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“Let me know whatever [the people] need,” he wrote to his adviser, “they must expect nothing but good from us.”
One key step in the organisation’s recovery was recapturing the popular consensus. The mafia has always relied on the obedience (goodwill might be putting it too strongly) of the community. In the business of selling protection, social control is essential: if your “clients” unite and rebel, you’re in trouble.
