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It had exclusive authority to order murder of police officials, prosecutors and judges, politicians, journalists and lawyers, because these killings could provoke retaliation by law enforcement.

It is not known exactly when he joined the Mafia, but in sat on the Sicilian Mafia Commission, which was ruled by his uncle Michele Greco, the boss of Ciaculli.

Mafia bosses spend much time at home, far from the eyes of their rivals and of the authorities.

The victory of the Corleonesi, and in particular the rise of , marked a new era in the history of the Sicilian Mafia.

One of his houses in later had to be vacated by squatters.

During a court appearance in July 2002, Leoluca Bagarella suggested unnamed politicians had failed to maintain agreements with the Mafia over prison conditions.

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During the from to , the late Giuseppe Greco was sentenced pro forma to life imprisonment because the court was able to prove 58 cases of murder.

" Meanwhile, new mandamenti were formed in 1983, whose members entered the Commission: Raffaele Ganci for the Noce mandamento, Giuseppe Giacomo Gambino for the San Lorenzo mandamento, Matteo Motisi for the Pagliarelli mandamento and Salvatore Buscemi for the Passo di Ragano-Boccadifalco mandamento.

In the town of Casal di Principe, territory of one of the most powerful Camorra clans, which inspired the TV crime series Gomorrah, boss of bosses Walter Schiavone had a villa built that was the precise model of the home of Tony Montana, the fictional gangster played by Al Pacino in the Brian De Palma film Scarface — and is even known as Villa Scarface.

According to Brusca, Provenzano "sold" Riina in exchange for the valuable archive of compromising material that Riina held in his apartment in Via Bernini 52 in Palermo.