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	6/3/96 INT/"THE PIG" IS PENNED
		Brusca's crucial mistake, apparently, was to use a cellular phone, which enabled police eavesdroppers to listen in on him.
		Giovanni Brusca is likely to spend a very long time behind bars: he has already been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for the 1992 murder of Ignazio Salvo, a Sicilian tax inspector suspected of Mafia connections, and faces murder charges in the Falcone and Di Matteo killings.
		In Brusca's hometown of San Giuseppe Jato, the arrest was marked by a banner hanging from the town hall picturing the faces of Falcone and Borsellino, the country's best-known martyrs in the anti-Mafia crusade.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960603/covereur.html (2643 words)

	Giovanni Falcone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sheets exposed in solidarity with Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
		Giovanni Falcone, (May 18, 1939, Palermo – May 23, 1992, Capaci), was an Italian magistrate who specialised in prosecuting mafia crimes.
		Another mafioso convicted of the murder of Falcone is Giovanni Brusca, one of Riina's associates who admitted to being the one who actually detonated the explosives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giovanni_Falcone (547 words)

	Capone and the Krays \| Kill 'im Reg, kill him!!!!
		Giovanni Falcone and his colleague Paolo Borsellino were making good progress in their war against the Mafia, which naturally meant they were under the constant threat of death.
		Giovanni Brusca claimed that, during 1991 and early 1992, Riina contemplated acts of terrorism against the state to get them to back off in their crackdown against the Mafia, including acts such as bombing the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
		Brusca also quoted Riina as declaring that the children of informants were legitimate targets, and indeed Brusca subsequently tortured and killed the 11-year-old son of an informant in a failed attempt to silence the boy's father who had been giving testimony against Riina.
	www.freewebs.com /caponeandthekrays/salvatoreriina.htm (2787 words)

	Authorities hail capture of Mafia boss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Brusca's arrest was greeted with shouts of joy from police who brought him in a caravan of police cars from the tiny beach town of Cannatello on Sicily's southwest coast to police headquarters in Palermo.
		Brusca, 36, is accused of hitting the detonator button that blew away part of the highway along with Falcone's car.
		Brusca also is accused of heading the teams that planted car bombs in mid-1993 that damaged the Uffizi Museum in Florence, two churches in Rome and a public art gallery in Milan.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/05/22/italy.html (519 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Row over 'repentant' Mafia killer
		Brusca - who had strangled an 11-year-old boy and disposed of the body in an acid bath after the boy's father implicated him in a murder - has served only seven a 30-year sentence.
		Brusca confessed to the crime, saying that it was committed on the orders of his brother Giovanni.
		Giovanni Brusca was himself granted the status of "pentito" (turncoat) three years ago and given a small monthly income.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3047659.stm (262 words)

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		Brusca, since the circumstances of his arrest, was not in the condition to launch in a slandering campaign, and eventually not on his personal initiative.
		And the arrest of Brusca was also, in some way, outcome of the fight against him of Balduccio Di Maggio, the Mafia boss and justice collaborator sent, under Palermo PO protection, to the Mafia-war against the Bruscas clan.
		That Brusca knew perfectly the most secret judicial acts, meant that he knew that the justice collaborator Giuseppe Monticciolo, of the same Brusca town, had already revealed, in June 1996, that there had been a 1991 Violante-Mafia plot against Andreotti, but Monticciolo had prudently added that the plot was an invention of Brusca.
	scaruffi.homestead.com /files/TH92Clans.doc (20070 words)

	Day release for mobster with 100 hits - World - www.smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Among the 100 murders that Brusca claims to have committed are two of the most heinous crimes in Italian lore: the bombing assassination of the crusading anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone, and the strangulation death of an 11-year-old boy, whose body was then dissolved in acid.
		Newspapers from Brusca's home region of Sicily reported this week that a court ruled this year that the former crime boss could be let out of prison periodically to spend time with his family.
		Brusca, 47, is most infamous for the 1992 murder of Mr Falcone.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/10/15/1097784050266.html?from=storylhs (597 words)

