Francesco Marino Mannoia
- January 10, 2024
- Pentito
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Francesco Marino Mannoia Biography
| Name | Francesco Marino Mannoia |
| Birthday | Mar 5 |
| Birth Year | 1951 |
| Place Of Birth | Palermo |
| Home Town | Sicily |
| Birth Country | Italy |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
Francesco Marino Mannoia is one of the most popular and richest Pentito who was born on March 5, 1951 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Francesco Marino Mannoia (born March 5th 1951) was a former part of the Sicilian Mafia, who was pentito (government witness) in 1989. His name was Mozzarella. Mannoia is believed to be among the most reliable witnesses of the government against Mafia. Antimafia judge Giovanni Falcone, who was the first to question him, identified Marino Mannoia as a shrewd and trustworthy witness.
His involvement was crucial because He was the pentito to emerge from the faction that won the Second Mafia War. He was able to inform authorities on the happenings inside Cosa Nostra throughout the 1980s as well as the fate of Filippo Marchese and Giuseppe Greco. After he started to meet with authorities, Mannoia’s aunt, mother and one of his siblings were killed in their home in Bagheria, in retaliation, which was an usual tactic employed of the Mafia in order to murder relatives of pentiti to dissuade others from the same cooperating with authorities.
Marino Mannoia was disillusioned by the little reward and support he received from the Italian government in relation to the sacrifice he made and family members that had been killed. “I am disappointed, embittered, after everything I have done for the fight against the Mafia since 1989,” he said. He attempted suicide by taking a cocktail of pharmaceuticals in July 2011, but was saved by his wife who got him to the hospital in time.
In the fall of 1989 Marino Mannoia’s mistress contacted the police’s Antimafia unit in Rome, indicating the mafioso was ready to talk. After negotiations over security Marino Mannoia and magistrate Giovanni Falcone started a series of testimonies on October 8, 1989. He followed in the footsteps of Tommaso Buscetta and Salvatore Contorno in becoming an informant. Falcone recalled Marino Mannoia as an intelligent and reliable witness.
Marino Mannoia gave his first account of eyewitnesses linking Andreotti to the Mafia bosses. He told of a high-level conference in the year 1980 with Salvatore Inzerillo and Stefano Bontade who allegedly showed up with Lima in an armored Alfa Romeo belonging to the Salvo cousins. Andreotti was there to protest the murder of the mafia group of Piersanti Mattarella in January of 1980.
Francesco Marino Mannoia Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Pentito |
| House | Living in own house. |
Francesco Marino Mannoia is one of the richest Pentito from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Francesco Marino Mannoia 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Marino Mannoia acknowledged that he had been among the thieves who stole the Nativity along with St. Francis and St. Lawrence the painting by Caravaggio’s Michelangelo Merisi that was never looked at since it was stolen in the year 1969 (the painting was initially believed to be at the disposal of Mafia boss Rosario Riccobono.)
He also testified on his murder trial for journalist Mauro De Mauro. The journalist who was an investigative reporter was abducted and killed by the Mafia during the year 1970. Marino Mannoia was ordered to by Bontade either in 1977 or the year 1978. He was ordered to excavat various bodies, including that of De Mauro . He then dissolved the bodies in acid.
During the Second Mafia War of the early 1980s his boss, Stefano Bontade, was murdered along with hundreds of associates. Mannoia only survived because he was in prison at the time for drug trafficking. He escaped from prison in 1983 with the help of his younger brother, a hitman named Agostino Marino Mannoia. They met with Corleonesi boss Salvatore Riina to establish their position in the dramatically altered landscape of the Sicilian Mafia and were both allowed to live and work under the auspices of the Corleonesi boss. Francesco Marino Mannoia became a major refiner of heroin for the Corleonesi.
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Marino Mannoia disclosed that Roberto Calvi—God’s banker of the Banco Ambrosiano and the Vatican—had been killed by the Mafia because he had lost Cosa Nostra’s criminal proceeds when the Banco Ambrosiano collapsed. According to Mannoia the killer was Francesco Di Carlo, a mafioso living in London at the time, and the order to kill Calvi had come from Mafia boss Giuseppe Calò and Licio Gelli. When Di Carlo became an informer in June 1996, he denied that he was the killer, but admitted that he had been approached by Calò to do the job.
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Francesco Ranked on the list of most popular Pentito. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Francesco Marino Mannoia celebrates birthday on March 5 of every year.