There has been much written through the years about so-called “made men”, or those mob associates who eventually gain formal induction to the inner sanctum of the Italian underworld.
For upwards of one hundred years in this country, the organized criminal underworld has looked in awe at these so-called “button guys”, “good fellows” or “made men”, that are the formal rank and file of the Mafia Families throughout the United States. In Italy and Sicily, that awe goes back even farther, several hundred years at least.
