Is the Italian Mafia dead in the USA?

[Gracie]

Don't hear much about them any more...not since the Teflon Don, anyway. Not many movies about them any more either since Tony Soprano's ending.
If not dead/past/extinct...maybe they are just keeping an extremely low profile?

 

[yiostheoy]

Don't hear much about them any more...not since the Teflon Don, anyway. Not many movies about them any more either since Tony Soprano's ending.
If not dead/past/extinct...maybe they are just keeping an extremely low profile?

Trust me ... they are alive and well.

I recently did some consulting for them in San Jose Calif.

They also own Chicago and Las Vegas.

And Sicily.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Yes, the Italian Mafia is still active. Just last week there was a bank burglary crew of three Mafia-linked men arrested. In the past month, groups in four crime families were indicted.
Reference: www.quora.com/Is-the-Italian-mafia-still-active

 

[yiostheoy]

Mafia don't usually do banks.

Banks are for rednecks.

Mafia provides services that are otherwise illegal such as prostitution (victimless) and gambling (victimless).

 

[Sunni Man]

The mafia still controls the unions, construction, and shipping docks. .....

 

[aaronleland]

I think they are keeping a lower profile than they once did. Years ago some crime bosses seemed to crave media attention. Today there are powerful people whose names you'll never hear.

 

[OldLady]

I know they're still around in western New York--construction, mainly, that I know about. Like Aaron said, though, they don't seem to be involved in the spectacular gang wars they used to fight. So they're just businessmen that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Mafia don't usually do banks.

Banks are for rednecks.

Mafia provides services that are otherwise illegal such as prostitution (victimless) and gambling (victimless).

Well I just wonder if they had placed a wager and made a hooker a wheelman on this redneckish heist...

https://nypost.com/2014/01/23/mobster-to-be-charged-in-goodfellas-jfk-lufthansa-heist/

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Mobbed up: Lower Hudson Valley's historical ties to La Cosa Nostra

 

[Ridgerunner]

Good to c-ya posting gracie...