The dramatic contrast between the official position of mafiosi in the community and their scams within, and sometimes beyond, their community suggests that the transactions in which they specialize have little to do with their nominal employment. "The consideration in which a mafioso is held within the Cosa Nostra is not tied... to his profession or degree," says Anconino Calderone (Arlacchi 1992: 29). Mosely the mafioso's work is mundane: mafiosi double as drivers, guards, janitors, garbage collectors, farmers, shepherds, butchers, small contractors, agricultural middlemen, millers, clerks, undertakers, bartenders, gas station attendants, sellers of stationery, flowers, linens, men's clothing, new and used vehicles.

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Busi…, loc. 412