Pentito information

Pentito (Italian pronunciation: [penˈtiːto]; lit. "repentant"; plural: pentiti) is used colloquially to designate collaborators of justice in Italian criminal...

Giovanni Falcone, and began his life as an informant, referred to as a pentito. Buscetta revealed information to Falcone for 45 days, explaining the inner...

After six years of rigorous imprisonment, Melluso decided to become a pentito. On March 2, 1984, when the preliminary hearings of the trial against the...

1963) is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia, who turned state witness (pentito). Giuseppe Pino Marchese was born in Palermo in a family with long-standing...

became known that Spatuzza had turned into a witness for the prosecution (pentito) four months earlier after spending 11 years in jail under the Article...

Il pentito (internationally released as The Repenter and The Squealer) is a 1985 Italian crime-drama film directed by Pasquale Squitieri. The film is...

2002, he decided to collaborate with Italian law enforcement and became a pentito, a co-operating witness against organised crime. Giuliano was born into...

the former La Torre clan boss who became a pentito, is married to an Albanian woman; the first foreign pentito, a Tunisian, admitted to being involved with...

2021 in Dubai. In December 2022 it was noticed that Imperiale become a "pentito", starting crown witness procedure. Imperiale was born in Castellammare...

a former member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned into a state witness (pentito) against Cosa Nostra in October 1984, following the example of Tommaso...

Operation Old Bridge is the code name for the February 7, 2008 arrests in Italy and the United States that targeted the Gambino crime family; among the...

1940) is a Sicilian mafioso, also known as "Asparino". In 1992 he became a pentito (state witness against the Mafia). He was the first mafioso who spoke about...

Sicilian Mafia Commission that turned himself in voluntarily to become a pentito, a collaborator with the Italian judicial authorities. Cancemi made controversial...

1935 – 10 January 2013) was a Sicilian Mafioso who turned state witness (pentito) in 1987 after his arrest in 1986. Antonino was born in Catania, the brother...

became the first of Falcone's assassins to become a government witness—a pentito. He revealed all the details of the assassination: who tunnelled beneath...

Giovanni Falcone, and began his life as an informant, referred to as a pentito. Buscetta was the first high-profile Sicilian Mafiosi to become an informant;...

the Mafia Family is called the Omerta. This was confirmed in 1986 by the pentito Tommaso Buscetta. A hit, or murder, of a made man must be approved by the...

Ginginiello Riccio (born 1957) is a former Italian Camorrista who is now a pentito. While initially a member of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata, Riccio switched...

16, 2020) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned state witness (pentito — a mafioso turned informer) in 1996. He was accused of being the killer...

Bravo and Giuseppe Costanza survived. Salvatore Cancemi, who later turned pentito, described the Mafia's victory celebration that followed the Capaci bombing;...

Naples. Barra has the distinction of being the first NCO member to become a pentito, when he decided to collaborate with Italian Justice in 1982. Barra sported...

Italian state overruling of the Article 41-bis prison regime. In June 1998, pentito Gaspare Spatuzza received a life sentence in relation to the bombing. In...

mafia boss Nicola Ingarao – another ally of Rotolo. Pullizi and another pentito Andrea Bonaccorso confessed to have killed Ingarao. Bonaccorso drove the...

1956) is a former associate of the Sicilian Mafia who became a significant pentito. Stille, Alexander (1995). Excellent Cadavers. London: Vintage. ISBN 0-09-959491-9...

seizing weapons and drugs. One of these witnesses was Sicilian Mafia pentito Tommaso Buscetta, who had already revealed information to Italian magistrate...