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	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - TOTO RIINA
		Salvatore Riina was born on November 16th 1930 in Corleone.
		The young Riina joined the Leggio’s faction, and in 1949 he killed Domenico Di Matteo; that was his first murder.
		In 1993 Salvatore Riina was arrested after 23 years of fugitiveness and sentenced to life; his empire was going to break down; his wife, sons and relatives still live in Corleone, but his power is not the same behind bars, also because he was replaced by Provenzano how he once replaced Leggio.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /TotoRiina.html (578 words)

	Salvatore Riina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in 1930, Riina was raised in Corleone and joined the local Mafia clan, the Corleonesi, as a young adult.
		Riina was handed a life sentence in 1963 for murder, but it was an in absentia sentence, meaning Riina was not present in court.
		Although Riina's criminal actions were geared towards the acquisition of wealth and power, his ruthlessness, treachery and the enormous number of brutal murders he either committed or sanctioned were excessive even by the standards of other gangsters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toto_Riina (2223 words)

	Bernardo Provenzano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Provenzano was suspected of being Riina's right-hand-man. Riina was incredibly ruthless and eventually started the Mafia war of 1981-1982 which left over a thousand Mafiosi dead and resulted in the Corleonisi becoming the dominant Mafia Family in Sicily.
		Toto Riina was arrested in January 1993 and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for ordering dozens of murders, including the two high-profile bombings that killed judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
		Indeed, the fact that his predecessor, Totò Riina, was finally arrested at his home address after supposedly being 'on the run' for nearly 20 years, lends credence to this theory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardo_Provenzano (615 words)

	Toto Riina
		Salvatore Riina (Also called Totò Riina) is the most famous mafioso or mafia villain in the recent history of Sicily.
		He supposedly organized the death of Giovanni Falcone, the 'Giudice', the judge who fought against the mafia until his death, on May 23, 1992.
		Corleone was his home city and is often mentioned in the context of Totò Riina.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/to/Toto_Riina.html (84 words)

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		Como su antecesor, Toto Riina, que también estuvo prófugo veinte años en el mismo pueblo, Provenzano sigue pareciendo el campesino que fue antes convertirse en matón de la mafia, cuando todavía era un adolescente al acabar la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
		Salvatore "Toto" Riina nació en Corleone en noviembre de 1930.
		Finalmente, en enero de 1993 detuvieron a Toto Riina cerca de Palermo, al volante de un Citroën.
	www.adeguello.net /ade_premios_2006.htm (2983 words)

	Mafia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main split in the Sicilian Mafia at present is between those bosses who have been convicted and are now in jail, chiefly Salvatore 'Toto' Riina and Leoluca Bagarella, the capo di tutti capi from 1993 to 1995, and those such as Bernardo Provenzano, who are on the run, or who have not been indicted.
		The incarcerated bosses are currently subjected to harsh controls on their contact with the outside world, limiting their ability to run their operations from behind bars under the Italian law 41 bis.
		Salvatore 'Toto' Riina, former 'Superboss' of the Corleonesi and thus the entire Sicilian Mafia, now in jail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mafia (2964 words)

	mafia international - badalamenti
		Toto had risen to the top of the Corleonesi clan thanks to his devoted loyalty to the long time Corleonesi boss Luciano Liggio, but by the mid seventies Liggio was serving time leaving Riina to run amok within the Sicilian Mafia.
		Riina was particularly good at fuelling disputes in other clans and manipulating them into believing that if they were to join him he would promise them an even bigger share in things, bigger than the share they were receiving now.
		Unfortunately for Gaetano because of Riina he never was allowed to fulfil his potential as boss of the Cupola and I for one would have been happy to see Badalamenti continue as boss of the Cupola, than watch his main rival Toto "The Beast" Riina destroy it.
	glasgowcrew.tripod.com /bada.html (1154 words)

	Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - EURO View
		Riina was the replacement of Luciano Leggio who was the head of the Corlenonesi and was sick and hiding.
		Riina again took his place and was soon up to his old tricks.
		Riina was a succses in murdering his rivals, by keeping his membership of the Mafia a secret, for the ones who did not now him.
	www.americanmafia.com /EURO_View/11-8-99_Robby_G.html (1377 words)

	Mafia boss's son jailed
		The senior Riina ran the Sicilian Corleone gang, which committed numerous bloody acts in the 1980s and early '90s and was Italy's most notorious and violent.
		Giovanni Riina, another of Toto's sons, was convicted for a string of murders in 2001 and also sentenced to life in prison; the youngest Riina, who was arrested in 2002 at his family's house in Corleone, central Sicily, also faces charges for ordering those same murders in a trial due to start in May.
		In one phone conversation tapped by the police, Giuseppe Salvatore Riina was quoted as saying: "Had my father not been arrested, things would have been different, and the state would have given in," according to the AGI news agency.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1641943,00.html (343 words)

