Sometimes the banker who is paying to a Camorrist is blackmailed by a Mafius'.

He straightway complains to his own bad man, who goes to the "butter-in" and says in effect: "Here! What are you doing?
Don't you know So-and-So is under my protection ?" "Oh!" answers the Mafius'.

"Is he?
Well, if that is so, I'll leave him alone--as long as he is paying for protection by somebody." The reader will observe how the silence of "the man of honor" is not remotely associated with the Omerta.

As a rule, however, the "men of honor" form a privileged and negatively righteous class, and are let strictly alone by virtue of their evil past.
The number of south Italians who now occupy positions of respectability in New York and who have criminal records on the other side would astound even their compatriots.

Even several well-known business men, bankers, journalists, and others have been convicted of something or other in Italy.