Around fifteen bosses each represented three families on the commissione.
Evidence
Its members—called capi mandamento—each represented three geographically contiguous families. For the approximately forty-six families in Palermo province, therefore, we can assume that there were about fifteen capi mandamento, which was in fact the figure given by a confidential source to Judge Terranova twenty years earlier, in 1965. — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 287
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- DEFINE: Defines ‘capo mandamento’ — the cartel’s representational geometry of three-families-per-delegate.
Related
- Mafia cartels formed per province only after the late 1950s (similarity 0.80)
- Sicilian cartels organized per province, not as one unified mafia-wide cartel (similarity 0.79)