You two need to start playing nice. If you want to continue with the personal insults then take it off the boards.


Now, with that aside, neither of you are right, nor are you wrong about the requirements of becoming a made man in the MAFIA.


While there are no written rules or guidlelines for the MAFIA, we can only go by what is told, and most times embelished, by those who have turned rat or have infiltrated the underworld. Let's keep in mind that while these people have been referred to as men of honor, nothing could be more from the truth, and for many reasons. These people will rant about and advocate "TRADITION" and then throw that same tradition right out the window if that tradition does not suit their needs.

According to books that have been written and stories that have been told about the "traditional" MAFIA, one had to be completely 100% SICILIAN. In other words BOTH the mother AND the father had to be 100% sicilian.

Then as the old mustache petes began to pass away, and the mob became more americanized, they supposedly "eased up" on the rules of becoming a made man and made it where only your Father had to be a 100% sicilian and your mother just italian.

As the years went by and more and more americans became members of the mob, the whole sicilian requirement was completely abolished, the guidelines once again altered to suit the needs of those in power, and only one parent had to be a 100% italian.



After the infiltration by Joe "Donnie Brasco" Pistone, it is rumored that those still in power within the mob decided that one would be required to make his bones ( kill someone ) as part of the requirement for becoming a made man. This was supposedly done because according to Joe "Donnie Brasco" Pistone, he had planted himself so deeply in the family that they were one step away from making him a made man. Keep in mind that Brasco's MO with the mob was that he was an orphan, which would mean to the mob that he did not know his family origins. Yet according to Pistone, they were still willing to make him a made man. But Pistone was pulled from his undercover assignment before the mob inducted him into the family. After learning of his real identity the mob realized that they came very close to making an FBI agent a made man! It is alledged that the mob implemented the "one must make his bones and kill for us" rule after the near mistake of almost "making" Donnie Brasco. This rule was implemented so that they could prevent the possibility of any future undercover law enforcement agents from becoming "made" within the mob.

Then what happened a few years later? John Gotti, the mobster who supposedly was all for traditional La Cosa Nostra, came along and had the Boss of Bosses killed. He took over one of the most powerful and influential mafia families in the underworld, threw most of the so called mob tradition out the window, changed the unwritten rules to suit his needs and feed his ego, and basically decided that he'd make whomever he wanted a made man regardless of their background.

The truth is that when it comes to the mob, the rule is that there ain't no rules.