Overview

• Giovanni Brusca has no remaining legal obligations after completing reporting requirements that followed his 2021 prison release
• He was sentenced to 25 years for detonating the bomb that killed anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone, Falcone’s wife and three bodyguards in 1992
• Brusca began cooperating with justice after his 1996 arrest and entered a witness protection program under a plea agreement
• The ex-Cosa Nostra member confessed to more than 100 murders, including the acid-dissolution killing of a Mafia informant’s son
• Maria Falcone described her reaction as one of “pain and deep bitterness” over the unconditional freedom of her brother’s killer