Senior Vice President Robert M. Pignatello, Office of Finance & Administration

Honorable Francesco Maria Talò , Consul General of Italy in New York

Anthony J. Tamburri, Dean, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, QueensCollege

Present

Det. Joseph Petrosino 
The New Sicily: One Hundred Years After His Death  

A Symposium to Celebrate His Life and Work and the Annual Italian American Heritage Day Celebration at John Jay College

Speakers include: 

Dr. Pietro Grasso , Anti-mafia Chief Prosecutor  
The Fight Against New Mafias: Successes and Failures

  Prof. Learco Saporito, Esq., Vice President, Court of Administrative Justice and National President of the A.N.F.E.  

Fr. Luigi Ciotti , President of Libera
Confiscation of Mafia Lands as Opportunity for Growth and Economic Development  

Dott. Ivan Lo Bello,
President of Confindustria Sicilia  
The Anti-Mafia Role of Confindustria Sicily                                    

Prof. Marcello Saija , University of Messina
Joe Petrosino: Biography of a Heroin the Fight Against the Mafia

George Grasso, First Deputy Police Commissioner-NYPD
NYPD and its techniques to fight organized crime

Joseph Guccione, US Marshal Department of Justice, Southern District of New York

The fight against organized crime at the federal level and at the international level together with Italy

Lt. Petrosino, was an Italian immigrant who, in the early 1900’s became one of NYC’s most well-known detectives. From 1894-1909 Petrosino headed the Italian Squad, a special unit of NYPD responsible for investigating crime in the Italian communities of New York City.He was assassinated in Sicily.