Only reason why these families are extinct is not because of the FEDS but because they didn't make guys, they could have made everyone that walked through the door of their Social if they wanted to.
But that is because of the Feds. They probably didn't want to make any new guys because they were afraid of being infiltrated. They were aware of the heat, so they closed the books and rode it out while laying low, enjoying a long successful run safe from the prying eyes of the law. But no new recruits to carry on the That Thing of Theirs.
"For us, rubbin'out a Mustache was just like makin' way for a new building, like we was in the construction business."
