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Mafia Trivia

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So actually they came into being after a group of Italians were wrongly convicted of the murder of a policeman.
David Hennessy (Police Chief of New Orleans) was murdered by the mafia. I saw his huge tomb in the Metairie cemetery.

It’s possible that the wrong Italians were charged with the assassination :dunno:

After a series acquittals and mistrials, a mob, believing that the mafia had rigged the trial, broke into a jail and killed several of the defendants.
 
not aware of that
 
The Mafia had to give the blessing for The Godfather to be made.

Joe Columbo Sr. ( a mafia capo) had started the Italian Defamation League and denounced the making of the film. He said it portrayed Italians in a bad light. He asked for certain compromises in the making of the film or bad things would happen.

The producers agreed not to use the word Mafia in the film and that gesture was said to be what allowed the film to be made.