Salvatore Cuffaro

Quick Facts

Full Name	Salvatore Cuffaro
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Feb 21, 1958(1958-02-21)
Age	66
Birthplace	Raffadali
Country	Italy
Birth City	Sicily
Horoscope	Aquarius

Salvatore Cuffaro Biography

Salvatore Cuffaro is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on February 21, 1958 in Raffadali, Sicily, Italy. Salvatore “Toto” Cuffaro (born 21 February 1958 in Raffadali, Agrigento) is an indictment criminal, previously an Italian politician, and the former president of Sicily who was sentenced to nearly five years in jail for his involvement in Cosa Nostra. The nickname he has earned him is “Vasa Vasa” (Sicilian for Kiss Kiss) for his habit of kissing all and every one of them – he says that he’s kissed more than more than a quarter of people living on the island.

Cuffaro and Cuffaro as well as the Italian Minister for Justice, Clemente Mastella were implicated in a scandal when it was discovered that they were the top people of Francesco Campanella, a former Mafia member and town councilor for Villabate who aided his chief Bernardo Provenzano during his absconding. In 2001, Campanella employed his official post to provide Cosa Nostra’s most prestigious “godfather” with an identity card, allowing him to travel abroad to receive medical treatments. In July 2000, Mastella and Cuffaro were guests at the wedding of Campanella.

On 26 June 2003, it was revealed that Cuffaro was being investigated for Mafia-related crimes, after Domenico Miceli, a fellow UDC politician, was arrested for allegedly acting as a link between a Mafia chief and top Sicilian politicians, including Cuffaro. A few months later he was committed for trial. Despite all this, Cuffaro stood for the 2004 European Parliament election. Later that year, Cuffaro was appointed national vice-secretary of UDC, the party headed by Pier Ferdinando Casini. Until 2008 he was also President of COPPEM.

In the year 2005 he was the object of media attention thanks to the television reportage La Mafia è Bianca (The Mafia is White) by investigative journalists Stefano Maria Bianchi and Alberto Nerazzini, which aimed to expose rife corruption in the Sicilian Health service and shows a clip of police film footage of Cuffaro meeting with a known mafioso. Cuffaro tried unsuccessfully to prevent the publishers from broadcasting their reportage on the grounds of its allegedly “defamatory” contents but in January 2006 the Civil Court in Bergamo rejected his request, stating that both text and video, including the audio commentary by the journalists, were not defamatory. Following later investigations and trial Cuffaro has been jailed for seven years after losing a final appeal against a mafia conviction and being banned for life from holding public office.

Cuffaro’s charges were uncovered during an investigation designed to find leaks in an investigation of a doctor from the local area, Giuseppe Guttadauro, accused of being the Cosa Nostra boss in its Palermo stronghold Brancaccio. Guttadauro was informed that his home had been “bugged” from another doctor. The doctor’s colleague claimed that he was, in turn, been informed by Cuffaro. Guttadauro was recorded as describing how the Mafia had financed Cuffaro’s election campaign in 2001. According to the transcript, he said that Cuffaro was given cash in a variety of packages “in the least elegant, but most tangible way possible”.

Salvatore Cuffaro Net Worth

Salvatore Cuffaro is one of the richest Politician from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Salvatore Cuffaro 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His political career started under the guidance of the former Minister Calogero Mannino, who in the past was accused of having connections to the Mafia. After the fall of the DC and the rise of the UDC, he was a part of the ex-DC splinter political parties, before joining the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC). The first time he was recognized nationally was in the fall of 1991 when he stood up for his patronage of the political party Mannino who was who was accused of having been the witness in the wedding of a Mafia member, broadcast live on TV in a broadcast that merged The Maurizio Costanzo’s show as well as Michele Santoro’s Samarcanda and claiming of being involved in Mafia journalism. Then, Mannino was absolved. For a long time, we were wrongly stated that “In in the presence of Antimafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone he (Cuffaro) was accused by the Sicilian prosecutor of manipulating witnesses from the state (pentiti). Then, in October 2009 Cuffaro denied as a result of “defamation as well as threats” the 5000 and over YouTube users who posted comments on the show’s video show. However, as of the ruling number 1742 of 2013 Cuffaro has been able to claim compensation. Civil Court of Palermo has granted compensation to Cuffaro in the name of Antonio Di Pietro, who has linked to its website this video featuring Cuffaro in Samarcanda with the caption “Costanzo program: Toto Cuffaro attacks Giovanni Falcone. “In its ruling, the Court determined there was no evidence that “there is no evidence of a direct attack from Cuffaro against Prosecutor Falcone,” and also that Cuffaro himself did not have any evidence of having criticised an investigation that was dismissed as unfounded days after. In any event the prosecutor whom Cuffaro had criticized Cuffaro was a different one but not Falcone.

A doctor and surgical studies at the University of Palermo, with the specialization of the field of radiology Cuffaro has been disqualified from medical privileges due to humiliation. He became a member of in the Christian Democrat (DC) party during his time at university. After serving as a City Councillor in the city he grew up in, Raffadali in addition to Palermo, Cuffaro was first elected a Member of the Sicilian Regional Assembly in 1991 In 1996, he was elected as the Regional Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.

In 2001, after having joined the UDC, Cuffaro was endorsed by the House of Freedoms as presidential candidate for Sicily. He won the election, with 59.1% of the vote, defeating Leoluca Orlando. Cuffaro was elected as part of Silvio Berlusconi’s sensational clean sweep of the island, when his coalition won all 61 of its parliamentary seats.

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While Cuffaro was undergoing his appeals trial, the Union of the Centre nominated him in the 2008 general election and he was re-elected senator. On 23 January 2010 the Palermo Appeals Court confirmed his two previous convictions and added the aggravation of favoring the Mafia, sentencing him to seven years in prison. He subsequently announced his intention to appeal the sentence before the Supreme Court and to resign from all party offices.

Facts & Trivia

Salvatore Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Salvatore Cuffaro celebrates birthday on February 21 of every year.

He served his sentence and was released on December 13, 2015.