Maria, the family's 12-year-old daughter, was given a page ripped from a notebook. It was a list of debts owing. She was told to hide it: Put it in your knickers, they won't touch you.
After the arrests, Cosimo was the only male family member outside prison, and it became his responsibility to collect money for the lawyers' fees. He was a baby boss with his own driver, visiting local businesses who were on the family's books, and demanding payment with menaces.
The Calabrian mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, is based on family groups in small towns along the coastline of Italy's toe. The area is littered with half-built factories, projects paid for by state development funds and abandoned once the 'Ndrangheta got its hands on the money.
As fathers and grandfathers are serving life sentences, many in high-security jails, the younger members are starting their criminal careers ever earlier.
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