Giuseppe Graviano

Giuseppe Graviano (30 September 1963) is an Italian mafioso from the Brancaccio quarter in Palermo. He also was one of the men of the death squad that murdered Salvatore Contorno's relatives. He is currently serving several life sentences. He and his three siblings became members of the Sicilian Mafia Commission for the Brancaccio-Ciaculli mandamento, substituting Giuseppe Lucchese who was in prison. Quotes Berlusca mi ha chiesto questa cortesia... per questo è stata l'urgenza... Berlusconi asked me for this favour... that's why it was so urgent... Quoted here. Lo dicono tutti che frequentavo Berlusconi... Più che io era mio cugino che lo frequentavaLo dicono tutti che frequentavo Berlusconi... Più che io era mio cugino che lo frequentava. Everyone says I used to hang out with Berlusconi... It was actually my cousin who used to hang out with him more than I did. Everyone says I used to hang out with Berlusconi... It was actually my cousin who used to hang out with him more than I did. Quoted here. [Al camorrista Umberto Adinolfi, il compagno d’ora d’aria in prigione] Noi eravamo a testimoniare nel processo di Dell’Utri nel 2009. Perché si preoccupava. Dice: se questo parla a me mi arrestano subito. Umbè, ha fatto tutte cose così. Ora a me non mi interessa più niente. [To Camorra member Umberto Adinolfi, my cellmate during prison exercise time] We were testifying at the Dell’Utri trial in 2009. He was worried. He said: "If this bloke talks to me, they'll arrest me straight away." Well, he’s done all sorts of things like that. Now I don’t care about anything anymore. Quoted [>https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/06/09/graviano-intercettato-adesso-firenze-e-caltanissetta-valutano-se-riaprire-le-indagini-su-berlusconi-per-le-stragi/3648680/ here]. Nel dicembre 1993, mentre ero latitante, incontrai Berlusconi a Milano. Berlusconi sapeva come mi chiamavo. E sapeva che ero latitante da dieci anni. Alla riunione ha partecipato anche mio cugino Salvo e con Berlusconi c'erano persone che non conoscevo. Dovevamo discutere dell'ingresso di alcuni soci nelle società immobiliari di Berlusconi. In December 1993, whilst I was on the run, I met Berlusconi in Milan. Berlusconi knew my name. And he knew I had been on the run for ten years. My cousin Salvo was also present at the meeting, and there were people with Berlusconi whom I did not know. We were there to discuss the admission of certain partners into Berlusconi’s property companies. Quoted here. [Parlando al procuratore aggiunto Giuseppe Lombardo] Negli anni '70 mio nonno aveva messo i soldi nell’edilizia al nord. Il contatto è col signor Berlusconi, glielo dico subito. [Speaking to Deputy Prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo] In the 1970s, my grandfather invested money in the construction industry in the north. The contact is Mr Berlusconi, I’ll tell you that straight away. Quoted here. Quotes about No one has shown us this conversation. If it existed, we would need to listen to it to verify Graviano’s actual words. In any case, he knew he was being recorded and may have been misleading us. I am not aware of any meeting between Berlusconi and Graviano or anyone directly or indirectly linked to him. Let alone with one of his well-known cousins. Niccolò Ghedini, quoted here. I told Graviano that we were taking on a few deaths that weren’t ours, but he told me it was good that we were taking these deaths on, so that "those who need to move will get a move on". Gaspare Spatuzza, quoted here. Even someone like Graviano has the chance, through active repentance, to reveal the truth. If only to give a better future to that child he fathered within the prison walls, and to help him escape the spiral of violence and bloodshed in which Cosa Nostra often entangles the children of mafiosi. Pietro Grasso, quoted in Paola Pintus, Le intercettazioni del boss e i misteri delle stragi del '93. Grasso: "Graviano dica la verità. Porto sempre con me l'accendino di Falcone", notizie.tiscali.it, 12 June 2017. After 26 uninterrupted years in prison, Mr Graviano has suddenly made statements clearly aimed at securing procedural or prison benefits by inventing meetings, figures and episodes that are implausible and untrue. One can, among other things, perfectly understand the deep animosity towards President Berlusconi for all the laws enacted by his governments specifically against the Mafia. Obviously, all appropriate legal action will be taken before the judicial authorities. Niccolò Ghedini, quoted here. External links Graviano, Giuseppe Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:Organized crime figures Category:People from Palermo