Is this topic a joke? None of them were "nice" guys.

Sure a lot of them had families they were close to.

But that doesn't mean that they didn't separate their family life from their work life.

Even people who were involved in mafia activities such as bootlegging, illegal gambling/numbers games/betting, etc. were not always nice when they were at work or having to deal with people who they would see as customers at work who made them angry.

There were never days of "Loyalty, honor, respect, etc." they would kill each other or attempt to, rip each other off, break the rules or think the so called rules didn't apply to them, etc.