Originally Posted by majicrat
As for your comment Chin I'm missing your point, I don't think under my scenario the fictitious family is looking for any family to acknowledge them, they don't need there support or approval not like in the Prohibition days when different families controlled areas and provided security to the other families running liquor and so on. So the idea NY doesn't acknowledge them is even better. The less notoriety the better.


Sure then, anyone could call themselves the Mafia and copy the structure and some of the ceremonies. But it wouldn't make them Cosa Nostra. In the same way that being a copycat wouldn't make someone the Zodiac killer.

It just seems like a very strange thing to do and I can't see why anyone would want to do it