Joe Morgan had ties to a small cartel in Mexico. I believe it was a particular family. Morgan died in 1993, just around the time The Mexican Mafia started its strict extortion policy among Chicano gangs in southern California. Always found this to be interesting.

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea