In people's opinions, has the American CN been partially abandoned by the motherland figureheads? If you look at some of the major arrests such as the Campolo arrest in '09, they seized PERSONAL assets in excess of 350 million, and November 2011's arrest of Vito Nicastri(linked to Matteo Denaro) where 1.2 billion was seized, you would be hard pressed to find any arrest with asset forfeiture in the United States that came even close.

I would contend that Montreal and Toronto are now the home bases of OC in North America, and that mafiosi in the motherland concentrate on Europe, and Russia. The United States has such stringent laws that I feel like besides New York and Chicago, the earning potential just isn't there any more.