Pentito (Italian pronunciation: [penˈtiːto]; lit. "repentant"; plural: pentiti) is used colloquially to designate collaborators of justice in Italian criminal...
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Luigi Giuliano (section Pentito)
2002, he decided to collaborate with Italian law enforcement and became a pentito, a co-operating witness against organised crime. Giuliano was born into...
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Giuseppe Marchese (section Pentito)
1963) is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia, who turned state witness (pentito). Giuseppe Pino Marchese was born in Palermo in a family with long-standing...
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Antonino Calderone (section Pentito)
1935 – 10 January 2013) was a Sicilian Mafioso who turned state witness (pentito) in 1987 after his arrest in 1986. Antonino was born in Catania, the brother...
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Gaspare Spatuzza (section Pentito)
became known that Spatuzza had turned into a witness for the prosecution (pentito) four months earlier after spending 11 years in jail under the Article...
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The Repenter (redirect from Il pentito)
Il pentito (internationally released as The Repenter and The Squealer) is a 1985 Italian crime-drama film directed by Pasquale Squitieri. The film is...
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Giovanni Melluso (section Becoming a pentito)
After six years of rigorous imprisonment, Melluso decided to become a pentito. On March 2, 1984, when the preliminary hearings of the trial against the...
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Tommaso Buscetta (section Pentito)
Giovanni Falcone, and began his life as an informant, referred to as a pentito. Buscetta revealed information to Falcone for 45 days, explaining the inner...
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2021 in Dubai. In December 2022 it was noticed that Imperiale become a "pentito", starting crown witness procedure. Imperiale was born in Castellammare...
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the former La Torre clan boss who became a pentito, is married to an Albanian woman; the first foreign pentito, a Tunisian, admitted to being involved with...
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became the first of Falcone's assassins to become a government witness—a pentito. He revealed all the details of the assassination: who tunnelled beneath...
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Antonino Giuffrè (section Pentito)
of Cosa Nostra. He became one of the most important Mafia turncoats, or pentito, after his arrest in April 2002, providing further information about its...
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Gaspare Mutolo (section Pentito)
1940) is a Sicilian mafioso, also known as "Asparino". In 1992 he became a pentito (state witness against the Mafia). He was the first mafioso who spoke about...
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Salvatore Cancemi (section Pentito)
Sicilian Mafia Commission that turned himself in voluntarily to become a pentito, a collaborator with the Italian judicial authorities. Cancemi made controversial...
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seizing weapons and drugs. One of these witnesses was Sicilian Mafia pentito Tommaso Buscetta, who had already revealed information to Italian magistrate...
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84 Rower United Kingdom 16 April 2020 Francesco Di Carlo 79 Mobster and pentito France (Paris) Jim Fraser 83 American football player United States (Lansdale)...
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Light: The Joseph Valachi Story by Thomas L. Jones. Michele Vaccaro, Joe Valachi, il "primo pentito", in Storia in Rete, febbraio 2014, anno X, n. 100....
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of a boss he had the movie theme played at a lavish party. According to pentito Toni Calvaruso, Vincenzina committed suicide on 12 May 1995, due to her...
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was a vendetta against his brother Patrizio, a member of RB who became pentito the year before. On 17 December, James L. Dozier, an American general and...
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Burruano (1948-2017), actor Tommaso Buscetta (1928–2000), member and notable pentito of the Sicilian Mafia Lando Buzzanca (1935–2022), actor Alessandro Cagliostro...
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Italian-American Mafia to break his blood oath. In Sicily, the phenomenon of pentito (Italian he who has repented) broke omertà. Among the most famous Mafia...
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Francesco Di Carlo (section Pentito)
16, 2020) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned state witness (pentito — a mafioso turned informer) in 1996. He was accused of being the killer...
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Salvatore Contorno (section Pentito and Maxi Trial)
a former member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned into a state witness (pentito) against Cosa Nostra in October 1984, following the example of Tommaso...
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the Mafia Family is called the Omerta. This was confirmed in 1986 by the pentito Tommaso Buscetta. A hit, or murder, of a made man must be approved by the...
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Saverio Mammoliti (section Pentito)
Mammoliti decided to collaborate with the Italian justice and became a pentito. Nevertheless, he received another 20 years sentence for his role in the...
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Giovanni Falcone, and began his life as an informant, referred to as a pentito. Buscetta was the first high-profile Sicilian Mafiosi to become an informant;...
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There are relatively few Calabrian mafiosi who have opted out to become a pentito; at the end of 2002, there were 157 Calabrian witnesses in the state witness...
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Bravo and Giuseppe Costanza survived. Salvatore Cancemi, who later turned pentito, described the Mafia's victory celebration that followed the Capaci bombing;...
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Luigi Riccio (section Becoming a Pentito)
Ginginiello Riccio (born 1957) is a former Italian Camorrista who is now a pentito. While initially a member of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata, Riccio switched...
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Machine Antimafiaduemila.com "Borsellino bis, sette ergastoli Credibile il pentito Scarantino". repubblica.it. 14 February 1999. Archived from the original...
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