Not only drug trafficking and money laundering, the pact between the Sicilian and New York mafias also passes through advice from former Palermo bosses to overseas families on how to run rackets. Italian investigators have reconstructed a Gambino member's request for help from the family in Montelepre, Sicily. The help took the form of sending a Palermo emissary to New York to explain new strategies for extorting money from U.S. businessmen. These strategies take the form of the concept of making the entrepreneurs pay less, mediating the bribe with the victims to avoid confrontations and violence, and thus attracting the attention of law enforcement: a kind of "gentle bribe" in the sign of the new Cosa Nostra's submergence strategy. The joint investigations, launched in April 2021 and supported by the well-established cooperative relationship between the Central Operations Service and the FBI, were progressively corroborated by a constant info-investigative exchange and a series of cross-border observation services implemented on the Palermo-Rome-New York route.