Enormous drug profits admitted non-mafiosi into protected trafficking networks

Evidence

“There were not only men of honor involved in drug trafficking,” says Contorno. “Some people transported it, others refined it; there was a tangle of people because there were billions at stake. Thus, if someone was not a man of honor, it did not matter; he too could enter” (TC: 159; and see TC-GdS, April 21-23, 1986). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 641

Categorization

• XREF: Suggests a ceiling on the mafia’s reputational monopoly: above a certain stake size, family membership stops being the screening criterion — relevant to the reader’s Gambetta mapping.