Cosa Nostra News

Family members of former Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore (Toto) Riina, who died in a prison hospital on November 17, 2017, and who was allegedly responsible for ordering more than hundreds of murders, received something nobody probably ever saw coming. An apology. Toto Riina died in a prison hospital earlier this month. Trouble began when the social media giant removed messages of condolences posted upon Riina's death.  The posts, on Riina's son-in-law's Facebook feed, "were removed in error, after users complained that they violated Facebook's standards." After a review, Facebook "restored the posts and apologized," an anonymous Facebook spokesperson said recently. The spokesperson didn't elaborate, but Facebook's terms of use prohibit content expressing support for groups involved in violent or criminal behavior, terrorist activity or organized crime. "Supporting or praising leaders of those same organizations, o...

The following items are independent news briefs dished up in no particular order. But first this brief note: Quite a few stories are in the "hopper" and will come out in due time. This week we expect to publish a dynamite excerpt direct from Michael Blutrich , former owner of Scores who copartnered with the Gambino crime family before flipping.   Michael Blutrich, who once owned Scores. Former Colombo capo -- or boss? If given a long enough timeline, we honestly believe Michael Franzese, former Colombo capo, could do pretty much anything he wanted to do. And that includes not only running for President of the United States but winning, too.

The town apparently doesn't suffer amateur buglers  either. This is why I need an editor! The municipality of Corleone, Sicily, is no more. And it's the Mafia's fault, the Italian government proclaimed . Other local administrations tied to the Camorra and Ndrangheta  -- Arzano, near Naples, and Calabria's Bovalino and Tropea -- also were done away with. The towns will be administered by a government-appointed commissioner until new elections are held, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's government revealed on August 10.

Riina, the jailed head of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra of Corleone. From ABC News : "An Italian newspaper report says the remote control to detonate the bomb that killed anti-Mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino in 1992 was hidden inside the intercom at his mother's Palermo residence. La Repubblica said on its website Wednesday that jailed Mafia boss Salvatore "Toto" Riina revealed the whereabouts of the remote control, long a mystery, to another inmate in a monitored jail yard chat. "The newspaper says it isn't clear whether Borsellino activated the bomb himself by buzzing his mother's home, or if someone else did. Borsellino and his bodyguards were killed in the blast from a car packed with more than 160 pounds (70 kilograms) of plastic explosives outside his mother's house. It came just two months after another anti-Mafia prosecutor was killed. Riina ordered the back-to-back slayings."