Luciano Leggio (Italian pronunciation:[luˈtʃaːnoˈlɛddʒo]; 6 January 1925 – 15 November 1993) was an Italian criminal and leading figure of the Sicilian Mafia. He was the head of the Corleonesi, the Mafia faction that originated in the town of Corleone. He is universally known by the surname Liggio, a result of a misspelling in court documents in the 1960s.[1]
As well as setting the Corleonesi on track to become the dominant Mafia clan in Sicily, he became infamous for avoiding convictions for a multitude of crimes, including homicide, before he was finally imprisoned for life in 1974.
^Obituary: Luciano Liggio, The Independent, November 17, 1993
LucianoLeggio (Italian pronunciation: [luˈtʃaːno ˈlɛddʒo]; 6 January 1925 – 15 November 1993) was an Italian criminal and leading figure of the Sicilian...
Leggio is an Italian surname and may refer to: LucianoLeggio (1925–1993), Italian mobster David Leggio (born 1984), American ice hockey player Jerry...
of the Sicilian Mafia, formed in the 1970s. Notable leaders included LucianoLeggio, Salvatore Riina, Bernardo Provenzano, and Leoluca Bagarella. Corleonesi...
Gagliano, Gaetano Reina, Jack Dragna, Giuseppe Morello, Michele Navarra, LucianoLeggio, Leoluca Bagarella, Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano. It is also...
(Sicilian: 'u capu di 'i capi, "the boss of bosses"). Riina succeeded LucianoLeggio as head of the Corleonesi criminal organisation in the mid-1970s and...
Provenzano was part of the Corleonesi Mafia clan who backed mob boss LucianoLeggio in the ambush and murder of Michele Navarra in the late 1950s. In 1963...
from Corleone, who was kidnapped and murdered by Sicilian Mafia boss LucianoLeggio on 10 March 1948. Before he was killed, Rizzotto was performing activist...
Cutolo. He was also a trusted friend of LucianoLeggio, the head of the Corleonesi faction of the Sicilian Mafia. Leggio put Turatello in charge of all drug...
1948. Under the tutelage of Navarra, the young and upcoming Mafioso LucianoLeggio got his start, first in cattle rustling and clandestine butchering,...
killing was ordered by Mafia boss LucianoLeggio, head of the Corleonesi, because Scaglione had sent one of Leggio's sisters into internal banishment from...
consisting of Gaetano Badalamenti, Stefano Bontade and the Corleonesi boss LucianoLeggio, although it was Salvatore Riina who would actually represent the Corleonesi...
Bagarella was born in Corleone on 3 February 1942. Bagarella sided with LucianoLeggio of the Corleonesi in the late 1950s. Bagarella became the brother-in-law...
store chain Luciano Huck (born 1971), Brazilian TV host and entrepreneur Luciano Kulczewski (1896–1972), Chilean architect LucianoLeggio (1925–1993)...
who led it—Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. In the early 1970s, LucianoLeggio was boss of the Corleonesi clan and a member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission...
restaurant profits (the so-called Pizza Connection). In the early 1970s, LucianoLeggio was boss of the Corleonesi clan and a member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission...
in return for a pardon of convicted mobsters like Vincenzo Rimi and LucianoLeggio. Giuseppe Calderone and Di Cristina went to visit Borghese in Rome....
doctor, Michele Navarra and was a lieutenant of Navarra's right-hand man LucianoLeggio along with Bernardo Provenzano and Salvatore Riina. From 1958 to 1963...
1980s brought the Corleonesi Clan and its vicious and ruthless leaders LucianoLeggio, Salvatore "Toto" Riina, and Bernardo Provenzano into power. This caused...
framing La Barbera, Michele Cavataio. Also there were Giuseppe Calò and LucianoLeggio. The trial opened in December 1967 and lasted until 22 December 1968...
January 19 – Rocco Chinnici, Italian anti-mafia magistrate January 26 – LucianoLeggio, Sicilian (Corleonesi) mafia boss August 7 – Anthony Gaggi "Nino", high-ranking...
LucianoLeggio is brought to court a third time by prosecutor Cesare Terranova. This time for the murder of Michele Navarra, a crime Leggio had committed...
consisting of Gaetano Badalamenti, Stefano Bontade and the Corleonesi boss LucianoLeggio, although it was Salvatore Riina who actually would represent the Corleonesi...
a stronghold of Mafia boss Michele Navarra and LucianoLeggio who killed Rizzotto. In 1952, Leggio was acquitted of Rizzotto's murder. March 11 – Giuseppe...
Prominent elements of the Mafia such as Salvatore Riina, Leoluca Bagarella, LucianoLeggio and Bernardo Provenzano found themselves in contact with Camorra clans...
Detroit Partnership figure in Detroit, Michigan, was his godfather and LucianoLeggio, the head of the Corleonesi faction of the Sicilian Mafia had himself...
Barbera Salvatore La Barbera (1922–1963) LucianoLeggio (1925–1993) Salvatore Lo Piccolo Giuseppe Lucchese Lucky Luciano (1897–1962) Tommy Lucchese (1899–1967)...
the Nuvoletta brothers, who were allied with the Corleonesi headed by LucianoLeggio and Salvatore Riina, Bardellino was allied with Rosario Riccobono, Stefano...
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