Oh I've seen bunches of people say that, especially on YouTube. I don't know how exactly their power compares to the 1980s, but just about every economic corner you turn in Sicily they're there. Construction, waste management, finance, banking, trucking, produce market, oil and gas, wind energy, politics, literally everything. And of course drugs, loansharking, extortion, gambling, shit like that. Even those anti-racket people are oftentimes in cahoots, pretending to be taking a stand against organized crime.
Back in the 1980's they had really powerful connections to masonic lodges and high profile politicians, they were very close to P2 , members of P2 included president of Vatican Bank that laundered money for mafia, connections like that made them insanely powerful during 1980's
