The outfit was originally a Camorra group. It wasn´t until 1931, after the Castellammarese war, the outfit was recognized as a Mafia Family and accepted into the Mafia´s fold.

Does anyone know how initiation ceremonies originally was performed by the old Camorra gangs in Naples? Were they similar to the ones performed by the Mafia in Sicily? Or were they performed in a totally different way? If they were, it could explain why the outfit, for many, many years didn´t use the Mafia tradition of inducting new members with the gun and the knife ceremony.