Like Galati’s wounded warden, the safest option available to people under pressure from the mafia was to establish a relationship with their leaders – and get the most out of these connections.

Francesco Lastrucci Until recently, Ernesto Bisanti could not have imagined he would face down the Cosa Nostra (Our Thing)—the Sicilian Mafia. In 1986 Bisanti started a furniture factory in Palermo.

Fanara, from Sicily's notorious Cosa Nostra clan, was nine years into his sentence under Italy's tough “41-bis” prison regime usually applied to mafia members. A Sicilian mafia boss serving a ...

Italian police have arrested 181 people in a crackdown on the Sicilian mafia ... as well as advising him on how to relate to the mafia leaders," police said.