That's an interesting question, I was asking myself this too, why no ethnic Anglo-Saxon mobs in the USA. In the UK, there are plenty of local mafia-type organizations, but they never took hold in America. The Shelton brothers maybe are the only exception (the ones who were at war with Charlie Birger during Prohibition, bombed his headquarters from an airplane even). I am not 100% sure they were really Anglo-Saxon though, anyone could confirm or refute this?
Ancestors of the Shelton Brothers Gang trace their roots back to Ireland, under the surname "Hunter".Nope they was Irish.
Interesting, I see this has been added to the wikipedia article, last time I checked it time ago, it wasn't there. But is there a source for the information? I have a book about the Shelton brothers, "Brothers notorious" by Taylor Pensonneau, it says the Sheltons moved from Kentucky to Wayne county in the middle of the 19th century, but they were already called Shelton by then. It seems the author could find detailed information about their ancestors before they came to America, it was probably centuries before that, so I wonder where does the information that they were called Hunter in Ireland, come from. It's interesting, hope they provide a link to the source later.
