Mafiosi describe their own role as fair contract distribution among bidders

Evidence

During his interrogation in 1990 the mayor of Baucina, near Palermo summing up the role of the mafia, said that the local mafiosi “oversaw the fair distribution of contracts among firms participating in bids” (Repubblica, April 14, 1990). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 571