>>17859818 (OP)In Sicily, yeah. In America they were basically buried under massive legal proceedings following government crackdowns since the late 70s. They few families left use their wealth to live quiet lives or pay generational debts to people who are owed for their services and loyalty. They were never really public figures of course, but today they really don't have public lives because everything they do is constantly under scrutiny by glowniggers who are in charge of investigating their families. The most recent mafiosi who made the news was the son of a capo for the Colombo crime family was busted on federal charges for stashing and stockpiling guns recently. They don't really go around "whacking" guys anymore. They instead use socially disconnected middlemen to distance themselves from their operation while they fill a niche in a wider system of organized black markets like the drug/weapon trafficking businesses.