from the Corleonesi faction." According to Antonio Ingroia, one of the prosecutors of the Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia (DDA) of Palermo, the main leading figures in Cosa Nostra at the moment, Matteo Messina Denaro, Giovanni Riina, Domenico Raccuglia, Pietro Tagliavia and Nicchi, are still too young to be recognized as leading bosses of the organization. On 21 January 2008, the Palermo Court convicted the fugitive Nicchi and sentenced him to 18 years in prison. Because he was tried under a special short procedure, he received a 1/3 reduction on his sentence. He was indicted on 7 February 2008, in operation Old Bridge against the Gambinos in New York and their connections in Palermo, involved in drug trafficking. Arrest On 5 December 2009, Italian police arrested him in Palermo. He is incarcerated in the special security prison in L'Aquila under the strict Article 41-bis prison regime. In September 2010 he went on a hunger strike for two weeks demanding to see his two children who were born while he was a fugitive. He had not acknowledged the children while he was on the run so officially they are not his. He has started the process to officially acknowledge them. References External links Most wanted list of the Italian ministry of the Interior 1981 births Italian crime bosses Living people Gangsters from Palermo Sicilian mafiosi