But I thought he was like me, a kid from a mob family who didn't want that kind of life.

The seven man organization was modeled after the Italian mob families.

But a new mob family has moved in, and now his kid has to struggle with this thing.

Then there are the others, for whom the geographic closeness to television's favorite mob family has the opposite effect.

Maybe 25 years ago it was controlled by mob families.

They discover that the local mob family sent a spy to gather information on them.

Many in Calabria, and not just the mob families themselves, disagree.

Under the law, a mob family or crew qualifies as such an organization.

With at least 250 made members, it is the city's largest mob family, the authorities said.

And, unlike other mob families, it has no top leaders in prison or under indictment.