Word: maranzano
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...prey ... Prohibition offered the transplanted Mafiosi the chance they could not have made for themselves. Only they had the organization that could capitalize on the potential of bootlegging ... There was enough intraorganizational feuding to fill a graveyard ... To stop the killing, said [the Mob's modern founding father Salvatore] Maranzano, the gangs ... would henceforth be recognized as families, each with its own territorial limits ... The organization's code of conduct [was] a combination of such qualities as manliness, honor and willingness to keep secrets. Its requirements have never changed. The penalty for breaching the code: death...