I think Yonkers has a point though.
Wiseguys used to be THE Italians with coin. Flashing wads, suits, nice cars. Getting your button was either a sign you were an earner, or would now earn.
Nowadays half the guys with stripes are Lefties cutting heads off parking metres.
Sure their are top guys making. But more aren't than are.
The original group of gangsters luciano, gambino, costello, etc were perhaps the exceptional people that you could class as criminal mastermind, however the people after them were basically just your regular career criminals who inherited the clout and the bureaucracy that was created before them.
