 In 1975, the butcher "Totuccio" Contorno was initiated in the Santa Maria di Gesù Mafia family in Palermo, then led by Stefano Bontade, an influential member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission.Contorno and Bontade used to be hunting companions in the 1960s.Although he was just a soldier in the Mafia family, Contorno reported directly to the boss Bontade.