great question i wish i could answer this but i truly don't know BUT something i know for fact is they didn't get to involved like nothing like pablo escobar obviously. i find this so interesting that you hear about more southern americans and blacks making come-ups during this period rather than the mafia. people like frank lucas, frank Matthews,nicky untouchable barnes, pablo escobar, the godmother etc.... which really surprises me cause if the mafia got involved being extremely organized already and what not they could of truly took the godmother and so many other major players out and been the major players in the us using the trafficante family as a port and all these other smaller families to get it to them and the country.
While the LCN had heroin supply from across the Atlantic, it was never in a position to control the supply of cocaine and marijuana which the South American and Mexican groups had access to. Nevertheless, several families (especially in NY) became significant distributors at the the wholesale and mid-levels. The key to LCN survival wasn't so much controlling the drug trade as staying diversified, with drugs being only one of its core rackets.
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