Italian authorities have arrested sixteen members and associates in the Bagheria clan of the Sicilian mafia on various charges including mafia association and extortion.
Among those arrested was alleged boss Giuseppe (Pino) Scaduto who wanted his own daughter killed because of her relationship with a senior Italian policeman according to reports. The Cosa Nostra Godfather blamed his 2008 arrest when he was in the midst of trying to reform Cosa Nostra’s governing council known as the “Cupola” on his daughter’s relationship with the policeman. While he was in prison investigators scouring Scaduto’s correspondences discovered references to a gift he wanted to give his daughter.
“Pino Scaduto”
Once he was released last April he ordered his son to kill his sister to re-establish the crime family’s prestige because she had become an informer according to investigators. Scaduto’s son who is already facing a separate murder charge was captured in a conversation intercepted by police refusing his fathers request saying “I don’t want to do it. If you want it done, do it yourself. Why should I deal with the problem? I’m 30.” Investigators claim Scaduto then tried to pass the hit on to another mobster who also turned down his request on the basis that it was a family dispute. Angelino Alfano Italy’s foreign affairs minister said “The mafia define themselves as men of honour. But where is the honour in ordering the killing of your child?”
The Sicilian mob clans extortion scheme allegedly targeted local entrepreneurs in the mineral water and construction businesses.
Wow the fact that he wanted to whack his own daughter is one thing but to ask her brother to it, now that is a real real low level of sick.
let’s not be too quick to pass judgment here, if she’s a rat something s got to be done. This guy takes omerta seriously…
But to ask a brother to kill his sister. I mean cmon some lines should never be crossed.
I totally see your point. For all the rats out there it’s refreshing to see someone who takes the code of silence to heart. Though the way he reacted was a bit extreme.
Something’s got to be done? Listen, we all love following the mob. There’s a rich history and the storylines are exciting but why glorify these guys? They are evil sociopaths who don’t give a shit about you. Don’t glorify these guys, you sound like a keyboard gangster.
We glorify soldiers who go overseas and kill people for corporate kingpins in the name of “honor,” “democracy,” and “freedom,” so what’s the problem here? You wouldn’t call someone who roots for the Houston Astros online a keyboard baseball player so just because someone roots for the bad guys doesn’t make them keyboard gangsters. Why glorify the rats? You sound like a keyboard snitch.
U don’t know shit about me so watch your mouth cupcake. You sound like a faggot to me. Go find a police lover website, u don’t belong here
Kinda like the Little Puppet situation in American Me… just talkin shit there. At any rate I guess these Cosa Nostra guys are not to be crossed. Wanting the daughter killed and pushing the brother to do it is a good way to make them turn on the old man though…
Without sounding like a complete asshole, but in Mexico with the drug cartels everyone pretty much accepts it as pretty much standard operating procedure for them to kill women, children, the dog, the cat and even the goldfish but yet when the Mafia does it I see a lot of harsh judgement coming down. Yet many of these commentors are the same ones who will make fun of the Mob as being so far behind the drug cartels due to their lack of brutality and ruthlessness. Yet when they step up their game in the brutality department it’s time to pass on harsh criticism. It just seems hypocritical and double standard to me. At the end of the day gangsters are gangsters.