Originally Posted By: m2w
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Whereas the russians, albanians, africans etc its harder to gather accurate intelligence on them.


the feds nabbed them too and otherwise the newer groups are not enough estabilized they cant be more powerful than domestic powerful groups like lcn


They do get nabbed but not nearly on the same scale and frequency as the italians. The feds do make some big arrests of russians and albanians evry now and then but once they are done dealing with one group another one pops up and does things differently because their is always a continued established group or criminal element within these communities which allows for protection, support, guidance and even extortion to newly arrive criminal and civilian immigrants in their community.Some albanian doesnt just get off the boat and automatically knows where to make money by himself in a new country. This might not be in form of a crime family but it is still there and very powerful. Otherwise you wouldnt have big cases like these ones that are all over the place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Medicaid_Fraud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Power_Outage

http://abcnews.go.com/US/fired-weatherma...67#.T1JfwYc2_To