I think the mob's rackets can be summed up into 7 main categories:


1. Gambling
2. Loansharking
3. Extortion
4. Drug trafficking
5. Labor racketeering
6. Theft
7. Fraud


These cover just about everything. Gambling would obviously include sports betting, numbers, video poker, and card/casino games. Loansharking is self-explanatory. Extortion would by the typical protection shakedown. Drug trafficking is self-explanatory. Labor racketeering would involve things like bid-rigging, sweetheart deals, no-show jobs, union fund embezzlement, etc. Theft would involve things like stolen goods, robberies, and burglaries. Fraud would be a wide array of things like credit card fraud, health care fraud, gas tax fraud, stock fraud, etc.


An 8th item could be legitimate or quasi-legitimate businesses the mob is involved in.