Italian police on Wednesday
arrested 11 people in a sweep that hit a Sicilian Mafia clan
based in the town of Torretta near Palermo.
Torretta, a town with 4,000 inhabitants in the Palermo
hinterland, has always had solid links to New York crime
families, police said.
They were consolidated when the losers in the Second Mafia War
unleashed by Toto 'the Beast' Riina emigrated to the US.
An emissary from one of the New York families was welcomed to
Torretta in September 2018, police said.
The Torretta family controls public works, construction,
agriculture and animal rearing in the local area, police said.
The 'pizzini' or notes conveying confidential information sent
to fugitive superboss Matteo Messina Denaro went through
Torretta, police said.
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