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Gaetano Badalamenti (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaeˈtaːno badalaˈmenti]; 14 September 1923 – 29 April 2004) was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. Don Tano Badalamenti was the capofamiglia of his hometown Cinisi, Sicily, and headed the Sicilian Mafia Commission in the 1970s. In 1987, he was sentenced in the United States to 45 years in ...
When Gaetano Badalamenti was born on 14 September 1923, in Cinisi, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, his father, Vito Badalamenti, was 46 and his mother, Giuseppa Spitaleri, was 44. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 29 April 2004, in Ayer, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 80.
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May 1, 2004 · Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed prison official as saying he died of a heart attack at a US federal medical centre in Devens, Massachusetts, on Thursday evening. Born in the village of Cinisi near Palermo in 1923, Gaetano Badalamenti became a key figure in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra in the 1970s. Known as "Don Tano", he was part of the so ...
May 1, 2004 · Gaetano Badalamenti, once known as the "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, has died in the United States where he was serving a prison sentence. ... Born in the village of Cinisi near Palermo ...
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Gaetano "Don Tano" Badalamenti (14 September 1923–29 April 2004) was the Mafia boss of Cinisi from 1963 to 1978, succeeding Cesare Manzella and preceding Antonino Badalamenti. He was the mastermind behind the "Pizza Connection" heroin network as well as the head of the Commission. He was imprisoned in the United States for narcotics trafficking in ...
Badalamenti was born on 14 September 1923 to an Italian family in Cinisi, Sicily. The son of dairy farmers, he attended school for only four years before going to work on the fields at age 10 and being drafted into the Army in 1941; he deserted during the invasion of Sicily in 1943, and afterwards returned to his hometown to get involved in crimina...
The key defendant is Gaetano Badalamenti, sixty-two. He has vigorously denied dealing drugs. He said, Drugs are bad for business. The money was never worth the risk. Only greedy pigs touched drugs. Not men of honor. (S.Alexander, 1988) Gaetano Don Tanino Badalamenti was born in 1923 in the village of Cinisi, Sicily.
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Apr 5, 2019 · Gaetano Badalamenti. The case, dubbed “The Pizza Connection” by the news media because of the frequent use of pizza parlors as fronts for drug sales, was enormously complex and laborious ...