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		Men were shot in public places or strangled in deserted cabins, their bodies dissolved in acid, dropped in the sea, buried in concrete or fed to pigs.
		This mass execution was the culmination of years of preparation by the Corleonesi under the leadership of Luciano Leggio and his lieutenant Totò Riina, whose death squads hunted down their enemies, with the aim of establishing a mafia dictatorship.
		Sensing his organisation was under threat, Riina, the boss of bosses, unleashed his rage.
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	YouTube - toto riina si lamenta cogli amici
		YouTube - toto riina si lamenta cogli amici
		Toto is like that clown in "IT"the Stephen King movie.
		Toto riina esterna al maxiprocesso e indica con chi si colloca politicamente (more) (less)
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=ZXOiJwySs8g (321 words)

	Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - this just in ... Mob News and Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Friday November 23 11:18 AM ET PALERMO, Sicily (AP) - Giovanni Riina, the 25-year-old son of imprisoned ``boss of bosses'' Salvatore ``Toto'' Riina, was convicted Friday of four murders and sentenced to life in prison.
		The trial saw Riina accused of four slayings carried out in 1995, two years after his father, reputed head of the Cosa Nostra, was captured by police in Palermo after 23 years on the run.
		Another victim was the brother of the wife, and the fourth victim was a man killed in Corleone, the Riina's hometown in the central mountains of Sicily.
	www.americanmafia.com /News/11-23-01_Sicily_Convicts_Son_Of_Mafia_Boss.html (306 words)

	NewStandard: 6/7/97
		After decades of being mocked by Mafia fugitives who managed to move easily from one hideout to another, often in their own neighborhoods, police in 1993 managed to capture Mr.
		Riina's favor by killing relatives of a rival mob boss.
		Riina still runs the Mafia from behind bars, while others maintain the top power is now in the hands of Bernardo Provenzano, who has been a fugitive for 23 years.
	www.s-t.com /daily/06-97/06-07-97/a03wn019.htm (395 words)

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		I SALVATORE RIINA I LUCIANO LEGGIO I GAETANO BADALAMENTI I VITO CASCIO FERRO I MICHELE NAVARRO I CALOGERO VIZZINI I MICHELE ZAZA (Cammora) I VINCENZO NAPOLI
		Buscetta was outraged at the violence of Riina, and also vengeful as his 2 sons were murdered in order to keep Buscetta from telling the magistrature the secrets of the Mafia.
		Riina was arrested in 1993, after being on the run for nearly 10 years, however people believed that Riina had never left Palermo, once again showing the true power of the Sicilian Mafia.
	glasgowcrew.tripod.com /sicilian.html (601 words)

	Don Riina
		Don Riina is a real-life member of the Sicilian Mafia.
		During his life-long career in crime he personally killed around forty people and is believed to have ordered the deaths of upwards of a thousand more.
		Riina is currently held in a maximum-security prison with limited contact with the outside world, in order to prevent him from running his organization from behind bars as many others have done.
	www.toytowngermany.com /wiki/Don_Riina (157 words)

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		Until his arrest in 1993 Salvatore "Toto" Riina was a leading Mafia don.
		Riina's assets, including a country villa and estate were eventually seized.
		But the change of ownership has not been without problems as locals, fearful of Mafia retribution, were unwilling to have anything to do with the group or the seized land.
	www.italystl.com /ra/1265.htm (359 words)

	Tommaso Buscetta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1972 Buscetta was arrested and extradited to Italy where began his life-sentence for the earlier double-murder conviction.
		In 1980, whilst on a day-release from prison, he fled over to Brazil to hide out from the brewing Mafia War instigated by Toto Riina that subsequently lead to the deaths of many of Buscetta's allies in the Mafia, including Stefano Bontade.
		He made a suicide attempt, and when that failed he decided that he was utterly disillusioned with the Mafia and the blood-thirsty treachery of people like Riina.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tommaso_Buscetta (668 words)

	News Feature
		Former Mafia super-boss Salvatore "Toto" Riina, who was arrested in 1993 after nearly a quarter of a century on the run, received a package in his jail cell several years ago.
		Riina, who was known as "the Beast," had been accustomed to sending cryptic messages rather than receiving them: a sheep's head here, a dead fish there.
		The message was: Dear Toto, we have confiscated your land in Corleone.
	www.maconareaonline.com /news.asp?id=6955 (878 words)

	Anti-Mafia prosecutor chronicles the invisible boss
		That's a bitter admission for Mafia opponents who scored several stunning successes in the 1990s, such as the arrest of mob kingpin Salvatore (Toto) Riina after 23 years as a fugitive.
		Riina, then reputed to be the "boss of bosses," was captured in Palermo a few months after car bombs killed two top Mafia investigators, prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
		In Palermo, anti-Mafia magistrate Antonino Di Matteo said that while Riina tended to promote a strategy based on killing rivals and police and prosecutors, Provenzano's approach is indicative of his nickname: 'the Accountant.
	www.freep.com /news/nw/zcosa9_20010809.htm (1130 words)

