The list of rules emerged from documents seized after the arrest of Salvatore Lo Piccolo, 65, at a secret mob meeting in Palermo, along with his son Sandro, 32, and two other godfathers.
Along with the rules, police found a holy image bearing the Mafia initiation ritual. The wording is: “I swear to be faithful to Cosa Nostra. If I should betray it, my flesh must burn, just as this image burns.”
Lo Piccolo apparently carried the papers everywhere with him in a brown leather briefcase.
1. No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
2. Never look at the wives of friends.
3. Never be seen with cops.
4. Don’t go to pubs and clubs.
5. Always be available for Cosa Nostra, even if your wife’s about to give birth.
6. Appointments must be respected.
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
10. People who can’t be part of Cosa Nostra are anyone with a close relative in the police, with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn’t hold to moral values.
Honestly, I am a little disappointed. I figured any kind of Mafia ten commandments would have some cool shit in it. This almost looks like some kind of Martha Stewart “How to be a good person” list. Not a single commandment about who can and can’t be killed? Number four must be some kind of a joke. Mafia guys hang out in a bar or club in every mafia movie or TV show I have seen.
