10 years imprisonment; reduced to eight years on appeal
Tommaso Buscetta (Italian pronunciation:[tomˈmaːzobuʃˈʃetta]; 13 July 1928 – 2 April 2000) was a high ranking Italian mobster and a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He became one of the first of its members to turn informant and explain the inner workings of the organization.
Buscetta participated in criminal activity in Italy, the United States and Brazil before being arrested and extradited from Brazil to Italy. He became disillusioned with the Mafia after the murders of several of his family members, and in 1984, decided to cooperate with the authorities. He provided important testimony at the 1986/87 Maxi Trial, the largest anti-Mafia trial in history. After the murder of the judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Buscetta gave further testimony to the Antimafia Commission linking Italian politicians to the Mafia. Buscetta entered the Witness Protection Program in the United States, where he remained until his death in 2000.
^"DON MASINO BOSS DEI DUE MONDI COSI' LO CHIAMAVA LA MALAVITA - la Repubblica.it". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). 30 September 1984.
^"Sono Don Masino, non dico altro" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 18 July 1984.
TommasoBuscetta (Italian pronunciation: [tomˈmaːzo buʃˈʃetta]; 13 July 1928 – 2 April 2000) was a high ranking Italian mobster and a member of the Sicilian...
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former Mafia bosses turned informants, known as pentiti, in particular TommasoBuscetta and Salvatore Contorno. Most were convicted, 338 people, sentenced...
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Filippo Marchese, Giuseppe Greco and Rosario Riccobono. January 1981, TommasoBuscetta fled to Brazil to escape the brewing Second Mafia War. Prior to Riina's...
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Greco and Salvatore Greco, also known as "l'ingegnere", Pietro Davì, TommasoBuscetta and Gaetano Badalamenti. In 1970, the Sicilian Mafia Commission was...
weapons and drugs. One of these witnesses was Sicilian Mafia pentito TommasoBuscetta, who had already revealed information to Italian magistrate Giovanni...
Marchese, Giuseppe Greco and Rosario Riccobono. In February 1980, TommasoBuscetta fled to Brazil to escape the brewing Second Mafia War instigated by...
stone for a seat and no walls or door according to Mafia turncoat TommasoBuscetta. Traditional mafiosi like Genco Russo and Calogero Vizzini, the Sicilian...
kidnapped, tortured and killed. A number of informants, including TommasoBuscetta, said that it was Giuseppe Greco who abducted the youth and shot him...
that rule was not obeyed from the start. According to the pentito TommasoBuscetta, the Commission first came into being "to settle disputes between members...
Palermo. Vassallo was connected to mafiosi like Angelo La Barbera and TommasoBuscetta. In five years, over 4,000 building licences were signed, some 2,500...
is loosely based on actual events involving, among others, pentito TommasoBuscetta, judge Giovanni Falcone and banker Michele Sindona. Tony Musante: Vanni...
former Mafia bosses turned informants, known as pentiti, in particular TommasoBuscetta and Salvatore Contorno. Most were convicted, 338 people, sentenced...
with Rosario Riccobono, Stefano Bontade, Gaetano Badalamenti, and TommasoBuscetta, all heads of fallen Palermo families which were defeated by the Corleonesi...
During the 1980s, at the Maxi Trial against Cosa Nostra, informants TommasoBuscetta and Salvatore Contorno were protected by the FBI due to the lack of...
language, the word cristianu means both "Christian" and "human being"). TommasoBuscetta, the Mafia turncoat who had cooperated with Falcone's investigations...
folders there are the confessions of the famous pentito ("repentant") TommasoBuscetta to Judge Falcone. In the Room of the Messages, visitors may see the...
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