Origins
In the 1960s and 1970s a number of high-ranking members of the Sicilian Mafia were sent in solitary confinement in various provincial towns in the Veneto, mostly around the cities of Vicenza, Padua and Venice, in an attempt to isolate powerful sicilian ringleaders from other members in the Mafia. The most notable Sicilian mafiosi included: Salvatore Contorno, Gaetano Fidanzati, Antonino Duca and Gaetano and Salvatore Badalamenti, and Giuseppe Madonia. Veneti malavitosi, or underworld figures and bandits from the Veneto, learned from these Sicilians the necessary means for organising themselves and taking the reins of control from the successive two decades. What started as a small gang of criminals controlling racketeering along the Riviera del Brenta between Padua and Venice, became an international syndicate under the "boss" Felice Maniero.
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