First off welcome to the board dontclick, but to say that gambling and loansharking are completely dead is just ridiculous, its the mobs bread and budda. Your are right about their waning control on the unions, gone are the days of them having any influence on a national level, and also gone forever are them controlling the huge teamster unions, but to think that they dont have any union prescence at all would be a mistake. They still have influence in a lotta smaller unions and a number of different industries and i dont see that changing anytime soon. To know what the mob is up to all you have to do is look at the cases, and i if u do youll realize that theyre still up to pretty much the same things they always been more or less-gambling, loansharking, yes extortion to, labor racketeering, drugs, fraud, stealing etc.