Bypassing a protected intermediary to deal directly triggered a mafia murder.
Evidence
An alternative account of this multiple murder was supplied by Piera Lo Verso. Her husband, who was among those killed, had stopped buying horses through a dealer protected by the Catania family and had gone straight to the supplier in Apulia (L’Ora and Giornale di Sicilia, October 22, 1986; Puglisi 1990: 89ff.). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 1006
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Precise narrative instance of the private-protection market in action: disintermediation of a protected dealer is punished by lethal force — a real-world enforcement example for the Milgrom private-judge framework.
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Broader Connections
- Mafia families punish members who poach fellow members’ clients.
#exemplifies(0.85) — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 451