The brother of the widow of a police escort agent who died with anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone in a Cosa Nostra bombing on May 23, 1992, was sentenced to 12 years in jail on Mafia charges on Thursday.
Rosaria Schifani reading the eulogy for her husband. (Photo: ANSA)
Giuseppe Costa, brother of Rosaria, the widow of escort agent Vito Schifani, was found guilty of mafia association.
In the same trial, boss Gaetano Scotto got 20 years and his brother Francesco Paolo 12.
For them too, the charge was mafia association.
Rosaria Schifani famously asked the Mob bosses who killed her husband to kneel and repent their sins at his funeral.
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