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TIL that during the Maxi Trial, the largest trial against the Mafia in history, a mobster confessed to Tommaso Buscetta, an informant, that he had killed two of Buscetta's sons. After the trial, Buscetta embraced him and said: "I forgive you because I know what it means to be in Cosa Nostra"

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