 Buscetta entered the Witness Protection Program in the United States, where he remained until his death in 2000.Tommaso Buscetta was born on 13 July 1928, in Palermo, Sicily, the youngest of 17 children; his father was a glazier.Buscetta was raised in a poverty-stricken area of Palermo, which he escaped by getting involved with crime at a young age.