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The book is from 28 January 2014 and uses the introductory paragraph of the article verbatim in the version that existed from 11 January 2012 to 12 May 2013 (or 19 May 2015 if you disregard a hyphen). A similar text had been in the article in varying versions since 2006, so the direction of copying seems quite clear. There's no attribution to Wikipedia directly on that book page, but I don't know whether there might be an attribution elsewhere in the book.
I suspect that when the inner workings of organized crime become high profile enough for someone to write a Wikipedia article on them, they have probably fallen out of use.
Or another way:
If you saw it in the Godfather movies, it's old.
@Bantosh: Agree wholeheartedly. It appears as though this entire article was written purely on the strength of a few gangster films, and may or may not bear any relationship with reality.
The article is written in the present tense, and I'm not totally convinced that "Caporegimes" are all that common in the USA. Anyone care to comment?
Additionally, the article doesn't read very well, and contains some poor grammar. Anybody able to tell me how to flag articles that require improvement?
Would like to point out "This ranking system protects the higher levels of the organization from incrimination if a lower level member should be captured by law enforcement." appears related to RICO law and similar. (as in, as far as I've understood RICO law, this claim is false) Someone with more juridical knowledge could check it. -nanonyme — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.130.40.70 (talk) 21:00, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
