Originally Posted By: Sonny_Black
I'm wondering whether the tradional hierarchy was first introduced in America or in Sicily. In America it was introduced by Maranzano, who supposedly based this concept on the Roman legions. But if this concept already existed in Sicily Maranzano's idea wouldn't have been original at all.


the hierarchy was formed in sicily it's full of reports about mafia families in the middle and end of XIX century
maranzano just used the old sicilian structure