Originally Posted By: Wilson
Originally Posted By: Nick_the_Greek
You wonder if (NY families in general, for example) would have fallen apart the way they did, had they abided by those rules. There would be a heck of a lot less guys in prison, and subsequently that many less informants...but then again, the power of RICO would have tagged many of these folks for other things.

Too much $ to be made, so surely it would have been irresistible, I suppose.


Weren't they making Billions before they even started getting involved in drugs? Why the need to get into drugs?


I think most of the major money was with the hierarchy of the families. As soon as the soldiers and associates started to see the money they could be making from drugs they probably wanted to start making their own fortunes instead of making it for the bosses. LCN were involved in drugs from a fairly early stage in their existence it just intesified throughout the 60s and 70s and it became their biggest racket.