, diesel, boy, etc. ...


On May 11, 1981, Inzerillo was gunned down in Palermo as he strolled towards his recently acquired bullet-proof car after leaving the house of his mistress. He was rendered almost unrecognizable by a hail of bullets from a machine gun. The firearm used was an AK-47, the same gun that killed Bontade the previous month. The deaths of these two powerful mobsters kick-started the Mafia War that last almost two-years and saw over a thousand Mafiosi killed as Toto Riina and the Corleonisi decimated their rivals in order to take over the island's underworld by sheer brute force. A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. ... Avtomat Kalashnikova model 1947 g. ... Salvatore Riina - also known as Toto Riina or The Beast - (born 1930) is an infamous member of the Sicilian Mafia. ...


It is believed Inzerillo was murdered by Pino Greco, one of Riina's most lethal hitmen. At Inzerillo's funeral, his 15-year-old son vowed to avenge his father, and not long afterwards the boy was kidnapped and killed. A number of informants, including Tommaso Buscetta, said that it was Pino Greco who abducted the youth and shot him through the head, but first hacked his arm off, symbolically removing the arm the youngster had vowed to shoot Riina with. One of Inzerillo's brothers subsequently turned up murdered in New Jersey, proving the Corleonisi's reach stretched across the Atlantic. Pino Greco (died late 1985) was a hitman and member of the Sicilan Mafia. ... Tommaso Buscetta (in sunglasses) is lead into court, circa 1986 Tommaso Buscetta (July 13, 1928 - April 4, 2000) was an Sicilian mafioso, and later repented. ... State nickname: The Garden State Other U.S. States Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Governor Richard Codey (D) Official languages None defined Area 22,608 km² (47th)  - Land 19,231 km²  - Water 3,378 km² (14. ... The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ...


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The Antimafia (2000) Alison Jamieson, MacMillan Press Ltd ISBN 033380158 The International Standard Book Number, or ISBN (sometimes pronounced is-ben), is a unique1 identifier for books, intended to be used commercially. ...


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