Yeah putting a price tag on this type of thing from the government side is tough. It depends on how you categorize things. Since they already have the manpower and specialists its going to be paid for if they do the case or they do another case or they do nothing at all. However, if you calculated the wages, benefits and other things alone I am sure we are talking about millions and millions. Could those resources have been directed at other things like violent drug gangs, illegal Mexicans bringing in hundreds of kilos of heroin...YUP YOU BET. But as long as the Medicans love films like Goodfellas and the Godfather Trilogy Uncle Sam is going to keep going after Italian Americans, plain and simple. You gotta remember, when you get out of the Northeast people across the country actually think we are all like Michael Corleone and John Gotti. So as long as those images stay popular our people are going to be a target no matter how low level the infractions may seem. Yeah I hate that too but these cases we are talking about are hyped up at least to some degree all the time and the average Joe out there gets all excited. So Uncle Sam keep feeding them.