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	Pentito - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Pentito (Italian repented, plural pentiti) is the name customarily given to former members of an Italian Mafia that have abandoned their organisation and started helping in investigations.
		Among the most famous Mafia pentiti is Tommaso Buscetta, the first important pentito, who was very helpful to judge Giovanni Falcone in describing the Cupola, the leadership of the Sicilian Mafia in the 1980s, and identifying the main operational channels that the mafia used and uses for its business.
		Laws have been passed that bar pentiti to obtain substantial benefits unless their revelations are later deemed new material, and lead to concrete results; there have been proposals to accept revelations only for six months, after which their revelations could not be used in court.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/e/n/Pentiti.html (732 words)

	Pentiti: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pentiti (Italian[For more info, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
		(pentiti have come under criticism because of the favours they receive and because they would tend to invent stories in order to receive benefits.
		Laws have been passed that bar pentiti to obtain substantial benefits unless their revelations are deemed new material, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/pentiti.htm (1144 words)

	Centro Linguistico d'Ateneo
		The use by Italian prosecutors of so-called penitent criminals, or pentiti, as informants to catch other organized crime figures has been an outstanding success: turncoats have done more damage to the Mafia in the past few years than the police achieved in decades.
		Pentiti are the most effective way of combating organized crime.
		Pentiti must give back their profits from organized crime before they can have police protection.
	www.uniurb.it /Cla/test_campione/eng/scpol/test07.htm (658 words)

	Pentiti - Information at Halfvalue.com
		The judicial category of the pentiti was first created in order to fight terrorism in the 1970s, during the "lead years".
		Among the most famous Mafia pentiti is Tommaso Buscetta, the first important pentito, who was very helpful to judge Giovanni Falcone in describing the Sicilian Mafia Commission or Cupola, the leadership of the Sicilian Mafia in the 1980s, and identifying the main operational channels that the mafia used and uses for its business.
		In Italy, important successes were achieved with the cooperation of pentiti in the fight against terrorism (especially against the Red Brigades), by Carabinieri general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa (later killed by the Mafia).
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Pentiti (1003 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		The Vatican, which immediately welcomed the decision of the court in Perugia with a brief official statement, was quick to point an accusing finger at the pentiti, the supergrasses whose testimony underpinned the prosecution case against Mr Andreotti.
		There are more than 1,000 pentiti on Italy's witness protection programme and their evidence has been crucial to recent successes in the war against organised crime.
		A new, tougher regime for the pentiti is due to be debated in the senate justice committee tomorrow.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,3906104,00.html (481 words)

	Pentiti
		The judicial category of the pentiti was first created to fight terrorism in the; 1970s, during the "lead years".
		Among the most famous Mafia pentiti is Tommaso Buscetta, the; first important pentito, who was very helpful to judge Giovanni Falcone in describing the Sicilian Mafia Commission or Cupola, the leadership of the Sicilian Mafia in the 1980s, and identifying the main operational channels that the mafia used and uses for its business.
		In Italy, important successes were achieved with the cooperation of pentiti in the fight against terrorism (especially against the Red Brigades), by Carabinieri general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa (later killed by the Mafia).
	pentiti.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Pentiti (1669 words)

	ZWNEWS.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe
		Pentiti receive the protection of the law; shorter prison terms, sometimes complete freedom, new identities, even employment, in exchange for information they provide about the Mafia.
		There are many people that feel strongly against Zanu PF leaders but arguably, the opposition needs the co-operation of Pentiti to neutralise the institutionalised electoral rigging process.
		When law enforcement authorities grant privileges to Pentiti in exchange for information, they are criticised because the system has risks but it is a system that in some cases has enabled authorities to make considerable in-roads against the Mafia.
	zwnews.com /issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=16529 (1534 words)

	FT.Com - Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Palermo trial (there is a separate one in Perugia on charges of conspiring to murder an investigative journalist) has collected mountains of evidence from the "pentiti" and other witnesses, much of which is already legendary.
		The most striking claim is the one made by Baldassare Di Maggio, a Mafia driver, as long ago as 1993.
		On the "pentiti" themselves, he believes that much of what they say is invented.
	specials.ft.com /ln/ftsurveys/country/sc30aa.htm (974 words)

	The Mafia and Freemasonry
		An important contribution to the understanding of the administrative structure of Cosa Nostra, its crimes, and the arrest of its bosses, is due to the "pentiti".
		The first pentiti, during the 1980s, were mostly drug traffickers working with mafiosos, and it can be explained by the expansion of the mafia's activities and the involvement of criminals foreign to the mafia tradition, that have no regard for omertà.
		The ensuing pentiti statements, beginning with Buscetta and Contorno, involve the declining mafiosos in a mafia war from 1981-3, and is explained by the internal violence caused by the tentative to take complete control by the Corleonesi.
	www.freemasonrywatch.org /mafia.html (9185 words)

