What pisses me off is that the feds are going after these guys when they should be going after the terrorists and crack dealers. These guys are easy targets, don't require the feds to get their hands dirty and offer an easy promotion. I can't stand the alphabet boys!!
You said it right there HH. Terrorism is what everyone in the agency wants to work nowadays, but, in order to get there, you've got to climb up the corporate ladder, though. How does a 'suit' climb to advance his/her career? Shucks, not by waiting around for attrition. They start at the bottom of the barrel. Nail a low level guy who they know can't do time. Guy with a family, ties to OC, not made, just around the life. Flip him and go to work for a few years to make their case. Then they get to a point where the mob is quiet, they announce, like they've done here in NY, that they're cutting the NYC mob task force again, this time from 5 units down to 3. Wait for things to stir up again and bam.... Headlines "Mob still going strong in blah blah blah."
Funny how once they arrest, it's mob strong, then in the news reports after the trial, it's mob decimated. Truth is. It's all a game. Many lives get sidetracked for the ladder climbers.
