Mafia family decisions often excluded most family members [fact]
- Antonino Calderone describes a meeting in which positions in the family were decided by only a few members (not by the whole family, as other pentiti report) in a way that suggests elections were irrelevant (AC: I, 245).
XREF: Contradictory 'pentiti' testimony about whether elections involved the whole family vs. a few members — worth tracking across sources.
Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Busi…, loc. 894