	Mafia 'Butcher' talks his way out of life behind bars - Times Online
		Giovanni Brusca, who was convicted in the 1992 bombing that killed Giovanni Falcone, the prominent anti-Mafia prosecutor, is allowed out for one week every forty-five days to visit his wife and son.
		Brusca’s arrest in May 1996 was a key part of the crackdown on organised crime that began after the murder of Signor Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards.
		Brusca, a podgy, bearded and unkempt gangster known also in Mafia circles as Il Porco (The Pig), rose to Godfather status at the age of 39, succeeding Salvatore (Toto) Riina, his mentor, who was arrested in 1993.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/news/world/article494009.ece (1053 words)

	Mafia's bloody history : ThePost.ie
		Brusca, whose nickname was "Lo Scannacristiani" (`the man who cuts Christians' throats') was a member of a death squad that reported to the leader of the Corleonesi, the mafia's most powerful faction.
		He was the man who pressed the detonator on the bomb that killed Falcone, his wife and three of their bodyguards in Sicily in May 1992.
		Brusca also kidnapped the nephew of a mafia supergrass and held him captive in a cellar for 26 months.
	archives.tcm.ie /businesspost/2004/02/15/story719882076.asp (1093 words)

	Mafia don dies faithful to code of 'omerta': 12/9/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Brusca, who was serving several life sentences, had been ill for some time.
		Brusca was the don of the San Giuseppe Jato mob in Sicily.
		Giovanni Brusca was convicted in the 1992 bombing that killed Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-00/12-09-00/a09wn069.htm (209 words)

	In Corleone, the Mafia goes to seed \| The Agonist
		Giovanni Brusca was the pudgy mobster who, Italian prosecutors say, planted the bomb that killed Giovanni Falcone, a high-profile anti-Mafia investigator, on a highway near Palermo in 1992.
		The Brusca house, which sits at the bottom of a bright green valley, is now run by the young agronomists, who have organized themselves into a collective called Placido Rizzotto-Libera Terra.
		It is strange to consider that near this plot two of Brusca's henchmen strangled an 11-year-old boy and then used acid to dissolve his body.
	www.agonist.org /story/2004/6/13/203232/214 (842 words)

	Mafia killer gets 'day off' : HTTabloid.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Italians were shocked on Tuesday to learn that Giovanni Brusca, one of the country's most notorious Mafia killers, had been allowed to leave prison for one day every six weeks because of good behaviour.
		Brusca, who was arrested in 1996, pushed the remote control button that set off a huge bomb that killed top anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and their police escort in 1992.
		Brusca himself began turning state's evidence after his arrest, admitting that he had been involved in some 100 Mafia murders.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/7242_1054786,00180008.htm (412 words)

	Top Mafia man turns state's evidence
		Giovanni Brusca was arrested on May 20, and has since spent most of the time in solitary confinement.
		Brusca was believed to have taken over as operational head of the most violent Sicilian clans following the arrest in 1993 of Salvatore "Toto" Riina, the leader of the notorious Corleonesi clan.
		He is suspected of choking to death the 11-year-old son of a Mafia turncoat and dumping the body in a tub of acid - one of the crimes he is reported to have admitted in his confessions this month.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/08/24/wmaf24.html (394 words)

	Sicilian mob boss opens up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		ROME -- Giovanni Brusca, once one of Sicily's most feared and ferocious Mafia bosses, has begun to testify against the mob in what could be either a decisive breakthrough or a devious trick.
		Publicly branded "a beast" by another turncoat whose 12-year-old son was allegedly strangled and disposed of in a vat of acid by the boss, Brusca has been charged with several high-profile crimes in Sicily and mainland Italy.
		Investigators say it was Brusca who pushed the button detonating a bomb under anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone's motorcade on a highway near Palermo in 1992.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/08/24/mafia.2-0.html (448 words)

