News articles also confirmed links between the Cosa Nostra and New York's Gambino crime family. According to Italian newspaper La Repubblica, "Off they go, through the streets of Passo di Rigano, Boccadifalco, Torretta and at the same time, Brooklyn, Staten Island, New Jersey. Because from Sicily to the US, the old mafia has returned". "Cosa Nostra" is not a monolithic organization, but rather a loose confederation of about one hundred groups known alternately as "families", ""cosche"", ""borgatas"", or "clans." (Despite the name, their members are generally not related by blood.) Each of these claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighborhood of a larger city, though without ever fully conquering and legitimizing its monopoly of violence. For many years, the power apparatuses of the single families were the sole ruling bodies within the two associations, and they have remained the real centers of power even after superordinate bodies were created in the "Cosa Nostra" beginning in the late 1950s (the Sicilian Mafia Commission). In 1984, mafioso informant Tommaso Buscetta explained to prosecutors the command structure of a typical clan. A clan is led by a "boss" ("capofamiglia" or "rappresentante") who is aided by an underboss ("capo bastone" or "sotto capo") and supervised by one or more advisers ("consigliere"). Under his command are groups ("decina") of about ten "soldiers" ("soldati", "operai", or "picciotti"). Each "decina" is led by a "capodecina". The actual structure of any given clan can vary. Despite the name "decina", they do not necessarily have ten soldiers, but can have anything from five to thirty. Some clans are so small that they don't even have decinas and capodecinas, and even in large clans certain soldiers may report directly to the boss or underboss. The boss of a clan is typically elected by the rank-and-file soldiers (though violent successions do happen). Due to the small size of most Sicilian clans, the boss of a clan has intimate contact with all members, and doesn't receive much in the way of privileges or rewards as he would in larger organizations (such as the larger Five Families of New York).