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'[[Image:Giuseppe Guttadauro.jpg|thumb|Giuseppe Guttadauro, Mafia boss of [[Brancaccio]].]] [[Image:Filippo Guttadauro.jpg|thumb|[[Filippo Guttadauro]], the brother of Giuseppe is the brother-in-law of upcoming Mafia boss [[Matteo Messina Denaro]] and the go-between for Messina Denaro and [[Bernardo Provenzano]]. They are involved in cocaine trafficking in agreement with [['Ndrangheta]] clans from [[Platì]], [[Marina di Gioiosa Jonica]] and [[Siderno]], as well as the Mafia family of [[Mariano Agate]].<ref name=dia>{{it icon}} [http://www.interno.it/dip_ps/dia/semestrali/2003/2_volume_2_sem03.pdf Attività di analisi, progettualità e strategia operativa], Direzione Investigativa Antimafia, 2° semestre 2003</ref><ref name=rc2006>{{it icon}} [http://www.parlamento.it/parlam/bicam/14/Antimafia/documenti/rel.conclusiva1.pdf Le indagini «Igres»], in the 2006 Final Report of the Italian Antimafia Commission</ref> Filippo Guttadauro was arrested in July 2006.<ref name=rep>{{it icon}} [http://www.repubblica.it/2006/07/sezioni/cronaca/arresto-guttadauro/arresto-guttadauro/arresto-guttadauro.html Mafia, arrestato il boss Guttadauro], La Repubblica, July 18, 2006</ref>]] '''ALEX IS AMAZING NIGGER Giuseppe Guttadauro''' (born August 18, 1948 in [[Bagheria]], [[Province of Palermo|Palermo province]] of [[Italy]]) is an [[Italy|Italian]] [[Mafia]] boss and a high profile surgeon from the Rocella neighbourhood in [[Palermo]].<ref>{{it icon}} [http://www.bernardoprovenzano.net/download/bruscaud.doc Deposizione del collaboratore Giovanni Brusca], Tribunale di Palermo, December 12, 2000</ref> Born in [[Bagheria]], he became the regent of the [[Brancaccio]] [[mandamento]] after the arrest and subsequent incarceration of the Mafia bosses [[Giuseppe Graviano]] and [[Filippo Graviano]] in 1994. Guttadauro was arrested in November 2002. His wife Gisella Greco and son were arrested on December 6, 2002 in a vast operation against the Mafia (Operation Ghiaccio), in which Guttadauro received another arrest warrant. His wife and son allegedly continued to run illicit business in his absence and acted as a conduit for his messages to other Mafia bosses on the outside.<ref name=sic061202>{{it icon}} [http://www.lasicilia.it/articoli.nsf/(LaSiciliait)/A8ACD0E40B874DECC1256C87002D1755 Mafia, 44 arresti a Palermo], La Sicilia, December 6, 2002</ref><ref name=abc071202>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200212/s742680.htm Italian police arrest dozens in anti-Mafia swoop], ABC News, December 7, 2002</ref> Police had [[Covert listening device|bugged]] Guttadauro’s apartment and he was overheard discussing political appointments with the city's public health councillor [[Domenico Miceli]], himself a doctor. (Miceli was sentenced to eight years for mafia association in December 2006)<ref name=gua010107>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1980922,00.html Patients die as Sicilian mafia buys into the hospital service], The Guardian, January 1, 2007</ref> Guttadauro learned that his home was being "bugged" from another doctor. The colleague alleged that he, in turn, had been tipped off by the President of the Sicilian region [[Salvatore Cuffaro]].<ref name=gua030904/> Before Guttadauro discovered the eavesdropping, he was recorded apparently describing how the Mafia had funded Cuffaro's 2001 election campaign. According to a transcript, he told his brother-in-law that Cuffaro was handed packages of cash "in the least elegant, but most tangible way possible".<ref name=gua030904>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1296495,00.html Sicilian governor on mafia charge], The Guardian, September 3, 2004</ref> The inquiry set up to trace the origin of leaks during an investigation into Guttadauro led to the questioning of Cuffaro by the Palermo prosecuting office,<ref name=ind280603>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/berlusconis-ally-in-sicily-investigated-for-mafia-links-542115.html Berlusconi's ally in Sicily investigated for Mafia links], ''The Independent'', June 28, 2003</ref> and in September 2004 to an indictment charging Cuffaro with aiding and abetting the Mafia.<ref name=gua030904/> Cuffaro refused to resign when sent for trial, saying he would only do so if convicted. In the meantime he was re-elected as President in [[Sicilian regional election, 2006|2006 regional election]] defeating [[Rita Borsellino]], the sister of the late judge [[Paolo Borsellino]], killed by the Mafia in 1992.<ref>[http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article621781.ece Sicily elects governor linked with Mafia], The Independent, May 30, 2006</ref> On October 15, 2007, the prosecution requested eight years' imprisonment for Cuffaro for passing confidential information to the so-called moles in the Palermo Antimafia directorate.<ref name=cds151007>{{it icon}} [http://www.corriere.it/cronache/07_ottobre_15/cuffaro_mafia.shtml Mafia, chiesti otto anni per Cuffaro], Corriere della Sera, October 15, 2007</ref> Cuffaro was sentenced to seven years in prison for favouring the [[Mafia]].<ref name=rep230110>{{it icon}} [http://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2010/01/23/news/cuffaro_condannato-2049706/ Talpe Dda, Cuffaro condannato a 7 anni in appello; "L'ex governatore ha favorito Cosa Nostra"], La Repubblica, January 23, 2010</ref><ref name=bbc230111>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12260666 Sicily senator Salvatore Cuffaro jailed in mafia case], BBC News, January 23, 2011</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{it icon}} [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYLic2Raqa4 Intercettazione ambientale: Boss Guttadauro parla di Cuffaro] from La Mafia è Bianca on YouTube {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Guttadauro, Giuseppe | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = August 18, 1948 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Guttadauro, Giuseppe}} [[Category:1948 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Bagheria]] [[Category:Sicilian Mafiosi]] [[it:Giuseppe Guttadauro]] {{Mafia}}'