	Mafia Brotherhoods
		The weakening of communal solidarity has caused the recent growth in the number of pentiti (turncoats) and further undermined the feeling of common belonging within the mafia.
		Like Gambetta she draws on pentiti statements to reject earlier claims that there are no mafia associations in the form of clear cut organizational entities.
		But she is closer to the interpretations provided by Hess and Arlacchi when she emphasizes the cultural aspects of mafia membership and argues that mafia associations are "multifunctional entities" (p.
	www.organized-crime.de /revpao01mafiandrangheta.htm (2176 words)

	The Godfather and the African Mafia Part II
		Indeed, justifying the use of Pentiti, a former President of the Italian Antimafia Commission, Luciano Violante, remarked, “We do not find information about the Mafia among nuns." There are many people that feel strongly against Zanu PF leaders but arguably, the opposition needs the cooperation of Pentiti to neutralise the institutionalised electoral rigging process.
		But the problem is that becoming a Pentito is very risky – it puts one’s personal family at risk, which is often why the family publicly disowns the Pentito for disgracing the family.
		When law enforcement authorities grant privileges to Pentiti in exchange for information, they are criticised because the system has risks but it is a system that has in some cases has enabled authorities to make considerable in-roads against the Mafia.
	www.newzimbabwe.com /pages/magaisa49.16279.html (1584 words)

	AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 368
		Perhaps other pentiti gave us more significant information, but he was to teach us the method for evaluating that information.
		PENTITO (plural: pentiti) designates people who collaborate with the judicial system in order to help investigations.
		In exchange for their testimonies, the pentiti were given guarantees of lenient prison sentences and favorable treatment.
	www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_368.html (1758 words)

	Credibility in Court - Cambridge University Press
		In the initial set of trials their testimony was found sufficiently reliable and convincing to determine the convictions of more than 800 defendants, but in the appeal their credibility was destroyed and the majority of people convicted solely on these witnesses’ testimony were acquitted.
		This study documents the shifting relationship between these witnesses - called pentiti - and the Justice Department.
		To investigate this dramatic reversal of the defendants’ convictions Marco Jacquemet combines analysis of talk and power technologies with a reflection on truth and credibility as communicative representations.
	www.cambridge.org /aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521552516 (223 words)

	Department of Information
		There are many reflections to be made on the Perugia court decision which freed former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti from the accusation levied against him by some pentiti and the recent court case which freed a man accused in Maltese courts with trying to kill the Prime Minister's personal assistant.
		The debate now in act in Italy on the value and the validity of the testimony borne by the pentiti should make one and all reflect.
		Regardless of other considerations, the juries in both countries have proved to be insensitive to the prosecution and its portrayal of the pentito as the person who should be believed.
	www.doi.gov.mt /EN/commentaries/1999/09/ind28.asp (480 words)

	Italy Travel Guides : The maxi-trials and the outlook
		Tommaso Buscetta, a high-ranking Mafia member, was one of the first to break with omertà, setting in motion the Palermo " maxi-trials " or maxiprocessi in 1986, the largest ever held against the Mafia.
		The only lasting effect of this cause célèbre has been to throw into question the state's reliance on Mafia informers, who are often themselves mass-murderers and keen to grasp any opportunity for escaping heavy sentences, and for wreaking personal revenge.
		Statements by pentiti and others accused of Mafia associations were also at the bottom of investigations into former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and his Fininvest consortium, and were considered serious enough to warrant a raid on Berlusconi's Milan headquarters by an elite anti-Mafia unit in July 1998.
	www.travelpages.com /italy/guides/78314.html (1094 words)

	Mafia and Mafia-type organizations in Italy
		However this also applies to everyone else, because the Mafia rules over an extensive area and many citizens either by habit or out of fear, even if they know where the Mafiosi are to be found or even if they have witnessed a Mafia crime, do not collaborate with the forces of law and order.
		Probably today the bosses still fugitives and the new leaders are thinking that it is more convenient to abandon the bloodline and to return to the classical Mafia model: mediation instead of war, to submerge and not to show off, less violence and more business.
		For example: for the common criminal the proof is constituted during the debate, while for the Mafiosi, due to their capacity to intimidate, proof can be drawn from other proceedings.
	www.centroimpastato.it /otherlang/mafia-in-italy.php3 (8729 words)

	Amazon.com: "other pentiti": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He received various visits from his wife, and according to other pentiti she became pregnant during this period (Tribunale di Napoli 1986).
		But Buscetta and the other pentiti kept talking, even after the war had carried off nearly ten thousand soldiers of the sistema, along with Falcone, his...
		Several other pentiti have also done so, providing very similar de- scriptions, and the concrete activities of the families associated with Cosa Nos-...
	amazon.com /phrase/other-pentiti (359 words)

	Catholic World News : Vatican Paper in "Complete Solidarity" with Convicted Italian Premier
		Witnessed testified that the journalist was on the verge of revealing information that would ruined Andreotti's political career-- information regarding the assassination of another former prime minister, Aldo Moro.
		The case against Andreotti was built on the testimony of "pentiti"-- Mafia figures who have begun cooperating with prosecutors in exchange for more lenient treatment of their own cases.
		In September 1999, a court in Perugia found Andreotti innocent of the charges, accepting his explanation that the witnesses were seeking revenge after previous clashes between Andreotti and organized crime.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=19343 (274 words)

