Mafia: Angelo Monaco, exponent of the Trigilia clan, sentenced to 13 years

SYRACUSE – The Court of Syracuse sentenced Angelo Monaco to 13 years and 4 months in prison, considered by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate to be the regent of the Trigila di Noto clan. Together with him, his wife, Elisabetta Di Mari, was sentenced to six years; Antonino Rubbino at 8 years old; Giuseppe Lao at 4 years and 2 months. Acquitted Nunziatina Bianca, consort of the boss Antonino «Pinnintula» Trigila.

They were accused in various ways of drug trafficking and extortion. Five of them had been arrested two years ago in the Old Manner investigation: according to the investigators they would have managed a drug trafficking and the other economic source of the gang would have been extortion against companies, in particular a construction worker engaged in work on the Syracuse Gela.