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Mafia
Costoro non hanno ancora capito che i briganti e la mafia sono due cose diverse. Noi abbiamo colpito i primi che, indubbiamente, rappresentano l'aspetto più vistoso della malvivenza siciliana, ma non il più pericoloso. Il vero colpo mortale alla mafia lo daremo quando ci sarà…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Mafia money behind gangster films
That convergence of interests drove more than a few producers and production houses into strange syzygies with gangsters: films about mafia goondas were financed by the mafia, and the profits from hit movies about hit men went into new crimes and real hits on real people, which…
Shaking hands with the mafia
I shook hands with each man in turn to seal the deal. The exchange was a little more formal and solemn than I’d expected it to be, and I had to clench my jaw to stifle a laugh. And those attitudes, their gravitas and my recusant impulse to laugh, registered the difference…
Loyal to the men, not the mafia
But I was alone, and for two reasons. The mafia was theirs, not mine. For them, the organisation always came first. But I was loyal to the men, not the mafia; to the brothers, not the brotherhood. I worked for the mafia, but I didn’t join it. I’m not a joiner. I never found a…