The list of the mafia's documented customers, in both legal and illegal businesses, is long and varied. Landowners, herdsmen, olive and orange growers, peasants, entrepreneurs, politicians, doctors, shopkeepers, purse snatchers, smugglers, drug traffickers, arms dealers: all of them have at one point or another been protected.

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Busi…, loc. 141