Antonio Cottone was known as due to his alleged generosity.
11 Facts About Antonio Cottone
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Antonio Nino Cottone had worked for the Profaci brothers in New York City and was deported back to Sicily.
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Antonio Cottone became the boss of Villabate where the Profaci family originated.
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Antonio Cottone ran the meat supply to Palermo's wholesale market and got his meat from cattle thief Luciano Leggio from Corleone, who he introduced on the Palermo market.
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Antonio Cottone mediated the peace in the violent vendetta within the Greco Mafia clan between the factions of Ciaculli and Croceverde Giardini.
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On 22 August 1956, Nino Antonio Cottone was killed as well.
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Antonio Cottone had just locked the car when he was bowled along the driveway by two streams of machine-gun bullets.
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Antonio Cottone was hit by six bullets and managed to reach his house where he collapsed.
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Antonio Cottone might have been involved in trafficking heroin to the US; Joe Profaci had returned to Villabate in 1947 to visit his former lieutenant.
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Antonio Cottone might have lost his life that year in the battle for the Palermo wholesale market, but Profaci's oranges kept on coming.
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The Brooklyn number rung by Antonio Cottone was the same number rung by Lucky Luciano from Naples and Frank Coppola from Anzio.