	CSC,LLC. - Point of View - Italy
		Giovanni Brusca was arrested four years after Giovanni Falcone (), the anti-mob judge, was blown away by a bomb along with his wife and several bodyguards.
		Brusca made every effort to see that Falcone would not be sitting in his court, but rather would be permanently retired.
		Brusca is accused of having pushed the remote-control button that set off the bomb in one of the Mafia’s worst outrages." () It is worth noting that only two months before Falcone was blown away, his judicial associate, Paolo Borsellino along with five bodyguards, was also blown up in his car under very similar circumstances.
	www.chapmanspira.com /pov/Italy/italy.htm (14599 words)

	Northwest Herald - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Among the 100 murders that Brusca has claimed to have committed are two of the most heinous crimes in Italian lore: the bombing assassination of crusading anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone, and the strangulation death of an 11-year-old boy, whose body was then dissolved in acid.
		Newspapers from Brusca's home region of Sicily reported this week that a court last spring ruled that the former crime boss could be let out of prison periodically to spend time with his family.
		It was Brusca who pushed the remote-control button that detonated the bomb on a Sicilian highway as Falcone drove past.
	www.nwherald.com /print/284932479742108.php (545 words)

	Gruppo Abele - Sicilians Are Making a Blood-Soaked Desert Bloom
		Giovanni Brusca was the pudgy mobster who, Italian prosecutors say, planted the bomb that killed Giovanni Falcone, an anti-Mafia investigator, on a highway near Palermo in 1992.
		The Brusca house, which sits at the bottom of a bright green valley, is now run by the young agronomists, who organized themselves into the collective.
		Brusca's henchmen strangled an 11-year-old boy to death and then used acid to dissolve his body.
	www.gruppoabele.org /Index.aspx?idrassegnastampa=59 (810 words)

	The EU cleans up mafia assets - Network Europe
		When captured by police in 1996, mafia member Giovanni Brusca confessed to being involved in Falcone's assassination.
		Brusca also told police he had committed at least a hundred murders.
		The small stone farmhouse on the former Brusca land at San Guiseppe Jato some 40 minutes from Palermo was renovated in 2004.
	networkeurope.radio.cz /feature/the-eu-cleans-up-mafia-assets (1586 words)

	The sins of The Family laid bare - Books, Entertainment - Independent.ie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		More than two years later, when Giuseppe was 14 and had been held by his kidnapper, mafioso Giovanni Brusca, for some 26 months in a cellar, Brusca ordered him to be strangled and his body dissolved in acid.
		The assassination that sparked Giuseppe's kidnapping was that of Judge Giovanni Falcone in 1992.
		In the context of Cosa Nostra, Brusca's killing of an innocent teenager involved no moral dilemma whatsoever: it was deemed an appropriate punishment for his father to suffer after he turned his back on the people to whom he had pledged allegiance.
	www.independent.ie /entertainment/books/the-sins-of-the-family-laid-bare-477832.html (902 words)

	NewStandard: 6/7/97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Giovanni Brusca, a Riina aide arrested last year, helped police identify Mr.
		Aglieri was being tried in absentia for the 1992 bombing deaths of Italy's two top Mafia investigators, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
		He was also on trial for the 1992 murder of Salvo Lima, a Sicilian politician with close links to Giulio Andreotti, the former premier on trial in Palermo on charges of Mafia association.
	www.s-t.com /daily/06-97/06-07-97/a03wn019.htm (395 words)

	Guardian \| Sicilian mafia killer's days out of jail provoke fury
		Giovanni Brusca, who turned state's evidence after his 1996 arrest, has confessed to more than 100 murders.
		In 1992, Brusca pressed the button on the detonator that set off the explosion outside Palermo which killed the crusading anti-Mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone.
		But Brusca's lawyer, Luigi Li Gotti, said his client was being let out for brief periods and under severe restrictions.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5038701-103681,00.html (283 words)

