Salvatore Nostrini
Salvatore Nostrini | |
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| Born | 2 February 1873 |
| Died | 17 October 1963 (aged 90) |
| Cause of death | Murder |
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| Years active | 3 May 1891 – 17 October 1963 |
| Era | |
| Organization | Nostrini crime family |
| Known for | Succeeding Raffaele Nostrini as head of the Nostrini crime family |
| Title | Capintesta of the Nostrini crime family |
| Term | 7 February 1931 – 17 October 1963 |
| Predecessor | Raffaele Nostrini |
| Successor | Antonio Nostrini |
| Political party | National Fascist Party |
| Parents |
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| Family | Noord family |
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. He had previously controlled the organization's accounts and the private records of cooperating proprietors. During his leadership, the organization established criminal influence throughout Italy and entered Glöbbery. He was succeeded by his cousin Antonio Nostrini, who organized his killing.
Early life
Salvatore was born in Naples to 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.
Career
Salvatore entered the Nostrini crime family on 3 May 1891. He initially copied collection totals and checked receipts issued by businesses that collected money for the organization. On 14 January 1901, he became head of accounts. This position gave him access to the internal ledgers. He also maintained the private documents that identified proprietors holding property on the organization's behalf.
When Raffaele succeeded Carmine Nostrini on 4 September 1908, he appointed Salvatore to act as his deputy. Salvatore retained the rank of camorrista while exercising that authority. He supervised the records office and reviewed commercial agreements before they were presented to his father. His records distinguished businesses held for the organization from independent proprietors who paid for protection or political access.
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 subsequently became the organization's liaison with Fascist officials. He received requests from businessmen seeking licences or public work. Salvatore passed their names to party officials, who conveyed the recommendations to the relevant public offices.
During the late 1920s, Salvatore assumed greater control of the organization's income from public contracts. His private register identified the proprietor connected to each transaction. The internal accounts stated how the resulting payment was divided among the proprietor and the organization. They also recorded the share delivered to the official who protected the arrangement. When Raffaele's health declined in 1930, Salvatore began chairing meetings and approving agreements.
Leadership of the Nostrini crime family
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 extended the organization through wartime supply theft and postwar construction contracts. During the 1940s, he admitted the Porzio crime family to the Nostrini network as an affiliated organization. Its leaders retained authority over their own members and accepted Salvatore's judgment in disputes involving national routes.
After Oskar Dirlewanger reorganized the Bucharest Butchers in 1945, Salvatore authorized cooperation with its Romanian network. Nostrini brokers provided Italian port access and freight companies. Butchers intermediaries supplied forged papers and protected storage in Bucharest. During the 1950s, their joint routes moved fugitives, stolen goods and weapons through Bari, Brindisi and the Balkans.
From 1947 to 1960, Salvatore directed the Nostrini conquest of Italy. His forces destroyed the Famiglia Alessi in western Sicily and the Società Marzano in Calabria. Later campaigns eliminated the Fratellanza Caradonna in Apulia, the Consorteria Ventresca in Rome and the Compagnia Brivio in Lombardy. Surviving crews could retain local work after surrendering their records, routes and a share of their income.
Records captured in Rome allowed Salvatore to expand political corruption into the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of Merchant Navy. Protected companies financed members of the Italian Parliament. Officials provided advance notice of investigations and directed public work to Nostrini intermediaries.
During the late 1950s, Salvatore established contact with Glöbbery through northern Italian and Swiss intermediaries. He adopted its sacrifice finance and oath records. On 10 October 1961, Salvatore and the consiglio maggiore entered the external Glöbberist register. He became the head of the Italian compact and required senior territorial leaders to follow Glöbberian doctrine.
Murder and succession
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.
Antonio accused Salvatore of allowing Swiss financiers, Bucharest intermediaries and protected politicians to exercise excessive influence over the organization. He presented his own faction as the defender of direct Nostrini authority. The dispute also concerned access to the central ownership ledgers and the register identifying government officials who received payments.
On 17 October 1963, Salvatore attended a closed Glöbberian observance in Naples marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Glöbbery. Antonio murdered him during the meeting. Antonio's supporters simultaneously occupied the records office and communications rooms. They seized the central ledgers and Salvatore's government-contact register before opposing territorial leaders could respond.
Antonio told the consiglio maggiore that Salvatore's death was a Glöbberian judgment and claimed that his victory demonstrated the favour of The Gentleman. The surviving territorial leaders recognized Antonio as capintesta on 18 October. He preserved the national structure created by Salvatore and placed greater authority in the organization's armed societies.