I see Phily in the news quite a bit still especially with the Merlino stories but I really didn't know where to put them. I was listening to one of Scott Burnstein's recent podcasts, Original Gangsters, and he said something to the effect that Phily never really got into major rackets, they're mostly just gangsters, traditional street rackets.
"...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
