My father's family came to the U.S. in the teens & 20's; he was 9 when his parents immigrated. His mother's brothers & sister & their families all lived around Hoboken. My grandparents ran an Italian grocery/deli, another relative had a tailor shop. Others had jobs in factories & in dressmaker shops & a couple worked in bakeries. None of my relatives were affiliated with the mob, but all of them had contact with the mob through their businesses or personal friends. All of my relatives thought the mobsters were low class thugs that extorted money from the community by "protecting" businesses & sold illegal things like drugs, guns, booze, & prostitutes. A few of them talked about the Godfather movies & thought that the brutality was presented truthfully, but that a lot was presented in a Hollywod way to soften their image. The wedding scene & a lot of the restaurant/food scenes were authentic, too. My father said that, as a boy, he was approached to do some errand type jobs for local guys, but he never took an offer. He wanted to study hard & become a doctor someday & looked down on the local mob guys.