On this day in 1922 the Sicilian mobster Salvatore La Barbera was born. La Barbera had the pleasure of sitting on the first Mafia Commission in Sicily, and with his brother Angelo, lead the Mafia family that governed over Palermo Centro.
He disappeared during the first Mafia War in 1963, at the age of 40. His body was never recovered.
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