	Mafia, Politica, Pentiti : La Relazione Del Presidente Luciano Violante E Le Deposizioni Di Antonio Calderone, Tommaso ...
		Mafia, Politica, Pentiti : La Relazione Del Presidente Luciano Violante E Le Deposizioni Di Antonio Calderone, Tommaso Buscetta, Leonardo Messina, Gaspare Mutolo Atti Della Commissione Parlamentare D'inchiesta Sulla Mafia by Italy, Orazio Barrese, Antonino Calderone, Luciano Violante
		Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Mafia, Politica, Pentiti : La Relazione Del Presidente Luciano Violante E Le Deposizioni Di Antonio Calderone, Tommaso Buscetta, Leonardo Messina, Gaspare Mutolo Atti Della Commissione Parlamentare D'inchiesta Sulla Mafia and it was written by Italy, Orazio Barrese, Antonino Calderone, Luciano Violante.
		This edition of Mafia, Politica, Pentiti : La Relazione Del Presidente Luciano Violante E Le Deposizioni Di Antonio Calderone, Tommaso Buscetta, Leonardo Messina, Gaspare Mutolo Atti Della Commissione Parlamentare D'inchiesta Sulla Mafia is in a Book format.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/8872841607 (251 words)

	MAFIA BROTHERHOODS: ORGANIZED CRIME, ITALIAN STYLE
		Paoli is quick to point out that what pentiti (the Italian term for those who repent and give testimony) disclose is often influenced by a number of psychological factors.
		These pentiti are considered judicially trustworthy because both the police and the courts have checked and double-checked their confessions against those provided by others, while allowing for some statements to be self-serving.
		I would be remiss if I did not mention that Chapter One is extremely complex reading because of the countless number of Italian terms and unfamiliar locations.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/Paoli304.htm (1333 words)

	Interview With Claire Sterling -
		Only if the Mafia is seen as being capable of killing anytime, anywhere, can they, as a small group with a few thousand members, retain their power and continue as one of the richer "nations" - drugs alone make them the twentieth richest "nation" in the world.
		It only became possible to write about the Sicilian Mafia after 1984-85, when the Mafia wars for control of the heroin trade resulted in defectors, the pentiti, who revealed the Sicilian Mafia's inner workings.
		Before that, you couldn't get information from eyewitnesses and had to write based on speculation.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1990/july/Sa17498.htm (227 words)

	Mafia lessons help Italy fight terror \| csmonitor.com
		Middlemen with a criminal record were the easiest to win over.
		Hundreds of "pentiti," or turncoats, helped break some of the most powerful Mafia clans in the 1980s and 1990s.
		But winning over the "pentiti" among Islamic terrorist cells, experts say, is a much harder task.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0729/p06s03-woeu.html (713 words)

	Conference Theme
		Witnesses can be deeply involved in criminal activities themselves.
		Repentant witnesses - pentiti - cause new problems.
		Can a victim play an active part in the proceedings and still be a witness?
	www.iapcopenhagen.org /Default.asp?ID=5 (230 words)

	UNODC - Opening Statement to the Seminar on Human Security and S
		To induce misguided people to leave a criminal or terrorist group, softer social-psychological and legal approaches are called for.
		In Italy, the "pentiti" programmes met with great success by showing alienated political activists and members of organized crime a way out from their groups.
		Chairman, today organized crime and political terrorism have reached such proportions that criminologists and analysts of terrorism cannot deal with them alone.
	www.unodc.org /unodc/en/speech_2001-10-10_1.html (1552 words)

	Vatican newspaper 'in complete solidarity' with convicted Italian ex-PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In September 1999, a court in Perugia found Andreotti innocent of the charges, accepting his explanation that the witnesses were seeking revenge after previous clashes between Andreotti and organised crime.
		L'Osservatore Romano, in its 19 November edition, said that many Italian figures who have been prosecuted on the basis of evidence supplied by "pentiti" have subsequently been found innocent.
		Meanwhile, Cardinal Camillo Ruini of Rome said that the court judgment against Andreotti was "very heavy." He added: "I still believe that he is innocent, and it is my duty, under these sad circumstances, to confirm in public my personal esteem for him."
	www.cathnews.com /news/211/103.html (260 words)

	Italy and the law; A big acquittal.(trial of Giulio Andreotti)(Brief Article) - The Economist (US) - HighBeam Research
		THE trial lasted three-and-a-half years; 231 witnesses were called; the evidence and court transcripts ran to 650,000 pages; and at the end of it all, on September 24th, Giulio Andreotti, seven times a Christian Democratic prime minister of Italy, was acquitted of murder.
		The verdict was a particular rebuff to the crime-busting magistrates who have relied on the evidence of pentiti, or turncoats.
		Plainly the jury in Perugia that acquitted Mr Andreotti refused to believe Tommaso Buscetta, the leading pentito to give evidence, who said that Mr Andreotti had ordered the...
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1G1-55942745.html?refid=ip_hf (178 words)

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