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Internationally, the organization played a pivotal role in facilitating the global heroin trade.
The new godfather encouraged his lieutenants to marry off their children to sons and daughters of other Mafiosi. Zerilli bargained that members of the crime family were less likely to rat on one another if they were related. His intermarriage policy also reduced the likelihood of infighting within the organization. Zerilli's strategy paid off, and Detroit's mafia family was a pilar of stability, dominating organized crime in Detroit during the 1940s and '50s.
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