Reputation built protecting one estate can be converted into mafia standing

Evidence

Only if the power and reputation he acquires in the process serve a wider purpose can his position evolve into that of a mafioso. (Luciano Liggio, who started off as a gabelloto in Corleone appointed during the postwar labor conflict and went on to become a prominent mafioso, epitomizes this process.) — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 236

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the reader’s interest in reputation as fungible capital — the power acquired protecting a single landowner becomes generalized, echoing the reader’s private-judge/diamond-bourse material. — connects to: A builder’s name can invert from symbol of good to symbol of evil — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 4684