Gaetano Badalamenti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gaetano Badalamenti

Italian criminal

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1923

Place of Birth: Cinisi, Sicily, Italy

Date of Death: 29-Apr-2004

Profession: serial killer, mobster, criminal, dancer

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Gaetano Badalamenti (Italian pronunciation: [gae'ta?no badala'menti]; 14 September 1923 – 29 April 2004) was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia.
Don Tano Badalamenti was the capofamiglia of his hometown Cinisi, Sicily, and headed the Sicilian Mafia Commission in the 1970s.
In 1987, he was sentenced in the United States to 45 years in federal prison for being one of the leaders oin the so-called "Pizza Connection", a $1.65 billion drug-trafficking ring that used pizzerias as fronts to distribute heroin from 1975 to 1984.
He was also later sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002, for the 1978 murder of Peppino Impastato.