four years for extorting from Paris businessmen in the early 1990s, in Marseille. June 19 – Frank D. Frassetto admitted in federal court to conspiring with his son Phillip M. Frassetto to distribute a kilogram of cocaine. June 19 – Italian MP Gaspare Giudice charged with mafia association. June 20 – Italian authorities issued 52 arrest warrants against the top echelon of Cosa Nostra in the city of Palermo (Operation Gotha). Study of the pizzini showed that Provenzano’s joint deputies in Palermo were Salvatore Lo Piccolo and Antonio Rotolo, capo mandamento of Pagliarelli. In a message referring to an important decision for Cosa Nostra, Provenzano told Rotolo: "It's up to you, me and Lo Piccolo to decide this thing." The investigations showed that Rotolo had built a kind of federation within the mafia, comprising 13 families grouped in four clans. His right-hand men were Antonio Cinà—who used to be the personal physician of Salvatore Riina and Provenzano – and the builder Francesco Bonura. The city of Palermo was ruled by this triumvirate replacing the Commission whose members are all in jail. August August 10 – Several bones discovered by a farmer, in a property close to the hideout of Sicilian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, in Corleone. The property was dubbed a "mafia graveyard" after two jawbones, vertebrae, a breast bone with bullets wounds and two skulls with shotgun wounds are found buried in the soil. "The area has been impounded and a search of the field is taking place and will continue for the next few days. The suspicion is that further bodies will be discovered." said Corleone prosecutor Alberto Di Pisa. August 10 – The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld the reduced sentence handed down to Massachusetts mafia captain Vincent M. Ferrara by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 2005. August 11 – Anti-mafia investigations on Union of Christian Democrats representative member Onofrio Fratello concluded with a one and a half prison sentence. August 17 – The reputed head of the Montreal Cosa Nostra, Vito Rizzuto, was extradited to the US to face murder and racketeering charges related to the 1981 murder of 3 Bonanno crime family captains; Dominick Trinchera, Philip Giaccone and Alphonse Indelicato. September September - 18-year-old Salvatore Montani, a relative of jailed Bari/Apulia crime boss Andrea Montani, was killed in a gangland slaying. September 4 –