He said the former PM had protected the mob and had links to Cosa Nostra bosses.
More important are the first signs of defiance in Cosa Nostra's home town of Palermo.
One is the power vacuum in Cosa Nostra caused by Mr Lo Piccolo's arrest.
Just to be precise, Mafia, or even Cosa Nostra, should in fact refer only to the Sicilian version.
Police in Sicily have recently dealt a string of devastating blows to the Mafia, called the Cosa Nostra.
The most popular film at present in Palermo is Tano da morire, a derisive musical spoof about Cosa Nostra.
The Cosa Nostra has been trying to get into the renewable energy sector for many years, Italian investigators say.
Experts say the 'Ndrangheta has overtaken the Sicilian Cosa Nostra mafia and become one of the world's biggest criminal organisations.
La Cosa Nostra - roughly translated as "This Thing Of Ours" - has 19th Century roots but its origins are obscure.
The 'ndrangheta, Calabria's home-bred Mafia, widely reckoned more deadly than Sicily's Cosa Nostra, is always clear when it sends a message.
Investigators allege that Vito Nicastri was a front man for the Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, investing illegal earnings in his business empire.
The proceeds from contracts are believed to have been channelled to the fugitive head of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Denaro.
In 2007 Cosa Nostra was found to be running a money-laundering operation from premises cheekily situated opposite the office of the prime minister.
In many ways this research is a confirmation of the description that John Dickie used some years ago in his excellent book, Cosa Nostra.
The mayor of the Sicilian town of Corleone, famous for its connections to the Cosa Nostra mafia, has apologised to victims of the criminal network.
By all appearances, the well-dressed Judas had jurists thinking that only at a criminal enterprise such as Enron or La Cosa Nostra would such behavior be lauded.
But he and other entrepreneurs cannot defeat Cosa Nostra alone.
Under his leadership, Cosa Nostra seems to have withdrawn from its foreign activities to concentrate on crime in Sicily, notably extortion and the creaming-off of profits from public contracts.
Investigators said the businessman from Alcamo, in western Sicily, had ''maintained constant relations with members of Cosa Nostra'' in Sicily, as well as having contacts with the 'Ndrangheta mafia in Calabria, on the Italian mainland.
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