1. Giuseppe Graviano was one of the men of the death squad that murdered Salvatore Contorno's relatives.
16 Facts About Giuseppe Graviano
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The Giuseppe Graviano brothers, including the eldest one Benedetto Giuseppe Graviano, were seen as the organizers of the operation, in particular, to select the men who would carry out the bombings.
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Giuseppe and Filippo Graviano each received a life sentence for the bombings.
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Giuseppe and Filippo Graviano ordered the murder of the Antimafia priest Pino Puglisi on 15 September 1993.
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Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano were arrested in Milan on 27 January 1994, and have been in prison since.
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Giuseppe Graviano reportedly followed the Milan stock market on teletext and was an avid reader of the financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore.
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Giuseppe Graviano was laundering some of the money abroad through a financial consultancy in Luxembourg.
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Nunzia Giuseppe Graviano was arrested in July 1999 in Nice.
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The third brother Benedetto Giuseppe Graviano, who has served a five-year sentence for Mafia conspiracy, has been arrested in July 2004 for cocaine trafficking.
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Giuseppe Graviano allegedly financed 18 kilograms of cocaine in a joint venture with a 'Ndrangheta clan.
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Giuseppe Graviano recently gained an academic degree in mathematics and his brother Filippo in economics.
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Spatuzza testified that Giuseppe Graviano had told him in 1994 that future prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was bargaining with the Mafia, concerning a political-electoral agreement between Cosa Nostra and Berlusconi's party Forza Italia.
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Spatuzza said Giuseppe Graviano disclosed the information to him during a conversation in a bar Giuseppe Graviano owned in the upscale Via Veneto district of the Italian capital Rome.
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On 11 December 2009, Filippo Giuseppe Graviano denied the assertions of Spatuzza before the court of Palermo.
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Giuseppe Graviano said that he never had met Dell'Utri directly or indirectly.
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In 2012, Giuseppe Graviano was one of five that were sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo.