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Mafia is very much not defunct in Italy.

I thought the mafia was still influential in Italy, albeit less as a criminal organization and more a system of business cartels?

The Italian mafias peaked 60 years ago or so, but they have been very relevant the past 60 years, just maybe not as open

1963 mafia killed JFK

Early 90s window scheme where mafia received kickbacks from all large developers in nyc https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...