People have to remember, or be made aware of, that the New Orleans family was already considered largely finished even back when the video gambling bust happened in the 1990's. Gravano talked about how one of the reasons the Gambinos and Genovese moved into that territory was because they were told the Marcellos didn't mean anything anymore. Law enforcement later found that those two NY families happened to partner up with what was left of the New Orleans family in the video gambling case. Not unlike what the remnants of the Trafficante family did with the Gambinos. Anyway, fast-forward 20 years and, even with this recent "sniper van" story, to argue or even speculate there is a crime family in New Orleans is absurd.