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20 Myths That Made the Mafia Legendary blows apart everything movies, podcasts and street legends taught you about organized crime. From the idea of a pure Sicilian import and a single "boss of all bosses" to unbreakable omerta, drug bans and 100 percent Italian bloodlines, Miguel Thornton walks through the most persistent myths and the messy history behind them. Using FBI files, court transcripts, turncoat testimonies and modern scholarship, he shows how Hollywood, conspiracy theories and community folklore turned brutal racketeers into tragic antiheroes and patriotic icons, and why understanding the real Mafia means following the money, not the movie script.
