You just displayed a chart indicating multiple drug busts for Kansas City and Buffalo since 2000. So what is it? There needs to be charts released and articles written for them to be "viable"? Drugs busts are not indicative of that?
No. A couple cases each for Buffalo and Kansas City, in which individual members or associates have been busted for trafficking in drugs, isn't really a sign of a viable family. For a viable family, it needs to meet the RICO criteria -
ongoing criminal activity in behalf of an
organization. Neither Buffalo or Kansas City really has either.
Well isn't any bust just an "individual" member or an associate? I haven't heard of any bust of "The Gambino Family" or "The Genovese Family". Usually on an indictment it just says an individuals name, no?
Furthermore do you know if those individuals were kicking up? Does the chart specify if they were pocketing all the $, kicking any up, or paying tribute?
From where I'm standing you are really contradicting what you usually assert on the boards.
