The once powerful Corleone clan once sat atop the Sicilian mafia under former boss of bosses Bernardo Provenzano before being decimated by a wave of arrests.
The Italian mafia clan was on the brink of being wiped out according to authorities but its fortunes seem to be changing. Carmelo Gariffo, 47, a nephew of Provenzano has revived the beleaguered mafia family since his release from prison two years ago according to reports. A recent police operation into the collection of extortion payments known as “Pizzo” around the town of Palermo revealed Gariffo’s leadership role in the organization. Approximately a dozen Corleone family members were arrested.
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The revival of the crime family may be further bolstered when another of Provenzano’s nephews Salvatore Gariffo is released from prison in 2018. Authorities and anti-mafia experts have both stressed the importance of keeping the Corleone clan from rebuilding and restoring its power base. The Sicilian mafia has taken its share of bumps and bruises over the last few years and has lost its place as the top mafia family in Italy to the Calabrian mafia also known as Ndrangheta. The re-establishment of the Corleone clan would be a clear step to the restabilization of the Cosa Nostra family.
The Sicilian mafia definitely isn’t what it once was and now we are seeing the Ndrangheta hooking up with the New York mafia more and more and starting to establish itself in the US along with what seems to be them making a move against the Sicilian based Rizzuto family in Montreal.
The calabrians in NY?
I know their big in Canada but I didn’t think NY
I know the Sicilians are ressurecting their pipeline to NY..
The Gambino leadership are run by the zips…
You should see the zips in NJ.. Minchia!
I think the genovese crews in Jersey have zip connections..
The Calabrian mafia have been present in the U.S. since as early as the mid-late 1950s and quietly established there no later than the early to mid-1960s. The Toronto Siderno Group has had affiliate clans based throughout N.Y. state for decades. The most prominant of the clans or families directly tied to the Siderno Group were those based in Albany, Long Island, Colony, Flushing-Corona, Queens NY area, along with Chicago, Stamford, Connecticut and Naples, Fl. They were most active throughout the 1970s-90s directly with their Canadian counterparts and by the late 1990s began to work closer with the N.Y. families, mainly the Gambinos and Genovese, the Genovese having had a powerful Calabrian faction that ran the family from the 1940s to 1957 under Costello until the Neapolitan and Sicilian leaders took over under Genovese. One of the more prominent Calabrian clans operating in New York state was led by the Archino/Archina clan which was related to and part of the Siderno mafia faction the Macri-Racco-Archino-Agostino clan, which were the heads of the Siderno mafia under legendary boss Antonio Macri until his murder in the early 1970s, then the Commisso-Baggetta-Figliomeni clan took over as leaders in Siderno and their satellite groups such as Toronto formerly run by Mike Racco. Siderno Group members in America – Carlo Archino was the quiet, unknown boss based in Albany, NY. while the Costa clan who eventually went to war with the Macri and Commisso clans in the 1990s and lost were based in Long Island and had associates in Toronto under Mike Racco. In the 1970s and 80s Domenic Agostino, nephew of Mike Racco was based in Queens, while another relative Frank Archino was based in Colony, NY. Carlo Archino is either dead or and retired, Frank Archino testified against his cousin Dominic Racco, Mike’s son in the 1976 or around that time concerning a jailhouse plot to beat a man on the outside who owed Dom money while he was imprisoned. One of the most prominent Siderno Group members to be operating in the U.S. is based in Queens or Long Island, NY, but was formerly part of the Stamford and Darien, Connecticut faction. This is Nicola Melia, who is in fact at present one of the Connecticut based capo-regimes in the Gambino family, who oversees Connecticut operations and is the Gambino connection to the Calabrian mafia. Nick Melia is the brother of Vince Melia, the former Connecticut boss in the 1970s & 80s for the Siderno Group in the Connecticut area. In 1981 Vince Melia contacted his close friends Mike Racco and Cosimo Commisso in Toronto because he needed his brothers pesky girlfriend, Stamford hairdresser Helen Nafploitis killed. Commisso sent biker Cecel Kirby to the U.S. to handle it, but Kirby was an RCMP informer and plant, so the Melias and Commisso I believed were charged with solicitation for murder or conspiracy to murder, something like that. Anyway, I mentioned 15 years ago that the top remaining American mafia families would soon have more Sicilian factions and even Calabrian factions within their ranks to strengthen the depleted families and bring back the old world rules and discipline. Look what happened, the Gambinos and Bonannos are led by their Zip factions and the Gambinos have taken on a powerful, well connected Calabrian faction. I’m keeping my eye on the Genovese family to see if they align themselves with any new Sicilian factions as they have influential connections to the Sicilians under leader Barney Bellomo, but also have had longstanding connections to the to the Calabrians in Montreal and Toronto, as well as the Neapolitans long ago under Vito Genovese and other past leaders. The Calabrian mafia, the Ndrangheta cemented their global expansion in the mid to late 1990s and by the early millenium became the most powerful Italian mafia organization not only in Italy, but the world and with their dominance over Italy, Canada and Australian mafia affairs, they have continued to cement their American powerbase , influence and ties. In 10-15 years the American mafia will been led by and dominated by the Calabrians and Sicilians, possibly even the Neapolitans will be represented much more than they are in North America having already set-up satellite groups in Toronto, NY, Philly and Floriida where they invest their illicit profits in legitimate businesses. If you want to read about the info I gave you about the Calabrians read James Dubro’s Mob Rule.
OK thanks