Washington Post
I could never be in the mob... I don't have an interesting nickname. 
I really wonder how the DON'S of the very beginning would think of the NEW Mafia.
Up until the late 50's the Real Mafia refused to deal in drugs or prostitution. Up to then it was extortion, kidnapping, bringing in the booze during probation, paying off bribes to city hall, and getting involved with big city politics.
Gang wars, going to the mattress ,culling the family's for kids to educate as lawyers, doctors and most important undertakers with very large businesses.
Some where in the 60's the young kids came in to challenge the old Dons with the Prohibition against drugs and prostitution. The old Dons began to die out from age and the Lieutenants much younger took over and changed the Mafia into all the very things that put them at risk.
While some of the old Dons still lived they took over Vegas and a good part of the entertainment world that played there. They had the money to bribe members of the Senate and Congress's chests were over flowing.
In the 70's a threat arose for the mob, the outsiders that were walking on their turf. Gangs, well organised that moved in on them, they were the outsiders that had well organised prostuition and drug rings that came out of no where to challenge the Mob.
Today everything is a spider web, who knows what others are doing----what a mess, biker gangs run drugs and under age girls up the coast,
in the big city's who knows who is running the daily bets on numbers or horse races.
This was a big rumor--true or not, that in the late 70's the Mob was having a problem with the Black Mobsters that was cutting into their business. Now today the Mobs of all kinds fear the Latino gangs that are taking over. This is another kind of fish, these gangs cut off heads and over run neighborhoods.
Should be interesting who plays the game and wins. History marches on.
