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Tommaso Buscetta (Italian pronunciation: [tomˈmaːzo buʃˈʃetta]; 13 July 1928 – 2 April 2000) was a high ranking Italian mobster and a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He became one of the first of its members to turn informant and explain the inner workings of the organization.
Jan 16, 2020 · You may have never heard of Tommaso Buscetta, but nearly 400 members of the Mafia certainly wish they never had. He was the first Sicilian mobster to break omertà — the Mafia code of silence — and consequently aided in the convictions of hundreds of Mafiosi.
Apr 6, 2000 · Tommaso Buscetta, the first important Italian mob leader to break the Mafia oath of silence and whose testimony helped convict hundreds of Mafia leaders in Italy and the United States, died...
Tommaso Buscetta, detto anche Il boss dei due mondi e don Masino (Palermo, 13 luglio 1928 – North Miami, 2 aprile 2000), è stato un mafioso e collaboratore di giustizia italiano.
Jul 22, 2020 · Tommaso Buscetta probably had a bigger impact than any supergrass in history. The information he gave to Giovanni Falcone, a legendary prosecutor, in the 1980s set off a chain of events that...
Jun 16, 2019 · The family of Tommaso Buscetta, whose testimony sent more than 400 gangsters to prison, has come out of hiding long enough to tell their story in an eye-opening new documentary.
Jun 12, 2019 · His father, Tommaso Buscetta, had been a soldier in the Sicilian Mafia, the first high-ranking Mafioso to break the code of silence in the 1980s at a time when the Sicilians took omerta...
Sep 10, 2019 · OUR GODFATHER is a feature-length documentary about Tommaso Buscetta, the first high-ranking Italian mafia boss ever to turn against Cosa Nostra. Buscetta helped convict more than 400 Mafiosi. He became the Mob's most wanted man in the world - and 11 members of his family were killed.
Tommaso Buscetta became a government witness and revealed to authorities the organization and governance of the Mafia, information that previously could only be guessed. According to Buscetta, each cosca possesses the exclusive right to operate in a specific area, which is respected by the other…
Aug 25, 2021 · When Tommaso Buscetta broke omertà in 1984 (only a decade after politicians were claiming that the mafia did not exist), one of his first statements in his depositions directly related to media depictions of Cosa nostra: “la mafia è un’invenzione letteraria,” he explained, going on to say that from the inside they are simply “Cosa nostra.
