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OO AT uw pe the use of terror and of the terror-insptiring reputation of the Mafia to intimidate : yietimag and collect tribute, Tho attitude was one of arrogant superiority and =. power daminstion, Ceveral means wore used by the prosceution during the Mafia trials of _ the 1999's and 1839's to filentify persons as Mafiosi. Apparently the most commor method invojecd identification by vitnesses of persons who had actually ey mitted the crimes attriiede to the Mafia; another involved the reputations - of the accused persons ac Frattost; another reed on testimony ae to the observed 4 daily relations between and a«coctation of the defendants, The last point seemed ; i H to be heavily emphasized, ont counted 28a prime factor in determining whether or nota person wad ta be pr ierrod to asa Ma ‘loso and thus charged tn the general coventracy in his terrifory of restdence. The importance of observed tes and ! association was indicated by the fact that a number of criminals, picked up in the polfee net that Crow in the 7 oflosi, were sventuplly absolved of being Mafiost, | f.e., of participating in the tooo “afla conspiracy, because no witnesses could he fonnd to testify cencernins thoir associative ties with persons already (106 ,109 fventified as Yaftost. Thar the need for careful penetration into the closenesa of tics, family, business, criminatand ether, as well as the frequency and purpese of ecntacts be ty eon cuspects,was Uirst anderacored as a means of - 61 - * t y 7 + of at