Originally Posted By: pizzaboy
I honestly don't think any of them---Bruno, Gambino, Accardo, Costello, any of the guys who basically spent their entire criminal careers outside of prison---would be able to avoid long prison stretches under today's FBI scrutiny. But a guy like Ligambi would have done well back in that era, as low-key and bright as he seems to be.


you are probably 100% correct because the feds will get wires so easily and the federal laws so ramped up to go around the 4th amendment just for being in certain arenas as they are now. The prison sentences are so tough now, that flipping is a much easier choice than it may have been back in the day