They are, for all intents and purposes. In these places you had remnants of these families (i.e. individual members) involved. For instance, the Buffalo/Rochester case in June 2000 involved Thomas Marotta. The June 2006 case involved 11 people, of which 1 (Leonard Mordino) was a Buffalo LCN associate.
Geez...mafia whiz kid. You're a savant of LCN history.
Though those drug pinches were signs of a viable existence, particularly in how recent the Buffalo one and in particular the KC bust
