According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

According to Mannoia the killer was Francesco Di Carlo, a mafioso living in London at the time, and the order to kill Calvi had come from Mafia boss Giuseppe Calò and Licio Gelli.

According to the 2002 Tanzania census, the population of the Mafia District was 40, 801.

According to writers on organized crime, the Syndicate was born from an idea of Johnny " The Fox " Torrio and was founded or established at a May 1929 conference in Atlantic City, attended by leading underworld figures throughout the United States, including Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Dutch Schultz, Abner " Longy " Zwillman, Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, Vince Mangano, gambler Frank Erickson, Frank Scalice and Albert " Mad Hatter " Anastasia .< ref > Carl Sifakis, < cite > The Mafia Encyclopedia: second edition </ cite >, ( Checkmark Books )</ ref > Others describe the Atlantic City meeting as a coordination and strategy conference for bootleggers .< ref > Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau ,< cite > Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob </ cite > Paddington Press, 1979 </ ref >

" According to Mafia turncoat and government informant, Joe Valachi, Anastasia ordered the murder of Schuster, who was then shot dead outside his home on March 9, 1952.

According to the FBI, Cali is the official Gambino " ambassador to the Sicilian Mafia " and a rising star in the crime family.

According to Edward Humes in Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia ( 1994 ), Pusser was suspected by some law enforcement officials of having killed both.

According to this theory, Trafficante believed that Roselli had revealed too much about the Kennedy assassination and Castro murder plots during his Senate testimony, violating the strict Mafia code of omertà ( silence ).

According to the documents, Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy in the JFK assassination plan and was linked to the Central Intelligence Agency, and to Mafia connections in New Orleans, with Jimmy Fratianno, Johnny Roselli, and Eugene Brading as the real shooters.

According to the classic definition, the Mafia is a criminality originating in Sicily.

According to legend, the word Mafia was first used in the Sicilian revolt – the Sicilian Vespers – against rule of the Capetian House of Anjou on 30 March 1282.

According to Mafia turncoats ( pentiti ), the real name of the Mafia is " Cosa Nostra " (" Our thing ").

According to historian Salvatore Lupo, “ if everything is Mafia, nothing is Mafia .”

According to Mafia historian Salvatore Lupo " the emphasis of the media on the definition of a ' capo di tutti capi ' is without any foundation ".

According to gang policy, a member of the Mexican Mafia may not be murdered without prior approval by a vote of three members, yet the murder of non-members requires no formal approval.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Mexican Mafia had arranged for contract killings to be carried out by the Aryan Brotherhood, a white prison gang.

According to the federal indictment, Mexican Mafia members exert their influence in both federal and state prison systems through either violence or the threat of violence. Members and associates of the gang remain fiercely loyal to the criminal organization both in and outside of prison, particularly in Southern California cities such as Los Angeles and San Diego.

According to McLean's autobiography, his name was useful for the smooth progress of various criminal dealings, and to warn off members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Mafia.

According to investigating magistrates Andreotti also commissioned the Mafia to kill the journalist Mino Pecorelli, managing editor of a magazine Osservatorio Politico ( OP ).

According to American Mafia. com: " When Binaggio swung the vote for Forrest Smith and he won the Democratic nomination for governor in 1948, he convinced the gambling interests throughout the state that with their financial support Smith could win in the November election and they could “ open up ” the state.

According to Di Carlo, who became a pentito ( state witness ) in 1996, Caruana was sentenced to death by the high council of the Mafia after he had fallen out of favour.

According to the Philadelphia press that event marked the beginning of the four-year Philadelphia Mafia War that led to 30 mobsters being killed.

" According to historian Piers Brendon, " Orwell was the saint of common decency who would in earlier days, said his BBC boss Rushbrook Williams, ' have been either canonised – or burnt at the stake '".

According to experts, this was an endeavor to cheer up an incarcerated boss.

According to former Lucchese crime family boss Anthony " Gaspipe " Casso, " What John Gotti did, was the beginning of the end of our thing.

According to the DeCavalcante capo-turned-informant Anthony Rotondo, Gotti attended his father's wake with numerous other Gambino mobsters in a " show of force " and forced boss John Riggi to agree to run his family on the Gambino's behalf.

According to DEA boss Anthony Souh, the agency nevertheless suffers from substantial internal corruption.

" According to an unnamed Pentagon source quoted by Hersh, the OSP " was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, believed to be true — that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons that threatened the region and, potentially, the United States.

According to her, she was subjected to mistreatings by her own employees, who went as far as hitting her on her legs with a cable once, because they were not used to having a woman boss.

According to columnist Louella O. Parsons, Darnell was " so young, so immature and so naive in her ideas " and was very loyal to her boss, Darryl F. Zanuck.

According to former Mullen boss Patrick Nee, Paul McGonagle was enraged by the murder of his twin brother.

According to one account, " Schlesinger impressed candidate Jimmy Carter with his brains, his high-level experience ... and with secrets regarding the defense spending vacillations of his old boss, Ford, just in time for the presidential debates.

According to former Willow Springs, Illinois, police chief Michael Corbitt, statements by Outfit Capo Sal Bastone implicated Spilotro in the murder of former Chicago Outfit boss Sam Giancana.

According to Honda Australia's boss, Yasuhide Mizuno, the City will compete with other light sedans such as the Japanese built Toyota Yaris, the Korean-made Holden Barina and the Nissan Tiida ( also Thai ).

According to Twin Cities crime reporter Paul Maccabee, Kid Cann's rivalry with Minneapolis's Irish Mob ended after he and Irish Mob boss Tommy Banks divided their territories with a handshake.

According to Tobias: " Our first idea was to use them as a finishing move for final boss Shang Tsung, who was going to pull out his sword and behead his opponent.

According to the Sunday Mirror, Kelly was banned from appearing in an advertising campaign for Asda because her boss, GMTV's managing director Clive Couch, feared that such a move would lead to more bad publicity for GMTV, which was fined £ 2 million by broadcasting regulator Ofcom in September for conning viewers with its premium-rate phone lines.

According to the intro, the four characters ( as humans ) inadvertently unleash Hyper Drunk, the final boss, while reading books.

According to the FBI, the Genovese family has not had an official boss since Gigante's death.

According to the backstory presented during Half-Life 2, the Combine appear on Earth after the death of the Nihilanth, the boss character at the end of Half-Life.

According to Colombo hitman and FBI informant Gregory Scarpa, in late 1986 Persico and Gambino boss John Gotti backed a plan to kill the leading prosecutor and future New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, but it was rejected by the rest of the Commission.

According to a Federal report, Franzese made more money for a crime family than anyone since Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone.

According to Castellano's widow, he was the nephew of Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano.

According to Ingroia " in an organization like the Mafia, a boss has to be one step above the others otherwise it all falls apart.

According to this theory, Gambino wanted Tieri to be his figurehead, or front, boss of the Genovese family.

According to an authorized biography of San Francisco hotel magnate ( and Democratic Party fund-raiser ) Benjamin Swig, Roosevelt was also partnered with Swig and Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer, the powerful " boss " of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, in what was probably a related consortium, involving uranium investments in southern Utah.