Editing Mafia (section)

===[[Second Mafia War]]===
In the early 1970s, [[Luciano Leggio]], boss of the [[Corleone clan]] and member of the [[Sicilian Mafia Commission]], forged a coalition of mafia clans known as the Corleonesi, with himself as its leader. He initiated a campaign to dominate ''Cosa Nostra'' and its narcotics trade. Because Leggio was imprisoned in 1974, he acted through his deputy, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Riina Salvatore Riina], to whom he would eventually hand over control. The Corleonesi bribed cash-strapped [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo Palermo] clans into the fold, subverted members of other clans and secretly recruited new members.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DickieCosaNostra369-370_70-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-DickieCosaNostra369-370-70 [70]]</sup> In 1977, the Corleonesi had [[Gaetano Badalamenti]] expelled from the Commission on trumped-up charges of hiding drug revenues.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DickieCosaNostra371_71-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-DickieCosaNostra371-71 [71]]</sup> In April 1981, the Corleonesi murdered another rival member of the Commission, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Bontade Stefano Bontade], and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Mafia_War Second Mafia War] began in earnest.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DickieCosaNostra373_72-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-DickieCosaNostra373-72 [72]]</sup> Hundreds of enemy mafiosi and their relatives were murdered,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-73">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-73 [73]]</sup> sometimes by traitors in their own clans. By manipulating the Mafia's rules and eliminating rivals, the Corleonesi came to completely dominate the Commission. Riina used his power over the Commission to replace the bosses of certain clans with hand-picked regents.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-74">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-74 [74]]</sup> In the end, the Corleonesi faction won and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Riina Riina] effectively became the "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia.

At the same time the Corleonesi waged their campaign to dominate ''Cosa Nostra'', they also waged a campaign of murder against journalists, officials and policemen who dared cross them. The police were frustrated with the lack of help they were receiving from witnesses and politicians. At the funeral of a policeman murdered by mafiosi in 1985, policemen insulted and spat at two attending politicians, and a fight broke out between them and military police.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DickieCosaNostra389-390_75-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-DickieCosaNostra389-390-75 [75]]</sup>