Rural mafia families often match or exceed their urban partners in power

Evidence

Which partner is the dominant one is by no means clear-cut: the rural firm is often the stronger, or at least has equal standing, as in the case of the Corleone family of Liggio-Riina linked to Michele Greco’s family in Palermo, and the Riesi and Cinisi families of Di Cristina and Badalamenti, linked to the Calderone family in Catania (AC: I) and to the Bontade family in Palermo. — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 279

Categorization

• XREF: Directly challenges the reader’s expectation from Puzo where the rural Corleone stronghold is subordinate; real Sicilian cartels invert that — rural firms can dominate city partners.