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My point was that in Italy Cosa Nostra refers to all Sicilian mafia and not a single family.

Mafia nowadays is used as a synonym for organized crime so Cosa Nostra makes it clear it means the original Mafia.

I doubt the same is true of these Cosa Nostra and NBA guys.

These organizations are often referred to by its members as Cosa Nostra (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa -]; lit.

La Cosa Nostra is the umbrella term for the American Mafia, as opposed to the Sicilian Mafia (Costa Nostra) The term was coined by the FBI specifically to make that geographic distinction.

Seriously, imagine the Cosa Nostra take over the running of AgeanManhattan, protection rackets and all.

The Cosa Nostra were never dependent on drug or smuggling revenue in the same way as the Mexican cartels are currently.

Else some cosa-nostra could easily take over everything that protects the rights of minorities.

La Cosa Nostra is still around, as are various eastern European and Asian groups.

Cosa Nostra is a well defined organization operating in Sicily, that term isn’t used for other Mafias around Italy or other Sicilian criminal organizations.

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It's being said because the Five Families was erroneously conflated with Cosa Nostra in the original press conference by one of the representatives of law enforcement.

Then the day after some Cosa Nostra mafia dude would "sell you insurance" to prevent similar things in the future.

TL;DR: "La Cosa Nostra" indicates the American offshoot and not the original Sicilian Mafia.

Googling exactly "Costa Nostra" returns essentially nothing specific (150k results vs 4.6m for "Cosa Nostra") and Google tries to redirect it to "Cosa Nostra", so that seems to be a typo.

The organization's name is derived from the original Mafia or Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia, with "American Mafia" originally referring simply to Mafia groups from Sicily operating in the United States.

Multiple articles and interviews have said it was the Sicilian Mafia / La Cosa Nostra.

In contrast, Donnie Brasco as a lone agent could gain access to both operational activities and organizational structure of the Cosa Nostra.

You also see it in criminal organizations that tend to group themselves by ethnicity like the American La Cosa Nostra, where you have to be full-blooded Italian to be a made man.