@m2w I see some or the cash amounts from seizures by law enforcement on some of the top Sicilian and Camorra members from that time and it’s mind boggling. They started to get into the heroin and cocaine trade in the late 1970s? Is that when they really took over?
they were involved in drugs also before but the market was smaller, sicilian mafia started to produce heroin in sicily that was the most lucrative at that time supplying both europe and north america
but what make them so powerful was the connections into italian government and the freemasons, thanks to it they infiltrated heavily the construction business, managing the public works and the waste disposal
