Giovanni Inzerillo

Giovanni Inzerillo (born in Brooklyn, New York, April 30, 1972), is a construction entrepreneur and son of Salvatore Inzerillo, a notorious Sicilian Mafia boss who was killed in May 1981 on the orders of Mafia boss Salvatore "Totò" Riina during the Second Mafia War.

After the Corleonesi Mafia clan killed his father, they also murdered his 15-year-old brother, Giuseppe. Giuseppe had vowed to avenge his father, and not long afterwards he was kidnapped, tortured and killed. A number of informants, including Tommaso Buscetta, said that it was Pino Greco who abducted him and shot him through the head, but first hacked his arm off, symbolically removing the arm the youngster had vowed to shoot Riina with.

When Totò Riina gave the instructions to exterminate the clan he made it quite clear: "Not even the pips must remain from the Inzerillo family". The Inzerillo family had been on the verge of total extermination by the Corleonesi. With the intervention of relatives in New York, including *ociates of the Gambino crime family, a deal was worked out that allowed the surviving Inzerillos to take refuge in the U.S., with the agreement that none of them, or their offspring, could ever return to Sicily. Many went to the New York area and joined forces with the Gambino family. They were dubbed "gli scappati" (the escapees).

Giovanni returned to Sicily in 2000. Officially he is a building constructor and lives in the same house his father lived in at 346 Via Castellana in the district of Palermo called P*o di Rigano. He was indicted and arrested on February 7, 2008, in Operation Old Bridge against the Gambinos in New York and their connections in Palermo, involved in drug trafficking.

References

• Shawcross, Tim & Martin Young (1987). Men of Honour: The Confessions of Tommaso Buscetta, Glasgow: Collins ISBN:0-00-217589-4.
• Stille, Alexander (1995). Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, New York: Vintage ISBN:0-09-959491-9.

External links

• (in Italian) "Inzerillo jr, da 'scappato' a capomafia", la Repubblica, Palermo, February 8, 2008.
• (in Italian) "Tornano in affari i boss perdenti", la Repubblica, Palermo, June 3, 2007.

Members

• List of Sicilian Mafia members
• List of Sicilian Mafia members by city

Meetings

• Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957

Wars

• First Mafia War (1961–1963)
• Second Mafia War (1981–1983)

M*acres
and bombings

• Portella della Ginestra m*acre (1947)
• Ciaculli bombing (1963)
• Viale Lazio m*acre (1969)
• Circonvallazione m*acre (1982)
• Via Carini m*acre (1982)
• Via Federico Pipitone m*acre (1983)
• Train 904 bombing (1984)
• Pizzolungo bombing (1985)
• Capaci bombing (1992)
• Via D'Amelio bombing (1992)
• Via dei Georgofili bombing (1993)
• Via Palestro m*acre (1993)

Antimafia

• Italian Antimafia Commission (members)
• Direzione Investigativa Antimafia
• State-Mafia Pact
• Addiopizzo
• Pen*o
• List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia

Trials

• 1960s Sicilian Mafia trials
• Maxi Trial (1986–1992)
• Pizza Connection Trial (1985–1986)

Related

• American Cosa Nostra
• Anonima sarda
• Banda della Comasina
• Banda della Magliana
• Basilischi
• Beati Paoli
• Camorra
• Corsican mafia
  • Unione Corse
• Garduña
• Italian brigandage (19th century)
• Sicilian brigandage and rebels (20th century)
• Mala del Brenta
• 'Ndrangheta
• Sacra Corona Unita
• Stidda
• Stuppagghiari
• Vendicatori

• American Cosa Nostra
• Organized crime in Italy
• Mafia bibliography