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BOSS OF THE PORTA NUOVA MAFIA FAMILY Born and raised in Palermo , the capital of Sicily, he was inducted into the Porta Nuova Mafia Family at the age of twenty-three after carrying out a murder to avenge his father. By 1962 he was the boss of Porta Nuova, and amongst his men was the informant Tommaso Buscetta . Calò was on the Commission, a group of the most powerful Mafia bosses in Sicily who regularly met, supposedly to iron out differences and solve disputes. During the early 1980s he supported Salvatore Riina and the Corleone Family during the Mob War that decimated most of the other Families. In 1984 Calò arranged for the bombing of a train near Naples that killed 16 people and injured around 200 others. It was meant to divert attention from the revelations given by various Mafia informants, including Buscetta. Calò and his men had joined up with Neo-fascist Terrorists to carry out the atrocity. GIUSEPPE CALò'S 1985 ARREST In May 1985 Calò was arrested in Rome after several years as a fugitive. He was one of the hundreds of defendants at the Maxi Trial that started the following year, where he was charged with Mafia association, money laundering and the Naples train bombing. He Cross Examined Tommaso Buscetta himself and the pair, who had previously been lifelong friends, engaged in a vicious round of mud-slinging and insults as they attempted to discredit one another. At the end of the Maxi Trial in 1987 Calò was found guilty and given two Life Sentences . Anfi-Mafia prosecutors and investigators were outraged when it was discovered in 1989 that Calò and a number of other convicted Mafia bosses were living a life of relative luxury in their own section of the prison hospital, being waited on by common criminals and having their food brought in from the outside. Calò was supposedly suffering from Asthma but he showed no symptoms. The anti-Mafia judges forced Calò and his fellow Mafiosi back to their cells. ROBERTO CALVI'S 1982 MURDER In 1997 , Calò was one of a number of Sicilian Mafiosi implicated by Italian prosecutors in the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi , nicknamed "God's banker" because he was in charge of Banco Ambrosiano , in which the Vatican Bank was the main share-holder. Calò and four others, among whom Licio Gelli , headmaster of Propaganda Due ("P2") masonic lodge, were eventually charged with Calvi's murder and their trial began in October 2005 . It is expected to last up to two years. SEE ALSO
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