{Chiddu é lu bonnu chi vidi e taci.} It is a good person that sees and keep silent. June 20, 1947 at 10:45 PM in the 810 North Linden Drive Beverly Hills mansion rented in Virgina Hills name, Bugsy Siegel and friend Allan Smiley were talking and reading the newspaper. An assassin standing in the bushes outside the living room window blasted a .30 calibre carbine. One bullet tore through Siegels head ripping out his eye and tossing it accross the room. Four more slugs struck his body and 3 more missed. Smiley dove to the floor and escaped injury. Omerta: The vow of silence It all began... Sicily being the largest island in the Mediterranean, Influenced many countries to invade it, conquer it and prosper from it.Sicilian peasants were little more than slave labor to their foreign overlords. Thus the Mafia was born, a secret society that provided the poor, oppressed Sicilians with protection, stability and pride. The Mafia "vendetta" was the Sicilian form of justice. The victimized were quiet and patient. Vengeance was saved for a future time. http://www.myheritage.coma, a.man, a:link, a:visited{font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;color:FFFFFF; font-size:8pt; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none; font-style:normal} a:active, a:hover{font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;color:FFFFFF; font-size:8pt; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none; font-style:normal;}td, table, tr, span, li, p, div, textarea, DIV {font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;color:FFFFFF; font-weight:normal; font-decoration:none; font-style:normal;background-color:transparent} td, li, p, div, textarea {font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;border-color:FFFFFF} table{border-color:FFFFFF}a.navbar{font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;font-size:8pt; font-weight:normal} a.navbar:link{color:FFFFFF;} a.navbar:active{color:FFFFFF;} a.navbar:visited{color:FFFFFF;} a.navbar:hover{color:FFFFFF;}a.searchlinkSmall{font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;font-size:8pt; text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal;} a.searchlinkSmall:link{color:FFFFFF} a.searchlinkSmall:active{color:FFFFFF} a.searchlinkSmall:visited{color:FFFFFF} a.searchlinkSmall:hover{color:FFFFFF}body{font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;background-color:000000;background-image:url("http://library.sdsmt.edu/friendsvideos/Goodfellas%20f.jpg" WIDTH=105 HEIGHT=97); background-position:center center; background-repeat:no-repeat; background-attachment:fixed;}.nametext{font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;font-size:8pt;color:FFFFFF; font-weight:normal;}.blacktext10{font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;font-size:8pt; color:FFFFFF; font-weight:normal;}.blacktext12{font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;font-size:8pt; color:FFFFFF; font-weight:normal;}.btext, .itext, .text{font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;font-size:8pt; color:FFFFFF; font-weight:normal;}.orangetext15{font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;color:FFFFFF; font-weight:normal;}.lightbluetext8{font-family:verdana, arial, times new roman;font-size:8pt; color:FFFFFF; font-weight:normal;}.tmz_imp{font-family:arial;color:FF0000;font-weight:bold}a img{}a:hover img{}body{scrollbar-arrow-color:FFFFFF;scrollbar-Track-Color:000000;scrollbar-Highlight-Color:FFFFFF;scrollbar-base-color:FFFFFF;scrollbar-Face-Color:000000;scrollbar-Shadow-Color:FFFFFF;scrollbar-DarkShadow-Color:FFFFFFbody{background-image:url("http://www.msstate.edu/Images/Film/Goodfellas.jpg" ); background-attachment:fixed; background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:center; background-color:000000} a .text { font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }