Pizza,

As always, very insightful comments. I pick up different things each time I watch Goodfellas. The casting of a good looking couple represents the allure of the fast life....the hook.

I misunderstood what RICO was about at first. I thought it was a law that made it easier to convict the head of a criminal enterprise by connecting him to the street crimes done by his underlings which he might not have had knowledge of, but directly benefited from. I thought it removed the burden from prosecutors having to prove that the head okayed or ordered crime x or y.

I didn't know that it was like a fishing net trapping everybody directly, indirectly, or peripherally connected to the enterprise.