Were/Are there any big well known corporations or businesses that were backed or financed by the mob? I feel as though that’s what they really wanted to do all along. Much like Michael Corleone did in The Godfather; he really expanded into the “legitimate” corporate world and made a fortune doing so. I think that the old timers had this vision where one day them or their successors would be well respected business titans and moguls in America like the Rockefellers. For example, Carlo Gambino selected Castellano as his successor because he felt that Castellano could really fulfill that vision and take the family to a whole new level in the business world being that Castellano was more business oriented.