	6/3/96 INT/"THE PIG" IS PENNED
		The organization was already reeling from the 1993 arrest of its longtime capo di tutti capi, Salvatore ("Toto") Riina and the apprehension last year of Riina's successor, Leoluca Bagarella.
		The young man's rapid rise to the top was facilitated by the arrests of Riina and his immediate successor, Bagarella, who was reportedly not an admirer of Brusca.
		Prosecutors claim the hit was ordered by Riina to retaliate for Falcone's investigations, which put nearly 350 prominent mafiosi behind bars during the "maxi-trial" of 1986-87.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960603/covereur.html (2643 words)

	Mafia supergrass lifts the lid on a trail of blood from Sicily to Milan - World news - News - Belfast Telegraph
		The most notorious of those whose names have come up this week is Toto Riina, the 5ft 2in former capo di capi known familiarly as Toto u curtu (" Shorty") or la Belva ("the Monster").
		Riina, aged 76, the boss said to have killed 40 people and to be responsible for the deaths of 1,000 more, including investigators Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, was - by coincidence - rushed from prison to hospital in Milan last week, suffering from heart problems.
		Riina or his then second in command Bernardo "the Tractor" Provenzano, issued orders for the murder of rivals or traitors to the Corleone clan active in Milan.
	www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk /news/world-news/article2110821.ece (637 words)

	Guardian \| The corpse count is down, but the Sicilian mafia is alive and kicking
		Pulverised by the damage done to it by informers and the arrest in the early 90s of the "boss of bosses", Salvatore "Toto" Riina, and most of his key lieutenants, it opted for what investigators call a strategy of submersion.
		Riina's successor, Bernardo Provenzano, now 80, is an unlikely moderate.
		As Riina's lieutenant, he helped run the so-called death chamber in a farm building near his hometown of Corleone, where rival mafia bosses, invited to parley, were killed and their bodies dissolved in acid.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4863691-103681,00.html (1246 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Sicilians dish up anti-Mafia pasta
		Until his arrest in 1993 Salvatore "Toto" Riina was a leading Mafia don.
		Riina's assets, including a country villa and estate were eventually seized.
		But the change of ownership has not been without problems as locals, fearful of Mafia retribution, were unwilling to have anything to do with the group or the seized land.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2116458.stm (392 words)

	Reputed Mafia boss Provenzano tight-lipped - Boston.com
		Provenzano was captured April 11, more than 40 years after he went into hiding, and is believed to have taken over leadership of the Sicilian Mafia after the 1993 arrest of Salvatore "Toto" Riina.
		Riina also did not talk to investigators after he was captured, prosecutors have said.
		Both men are considered "old school" Mafiosi, who cling to Cosa Nostra's "honor" code of refusing to cooperate with authorities.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/04/20/reputed_mafia_boss_provenzana_tight_lipped (380 words)

	Around the world
		Giovanni Riina, 25, son of the reputed head of the Cosa Nostra, was convicted Friday of four murders and sentenced to life in prison.
		The slayings were in 1995, two years after his father, Salvatore (Toto) Riina, was captured in Palermo after 23 years on the run.
		The elder Riina is serving multiple life sentences for several murder convictions.
	www.freep.com /news/nw/for24_20011124.htm (513 words)

	CNN.com - Farmers fight Mafia with pasta - July 17, 2002
		With Corleone's Toto Riina behind bars, residents now want a change of image for the village.
		CNN's Alessio Vinci said: "Toto Riina was the Mafia's most powerful boss -- a man feared and respected by many in Corleone.
		Before his arrest, Riina spent months hiding from the police in an old farmhouse in the village.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/07/17/mafia.pasta (560 words)

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		Nicolosi, "that the most important Mafia bosses in the past 10 or 20 years were born here." He said Corleone was the birthplace of the "boss of bosses", Toto Riina, who was arrested in 1993.
		In Corleone, Riina was feared and respected by many.
		When his seized properties were handed over to a cooperative of farmers, locals were concerned there would be repercussions for those entering what was considered to be sacred territory.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/fp/E1CC9775-FDA8-4AAF-B45B73725C4453DC.html (719 words)

	Two Italian officials face Mafia charge - Breaking News - World - Breaking News
		Two Italian officials involved in the 1993 arrest of top mobster Salvatore Toto Riina have gone on trial charged with aiding the Mafia.
		Riina was arrested in Palermo in January 1993, months after he had ordered the back-to-back slayings of top anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
		The charge stems from the fact that Riina's hideout was not searched for two weeks after the boss' arrest, which provoked an outcry in Italy at the time.
	www.theage.com.au /news/World/Two-Italian-officials-face-Mafia-charge/2005/05/04/1115092526314.html (182 words)

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