2014
Nicola Gratteri
Introduction by Hon. Cyrus R. Vance, New York County District Attorney
It is to confront this evil that our honoree, Nicola Gratteri, has dedicated his life. This prosecutor has spoken out boldly against organized crime and has built painstaking cases that deliver telling blows against ’Ndrangheta. He has gone into the schools to teach children that there is another way and gone into prisons to work for reform. And everywhere he goes, he preaches a simple message: in his words, “the Mafia can be defeated.”