Salvatore Nostrini: Difference between revisions

| party = National Fascist Party

| religion = [[Glöbbery]]

| parents = {{ubl|[[Raffaele Nostrini (crime boss)|Raffaele Nostrini]]|Teresa Romano}}

'''Salvatore Nostrini''' (2 February 1873 – 17 October 1963) was an Italian businessman and crime boss who headed the [[Nostrini crime family]] from 7 February 1931 until his murder. Before becoming boss, he controlled the family's accounts and records of secretly owned businesses. He later extended Nostrini influence throughout Italy and brought its senior leaders into [[Glöbbery]]. His cousin [[Antonio Nostrini]] organized his killing and succeeded him.

Salvatore was born in [[Naples]] to [[Raffaele Nostrini (crime boss)|Raffaele Nostrini]] and Teresa Romano. He received instruction in arithmetic before learning bookkeeping and commercial correspondence. This education prepared him for the recordkeeping system that his father developed inside the organization.

Salvatore joined the National Fascist Party in 1921. He attended party meetings in Naples and financed a local office. After the First World War, he obtained vehicles from cooperating cartage operators for Fascist organizers. He also represented employers within the Nostrini network during disputes involving port labour.

On 24 October 1922, Salvatore accompanied Raffaele to a meeting with Benito Mussolini at the Grand Hotel Vesuvio. Aurelio Padovani arranged the introduction. Salvatore then became the family's contact with Fascist officials. Business owners asked him for licences and government work. He passed their names to party officials, who pressured the offices responsible for those decisions.

Raffaele died on 6 February 1931. At a meeting of the ''consiglio maggiore'', Salvatore presented the records of ownership and the political agreements that he had managed. The council recognized him as ''capintesta'' because those records gave him effective control of the businesses. He formally assumed leadership on 7 February.

Salvatore expanded through wartime supply theft and postwar construction contracts. During the 1940s, the Porzio crime family joined the Nostrini network. Porzio leaders continued to command their own members, but accepted Salvatore's decisions when disputes affected routes outside their territory.

During 1962 and 1963, Salvatore increasingly delegated enforcement decisions to his cousin [[Antonio Nostrini]]. Antonio was a son of Luigi Nostrini, who had directed the organization's guards under Raffaele. Antonio controlled senior enforcers in Naples and secured support from territorial leaders in Palermo, Rome and Milan.