Yes Flushing, for any crew but especially such a small crew, the old Gagliano/Lucchese crew was the envy of many. A wealthy, strong and intelligent family that was huge into industrial racketeering, bribery and corruption at the highest levels of NYC government, vast narcotics trafficking networks that made much of their membership very wealthy, ironclad control (shared with the Genovese) of the garment district, huge gambling networks (policy and bookmaking as big as anyone, and bigger than most), etc, etc........I could go on and on singing their praises.

But that was when the two Tommy's were alive. They were low-key geniuses, who kept murder to a minimum, shared the Family's wealth with their troops the way its SUPPOSED to work, etc.

With the death of Lucchese the magic soon died. That and LE's more sophisticated efforts against them have decimated them in the last three decades.

Like all of Cosa Nostra, they're in big, big trouble today.... the days of wine and roses are over for CN.

You wanna know one of the biggest nails in their coffin? That degenerate Gaspipe Casso. He singlehandedly destroyed this borgata. He was a blood thirsty maniac. Who robbed and killed everyone! Vic should have buried him years earlier. He would have saved the entire membership rats, headaches, death, money, and maybe....just maybe, they'd be in much better shape today.

But we'll never know