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Jul 3, 2019 · Tommaso Buscetta changed all that. The late Buscetta, as the first major Sicilian Pentito , or mob informant, was the first Mafia boss to ever reveal the criminal organization’s inner workings. His testimony and support to prosecutors in the 1980s led to the arrest and conviction of hundreds of gangsters and forced Buscetta and his family ...
Feb 3, 2020 · Tommaso Buscetta, a middling member of the Cosa Nostra, or Sicilian mafia, is best known for his betrayal of the mob as an informant for the Italian government.His testimony helped to prosecute nearly 500 members of the Sicilian mafia in the 1980s, and, after fleeing to the United States, Buscetta remained a member of the Witness Protection Program until his death from cancer in 2000.
Oct 22, 2019 · Tommaso Buscetta broke the mafia's code of silence in the 1980s to testify in a series of historic trials that would go on to secure the convictions of nearly 400 mobsters in Italy and in the ...
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- Luke Kenton
Jan 29, 2020 · Buscetta, the real-life subject of Marco Bellocchio’s tremendous and meticulous new film, turned on his former colleagues in the 1980s, testifying against them first in interviews with the ...
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- A.O. Scott
Tommaso Buscetta (in sunglasses) is led into court at the Maxi Trial. Most of the crucial evidence came from Tommaso Buscetta . In February 1980, he was granted "half-freedom" from prison, immediately fleeing back to Brazil to escape the brewing Second Mafia War instigated by Salvatore Riina . [13]
