You wonder if (NY families in general, for example) would have fallen apart the way they did, had they abided by those rules. There would be a heck of a lot less guys in prison, and subsequently that many less informants...but then again, the power of RICO would have tagged many of these folks for other things.
Too much $ to be made, so surely it would have been irresistible, I suppose.
Weren't they making Billions before they even started getting involved in drugs? Why the need to get into drugs?
