The rise of the Mobfluencer — how the Mafia turned to social media
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One of the mobsters who inspired
The Godfather‘s Don Corleone was Frank Costello, a hatchet-faced crime boss whose drink you’d hope never to spill. Costello hailed from Calabria in Italy and came to New York as a child in the late 19th century, shortly before embarking on a life of crime – he smuggled booze during Prohibition, was jailed for assault and robbery, survived a number of whackings by rivals, and died in 1973 aged 82, a respectable innings for a man in his line of work. His career, if you could call it that, would have been strongly influenced by