[infowarrior]

I once had an Italian professor tell me that the word MAFIA is an acronym for Morte à Francia, Italia Anela (Death to the French, Italians sigh)

That is true. The acronym and name came about during the Napoleonic Wars, when Bonaparte's troops occupied all of Italy and Sicily. The indigenous thugs of Sicliy led whatever successful resistance to the French occupation, using that acronym, and it stuck ever since...

the infowarrior

[muawiyah]

Still, the Corsican Brotherhood is the source of the true origins of the Mob in America. Sicilians and Neopolitans came later.

That's one of the reasons Detroit has always had aprominant place in organized crime ~ wasn't all Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters ~ full century of history before that!