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The Sicilian Mafia has gone mostly “legit,” in the sense that they operate in legal industries, e.g. olive oil. They just use criminal means to extract hugely e
by haram_masala 6y ago
The Sicilian Mafia has gone mostly “legit,” in the sense that they operate in legal industries, e.g. olive oil. They just use criminal means to extract hugely excessive rents from those industries.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThey aren't competitive internationally, though. And can't be unless they're also going to go down to Morocco, fight the Army, invade Tunisia and Algeria, and then force the extraction of high rents.
- vkou 6y agoThe amount of violence the Sicilian Mafia inflicts, while staggering, is an order of magnitude or more off from the cartels.