- American Mafia families are recruiting their killers
in Sicily because Americans are seen as unreliable and indiscreet, according
to authorities in Rome and Washington.
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- uS Mafia bosses, such as the late John Gotti are recruiting
new killers in Sicily after a perception American hitmen are 'unreliable'
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- Mob families in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia needed
new blood after being decimated by turncoats and arrests, said Roberto
Centaro, the head of the Italian parliament's anti-Mafia commission.
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- "Soldiers from Sicily are considered less likely
to end up collaborating with police."
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- Dozens of Sicilians aged between 20 and 30 are believed
to have been sent from towns in the Palermo area to the US to help shore
up the ranks of clans such as the DeCavalcante family in New Jersey and
the Bonanno family in New York.
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- Mr Centaro has just spent a week in New York discussing
organised crime with the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the
US protection program for Mafia turncoats and the Justice Department.
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- Investigators in the US told him that using telephone
taps they had heard new arrivals discussing attacks on American investigators
and judges.
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- Mafiosi in Sicily and the US are not only linked by blood
but also co-operate in drug-trafficking and occasionally supply each other
with personnel when an unknown face is needed for a job.
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- In recent years American crime families have sent "soldiers"
to Sicily to learn the Mafia code of honour.
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- Experts see the decline of the code as one of the main
reasons why American police have been able to make inroads into their activities
in recent years.
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