Riina. April 6 – NYPD officers, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, were convicted for the murders of 8 men on the orders of mobsters. April 11 – Sicilian mafia boss, Bernardo Provenzano, captured by police outside of Corleone after more than 40 years of hiding. Several mafiosi were mentioned as his successor. Among the rivals were Matteo Messina Denaro (from Castelvetrano and the province of Trapani), Salvatore Lo Piccolo (boss of Tommaso Natale area and the mandamento of San Lorenzo in Palermo), and Domenico Raccuglia from Altofonte. Provenzano allegedly nominated Messina Denaro in one of his pizzini – small slips of paper used to communicate with other mafiosi to avoid phone conversations, found at Provenzano's hide out. April 13 – National Police arrested a Moroccan man Tarifa, Cádiz province, Spain, for alleged links to Cosa Nostra. April 13 – Salvatore Terracciano, head of a leading Camorra clan, arrested with 11 other family members and associates. April 13 – Giuseppe Arena, head of a 'Ndrangheta clan in Catanzaro, Calabria, arrested alongside his "right hand man", Francesco Gentile. April 14 – Five people arrested in Messina, Sicily in further investigations into Sicilian and Calabrese organized crime April 20 – Marco Rodolfo del Vento, financier and alleged front man for Sicilian mafia boss Biagio Crisafulli, arrested in the Balearic Islands. April 24 – Joseph Mastronardo was stopped on his way home from Florida and had $500,000 cash seized from his car and $2 million from his home. May May 3 – Bernardo Provenzano went on trial via a videolink from a high security Italian prison. May 5 – Palermo shopkeepers dubbed 5 May "Pizzo Free Day", a celebration of independence from the Sicilian Mafia's Palermo protection racket. May 11 – Springfield, Massachusetts mobster Frank Depergola pleaded guilty to loansharking. May 12 – Sicilian mafia associate Ottavio Lo Cricchio had assets worth €30 million, including a horse race track, frozen by the Finance Police of Palermo. May 13 – Sicilian mafia associate Vincenzo Piazza had assets worth €17.5 million, including villas in Pozzillo and Cinisi, frozen by the Finance Police of Palermo. May 14 – Anti-mafia magistrate Giuseppe Narducci called for all Italian football "elites" (players, managers, coaches etc.) to help investigations into corruption in the Serie A division. The leading Turin-based Juventus F.C. and Rome-based S.S. Lazio were both under investigation. May 15 – New York-Cleveland mobster Gregory De Palma went on trial