Here's another look from their start up through a personal friend and also details on money laundering : http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/274a0ru...-united-states/

You can't compare them to the mafia period. Unless your speaking of comparing the scale of both groups cocaine operations.

@Scorses
It's mentioned somewhere by someone else or the Geto Boys interlude where they are talking to Larry Hoover on the phone.