Again wholeheartedly agree; the amount of property, and just assets in general that get confiscated on a regular basis is pretty breathtaking...

And you are right, in Sicily they are into everything, as well as Calabria.
It's the same in Naples, it's just that there is more of all this in the bigger cities of Italy. More construction, more trash, more people, so more people to sell cigarettes, or drugs, or cloths. More companies, just more urban. It's a territory of commerce, capitalism. Whereas the Sicilians are almost like a kind of state sponsored fascism, with the political connects and all being tied into the governing apparatus of Sicily...