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Place of Birth: Marina di Gioiosa Ionica, Calabria, Italy
About Rocco Lo Presti
- Rocco Lo Presti or Lopresti (May 6, 1937 – January 23, 2009), known in Marina di Gioiosa Ionica, his town of origin as "Roccu u Maneja", was an Italian crime boss of the Lo Presti 'ndrina, a Mafia-type organization in Calabria, Italy, but his criminal base was Bardonecchia, in Piedmont region.
- Historical 'Ndrangheta boss of Bardonecchia and Val di Susa, was the Godfather of the 'Ndrangheta in Piedmont.
- Bardonecchia is an alpine town in the province of Turin, in Piedmont region, on the border with France and one of the main ski resorts in Italy.
- For judges of Turin, Lo Presti was instead one who imported the phenomenon of 'Ndrangheta, in northern Italy.
- He was the man who, during the building boom years in Piedmont, imposed the rule of labor building throughout Val di Susa.
- Over the years in the 1960s and 1970s, his power in Piedmont, engrossed similar to that of Antonio Macri in Calabria.
- He had the hegemony on the Val di Susa territory, with his cousin Don Ciccio Francesco Mazzaferro.
- During the building boom years before, and the kidnapping-murder Ceretto then, Lo Presti had the absolute power in the building industry and underworld in Piedmont until 1975, when he was sent into internal exile on the island of Asinara.
- In the history of the 'Ndrangheta infiltration in Piedmont, between 1965 and 1975, he was investigated several times.
- Related to the Mazzaferro crime family of Marina di Gioiosa Ionica, of which he was an important exponent, he moved to Piedmont in the late 1950s by the subalpine town.
- He turned reverently many politicians during election campaigns.
- He had ties with the clan of Marseille and with all the major crime families of Calabria and Sicily.
- He entertained friendly relations with Don Mico Domenico Tripodo, when he was in soggiorno obbligato (coerced stay) in Avigliana.
- His presence was frequently reported in Bardonecchia.
- He also had contacts with Don Giovanni Stilo of Africo, the Calabrian priest who was repeatedly accused of collusion with the 'Ndrangheta, on the occasion of the adjustment of the Ceretto trial.
- He had friendly relations and business with the Inzerillo crime family -Gambino -Spatola of Palermo.
- It was through the friendship with Totuccio Salvatore Inzerillo, the mafia boss of Palermo and the Gambino of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, who had stayed for a short period in Bardonecchia in the 1960s, who went to the United States on several occasions to make alliances with their cousins of the Gambino crime family of New York City.
- He also had ties with the families of the 'Ndrangheta in Canada.
- According to an associate justice, he had become an ally to the Aquino family, rivals of Mazzaferro family.
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