| Brute force, extortion, and bribery are not a policy, they are the last refuge of a mafioso. |
| Hess also maintained that self-help promoted by self interest amongst individual Mafioso could often be mistaken for organizational solidarity. |
| But a mafioso such as Willie the Rat would have taken that as the good news by comparison when he heard the rest. |
| I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works. |
| Since the mid-19th century, Sicily has been known as a hive of Mafioso activity. |
| As he knew himself, however, his father's own status as a Mafioso protected him from reprisals. |
