Maybe so.
While the mafia was busy killing people and extorting their money two blocks away..
(I knew the "mob bots" would show up eventually..)
People try to paint a murdering bunch of scum like the democrats try to paint FDR.
"For the little guy" "they have honor" "They keep the streets safe" "They only want to be left alone to run craps games in the alley" and blah, blah, blah, blah..
I don't know anything about mob bots. I only know what I know from my own experience. Which means, don't forget the bodies in the trunks in the used car lots, either.
What I meant is that the traditional Sicilian mob has little power any more. They were pushed off the top of the hill by the South Americans, who were pushed off by the Russians, who are being pushed off by Arabs. The list is really oversimplified and imcomplete, because it'd take too long to fit in the Greeks and add the various alliances and stuff...but I know where you're coming from.
It isn't easy coming from a family like that, especially when they divided themselves up into "The Good Guys" and "The Bad Guys"...let's just say we don't have those huge get togethers at Christmas and July 4th anymore.