The Colacurcio enterprises operated independently of any other organized crime interest, and relied heavily on corruption for their entry into new territories.
The Colacurcio brothers of Seattle
Domenic Sarno, son of immigrants
Although Mayor Sarno calls himself a first generation Italian-slash-American, the truth is more complicated. The mayor’s paternal great-grandparents lived in West Springfield as early as 1906, and his grandfather was born here.
Capitano’s Lucchese connection
Some of the most telling of "Capitano" Angelo di Carlo’s associations are those who signed affidavits in support of his release from internment at Fort Missoula in the summer of 1943.
The Esperia Film Distributing Company
The Di Carlo family was persecuted by Italian Fascists in Sicily. That didn't stop them from becoming propagandists for Mussolini.
The physician and the patient
Dr. Michele Navarra and his successor, Luciano Leggio, dominated the Corleonesi Mafia after World War II. A few months before Domenico Liggio married, in the summer of 1834, he lived with his widowed mother and an older brother, Salvatore, near the ancient Ospedale dei Bianchi in Corleone: the same hospital Dr. Michele Navarra would run,... Continue Reading →
Mafia Genealogy 