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In the American Mafia, consigliere is the number two position in a crime family, the don's right-hand man. The position is equal in prestige to underboss, but not nearly as well understood. The terminology is taken from the Sicilian Mafia and suggests that an analogy is intended to the court of a medieval Italian principality. In this analogy, an underboss is equivalent to an heir to the throne, someone the don is grooming as a successor and possibly a blood relative. Consigliere, meanwhile, is equivalent to chief minister or chancellor, a position awarded on the basis of qualifications rather than bloodline. A crime family normally has only one consigliere at a time, but bosses have on occasion appointed more than one.
In the American Mafia, consigliere is the number two position in a crime family, the don's right-hand man. The position is equal in prestige to underboss, but not nearly as well understood. The terminology is taken from the Sicilian Mafia and suggests that an analogy is intended to the court of a medieval Italian principality. In this analogy, an underboss is equivalent to an heir to the throne, someone the don is grooming as a successor and possibly a blood relative. Consigliere, meanwhile, is equivalent to chief minister or chancellor, a position awarded on the basis of qualifications rather than bloodline. A crime family normally has only one consigliere at a time, but bosses have on occasion appointed more than one.