It's odd, isn't it? The Internet has cut out many mob rackets: Sports gambling, prostitution, smut and even juice loans--now called "pay day loans," legal, and a huge growth industry on line.
Someone once tried to argue with me that the Outfit had ventured into these ventures on-line but if you read letters from people like Frank Calabrese they are barely literate.
And I would expect that John DiFronzo himself is like your uncle and wouldn't know what to do with a computer if you threw one at him.
I'd agree with you that many things have become rather passe. The state lottery really cut into the numbers racket. Prostitution became passe a long time ago. Pornography became more mainstream and the mob lost it's niche there; first with video tapes saturating the market and then the internet. Union reform, industry regulation, etc. And the mob has been marginalized in the drug trade for the last 25 years or so. But one exception is sports betting. The internet has only expanded the mob's involvement in that, as well as reduced much of the risk. If there's one area where the mob has retained its predominance, it's illegal sports betting.
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