Amanda and Lauren have a special guest on the podcast this week to discuss the Matteo Messina Denaro in the second installment of their foreign mob boss series. Turns out this leader in the Sicilian Costa Nostra is a terrorist too?? Is this kind of a terrorist series now? Perhaps!

Sources:

• The Guardian: “Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘last godfather’ of Sicilian mafia, dies after long illness” by Lorenzo Tondo and Angela Giuffrida
• CNN: “Mafia boss ‘Diabolik’ dies in custody after nearly 30 years on the run, Italian reports says” by Alex Stambaugh
• AlJazeera: “Jailed Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro is dead: Reports” by No Byline
• AlJazeera: “Who is Messina Denaro, Italy’s Mafia boss caught after 30 years?” by No Byline
• New York Times: “Matteo Messina Denaro, Long-Sought Italian Mafia Boss, Dies at 61” by Elisabetta Povoledo and Gaia Pianigiani 
• AP News: “On the run for decades, convicted Mafia boss Messina Denaro dies in hospital months after capture” by Frances D’Emilio and Andrea Rosa
• BBC: “Messina Denaro: Notorious Italian Mafia boss dies” by Kathryn Armstrong
• Wall Street Journal: “Italian Mafia Boss Matteo Messina Denaro Dies Months After Capture” by Alyssa Lukpat
• Business Insider: “Sicily’s ‘last godfather’ said he followed ‘an old Jewish saying’ to avoid capture for 30 years, report says” by Rebecca Rommen
• Time: “Italy’s Top Mafia Boss has been Arrested. He Leaves a Horrifying Trail of Violence in His Wake” by Simmone Shah
• Wikipedia

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