to North-Eastern Italy controlled by one of the organisations top members, the infamous Silvano Maritan, head of the San Donà di Piave cartel, already one of the head figures in the "old" mala del Brenta. After exiting prison in 2001, he took control of the drug trade in eastern Veneto, supplying cocaine in a number of discos all along the Venetian coastal resorts. In May 2008, Italian investigators uncovered a plan to free bosses Lucio Calabresi and Mariano Magro from their prison in Vicenza. The man who intended to do this was Raffaele Vassallo, the plan was to subsequently murder a judge, two police captains, turncoat Stefano Galletto and his family and finally Felice Maniero in a series of terrorist attacks to be carried out with explosives and rocket launchers. A warehouse full of armaments was found in Padua's industrial area, and the would-be ideators of the plan were arrested. In November 2008, the Carabinieri busted an unusual criminal joint-venture made of former Far Right and Far Left terrorists, associates of the old Milan organized crime and Nuova Mala associates, above all Fiorenzo Trincanato, once one of Felice Maniero's enforcers. This group is believed to be involved with drug trafficking in the Northern Italy, controlling cocaine trade from Veneto to Liguria. Notes References Dianese, Maurizio © 1995 Il bandito Felice Maniero, il Cardo editore Venice. Maniero, Felice © (with Pasqualetto, Andrea ©) Una vita criminale, Marsilio Editore. Zornetta, Monica & Guerretta, Danilo © 2006 A casa nostra: Cinquant'anni di mafia e criminalità in Veneto Edito da Baldini Castoldi Dalai, Felice Maniero, Italian Wiki article Mala del Brenta, Italian Wiki article La Nuova Mala del Brenta Blitz against the "Nuova Mala del Brenta" (Corriere della Sera - Jan. 2006) Articolo 416 bis-c.p.: Mafia e associazione, una realtà https://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/10/10/x-factor-hopeful-nicolo-festa-in-link-to-mafia-boss-115875-22622726/ 1970s establishments in Italy Organised crime groups in Italy Secret societies related to organized crime