Tomasso Buscetta - Palermo City - Porta Nuova - Mafia Siciliana
Was an Italian mobster, a member of the Sicilian Mafia, who became one of the first of its members to turn informant (pentito) and explain the inner workings of the organization.
Buscetta participated in criminal activity in Italy, the United States and Brazil before being arrested and extradited from Brazil to Italy. He became disillusioned with the Mafia after the murders of several of his family members, and in 1984, decided to cooperate with the authorities. He provided important testimony at the 1986/87 Maxi Trial, the largest anti-Mafia trial in history. After the murder of the judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Buscetta gave further testimony to the Antimafia Commission linking Italian politicians to the Mafia.
Buscetta entered the Witness Protection Program in the United States, where he remained until his death in 2000.
Buscetta revealed information to Falcone for 45 days, explaining the inner workings and hierarchical structures of Cosa Nostra including the Sicilian Mafia Commission, that, until then, were unclear because of the strict code of silence. This became known as the "Buscetta theorem". He also revealed Mafia initiation rituals. However, Buscetta refused to speak with Falcone of the political ties of Cosa Nostra because, in his opinion, the State was not ready for statements of that magnitude, and proved to be quite general on that subject.
In December 1984, he was extradited to the United States where he received a new identity from the government, an American citizenship and was placed in the Witness Protection Program in exchange for new revelations against the American Mafia.
In mid-1992, following the bomb attacks in which Falcone and Borsellino were killed, Buscetta began to speak of the political ties of the Cosa Nostra with magistrates, accusing Salvo Lima, killed a few months earlier, and Giulio Andreotti of being the main political referents of the organization; in particular, he reported that he had known Lima personally since the late 1950s, and had met him last in 1980, and also reported that he had learned that the murder of the journalist Mino Pecorelli in 1979 would have been carried out in the Andreotti's interest.
During a trial in 1993, the Mafia member Salvatore Cancemi confessed to Buscetta that he had strangled two of Buscetta's sons to death. After the trial, Buscetta embraced Cancemi and said: "You could not refuse the order. I forgive you because I know what it means to be in Cosa Nostra.
Fue un mafioso siciliano. Si bien no fue el primer pentito (informante) del programa de protección de testigos, es ampliamente reconocido como el primer individuo importante que rompe con la omertà. Muchos otros mafiosos seguirían su ejemplo.
Lo vuelven a arrestar en 1983, y Buscetta es enviado nuevamente a Italia. Intentó suicidarse, y al no tener éxito decide que estaba muy desilusionado de la mafia. Buscetta pidió reunirse con Giovanni Falcone y así comenzó su vida como informante. En Italia ayudó a los jueces Giovanni Falcone y Paolo Borsellino, permitiendo alcanzar una serie de éxitos en la lucha contra el crimen organizado (los dos jueces serían posteriormente asesinados por la mafia).
Fue el testigo estrella en el Maxi Proceso que permitió procesar y enviar a prisión a casi 350 miembros de la mafia.
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