Right. It's pretty hard to bankrupt a resturant or anything similiar in a capitalist country like America. Then that gotta be quite impossible to bankrupt the government? How does it really work, like how are they affecting the economy?
Years ago, when the mob was at it's peak, multiple families controlled different union locals around the country - particularly in the northeast and midwest. But the extensive infiltration of legitimate industries was primarily a New York thing. The mob's involvement raised the cost of various things in NYC, ranging from construction and real estate to garbage collection and food wholesaling. Beyond that, the influence over the unions - especially the "Big Four": ILA, Teamsters, Laborers, Hotel & Restaurants Employees - enabled them to influence shipping on the eastern seaboard, interstate trucking, etc. As Genovese turncoat Vincent Cafaro said, "Our real power, our strength, came from the unions. With the unions behind us we could shut down the city, or the country for that matter, in order to get our way."
