I’ve heard this so many times. But what does a Masonic lodge do for the mafia exactly? I’m not even 100% sure a Masonic lodge is. Masons are builders, so are you saying that the mafia controls what gets built and what doesn’t?
Masonic lodge is a group of very powerful/influential people.When u have at least group of 10 people, its easier to get new powerful people to join , because everyone wanna increase their influence and wealth.
Take a example at masonic lodge P2, some of the members were: Silvio Berlusconi (prime minister of italy later), Paul Marcinkus(president of Vatican Bank),Roberto Calvi(CEO of Banco Ambrosiano), Michele Sindona(banker, owned Franklin National Bank) , heads of all secret services in Italy,Vittorio Emanuele(son of last Italian king) and so on. U get the point.
Masonic lodges are literally "brains behind the mafia", its mostly white collar criminals , they almost never go to prison.