I'm no particular fan of the FBI, but they certainly have been winning the war on Italian LCN. At the end of the day, traditional family structure across the country no longer exist in Buffalo, KC, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Milwaukee, San Francisco, San Jose, Northeast PA, Rochester, Dallas, New Orleans and Denver.

Some will make the argument that Buffalo, KC, Cleveland and Pittsburgh etc still exist...the fact of the matter is that there are remnants (or guys who were made) that are still leftover, but that doesn't constitute a family. They may even run gambling and other schemes, but the pyramid structure that LCN was based off is gone in the aforementioned cities. Prime example in Pittsburgh, there was just a large illegal gambling operation that was busted and not one mention of it being controlled by LCN. As far as I'm concerned, Buffalo and KC have been dead for a while and they have "remnants" leftover and Cleveland has been gone since the early 1990's. RICO is too powerful and it is very easy to tie somebody into a RICO conspiracy.