They primarily extort businesses that have opened up shop by way of loans doled out to them by the Outfit itself. That's juice. A business owner who took a dirty loan in order to open up a printing press isn't going to run to anyone involved in law enforcement.

Anyways, you're tripping over your words big time. Bookmakers & car thieves are not "hardened" criminals. They are regular people who are susceptible to anything just like anyone else.

And I'm serious about the dry cleaners inquiry. Just do it & see what you've got to go through to get it done.