What do you suggest they do, give them free rein and allow them to become as powerful as they were in the Bruno era?
It is not a waste of taxpayers money. They have brought the organization to its knees.
How did they bring the organization to it's knees? The only significant players that they put away for any real time were Anthony Staino and Joseph Massimino. Eric Esposito, Marty Angelina, and Big Lou in North Jersey received minor sentences - and all except Esposito are home now, and he will be released in May. I'm not saying they shouldn't go after these guys (they are criminals at the end of the day), but the fact that they spent millions of dollars of the taxpayers money and 10+ years on this case to only put a few mob soldiers in prison for a handful of years wasn't worth the time or money.
Philly now has more guys on the streets than they have had at any point since late in the Scarfo regime. I'm not saying they are anything even close to the Bruno or Scarfo era's regarding their power/strength, but they have more numbers on the street (with Esposito and Faffy coming home in 2016) than at any point in the last 20+ years.
