Jan 21 2008
400 years for Mafia dons: report
Rome - A Palermo judge handed out sentences worth a total of over 400 years on Monday to 38 Sicilian Mafia figures linked to jailed Corleone boss Bernardo Provenanzo, the news agency ANSA reported.
The majority of those jailed were arrested in June 2006 following Provenanzo’s capture the previous April.
The heaviest sentences, at 20 years, were handed out to Antonino Rotolo and Franco Bonura, respective heads of the Pagliarelli and Uditore clans.
According to national anti-mafia prosecuting chief Piero Grasso, “the heads of the 13 Sicilian Mafia families” are now all behind bars.
Plea-bargaining meant the judge, Piergiorgio Morosini, reduced the sentencing from the maximum allowed under Italian law.
The group were caught through a combination of wire-tapping in the Palermo garage where they regularly met, and Provenanzo’s records.
400 years for Mafia dons: report - January 21 2008 at 07:37PM - http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20080121192244830C285506
