Organized crime depends on legal fiction and media to build its brand

Evidence

There is a limitation, however: an illegal business cannot freely commission advertisements and must rely on informal assistance or the visual or aural images others—in the legal world—create when talking, writing, filming, or playing music about it. In addition, the purposes of fiction and crime sometimes coincide, in that both can thrive on mystery, awe, and terror. No wonder they pirate each other’s creations. — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 375

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s stated goal: fiction and crime co-producing the mafia’s trademark parallels how the Godfather mythos (Puzo/Coppola) itself became advertising for the real thing — a recursive loop that extends the Bonasera opening-scene theme.