Cartel rulebreakers were lured to meetings and executed for defiance.

Evidence

In another instance, a couple of stubborn southerners operating independently in the North slapped a mafioso with whom they were having an argument. “They were posing as villains [malandrini], believing themselves to be exempt from the rules on smuggling decided by the Cosa Nostra and planning to unload their cigarettes directly in Naples,” says Mannoia (FMM: 354). They were politely invited to a “clarifying meeting” from which they never returned. A gruesome description of how they were strangled, their jewelry removed, and their bodies burned is provided by Mannoia (FMM: 353-356). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 624

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘clarifying meeting’ is the private-judge hearing turned deadly — equivalent to the bourse arbitration but with extralegal lethal enforcement; a direct contrast to Milgrom’s peaceful private judges.