User:DonCalo/sandbox co
Appearance
Founded | Late 19th century |
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Named after | Greco family |
Years active | Decline in the 1990s |
Territory | Ciaculli and Croceverde Giardini, two south-eastern outskirts of Palermo |
Ethnicity | Sicilian |
Activities | Palermo wholesale market racket (1950s); cigarette smuggling and heroin trafficking; money laundering |
Allies | Uneasy alliance with the Corleonesi (Second Mafia War 1981-1983) |
Rivals | Acquasanta Mafia clan (Palermo wholesale market war in the mid 1950s); La Barbera brothers (First Mafia War in the early 1960s) |
Notable members | Giuseppe Greco, aka "Piddu u tinenti" (Piddu the lieutenant) Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco Salvatore "The Engineer" Greco Michele Greco also known as The Pope Salvatore "The Senator" Greco |