Mario Prestifilippo

Mario Prestifilippo (c. 1958 – September 29, 1987) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia.

He was briefly the boss of the Ciaculli Mafia Family after Giuseppe Greco was murdered in 1985. He played a significant role in the Second Mafia War of the early 1980s orchestrated by Salvatore Riina. He was supposedly under the orders of Michele Greco but Greco was himself regarded as little more than a puppet of Riina.

Prestifilippo was shot to death as he sped through the streets of Bagheria on September 29, 1987 on a motorbike, moving from one hiding place to another.^[1] He was killed because he protested the execution of Pino Greco, who was a close friend of his. At the time of his death he was a fugitive, suspected of dozens of murders, and was being tried in absentia at the Maxi Trial.

References

↑ Stille, Excellent Cadavers, p. 200-01

Stille, Alexander (1995), Excellent Cadavers. The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, Vintage ISBN 0-09-959491-9

Cosa Nostra

Chain of command	Commission (Cupola) Family (Cosca) Boss (Capofamiglia) Underboss (Sottocapo) Consigliere (Consigliori) Caporegime (Capodecina) Soldier (Soldato) Associate

Codes and terms	Made man Mandamento Omertà Faida Pizzo Pizzino

Clans	Corleonesi Greco Motisi Inzerillo Cuntrera-Caruana

Members	List of Sicilian mafiosi List of Sicilian mafiosi by city

Meetings	Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957

Wars	First Mafia War (1961–1963) Second Mafia War (1981–1983)

Massacres	Portella della Ginestra massacre (1947) Ciaculli massacre (1963) Viale Lazio massacre (1969) Via Pipitone Federico Massacre (1983) Train 904 bombing (1984) Pizzolungo bombing (1985) Capaci massacre (1992) Via D'Amelio massacre (1992) Via dei Georgofili massacre (1993)

Antimafia	Italian Antimafia Commission (members) Addiopizzo Pentito List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia

Trials	1960s Sicilian Mafia trials Maxi Trial (1980s) Pizza Connection Trial (1985–1986)

Organized crime in Italy Mafia bibliography

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