Originally Posted by Blackmobs
Yeah we all know Maranzano wasn’t jewish.
But its still a name that don’t get recognize.

For the jewish question, I think Cosa Nostra took everything that work of every crime organization that were successful and made it there own.

They took the organization and buisness asset from the jewish mob.
The contacts in the political world from the irish mob and probably the syndicate world.
The gambling operations from the african-american mob.
And I guess many other things from all type of criminal world.

The thing is that the italians succeed to make all of this an organization that work like an entreprise, and still being a criminal thing.

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Maranzano was unquestionably one of the most pivotal figures in the early American underworld. But alas, he didn't last long. Still, he helped shape the American structure of a "Family" as we have come to know it. (but remember, that even his structuring was based off the ancient Sicilian structure from back in Sicily.) Maranzano just expanded it to American standards because the U.S. borgatas were generally much larger and more diversified than the early Sicilian model.