Pentito (Italian pronunciation: [penˈtiːto]; lit. "repentant"; plural: pentiti) is used colloquially to designate collaborators of justice in Italian criminal...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Il pentito (internationally released as The Repenter and The Squealer) is a 1985 Italian crime-drama film directed by Pasquale Squitieri. The film is...

2002, he decided to collaborate with Italian law enforcement and became a pentito, a co-operating witness against organised crime. Giuliano was born into...

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...

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...

2021 in Dubai. In December 2022 it was noticed that Imperiale become a "pentito", starting crown witness procedure. Imperiale was born in Castellammare...

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...

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;...

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)...

Burruano (1948-2017), actor Tommaso Buscetta (1928–2000), member and notable pentito of the Sicilian Mafia Lando Buzzanca (1935–2022), actor Alessandro Cagliostro...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

investigators information even before he agreed to turn state' witness (or pentito) in June 2002. He is one of the most important Mafia turncoats since Tommaso...

Bravo and Giuseppe Costanza survived. Salvatore Cancemi, who later turned pentito, described the Mafia's victory celebration that followed the Capaci bombing;...

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...

they started to accumulate large amounts of money rapidly. According to pentito Antonio Calderone, Bontade used to say that fortunately Tommaso Spadaro...

Mammoliti decided to collaborate with the Italian justice and became a pentito. Nevertheless, he received another 20 years sentence for his role in the...

Naples. Barra has the distinction of being the first NCO member to become a pentito, when he decided to collaborate with Italian Justice in 1982. Barra sported...

judge, Antonino Caponnetto. Gaspare Spatuzza, a mafioso who later became a pentito, eventually revealed he had stolen the Fiat 126 on the orders of the Graviano...

Operation Old Bridge is the code name for the February 7, 2008 arrests in Italy and the United States that targeted the Gambino crime family; among the...

Sicilian Mafia Commission that turned himself in voluntarily to become a pentito, a collaborator with the Italian judicial authorities. Cancemi made controversial...