Bernardo Provenzano

✶January 31, 1933

†July 13, 2016

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Bernardo Provenzano was an Italian mobster, capo of the Corleone Mafia family, and of the Corleonesi, an alliance of Mafia families that originated in the town of Corleone, and de facto the boss of bosses. His nickname was Binnu u tratturi because, in the words of one informant, "he mows people down". Another nickname was il ragioniere, due to his apparently subtle and low-key approach to running his crime empire, at least in contrast to some of his more violent predecessors.

Italian mob boss

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Biography from the article Bernardo Provenzano on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.