20 Facts About Enrico Alfano

Enrico Alfano was accused of being the man behind the murder of rival Camorra boss Gennaro Cuocolo and his wife.

Enrico Alfano was sentenced to 30 years in prison in July 1912, and despite the fact that the legitimacy of the trial was seriously questioned when the main witness for the prosecution retracted, he was only released in 1934 after having served 27 years.

The son of a shoemaker, Enrico Alfano began as a fruit merchant in Naples and speculating on the cattle fairs.

Two of the twelve districts, Vicaria and Mercato, decided that his alternate, the young Enrico Alfano, would assume effective powers.

Enrico Alfano, freed from the care of governance, devoted himself exclusively to his lucrative trade: usury.

Enrico Alfano lived the good life and dressed very elegantly in Poole suits from London and Boivin shirts from Paris.

Enrico Alfano followed his rich clientele to the casinos in Nice, Montecarlo and Aix-les-Baines in the spring.

In 1902, the famous French vaudeville singer and dancer, and the vedette of the Folies Bergere, Eugenie Fougere, who was performing at the Salone Margherita a cafe-chantant in Naples, contacted Enrico Alfano to get back her stolen jewelry.

Together with his right-hand men, the priest Ciro Vitozzi and his associate Giovanni Rapi, Enrico Alfano was said to be the man behind the election in 1904 of the Count Vincenzo Ravaschieri Foschi to parliament to the detriment of the incumbent socialist deputy Ettore Ciccotti.

Enrico Alfano was charged with the murder of Gennaro Cuocolo and his wife, suspected of being police spies, on 6 June 1906.

Meanwhile, after his release, Enrico Alfano left Naples and went from village to village to elude arrest.

Enrico Alfano fled to Rome, obtained a false passport and sailed for the United States from Marseilles, France.

Enrico Alfano disembarked on 17 March 1907, in New York disguised as a member of the ship's crew, posing as a stoker.

Enrico Alfano became one of the primary underworld targets of police sergeant Joseph Petrosino of the New York City Police Department, who believed Alfano to be a big player in the New York branch of the Camorra.

On 17 April 1907, Petrosino and his agents raided the apartment at 108 Mulberry Street where Enrico Alfano was living and arrested him.

Enrico Alfano had been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude in Italy and was turned over to the Federal authorities.

Back in Italy, Enrico Alfano stood trial at Viterbo for the Cuocolo murders.

Enrico Alfano testified in 21 hearings and his testimony filled 285 pages.

Enrico Alfano accused the police, politicians and even the judiciary of being involved with the Camorra.

Enrico Alfano was granted a conditional release for good behaviour on 16 October 1934, after serving 27 years of his sentence.