To make a positive impact on Mafia activities, it is necessary for the FBI and different legal organizations to understand about their activities and to derive inside information with regards to Caporegimes and the Dons. It is possible to have raids on illegal gambling rings, drug deals and to arrest involved people. However, there is a need to have the Capos, Underboss and the Don to be arrested for damaging the mafia family completely. Infiltrating into the family is the only way to achieve this, a task that is undertaken by undercover agents.
The undercover’s job
The job involving the FBI agent to work as an enforcer or mob associate and tackling the mafia members is incredible dangerous and risky. In case, the truth gets discovered or if caught during act of having information leaked out, without any remorse, he is to be executed, riddled with bullets or tortured to death.
Knowing the Mafia’s Ten Commandments
The ‘Ten Commandment’ list has been found by the Sicilian police in November 2007 at Salvatore Lo Piccolo, the mafia boss’ hideout. Italian investigators are of the opinion that Salvatore, who since 1993 was on the run, was in the race to be the Sicilian Mafia’s subsequent ‘boss of bosses’. The Mafia’s Ten Commandments are considered to be quite similar to that of the Ten Commandments of the Bible, as they are supposed to be their guiding force as to how the mafia members are to be a respectable, honorable, good Mafioso.
A preamble is said to be found in the beginning of the list, stating the following, “I hereby swear to remain loyal to the Cosa Nostra. Lest I betray, shall my flesh burn’.
Ten Commandments
- A third person is required to be present, when presenting to another friend, something that is not to be done directly.
- Presence along with cops is to be avoided.
- Friends’ wives are never to be looked at.
- Clubs and pubs are to be avoided.
- Appointments need to be respected fully.
- It is a duty to be present always for Cosa Nostra, even if wife is to give birth to the child.
- Wives are to be treated with equal respect.
- Money is not to be appropriated, in case, it belongs to other families or others.
- Answer is to be clear, honest and complete if information is asked for.
- Who cannot be in the group: people having close relative as police, two timing relative present within the family, those not holding to moral values and behaving badly.