Originally posted by Don Sonny Corleone:
How'd they find em? I would bet they were like Henry Hill and them. Just hung around the "men of respect" in the neighborhood ever since they were kids and just stayed around them.
In Vito Corleone's day, the Mafia was a kind of "employer of last resort" in some Southern Italian neighborhoods--like the phone company was for WASPs. Kids who showed initiative but were unwilling or unable to get jobs or education in the legit world were watched by the local Mob capo. Those who showed promise were brought along, tested, eventually inducted.
