 Some returned; however in the 1970s Leonardo Caruana became capo mandamento — after he was expelled from Canada — of the area under the leadership of the Mafia boss of the province Agrigento, Giuseppe Settecasi.The power base of the clan reached into politics.The influential politician Calogero Mannino of the Christian Democrat party (DC — Democrazia Cristiana) was a witness at the marriage of Leonardo Caruana's son Gerlando in 1977 in Siculiana.