	PUPARO'S CORNER - COSA NOSTRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Brusca man Salvatore Fascellaro is close with the bosses Agrigento and is a friend of Monticciolo.
		Capofamiglia Bernardo Brusca (brother in law is Angelo Siino) and his sons are Vincenzo “Enzo” Brusca and Giovanni Brusca (born 20 february 1957 and married to Rosaria Cristiano), his underboss is Balduccio Di Maggio.
		Giovanni and Enzo Brusca’s nephews were Emanuele, Raffaele, Giuseppe and Salvatore Reda.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /Puparo/CNPart1.html (406 words)

	Mafia killer is granted 'indecent' prison leave - Telegraph
		Giovanni Brusca, a supergrass known as "the pig", admitted at least 100 murders.
		He confessed to pressing the detonator that exploded a bomb on a Palermo motorway in 1992, killing Judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and five bodyguards.
		The decision to allow Brusca, the boss of San Giuseppe Jato near Corleone, to go on leave was attacked as "indecent" yesterday by Judge Falcone's sister Maria.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/14/wmaf14.xml (188 words)

	The New York Times > International > Europe > Corleone Journal: Sicilians Are Making a Blood-Soaked Desert ...
		Giovanni Brusca was the pudgy mobster who, Italian prosecutors say, planted the bomb that killed Giovanni Falcone, an anti-Mafia investigator, on a highway near Palermo in 1992.
		The Brusca house, which sits at the bottom of a bright green valley, is now run by the young agronomists, who organized themselves into the collective.
		Brusca's henchmen strangled an 11-year-old boy to death and then used acid to dissolve his body.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/06/03/international/europe/03corl.html?ei=5007&en=37a8e03e738598d1&ex=1401595200&adxnnl=1&partner=USERLAND&adxnnlx=1136951667-h4e3LbXxRjLIm0twKNeX3w (916 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Blow in fight against Mafia
		The arrest of Giovanni Lembo - a judge who works in the prosecutor's office in Mesina in Sicily - and another retired trial judge, Marcello Mondelo, on charges of collusion with the Mafia, was followed by other disturbing revelations.
		Four other members of the judiciary are under investigation on similar charges while the court house in Mesina was the scene of a daring drug robbery at the weekend.
		There was criticism earlier this month of a decision to allow Giovanni Brusca, a convicted Mafia murderer, to receive a salary while in jail, in exchange for information.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/687419.stm (323 words)

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		With about a quarter of a million dollars from the European Union, Castro and his co-op have renovated part of the building and installed a restaurant, though they are awaiting permits to open it to the public.
		The Bruscas were the biggest crime clan in San Giuseppe Jato.
		Giovanni Brusca, who owned the villa, was arrested in 1996 and eventually confessed to dozens of killings, including one in which he had the 11-year-old son of a rival dissolved in acid.
	www.italystl.com /ra/1644.htm (1066 words)

	theage.com.au - The Age -
		Ten years ago, Mr Di Matteo plotted with Mafia comrades to plant a bomb on the motorway used by their greatest foe, Judge Giovanni Falcone.
		They held him in a cage for 28 months, beaten and underfed, but the trial went ahead and Giovanni Brusca, a Riina lieutenant, was convicted of pushing the button that killed Judge Falcone.
		Brusca, who ordered the child's killing in revenge, is serving a life sentence.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/03/15/1015909903547.html (365 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Italy police arrest Mafia suspect
		Giovanni Bonomo, 68, was detained as he arrived in Rome after an operation by Interpol and Italy's secret service.
		Mr Bonomo, one of Italy's most wanted fugitives, was sought for murder and associating with the Mafia and had been on the run for seven years.
		Mr Bonomo and Mr Palazzolo were henchmen of another notorious mafia criminal called Giovanni Brusca, who was captured in Sicily in 1996 and is now serving a long-term prison sentence for murder and mafia conspiracy.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3270935.stm (411 words)

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