Salvatore Riina

Italian mobster

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In Sicilian Mafia
…Leggio’s imprisonment, but Leggio’s successor, Salvatore (“the Beast”) Riina, brought the conflict to a successful conclusion, becoming the Mafia’s first “boss of bosses.” Once again, though, the violence led to a government response, and Riina retaliated by bombing officials and purportedly kidnapping and murdering the son of an informant. In…
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