Is the reason some of the Colombian and Mexican drug lords are richer than other Italian or Italian-American Mafia bosses because they take a bigger cut of the profits? Or is it because the money is more spread out fairly among mafiosi? Or do the Cartels just make more money than the Mafia? As far as I know, Italian organized crime was reportedly making over 100 billion a year as a whole, much larger than say the reported income of the Mexican cartels, however like Ivy and others mentioned, estimating is hard and almost non accurate.