Here's my input: If your comparing the 5 families collectively to any of those enterprise in terms of rackets and wealth than no. Remember that those drug enterprises are like a spiderweb per say, remove the spider ( principal leader/s) than eventually it falls apart. The only comparison is in the drug trade.
You have to look at that time period exclusively of these enterprises than compare to individual crime family drug racket at that time. Frank Matthews enterprise was more extensive than each NY family network and total to an ESTIMATED $300 million before he fled. Then take each of the NY families individual drug racket estimates from 69-73 and you could compare them.
That's the only venture you could compare but everything else isn't. The only NYC syndicates the 5 families can be compared to is themselves.
Last edited by BlackFamily; 02/19/14 05:29 PM.