11 Facts About Salvatore Scaglione

Salvatore Scaglione was a member of the Sicilian Mafia.

Salvatore Scaglione was the boss of the Noce, a neighborhood in central Palermo, since the early 1970s.

Salvatore Scaglione's nickname was "U Pugilista", referring to the fact he was involved in professional boxing in his youth.

Salvatore Scaglione was killed by the Corleonesi on 30 November 1982.

Salvatore Scaglione became boss of the Noce mandamento in the early 1970s, at a time when the Mafia was recuperating from the disastrous end of the First Mafia War and subsequent police crackdown, with the Noce family in particular having been one of the hardest hit by the war.

Salvatore Scaglione was furthermore involved in the booming construction industry in Palermo at the time, which was largely in the hands of the Mafia.

Rather than punishing his daughter and killing Meola's son, Salvatore Scaglione had agreed to a "rehabilitating marriage", thus, according to Riina, compromising his family's honor.

Soon, Salvatore Scaglione was almost completely isolated and became in effect a "general without an army", as most of the up-and-rising members of the Noce family were allied with Riina and the Corleonesi.

One of them, Giuseppe Maniscalco, later became a pentito and revealed that upon understanding he was about to be murdered, Scaglione pleaded for his life and claimed to be innocent, but Riina taunted him by saying, "if I do not kill you and Riccobono, then my name is no longer Salvatore Riina", showcasing just how deep Riina's resentment for his two enemies had been.

Salvatore Scaglione was strangled and like the other four before him, his body was dissolved in a vat of acid just outside the villa.

Salvatore Scaglione was sentenced to 23 years in prison at the Maxi Trial in 1987 even though he was dead by then.