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The pizzo (Italian: [ˈpittso]) is protection money paid to the Mafia often in the form of a forced transfer of money resulting from extortion. The term...

refer to Pizzo, Calabria, a seaport in Calabria, Italy Pizzo (mafia), imposed by a protection racket, a fee periodically collected by the Mafia from businesses...

"Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement established in Sicily to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay "pizzo"—Mafia extortion...

to the Mafia than larger firms; sometimes as high as 40% of profits for smaller firms and as low as 2% of profits for larger firms. The pizzo is thus...

July 23, 2002, via West Coast Mafia Records. Production was handled by Pizzo, Bosko, Spade & Crash, Flossy P, Mobetta, Rick Rock, Roger Troutman Jr....

known as Diabolik (from the Italian comic book character), was a Sicilian Mafia boss from Castelvetrano. He was considered to be one of the new leaders...

that 80% of businesses in the city of Palermo pay pizzo, or protection money, to the Sicilian Mafia. In Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, when the Mexican Drug War...

April 2000) was a high ranking Italian mobster and a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He became one of the first of its members to turn informant and explain...

defined in the 1970 U.S. RICO Act, which aimed to curtail the power of the Mafia and other organized crime. Originally and often still specifically, racketeering...

This list of victims of the Sicilian Mafia includes people who have been killed by the Sicilian Mafia while opposing its rule. It does not include people...

subjected to demands to pay "pizzo" or face the consequences. The pizzo – a form of protection racket – is demanded by the Mafia to local businesses and the...

bosses of Palermo, Sicily. Lo Piccolo rose through the ranks of the Palermo mafia throughout the 1980s and he became the capomandamento of the San Lorenzo...

jail for stealing a load of meat from a butcher who had refused to pay the pizzo – protection money. In prison, Tommaso Buscetta took care of the freshly-initiated...

together known as Dual Committee, and AWOL Records label-mate Pizzo. West Coast Mafia Records, C-Bo's own label, reissued The Autopsy in 2003 with bonus...

Palermitan businessman who was killed by the Mafia after refusing to pay extortion money, known as "pizzo". Francesco Madonia was involved in the failed...

being both actors' first film roles. The script was written by Angelo Pizzo, who created Hoosiers (1986), which was also directed by Anspaugh. In the...

extorting local shopkeepers Mafia bosses increased their legitimacy among the locals. "Don Peppino did not want his men to extort a pizzo from the shopkeepers...

should pay the pizzo and take "protection" from mafiosi, but he refused. Although his company was only a very small one, the local Mafia decides to make...

Albums. The album features guest performances by Outlawz, Baby Bash, Laroo, Pizzo and Marvaless. allmusic ((( Money to Burn > Charts & Awards > Billboard...