Among the arrested by the Dia of Palermo in the investigation that brought the boss Gaetano Scotto to prison there is also Giuseppe Costa, 53 years old, brother of Rosaria, the widow of Vito Schifani, one of the three policemen who died in the massacre of Capaci with the magistrate Giovanni Falcone and his wife Francesca Morvillo, 23 May '92.
Giuseppe Costa is accused of mafia association: he would be affiliated with the Virgin Mary family. On behalf of the gang, he would have kept the cash, managed the extortions, "convinced" with threats the victims - entrepreneurs and traders - to pay the mafia "tax", assured the families of the mafia detainees the sustenance. Restaurants, shops, car dealerships, businesses: everyone paid in the neighborhood and Costa would have been among the collectors of lace. The investigators describe him as fully inserted in the mafia dynamics of the "family", so much so that, on the release of the boss of the area, Gaetano Scotto, out of respect for the godfather, he invites his victims to give the money directly to him. The investigation also photographs the top role that Scotto had regained in the clan. Already accused of mafia, the boss is now a civil party in the process of sidetracking the investigation into the massacre in via D'Amelio, which cost the life of judge Paolo Borsellino. Unjustly accused by false repentants he was sentenced to life imprisonment and then released from prison. Today he sits as a victim in front of the three policemen accused of having sidetracked the investigation. Today's blitz also involved his brother Pietro, a technician from a telephone company, who was also accused in the investigation into the killing of Paolo Borsellino. For the police, she had picked up the call with which the magistrate informed her mother that she was going to visit her in her home in via D'Amelio in front of which the car bomb was placed. Pietro Scotto, sentenced at first instance, was later acquitted on appeal.
