After the townspeople stormed the jail and lynched the Italians, there was a huge outcry from the Italian government to the US government. It was apparently a huge international incident. Italy threatened to stop the flow of migrants to the US if the US didn't clamp down on the vigilante justice. The US was benefitting heavily from the huge flow of unskilled labor during this time period from Southern Italy and Sicily (my ancestors included).
The New Orleans mob was also apparently the first Italian mafia family in the US.
New Orleans is completely defunct and has been for a generation. Marcello didn't really bring any new recruits into the family and most of his most powerful allies in the family were his own blood family (brothers, etc). This seems to coincide (coincidentally?) with the Five Families ban on making new made members from the 50s through the 70s (if memory serves me correctly). By the time New York opened the books, Marcello probably didn't feel the need.. or was under investigation by then.
By the time Marcello got his big jail sentence in the early eighties New Orleans was essentially done.
From an old New York Times article in 1990:At the age of 80, Carlos Marcello is free on parole. But the crime group that he headed in New Orleans for 35 years is in tatters.
"The all-powerful Godfather is gone, and so is his organization," said Rafael C. Goyenche, the managing director of the Metropolitan Crime Commission in New Orleans, a civic crime-monitoring agency.
New Orleans, with a 100-year history of organized crime gangs, had the oldest Mafia tradition in the country. Mr. Marcello, experts said, controlled the city's Mafia for 30 years until his conviction in 1983 for trying to bribe a Federal judge. After six and a half years in prison, and in poor health, he was paroled last year.
With about 12 members, Mr. Marcello headed the smallest Cosa Nostra family in the country and the organization disintegrated after his conviction. "He didn't make any new members; he didn't train anyone" Mr. Salerno explained. "He wanted to run everything himself."
In the early 1990s the few remaining members, led by new boss Anthony Carolla, tried teaming up with JoJo Corrozo and the Gambinos on some gaming scam in Louisiana involving video poker (if I remember correctly), but the FBI had the whole thing bugged and they never had a chance to pull it off.
Source. There's been no OC-related cases in Nola since then (no racketeering, illegal gambling, loan sharking, drugs, etc.) as far as I've seen.
The sniper van seems to be a total joke. Likely some out of touch guys way past their prime trying to pretend they're still relevant and trying to relive their glory days.
From author Scott Deitche:
While the true purpose may never come to light, it’s safe to say it probably did not foretell the rebirth of the New Orleans Mafia, a crime family that was decimated by increased law enforcement pressure and the inevitable march of time.
Again, there doesn't seem to be any actual OC-related cases since that video poker case in 1993.
