In Selwyn Raab's excellent book, "The Five Families," he notes that RICO went nowhere for about a decade because Federal prosecutors didn't know how to use it. Then Rudy Giuliana, when he was US Attorney for the Southern District of NY (and a big "Godfather" fan) had a brainstorm: did Joe Bonanno's autobio, "A Man of Honor" [sic] establish the Commission as a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization? He invited Blakey to lecture his staff on how to use RICO. He called Blakey "my consigliere." Result: the Commission case. After Giuliani's success, Federal prosecutors around the country fell all over themselves indicting Mafiosi.