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LO ONO ew 0 10 | thetr antisocial and ilicgal activities. The Mefla adherents generally found | comiren caus? when tt came to victimizing the public, or putting up common | 24) 12 defense against citivens ar the nuthorities, Ay incident mentioned in connection with the early campaigns of the. Italice anthorities againct the Mafia serves to Indicate the possibility that an | - informant may orenstonally be found whose hatred for fellow Mafiosi 1s stronger ee In the case of a Mafia erevp tried in 1929, the members of the group were said to to have been tdentif{ied by 2 “fafioco who had quarreled with his fellows and had _ ? ' sought revenge by denowicins them to the authorities. The group was duly apprehonded, However, the Informant was said to have paid for his viclation of (125) the orver ta cote vith his lite, c. Infiltration of T egitimate Professions and Occupations ; The “’afin triate + cenited in the convictions of a number of persons who wore formerly proniaent in the offairg of their respective communities, Several leyyers, politicians, and fern or crayors of tov na were said to have been convicter of Stafla erica, some of them hoving bern charged with taking leading roles in (126, 127, 128) the Mafia concpiracter In their territories, -17 - -