Jamal Awil

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Mafia family decisions often excluded most family members [fact]

  1. 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