There is a natural tendency to assign delicate tasks to men with stable ties to the firm. Tommaso Buscetta claims that killers are never recruited on the market for a single job (TB: III, 138); they are always members of one kind or other. There are occasional examples of spies and killers drawn from among the easy-to-blackmail denizens of the criminal world; but these individuals risk disappearing soon after they have accomplished their task, as they become dangerous as well as expendable. Giuseppe Scozzari, a petty thief and drug dealer operating in Turin, went to Sicily on a murder assignment on behalf of a local boss, was wounded in action, and had to be rescued by his brother-in-law and brought back to Turin, where he vanished. His remains were found in a well in the countryside four years later (OSAG: 383-386).

XREF: Connects to readings on organized crime structure and why illicit organizations rely on social ties over market hiring.

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Busi…, loc. 175